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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
4
In Onalaska Wisconsin Mrs Lester E Warner describes years of back and abdominal pain preventing work. After using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she reports complete pain relief and ability to perform housework. She urges others to try the medicine for female weakness.
Mr Stubbs and Mrs S debate the idea of a bride blushing at marriage. She suggests shame over the couple’s choice, while he challenges why a young woman would blush at getting married, calling attention to the social norms of commitment.
A vintage ad promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a natural pure remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims no habit forming drugs and notes a sworn purity statement with every bottle. Samples offered for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co. Poughkeepsie NY.
A harried statesman notes a suffragist delegation will wait if he leaves. He signals them to wait and plans to slip out the back door to Europe. The Birmingham Age-Times records the exchange.
A Boston banker recalls a Canadian West tour praising vast wheat fields and rising yields. He notes Canada’s peace and growth driven by strong crops, cattle raising, and expanding dairying with federal and provincial support, predicting a harvest near 1915 levels and big profits for farmers.
The crowded theater watches as the villain grips the heroine and taunts her with a secret about her father. He claims to know his 10 000 stolen tins of condensed milk stored in a strong room and offers to reveal the truth or keep silent, warning of a messy leak.
A brief wartime reminiscence describes Mr. Wadleigh enduring continual pain and hardship during the conflict. The dialogue notes his unrelieved suffering and asks if he ever found relief.
Dialogue suggests Smyth is Ned’s close friend rather than an alter ego. The exchange emphasizes camaraderie over confusion about identity.
First Sergeant Grizzell of the Spokane recruiting station attests to an incident during a Marine Corps Institute application when three applicants debated spelling grammar. A third man joked he too had spelled it with two m's, taking the rubber for corrections. Another tale from a political event recounts a maid and a temperamental plate exchange with a playful line about mustard on plates.
An exchange discusses Naples as a rare among European cities for keeping rents low, with quip about Vesuvius staying hot despite the housing costs.
The brief dialogue frames a dirt farmer as worthy of admiration through the idea of pay dirt. It hints at a rural economy and the value of hard work without additional context or details.
Column notes widespread superstitions linking the number 13 to bad luck. It cites beliefs about dining with thirteen at a table predicting a death within a year, births on the thirteenth bringing lifelong bad luck, and avoidances of journeys or new ventures on the thirteenth of any month. It also mentions a thirteenth house row often being empty or renumbered.
A fragment notes seasonal weather contrasts with snow in winter and correlates heat with rising temperatures in summer. The text hints at typical climate patterns but lacks specifics on location or dates.
Denver Rescue Mission in Denver Colorado employs Alex Adair a seventy year old former bandit and early West outlaw who rode with Jesse James. Adair joined the James gang after the Munsey train robbery then found a new life after meeting the Salvation Army in Wichita and marrying a missionary.
Gustav Stoney, resting beside his pens, was hit by a goat that jumped the pigsty rail. Parkers clambered over the enclosure causing the attack and Stoney sustained cuts and bruises before his son drove off the animals and rescued him.
A woman seen begging in Columbus accompanied by two men and a baby left the city in an expensive automobile. She claimed the party was stranded and from Kentucky en route to relatives near Indianapolis after visiting local shops for aid.
In Graham North Carolina a mob tried to lynch three Black suspects held in jail guarded by a machine gun unit. One mob member was killed and two wounded as guards protected the prisoners awaiting trial for assault on a white woman. Soldiers prevented further violence.
Fifteen year old Mary Carcich of Freeport New York rowed two miles through rough water to save two children who drifted away in a rowboat. She battled to reach shore and then returned the children to their parents.
New Bloomfield resident Harry Lupier killed a large water snake and cut it open finding a 13 inch sucker with fins head and scales intact inside the creature confirming the unlikely catch.
In a Birmingham Age-Herald snippet, Mr. Dubwaite comments on a neighbor’s baby talk to her pet. Mrs. Dubwaite mocks the baby as a four legged “titsy, putsy” possession, prompting a terse exchange.
An 19th century style medical note promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine to prevent frequent head colds by building up the system and cleansing the blood. It claims internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and restore normal conditions. Circulars free from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Jet is a lignite like hard stone used since Britain’s ancient times and found in bronze age ornaments. Roman and medieval artifacts show jet beads and rosary cores from Whitby and Whitney. Likely formed from coniferous wood sinking into mud and becoming jet rock, with occasional bitumen droplets.
A bemused remark attributed to a man just divorced from his first wife cites a biblical line as a grim pun on his fate. The exchange highlights how a single phrase travels into later fame.
A reflective line about how praise fuels true nobility, suggesting that the finest souls seek virtue over applause. It contrasts warm admiration with honorable character, implying praise strengthens serious virtue more than vanity.
Rural humor and saffron slyness mix in a cartoonish montage of quips about buglers and food, with a jab at gasoline price boosts and a quip on moderation. The piece features farm talk and social irony through two speakers, Farmer Corntessel and a boy.
A Boston Transcript item recounts a neighbor asking a seven year old geologist’s daughter about her pet. The girl defends the name with playful definitions from father mother sister and herself calling it her dear little kitty.
An old farmer laments a bad harvest to a parish minister, who reminds him Providence provides for all. The farmer retorts that even his corn is provided for, underscoring his stubborn complaint.
A classic exchange notes belief in spirits dwelling in a house but kept quiet in the cellar rather than roaming sleeping rooms. The remark hints at supernatural intrigue staged as a light humorous dialogue.
A concise maxim states that fearing loss of dignity negates the value of what one possesses. It frames dignity as the core stake worth protecting above all else.
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