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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
3
The relics include foreign and domestic coins dating to 1793 with test pieces showing hole in center filled with metals to raise value. Mentioned names and items reference Toledo and local figures, with era notes on olden mint practices and a civic bonding tone.
A famed reply from Dr. Haig-Brown explains the phrase generally good in a boy’s character. He clarifies that generally means not particularly and cites Dr. Porter, master of Peterhouse, in a correspondence.
The ad praises ongoing starch improvements since the 25 year old patent brands. It claims Defiance Starch omits injurious chemicals and adds a new ingredient to boost strength and smoothness beyond rival products. It ends with a boast about boldness in the market.
Patient diagnosed with six months to live due to heart and kidney issues felt worn out and faint. After using Dearn's Kidney Pills symptoms improved, arms regained use, eyesight improved, and kidney secretions normalized. Now feeling well, with purchase through Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
A shopper enters a store seeking new tablecloths and asks for something different. The patient salesman shows all stock, then presents a discarded design with a unique center and border that runs around the edge. The woman eagerly selects it.
Home laundry improves with Defiance Starch, which requires far less quantity than other brands to achieve stiffness. It preserves fabric appearance and wear while delivering a stronger finish.
Ben Cary refuses to exterminate mosquitoes near his home citing a $32 screen project as progress. The text then shifts to household laundering advice praising Defiance Starch and noting informal exchanges of poetry and plant seeds as humorous reader notes.
The piece notes renewed interest in sea voyages with references to the Lusitania and a new sailing service sign for Australia and New Zealand. Bishop Potter visits a country house while a boy dismisses church as the bishop’s duty. An advertising plug urges trying Defiance Starch with a money back promise.
The one thousandth anniversary of St Peter's Church in Chester England is noted with the church in good repair. Parts of the structure were rebuilt in 1440 and 1673, reflecting its long history.
An advertisement promotes Lewis' Single Binder straight cigars as high quality with contact at Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois and notes that many people are poor subjects for a mind reader.
Nine balloons in the James Gordon Bennett Cup race watch the breeze from St Louis. Americans Germany France and England compete with two occupants per basket as crews chase a record flight across varied upper air currents toward Minnesota the Dakotas or east of Lake Michigan.
A New York daily report touts a kidney remedy mix with Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon Sarsaparilla Syrup and an at home preparation list. It also describes a facial wash using Rose water Bay Rum and Eppotone claimed to eliminate powder use and provide a soft velvety skin tint.
President Roosevelt made a flying visit to Vicksburg Mississippi, speaking to a large audience in the courthouse square after a two week stay in rural canebrakes. John Sharp Williams introduced him, praising the nation's leaders from Washington to Roosevelt with strong applause for the president.
Federal grand jury returns indictments against the New York firm Phelps Dodge & Co owners of the El Paso and Southwestern railway and smelters in Arizona and coal lands in New Mexico. Also named are Charles S. Spiess Prof Douglass David M. White and 16 others charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States over coal land entries in San Juan County New Mexico.
A clergyman on Adirondack vacation is humorously accused of stealing a setter dog by a native guide. a stage driver notes the oddity of such charges. A Sunday school illustration shows a watch needing better time and a boy suggests selling it. A country boy warns his sister not to drink milk seen coming from a cow, sparking laughter.
Samuel Wulfman head of Hartwell coal mines in Pike County was arrested in Jasper Indiana after examination of the defunct Peoples State Bank at Huntingburg. He overdrew his account by about 40800 dollars and was later released on bond. Wulfman serves as a trustee for the Southern Indiana insane hospital at Evansville.
Reports from Mazagan cite October 17 fighting between Shawta and Mequinez as Mulai Hafid and Mulai Rachid forces defeat Abd El Aziz troops. Caid Bushin Bagdani, chief of Abd El Aziz’s field army, was captured during the clash.
The British freight steamer Queen Cristina ran aground on North Seal Rock four miles north of Crescent City California at 1 30 a m Monday. Sixteen crew members reached shore by 10 45 am in boats while sixteen remained aboard. There is four fathoms of water around the vessel.
A Third Avenue jeweler in New York advertises free ring stretching to any size citing understanding of human frailty. He notes brides balking at fit and says he has stretched rings up to five times for one man. He casually suggests rubber rings as an option.
A Huntsville Alabama woman recounts forty years of coffee use and twenty years of stomach trouble. After doctors failed to help she stopped coffee, tried tea and milk without success, then switched to Postum and reports her health greatly improved after four months.
A reflective passage on the fragility of human life and friendships. It contrasts bright hopeful moments with deep sorrows and struggles, describing life as a brief span of joys and defeats before it passes away.
Fritz Hirschlaff of New York reports eight years of rough skin and sores on limbs and between toes healed in seven days by Cuticura Remedies after trying three hundred dollars worth of other doctors. He returned to work and praises the treatment in a March 29 April 6, 1906 testimonial.
A satirical dialogue questions medical consequences and landlord conflict. An advert touts Defiance Starch with one third more product for the same money, followed by a legal tale from Felixstowe on dog value and damages. An appeal invites local representation from Washington DC with a tip about effort over ease.
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