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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1907
Page
2
The notice outlines periodical pricing and submission deadlines for Westville Indiana. It lists annual and semiannual rates, obituary and poetry charges, professional cards, and a Wednesday noon deadline for all articles and advertisements. It urges readers to review advertisements as they are made available for perusal.
Discussion grows on building a spur of the electric Air Line to connect LaPorte and Westville. The plan would require just over a mile of track at modest cost but could boost traffic, stock value, and credibility of the line, with work nearly complete and a timely opening hoped for early next year.
Mrs Rosa Porrs of Birmingham Alabama reports years of trouble with acidity and constipation eased immediately by Chamberlaine’s Somach and Liver Tablets. The pills strengthened digestion and natural function, with prior laxatives making matters worse. Sold by E T Scott druggist. Chamberlaine’s Salve also cures chapped hands. price, cents. Sold by FE T Scott.
Finley Mow of West Lebanon bought potatoes last week. Mrs Heaton visiting Cassanolis granddaughter returned home Thursday. Mrs Rudd accompanied her grandmother home. Jane Merriam spent the week in La Porte visiting Aunt Mrs Heyant. Gaynells Welch returned to South Bend Tuesday. Fred Banton of Michigan City spent weekend here. Miss Hila Learn was guest of Miss Ethel Terrey. Union services were held in the M E Church Sunday evening.
Westfield Iowa resident G. F. Clark credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving his life after severe lung danger. He began using the remedy, which halted a dangerous cough, and two bottles completed a full recovery. Trial bottles offered free by Scott druggist.
An old advertisement touts De King's New Life Pills as a safe cleanser and tonic to prevent danger from drastic purgatives. It claims cures for headaches biliousness malaria and jaundice and markets through HR T Scott's drug store at 25 cents.
David Parker of Fayette New York who lost a foot at Gettysburg credits Electric Bitters with dramatic health improvement after years of stomach trouble and costly medicines. The ad touts the tonic as a grand aid for the aged and for female weaknesses, a body builder, and a cure for lame backs and weak kidneys, guaranteed by E T Scott druggist at 50 cents.
Local listing notes Lu Ira J. Burch operates a meals service around the clock in LaPorte. The item highlights continuous food availability and the business location.
The Liverpool Mercury depicts a tense scene where a clergyman questions Mrs Selina Jackson about her children and finances. Jackson deflects with sharp wit asking about her birthplace baptism and courtship age while showing a vaccination mark. The exchange reveals social tensions and class signals in a local setting.
A humorous wartime note from Harper's Weekly recounts an army engineer ordering twenty men eighteen feet long to span a swamp fifteen feet deep. The young lieutenant complained the mud was too deep until the colonel insisted on a written requisition for a safe passage.
A Dublin tale recounts Frederick Doug hiss recalling loneliness in Dublin. He buys a fiddle for five shillings, tunes it and plays Rocky Road to Dublin then The Irish Washerwoman, making the storeowner dance and exclaiming the fiddle’s value rises beyond sale.
From his farm Judge Blank shared flour corn hay and vegetables with preachers and fed venison to neighbors. He built a smokehouse and one night an unseen thief hauled a pork side from it. A week later the intruder questioned the judge who replied in whispers that only they know the truth.
In the Neveland Leader tale a bachelor notes a baby’s blue eyes and learns from the mother that the trait comes from her side of the family. She points to her brother Will’s wife as possessing the same eye color in exact likeness.
A London World essay argues the stomach is humanity’s great civilizing force. A well fed man with proper meals gains humane vigor and irresistibly refined conduct.
A humor filled theater chat features Mme Dupont F and Mme Durand discussing a mime and new fats. The scene includes a waiter quipping about apple pie order as a Boston man’s breakfast, per a Philadelphia Press item.
A dialogue scene has a man claiming to know the amount of water that runs over Nidgara falls per quart. She asks for the figure and he answers two pints.
A Chicago Post clipping declares he is the only man with nerve to speak during the marriage service so loudly that all could hear. The remark highlights the subject as uniquely audacious and memorable.
Project extends the Florida East Coast railway from Miami toward Key West with long marine bridges across Lenz key to Conch key Moser key channel and Bahia Honda. A main viaduct will be the longest marine bridge, twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge, with reinforced concrete spans and rails 30 feet above low water. About 4,000 workers are building the line expected to boost Florida Cuba trade and develop Key West as a major southern port.
A woman's watch runs well for a day and a half then stops. The watchmaker remarks it should be wound occasionally. The brief item reflects a common issue with delicate timepieces and advice to maintain with regular winding.
In a classroom exchange the pupil argues the children of Agamemnon are dead by this time, reflecting on classical tragedy. The dialogue captures a tone of earnest historical inquiry and literary interpretation.
J. G. Jenkins of Chapel Hill NC praises Buck len’s Arnica Salve for quick pain relief and healing of wounds and bruises. It is sold for 25 cents at B. T. Scott’s drug store.
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