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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1899
Page
2
Editor and Proprietor announces weekly publication from Westville Indiana with yearly advance rate one dollar. Obituary notices over ten lines cost one dollar and obituary poetry ten cents per line. Profession cards five dollars yearly or three dollars six months. Submissions must arrive by Wednesday noon.
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station warns against unproven hog cholera serum claims by private firms and reports of agents selling related medicines in Indiana. The notice urges reporting outbreaks after serum use and emphasizes that such claims are fraudulent and prosecutable. Dr. A. W. Bitting notes moble activity and cites new death-collection laws requiring burial permits and death certificates to avoid unlawful burials and ensure proper inquests.
President McKinley announces Job Barnard as associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Barnard, a former local resident and Civil War veteran, practiced law at Crown Point and later worked with his brother Milton C. Barnard in Washington, earning high regard in his profession.
Two Japanese Buddhist missionaries reach San Francisco and begin spreading their faith. They plan to teach Japanese residents first, then publish pamphlets for Americans, establish a church, run an evening school, and use improved English to reach interested Americans. They frame Buddhism as a moral guide and deny God as a real entity.
A farmer's wife feeding chickens near Hebron dropped an earring and killed 27 chickens trying to find it. She later found the earring in the grass after the old hen dropped it. The family now serves chicken in fifteen ways at every meal. The Valparaiso Messenger calls it a typical women’s story. Lucy Havens, a fat girl at the county asylum, agreed to be a freak under Mrs. Lew Wallick’s management in Indianapolis and will leave the house after years there. She weighs about 400 pounds.
The Westville lodge No 192 A F and A M expresses fraternal sympathy to the family of Benjamin F Link noting his faithful service as a member and loving husband father and son. Resolutions request mourning drapes and publication in the Westville Indicator with minutes to carry the notice.
An advertisement claims kidney disease causes widespread illness across ages and classes. It promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure and offers a free sample bottle and informational book by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY, noting readers should mention the Weatville Indicator.
Nicholas Geisen advertises fine stove wood for sale 23 miles northwest of Westville. A cart to Otis will receive prompt attention. John Shultz longtime Michigan City resident died at his home last Tuesday at age 60.
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