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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1897
Page
3
Florence Hoard is recovering from sickness. Several residents visit. Wabash section gangs work at Calumet. school disputes arise but reset. Local notices include births, weddings, a fatal accident in Michigan City area, and various ads for remedies and services.
Miss Maud Terwilliger married E P Potter at the M E church with Rev Stockbarger officiating. Later John C Goulding and Winnie S Alcott wed at Mr G C Flegal’s home with a small gathering and fine supper.
The county W C T U convention met at the M I church with delegates from Laporte Michigan City Door Village present. Officers elected included President Mrs Paxton, Cor Sec Mrs Harrison, Rec Sec Mrs Scott, and Treasurer Mrs Young. A day of devotional services, reports, and an eloquent address by Mrs Cramer concluded with a $3 collection.
A testimonial extols Salvation Oil as a positive cure for rheumatism and sciatic rheumatism after two bottles relieved a sufferer. The ad promotes Salvation Oil for 25 cents and urges buyers to avoid substitutes, stating it is sold by all dealers.
Fragment describes a general agent Charlie Freeman and a delivery instruction “Leave orders” at a drug store in a New York Illustrated Record clipping. It mentions a doorstep delivery and unclear references to epen and ee eres te cesees.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaprilla as a remedy for keeping blood pure before illness appears. It presents a health claim linking the product to preventive blood cleanliness.
A letter from a Chicago reader discusses reclaiming 590000 acres of swamp lands in Lake Porter La Porte Starke Newton counties for beet sugar. A levee system along the Kankakee river could create a half mile wide channel to prevent floods with a projected $1000000 cost and $2.00 per acre.
Entitled A Regular Fix the Literary Society builds plans for an event on October 22. Names appear in a garbled OCR listing participants and attendees including Hugh De Brass, Mrs Surplus, Emily, Matilda Dane, and Pad. Admission details are obscured but the notice invites all to attend.
A trial summary describes the shooting of a farmer near Starke and the subsequent capture of the fugitive at Slavin. The defendant is returned to Knox Western for preliminary examination and is bound to appear before the Starke court. The scene includes testimony about the murdered man's family and a violent confrontation, with the sheriff guarding the prisoner.
Fire swept six miles south of Ives destroying coon fields and fences. Barns and two bridges burned. several cows perished. Firefighters from the spring country battled flames, cutting furrows to stop it. By Sunday it continued burning, dangerous to cross, with extensive hay losses and desolation reported near Hebron and Ainsworth.
A dispatch from Marion reports William Messenger, who killed Fred Nelson in San Pierre Star County weeks ago, was captured at Marion Thursday. He will return to Knox for trial once papers are obtained from Governor Mount.
Last week at Marion the ship is described as reaching the high water mark in the history of the loins amid crowing notes on membership and winter cases. Telegraph operators are in demand, with graduates of the Dodge Institute of Telegraphy in Valparaiso, Indiana securing good positions. Tuition and living costs are listed with promotional language for immediate inquiry.
A vintage ad solicits names and addresses of three or more piano or organ performers and ten cents in silver or postage to mail ten pieces of full sheet music in popular songs, waltzes and marches, via Popular Music Pub. Co. Indianapolis Ind.
A new product placed in grocery stores claims to replace coffee. Grand-O, a mix of pure grains, is designed to suit delicate stomachs and reputedly costs less than a quarter of coffee. Children may drink it with less distress.
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