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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1921
Page
3
A Ravenswood West Virginia woman reports seven years of female trouble and inflammation eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She used eight bottles and regained ability to do housework, praising the remedy for suffering women. The ad highlights housewife duties and claims decades of health restoration with Pinkham's product.
In a courtroom exchange the witness insists the gaze was straight while the lawyer accuses a prior contradiction. The seriatim dialogue focuses on whether the accused bent his gaze during the earlier remark.
Tip suggests heating sealing wax over a flame and applying melted wax around the cork to secure bottles in a bag or trunk. Once heated and cooled, bottles stay sealed and can be opened with a light twist upon arrival. The advice emphasizes preventing cork leakage during travel.
The report states that Great Britain currently has slightly more than 800,000 motor vehicles in operation. The figure reflects the growing scale of road transport and vehicle ownership across the country.
A new expanding rifle bullet for .30 caliber firearms replaces old soft nosed bullets. The tinplated metal tip expands on impact after retracting into the jacket, preserving its point. Weight is 180 grains, touted as optimal for accuracy and reliability.
An advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer name and the Bayer Cross on each package and tablet to ensure genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. It touts decades of medical use and safety for conditions like cold and headache, with proper directions in every package.
The passage argues that one may share advice and remedies but not others experiences or their effects. Each person must live their own Life and pursue personal achievement. The ten talent man could have helped others, but that would remove both loss and merit from the remaining servants.
The ad touts Boschee's Syrup as a soothing fast-acting remedy for coughs colds bronchitis and lung troubles. It claims fifty five years of use and a good night's rest with easy morning expectoration. Available wherever medicines are sold.
The resurrection flower appears as a tiny ball on a fragile stem. When immersed in water it awakens and rises upright. Fibers stir and unfold slowly until petals are thrown back to form a starry bloom resembling an aster.
A chemist abroad reports isolating the yellow yolk pigment in a crystalline state. The pigment, closely related to leaf xanthophyl, is named lutein. To obtain four grains of crude pigment, yolks from at least 6,000 eggs were used.
During the 1873 England visit of the Persian shah about 8000 begging letters arrived. The shah felt honored by each letter and had them packed into a trunk for transport to Persia where they were stored in his museum.
Flowing water carries loads with power proportional to the sixth power of velocity. Doubling water speed yields a 64 fold increase in transport capacity, explaining how rivers in flood can move and sweep away objects.
Alfred and Charles Kearns twins run a hardware firm in Ohio. While on a resort holiday they both fall for May Winters, a summer flirt. Their plan to duel over romance ends in a bowling contest and a reconciliation as May questions which version of Alfred she loves.
A doctor asserts belief can cause cures and illnesses, citing hospital anecdotes. He notes a nurse’s joke about smallpox causing a patient’s panic and death, and a mistaken lotion application provoking phantom pain with water. He finishes by praising faith as a powerful but double edged force.
A clergyman was a guest at a family Fourth of July dinner. Jean compared red white and blue mints to poker chips and sparked embarrassment. Months later she apologized then stated the mints did not resemble poker chips at all.
In a Birmingham Age-Herald anecdote a renowned actor recalls performing at a prison during Christmas week. He notes the convicts were an ideal audience and that every attendee stayed for the entire show, avoiding any rush to suburban trains or trolley cars after the curtain.
Elaborate sign board once at the White Hart in Scole Norfolk was called the noblest signpost in England by Sir Thomas Browne in 1663. Erected in 1655 the sign cost over £1000 and featured carvings of Charon Cerberus Actaeon and Diana. It lasted until the end of the eighteenth century and may survive elsewhere.
The elder Medici line was founded by Cosmo Medici, son of Giovanni de Medici, noted for statesmanship and patronage of art. Lorenzo de Medici, another son of Giovanni, established the younger branch of the family.
Mrs Gladys Mae Marsh testified in Superior court that her husband Clyde Marsh repeatedly abused her and once hid a live mouse under the bedclothes as she rested after work. Judge Sabath signaled likely grant of divorce.
Nellie Corden, nine, famed as a mind reader after five years of demonstrations, has returned with her father to a Kentucky mountain home near Middlesboro after visiting Cincinnati. She read minds before writing and could tell time by reading a clock owner's mind. At five she impressed theater men and is in the fifth grade two years ahead.
In Kansas City Kansas a garage fire claimed a dog’s life as it stayed with a horse that pulled a small ice wagon. Rescuers could not reach the animal amid flames and falling timbers, and the dog leaped through to die beside its friend.
In New York Gladys Coulver, grieving over her old dog poisoned with a swift toxin, killed herself after consuming the remaining poison. The story says a little brother and sister carried poison to their sister who mixed it with water and drank. Before dying she cried to her mother asking why she had done it.
Richard Ba Umbonda was sentenced to five years in the state reformatory for allegedly punishing his five year old daughter by placing pepper in her mouth and tying a bandage across her face to silence her cries for help.
The exchange centered on how to pronounce curator with Edison noting Scottish English practice and a Harvard senator urging the Latin based pronunciation. Edison thanked the senator and asserted Scottish usage but bowed to the orator’s authority.
An Atlanta detective riding a train with a prisoner fell asleep and the prisoner escaped in Indiana after traveling from Georgia to Colorado and onward to Indiana.
A nostalgic ad hawks California Fig Syrup as a universal laxative for children. It promises a quick cleansing of liver and bowels, claiming a teaspoonful saves a sick child tomorrow and urges mothers to demand genuine California Fig Syrup from druggists.
Mrs. Toddlebury confronts Timothy about keeping quiet. He confesses the trolley car conductor failed to collect his fare and he spent the money on a glass of buttermilk on a hot day. The exchange reveals a light domestic caper from a New York Sun item.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It cites sworn statements and customer testimonials claiming broad efficacy and offers sample bottles by Parcels Post with ten cents and mail to Dr Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York. Large and medium bottles available at drug stores.
The teacher challenged the idea that darkness is an element. She asked students to define darkness and Tommy replied that darkness is what exists when light is not.
A light exchange referencing a mother saying a boy was praised by his schoolteacher, and a retort about the patting being too low down for comfort, cited from the Boston Transcript.
A humorous exchange about a dachshund intruding from the kitchenette into the dining room showcases playful banter between speakers. The Louisville Courier-Journal captures a domestic scene highlighting character and charm.
Uncle Eben urges not to dwell on troubles or waste time by venting. He warns that listeners tire quickly and may blame the speaker for their own discomfort.
A brief, unclear fragment references correcting a disobedient offspring and suggests a memory of not dying, implying a past endurance or cautionary sentiment. The text offers no concrete facts, names, places, or dates to establish a full report.
A proverb-like line notes that a gentle response calms anger and that firm coal offers a contrary, but milder, result. The text reads as moral reflection on behavior and consequence. The exact origin remains unclear.
Mrs Virginia Ogburn of East Alton Illinois endorses Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery noting her pale sickly child improved with fleshy cheeks and strength. She recommends the medicine to others and urges neighbors to obtain it from local druggists in tablet or liquid form.
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