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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1903
Page
3
An informal reception in the president’s office drew visitors including a woman from Jacksonville Florida who said she had come to see a live president. Roosevelt joked that many travelers go to Jacksonville to see a live alligator, hinting at tourist curiosities.
George Hiland of Polk Arkansas says Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his Acute Rheumatism in 1900 after a physician could not finish the treatment. He reports moving again after one box and urges others to try the remedy as a perfect cure.
A dated collage notes mining stock as a better low capital investment than inflated railroad shares. It touts Numitor Gold Mine with a guaranteed refund and an illustrated booklet mailed from Chicago. It contrasts speculative mining profits with strict business rules and facially warns about stock manipulation.
The article outlines a portable 8 by 8 foot hog house with four 2 2-3 foot posts on each side, five 2x4 sleepers, rafters, ridge board, grooved siding, and a 24x21 inch end window. Professor Curtiss describes construction details and winter banking suggestions for use in orchards or fields away from main quarters.
The Rural World urges farmers to prevent and control hog lice with dipping, clean bedding, and whitewashing. It warns buyers to inspect new pigs and file complaints if lice are found, stressing that clean farms and careful breeding reputations matter for reform.
E P Powell describes a home made gasoline engine powering farm tasks from cider making to grinding grain. The two horsepower unit, costing about 60 dollars, runs on gasoline and suits small farms, with potential upgrades to four to eight horsepower for larger work.
The article notes poultry convert waste farm matter into eggs providing profit, with hens finding scraps like shaken grain, hay seeds and grass. Flocks reduce pests and save feed costs, making egg receipts near clear profit on some farms. It urges prudent advice when moving to new fruit ventures and to let poultry rest 12 hours before slaughter.
An 1884 built power windmill designed for water pumping for 200 head of livestock and grain grinding. It stood 12 feet high with a 12 foot diameter wheel, delivered seven to eight horsepower, and ran in light winds with up to 36 RPM in heavy gusts. The 12 upright 2x12 foot cups were spring‑held for sensitive control, and the mill required only oil for maintenance over 14 years. It was fire to barns in 1898.
It is useless to try and breed a fine uniform flock of sheep from the runts and culls. The statement argues that improving flock quality starts with selecting better initial stock rather than attempting to refine poor candidates.
A Chicago minister's wife known for a violet hat attended a funeral. She set the hat on a stand in the room with the coffin. The undertaker later placed the hat atop the floral tributes. Mourners giggled and she tried to claim it during the service but left with the hat after the procession.
The Iron Mountain Route launches a fast train from St Louis at 8 30 a m for Texas and the Southwest with through Pullman sleepers dining cars and elegant chair cars. Additional departures at 2 21 p m 8 40 p m and 3 05 a m promise twelve hours saved to California and fastest Texas schedules. Tourist tickets available year round.
The item promotes low rate excursions on the first and third Tuesdays to Texas Indian Territory and Oklahoma via M K and T Ry with information booklets available for two cent stamps. It also highlights double daily through service to California via Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain routes with sleeping cars and tourist trains, plus a George Morton contact in St. Louis for rates.
Mrs Pare of Glasgow Kentucky describes chronic kidney trouble with back pain variable secretions and scalding passages. Dean's Kidney Pills regulated secretions cleared inflammation and restored comfort. She reports better sleep a strong back and overall improvement. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Chicago official and a Brooklyn man credit Peruna with curing kidney related catarrhal inflammation and Brights disease. They describe relief after using Peruna and urge others to try the remedy, noting a free book on catarrh from The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
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