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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1896
Page
4
Commencing Sunday June 7 and continuing each Sunday thereafter until further notice the B. & W. will sell excursion tickets between all stations except W. and P. Divisions and Bellaire where trains stop regularly at the rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets valid only on sale date. E. J. Horton, Ber Alida, Ind.
A brief health note touts One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive for huskiness and laryngitis and claims it also provides instantaneous relief for those who use their voice heavily including speakers clergymen and singers.
A guide to hunting and fishing grounds of the West and Northwest with an excellent map of the lake regions of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan offered free on application to W. B. Kniskern at 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago.
The B and O R R reports that in April to June passenger and fast freight trains almost always arrived on schedule. Only railway operational factors caused exceptions, with no foreseeably avoidable delays. The article claims no larger American road can surpass its punctuality record.
Chronic constipation is a painful condition causing headaches bad breath and blood impurity. The advertisement promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as effective regulators available from all druggists.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces harvest excursions to the west and northwest with dates July 21 August 4 18 September 1 1529 and October 6 and 20. Round trip fare is two dollars over one fare. Tickets are valid for return on any Tuesday or Friday within 21 days of sale. For rates and details contact coupon ticket agents or traveling passenger agent Robert C Jones Cincinnati Ohio.
The North-Western Line announces Home Seekers' excursion tickets at very low rates for August 4 and September 1 15 29 October 6 and 20 1895 to numerous West and Northwest points. For full details contact connecting line ticket agents or W B Kniskern VPTA Chicago IL.
Music publisher S Brainard's Co offers True Blue Republican and Red Hot Democrat song books for 1896. Includes solos duets and quartets for campaign clubs. Priced at 10 cents each or $1 per dozen.
Cripple Creek Colorado and surrounding districts report daily gold finds with 1896 production estimated at two hundred million dollars. Cripple Creek alone yields over one million monthly and rising. Mining stocks climb fast with many paying 35 to 50 percent dividends. J and Morgan Co at 45 Broadway New York advertise as agents for Prudential Gold Mining Co offering free details and books on speculation in stocks grain and cotton.
A Bradford Pennsylvania era piece extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure for female troubles heart weakness and general weakness. It recounts Mrs George Rowend of 276 East Main Street praising the medicine after long suffering and a failed traditional regimen. It also covers Mrs Martha Gates of Maine New York who improved after four boxes and notes broad claims of cures including locomotor ataxia paralysis and nerve disorders with pills sold nationwide.
In a tense office intrigue Algernon Thimberly hosts a mysterious visitor and receives dubious letters from a secret flame. Mrs Wagstaff and Flossy wage a wary chase as Jennie and Cuddles appear in turn, threatening trust and exposing hidden affairs.
Electric Bitters is advertised as a seasonable medicine for languor and exhaustion with a torpid liver. It claims to counteract malarial poison and relieve headache indigestion constipation and dizziness. Sold at E T Scotts drug store for fifty cents to one dollar per bottle.
An advertisement claims neuralgia relief from Dr Miles Par Pills with an "Onnecent adose" dosage note, urging readers to ask their druggist for the remedy.
Bucklin's Arnica Salve claims it cures cuts bruises sores ulcers and more with a money back guarantee priced at 25 cents a box sold by E T Scott. Also for sale a 20 acre lot with house water power saw mill blacksmith cider mill and more priced at 2500 by a widow selling due to need to move.
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