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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1903
Page
8
The paper will let a subscriber committee choose the home award. The publisher has no stake beyond fairness. The house, built for about $1000, is pitched as a merit prize to encourage home ownership and better citizenship.
The text asks how the premium for new subscribers can be afforded as past-due payments loom. The publisher concedes thecosts are high yet believes the premium will attract enough new signups to cover arrears and grow revenue.
Wheat per bushel eight to twelve cents. Corn per bushel fifty cents. Clover seed per bushel. Hogs per cwt live weight five dollars fifty cents. Hides per pound twenty two cents. Butter creamery twenty cents per pound. Butter dairy sixteen cents. Eggs per dozen old. Potatoes per bushel two dollars. Bacon per pound sixteen cents. Lard per pound twelve cents. Chicken live ten cents. Turkeys live twenty one cents. Ducks live twenty six cents.
Old time forecasters warn of a cold winter while readers are advised on a pineapple rooting experiment. Reports recount a Crown Point merchant praising newspaper advertising and a paroled man from Cass county missing after leaving Laporte farms. County petitions for macadam roads and road improvements proceed to public hearing, and local officials appoint Jonathan Snook as justice of the peace. Laporte hosts major oil plans with notable backers and a court case over railroad obstruction awaits supreme court ruling.
Philipsburg Daily Post editor M. T. Lynch commends Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds in his family, stating nothing he has used compares to it and that it is sold by all druggists.
An old advertisement explains that Scott's Emulsion feeds bone marrow and spleen with cod liver oil to aid blood production. It targets pale schoolgirls and invalids, claiming the product strengthens blood systems and offers free samples from OTT and BOWNE in New York.
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