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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1905
Page
8
An advertisement from Foley & Co of Chicago touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a trusted throat and lung remedy. It warns customers to beware of imitations with similar sounding names and urges asking for the genuine yellow packaged product.
Mrs. Dankert visited relatives in Chicago while Mrs. Essling and Mrs. Reglein called on friends here last Friday. Various residents spent weekends with relatives and friends, a house burned, a pie social raised 35.16 for a primary organ, and Mr. Vogler and wife celebrated their eighth anniversary with a surprise party and games.
Fire destroyed the coal sheds of F. A. Gust by the Lake Shore tracks last Monday night. Miss Myrtle Knapp of Chesterton is sewing for Mrs. Charles Frame this week. A pie and box social is set for Friday at the Burdick school with graphophone music and a prize for the most popular lady. All are invited.
Mrs Dunlap of Chicago, Mrs Engle, Miss Ethel Dodd, Miss Beulah Barnard, Mrs Leslie Dodd and others are noted visiting friends in Michigan City Valparaiso and Westville. The legal item reports a decisive ruling in the Francisville depot dispute favoring Hathaway and attorneys, ending Monon railroad claims. A separate Chesterton note covers Chas Mahle’s capture after a Hobart gunfight and a town-wide manhunt.
Frank J. Cheney senior partner of Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6, 1486. Testimony notes internal use and blood mucous action. Include testimonials and product promotion.
An advertisement explains kidney and bladder ailments in both sexes and promotes Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer. It claims broad prevalence, lists bottle sizes, and offers a free sample and pamphlet from Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
A traveler notes sunflowers form a major daily food source in Russia. Seeds are eaten with husks discarded on streets and transport. Vendors sell them at every corner and the Czarina reportedly spent 160 to ship seeds for soldiers in Manchuria.
A vintage ad promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as improving complexions by aiding digestion. It claims the product stimulates liver and bowels, is mild and non nauseating, and guarantees relief with the slogan Try my chief cure guaranteed.
Mrs. H. Martin hosted guests from Stark County near Knox including Mrs. Conner and family. Alice Goff Bertram plans relocation from this area to Georgia. Pinhook school schedules a pie social Friday night at the schoolhouse. Lon McKellips reportedly has twenty six thousand bushels of cereals this year per a letter from Al Allen to George Winters. Many traveled to Chicago on the 18th for Wilbur Benson's twenty first anniversary celebration. Mrs. Tuley reports a seriously ill sister near Union Mills. Jim Flood harvesting potatoes. Milt Payne moving family back to Chicago.
Mrs J H Giles of Everett Pennsylvania says years of kidney and gravel pain ended after using Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy from Rondout New York. She reports becoming a happy and perfectly well woman again.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is advertised as a universal cancer cure. Jas Walters of Duffield Virginia claims a years long lip cancer was healed and now is well. Also advertised as a guaranteed remedy for burns. Available for 25 cents at E. T. Scotts drug store.
The notice announces the selection for town government positions, listing one councilman to be chosen for the First Ward and one for the Second Ward. Voters are urged to participate in the selection process and follow local casting procedures.
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