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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1895
Page
3
Local column notes residents such as E Ansley visiting Chicago and Mrs Wm Reynolds ill with typhoid. Reports on shoplifting, new millinery displays, carriages, and court house concerns. Mentions hog cholera scare, rail and street improvements, and community events across towns including Valparaiso and Laporte.
Miss Helen L. Cole daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Cole married last Sunday at noon to Frank OBrien of Chicago. Rev G F Brayton of Door Village performed the ceremony. The groom manages Leonard Mandel’s dry goods store in Chicago. The bride is regarded as a well known young lady and only intimate friends attended. Best wishes go with them from the INDICATOR and many friends.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh a constitutional disease taken internally acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Addressed to Dr. Cheney Co proprietors at Toledo.
The Elkhart County grand jury reported that Lewis Boyer, superintendent of the county asylum, engaged in immoral conduct with asylum females and used abusive language toward inmates. It recommended his discharge and the hiring of a suitable replacement.
The Plymouth fair closes and other counties including St Joseph Elkhart Wabash Rosciusco and Miami suspend fairs. Logan sport Phares notes 1888 as a benchmark while farmers picnics and old settlers meetings replace traditional county exhibitions.
The law text lists several groups such as book agents poets scandal mongers and editors with specific killing windows and no relief from valuation laws. It also mentions antiquarian penny men who advertise and a home editorial shop as targets for these provisions.
Mrs Powell started from her home two miles northeast to town when the hold back on her buggy failed. The horse bolted through Main street but was checked with help from bystanders. She remained calm and showed pluck, guiding the horse with little damage to the buggy despite brushes with rigs and fences.
A Wabash passenger train collided with a buggy carrying Joseph McGee and sisters Emma and Lucy Hannon one mile south of Chesterton. Emma Hannon died instantly while Lucy Hannon later died from injuries. McGee survived with minor bruises. The sisters, aged eighteen and twenty two, were daughters of farmer Peter Hannon and were en route to a dance at August Johnson’s home.
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