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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
8
Platoff Namurice and Maurice escape a prison stockade under fire using a damaged log and bayonet tools. After a tense breach, they plan a perilous riverbank retreat while mounted Cossacks close in.
Three boys Maurice Phil and Platoff escape a fortress by lifting a log over a stockade in a blizzard. A sentinel misses them tripping on the log, alarms ring out, and they flee across the snow with pursuit firing overhead.
Enterprising local agency offers Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Colds, claiming it cures asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat chest affections. Free trial bottle or regular sizes priced 50 cents and 1.00 with guaranteed cures or money back.
An advertisement proclaims ten million bicycle riders in America and promotes Henry Johnsons Amica Oil Liniment as a fast healer for bruises cuts and sprains. It touts pimples sunburn tan and freckles relief and sells at 25 cents per bottle with a 50 cent bottle option and a money back guarantee.
A fragmentary timetable lists trains between Buffalo Chicago and Boston Chicago with flag stops and daily/Sunday exceptions. It shows No 9 Buffalo and Chicago Express at 5 20 am and No 1 Boston and Chicago Express at 4 55 am along with other mixed times and flag stop note for No 13 New York and Chicago Express.
The Omaha Exposition offers a final chance for reduced fares on October 25 through Nickle Piute Road special rates. Agents are advised to inquire for details.
Effective November 21 1897 the Crand Trunk Railway issues westbound trains including Chicago Express Lehigh Express Pacific Express and Atlantic Express and eastbound trains including Lehigh Express Atlantic Express Mail and Express with various stop patterns and daily service from Chicago 271.13 miles from Port Huron.
The ad links good looks to healthy organs and promotes Electric Bitters as a direct aid to stomach liver and kidneys. It claims purification of blood and treatment of pimples boils and a better complexion with a 50 cent bottle at E T Scotts drug store.
The Overland Limited runs daily from Chicago at 6 30 p m to San Francisco arrival at 8 45 p m the third day and to Los Angeles at 1 20 p m the next afternoon The Pacific Express leaves Chicago at 10 30 p m for San Francisco arriving 9 45 a m the fourth day Equipment is new and modern For rates contact a ticket agent or write D W Aldridge 127 The Arcade Cleveland Ohio
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