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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1919
Page
4
A Japanese piece by Aisaku Waseda recounts a innkeeper and his wife using myoga to dull a guest’s awareness. The guest departs without paying as the couple celebrates the plant’s supposed forgetfulness inducing powers.
A downtown optometrist window sign jokes about waiting versus returning later for eye tests. A man nearby comments he is unsure whether to get tested now or leave his glasses and call for them later, as reported by the Indianapolis News.
Dyer asks Wyld if he enjoys music. Wyld responds that he does not like music, preferring only popular songs and jazz.
A common-sense maid ends the delays of a bashful swain who after war returns ready to marry. He confesses his devotion and vows sacrifices, and she prompts him to ask the question, saying they have fooled round long enough.
A Chicago Tribune snippet recalls a businessman described as influential who boasted of multiple marriages. The speaker, knowing him briefly, notes his remark that he lives with his third wife and jokes about his ذلك reputation.
A compact reflection on how bold ambitions invite trouble and how vanity seeks validation from within. The saying suggests that exposing oneself to risk often reveals flaws in self-regard.
Mrs Anna Bobrowski died after alleged blows by husband Martin Bobrowski in Sumpter township. Their seventeen year old son Theodore testified he feared the old man and did not untie his mother. The daughter Celia also testified against their father as he sits jailed.
Sheriff Coffin visited the family as sons recall protection of law. The coroner’s jury at Sumpter verdicts Mrs. Bobrowski died from blows with a poker by her husband. The battered body was taken to Belleville for burial after the husband washed it and dressed the corpse before hiring his son to Detroit for a burial permit.
A wounded black man is hospital bound in Cherokee after entering A. H. Woodard's Fort Dodge home. Woodard woke to intruders, fired, and chased one man. A kitchen mouse trap clued him to a second robber, allowing the escape.
William Lessig, railroad gate man, witnessed a four foot rattlesnake pursuing the river when a cat leaped onto the snake’s back. The struggle ended with both animals dying. the cat released its grip after being bitten and the rattler delivered a fatal sting.
An old home remedy promotes Dr Carter's K and B Tea as a cheap, effective nightly drink to regulate bowels, ease sluggish liver trouble and headaches, with claims of wide family use and child friendliness.
Edith teases Jack for charming talk while Marie warns against trusting a man who deceives even during courtship. The dialogue contrasts affection with skepticism about sincerity in relationships.
Advertisement claims Bayer is the genuine aspirin with Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in a Bayer package. It lists directions for Headache Cold Pain Neuralgia Lumbago and Rheumatism and notes nineteen years of physician use. A tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents.
The most distant cepheids known lie about 20 000 light years from the sun, nearly as far as the nearest globular clusters at around 21 000 light years away. The finding highlights the reach of cepheid variables for galactic distance measurements.
A vintage ad claims Pape's Cal Compound eases a severe cold after the first dose. It promises instant relief for congested nostrils, headaches, feverish feelings, and sneezing, with two hourly doses to finish three doses.
Cartoon dialogue shows Hewitt hinting at a sequence of tall structures with twenty five to twenty seven stories. The exchange features Crewitt confirming escalating height plans in a humorous context.
A brief exchange notes confidence about Ella’s choice and confirms she always pays cash when she gets it, suggesting an orderly, prudent transaction. The lines imply steady personal finance practices surrounding fashion or color purchases.
A damaged OCR snippet shows garbled text about a local notice or event. Readable elements include partial names and a possible public or legal notice. The fragment suggests a scheduling or contact detail but remains unclear and incomplete.
In Oakland California Alcibiades a clever cat owned by Clarence Wood Soanes 1824 Harrison street alerted his owner to a burglar by howling from a porch and at the front door The intruder entered the house and fled after Soanes explained the situation The cat then returned to its porch during the day Alcibiades shares meals with a bantam rooster as a playmate.
Three year old Katherine Jungstetter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jungstetter, nearly fell from a third story window in Savannah when the sash snapped. The heavy frame trapped her body, suspending her until bystanders heard her cries and came to aid.
In Medford Oregon a burglar entered a home and ransacked rooms stealing a gold watch jewels a pipe shoes and trousers. A wooden leg dropping from the panth eon struck the floor and caused the thief to drop his loot and flee shouting. The homeowner T M Thompson believes the thief is still at large.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a safe bowel tonic that relieves bilious attacks and constipation without griping. It contrasts Cascarets with harsh purgatives like calomel, claiming the product works during sleep and restores regularity and cheerfulness at low cost.
An ancient, unsigned painting of high merit was found in an Extremadura barn. Expert Manuel Cossio calls it a transcendent work central to Spanish art history. Bilboa millionaire Excevarrieta offered funds to keep it in Spain as government weighs permanent acquisition.
An advertisement urges protecting kidneys to purify blood and prevent disease. It claims backaches, nervousness, and fatigue warn of kidney trouble and promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as immediate relief, imported from Haarlem with a money back guarantee if help is not rapid.
A carload of beetle infested potatoes arrived in Los Angeles from Idaho where the pest is extinct, then was used to haul potatoes from Colorado. California quarantine officer Fred erick Maskew notes beetles likely lingered in the car before unloading. Agriculture officials plan car cleaning at unloading points.
American shipping capacity climbs sharply by 382 percent under AAR guidance while British tonnage falls by 13 percent, signaling a major realignment in maritime power and trade routes during the period.
A hurried woman aboard a street car near the shopping district stops to chat with a friend and refuses a seat saying she is in a rush to reach the station.
Namur Can-Louis Forget, 90, a farmer, is arrested on a charge he pushed his blind son Ambrose Forget, 35, into the Little Range river. The body was found after he allegedly confessed to killing due to financial strain and his son’s helplessness.
A Seymour Indiana officer found 150 quarts of whisky hidden in a motor truck traveling from Louisville to Indianapolis. The discovery followed a belief that seeing confirms a crime, underscoring a driver’s claim of contraband.
Police discovered two sleeping men guarding the remains of 29 cases of whisky in a garage after neighbors alerted authorities to loud snores. The investigation continues to determine ownership and how the contraband ended up there.
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