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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1897
Page
3
Market listing for Westville corrected weekly with updated prices and items. Local vendors and fresh produce descriptions adjust for recent OCR corrections and formatting.
Wanatah notes list residents in town Monday including D H Lemming Fred Rhymer and Sam Wile. Diphtheria exposure prompts quarantine at Green house, while Gypsies and various travelers pass through. Wabash excursion plans, local repairs, misadventures with diphtheria cases, and community updates follow with multiple short notices.
A child afflicted with diphtheria was brought from Westville to Valparaiso and placed with Peter Hanner in the southern part of the city for medical care. Health Officer Hollenbeck ordered the child to be returned home to Valparaiso after examination. The child stayed in the city for one day.
Fragmentary ad notes delivery by weekly subscription with rates and mentions a general agent Charlie Frees man who directs readers to leave orders at a drug store for multiple papers including Chicago Daily Record Journal and Evening News.
Epworth League members enjoyed a literary evening on Tuesday featuring a program centered on John Greenleaf Whittier. Papers included Whittier and The Story of Mable Martin, a recitation The Two Rabbis by Eva Culbertson and a review of Snow Bound.
A 1900s call for performers to send names and addresses of three or more piano or organ players with ten cents in silver or postage to receive ten pieces of full sheet music including popular songs waltzes and marches mailed to them in Indianapolis Indiana.
Free sample box of Dr. King s New Life Pills mailed to address in Chicago. Pills aid constipation head ache malaria and liver troubles. Purely vegetable and non deleterious. Regular 25 cents. Sold by Scott druggist.
The auditor of state released figures from township assessors showing total assessable property in Indiana excluding corporations at 1,128,821,886 dollars for last April, up from 1,120,302,020 the prior year. Corporate property valued by the board stands at a little over 160 million dollars. Land per acre averages 20.01 dollars with improvements at 24.04 dollars, across 25,435,182.39 acres of assessable land in the state.
Indiana state board of health prepares a circular for health officers and the public on quarantines and early eradication of diphtheria. It urges clothing changes for workers outside, thorough disinfection, treating similar illnesses as diphtheria until proven otherwise, and private burial within twenty hours of death. Anti-toxin is recommended. Dr Hurry, secretary, recently returned from Dattoli.
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