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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
3
Westville presents a meditation on parental longing and faith as a child plays with toys. The speaker reflects on a fatherly love parallel to the Heavenly Father, acknowledging distraction by earthly delights yet returning to the divine voice. The piece concludes with devotion replacing worldly baubles.
In a beech wood Doraminte de Brunette discovers two rivals plotting to shoot a presumed snare of her affections. Comte de Vallon intervenes, defuses the plan, and guides her away while the conspirators stare in mute tension. The scene blends tension, mischief, and courtly intrigue.
A Springfield Mass Zoological Club meeting featured a paper on earthworm regeneration. A narrator described dividing 12 worms into halves, yielding 22 worms after a month with two tail parts lost as heads grew, and later another experiment with four halves in soil where head parts consumed tail parts.
A visitor challenged a Paris restaurant manager over the claim of multilingual service. The manager acknowledged a broad language reach while noting practical limits for customers and staff amid a busy dining scene.
A Chicago Times Herald poem by S. E. Kiser contemplates the census as it gathers hundreds of thousands of workers and their personal stories. It questions what the figures reveal about toil, hope, and social neglect, contrasting grand moves in society with individual struggles.
Will Merrivell the cloth manager forms a chivalrous bond with Iona Wray while caring for a mysterious child. A mix up with a basket leads to a dramatic alarm from bystanders before a dog in the basket is revealed. The misunderstanding ends with Merrivell and Iona continuing to see each other on Saturday afternoons and Bobby’s role reassured.
In a Sydney Bulletin tale Murphy keeps the bush habit of sharing a blanket with a pup as he moves to town. The dog adapts by sleeping on Murphy and later blowing on his dinner. The pup ends up in a circus and Murphy becomes a gentleman, supporting both.
A lounger at a railway station in a college town recalls a graduation day moment. He notes a traveler’s trunk labeled with conspicuously marked letters Ss. G. Ga. prompting interest and debate among bystanders.
A future vision cites two canals binding Atlantis to the Pacific Ocean and boosting national prosperity. The claim compares the gain to the health promise of Hos tier's Bitters, urged as a remedy for digestion and related ailments.
A stranger asked a newsboy for bank directions. The boy pointed to a nearby skyscraper and asked for a quarter as payment. He quipped that bank directors are paid well in Chicago, highlighting the city’s finance humor.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers regular Homeseekers Excursion tickets to all points in South Dakota for one fare plus $2 round trip on October 2 1900 to visit the Belt Exposition in Mitchell from September 26 to October 4 1900. The event showcases South Dakota agricultural resources and land potential in a grand corn palace. Further details from railroad agents or Geo H Heafford
A blunt editor advises the young journalist on concise reporting. When danger appears a man rushes to warn others instead of recounting distant details, as illustrated by a dramatic fire threatening a mansion. The lesson favors direct action over lengthy narration.
A colored wall map of the United States 48 by 34 inches shows divisions of territory since the Revolution including the original thirteen states Louisiana Purchase Texas Annexation Gadsden Purchase Mexican cessions and Northwest acquisitions. It offers postage prepaid on receipt of 15 cents from P S Eustis general passenger agent C B Q R R Chicago Illinois.
Quote from the Baltimore American shows a speaker puzzled by women's fashion, lamenting skirts being ten inches too long and held high. The remark highlights a cultural critique and gendered dress norms.
An ad touts Cascarets as a universal remedy for ailments from headache to cancer, claiming it cures with natural bowel movements and costs 10 cents to start. The genuine metal box product bears C. GC. stamped on each tablet and warns against imitations. A joke notes a shared twenty fourth birthday with Heitere Welt.
A guidance piece urging mothers to vigilantly support daughters through puberty using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites Miss Good letters from 1899 describing irregular menses, nerves, and poor color as a young girl seeks advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Seattle, Washington.
A Seattle woman Miss Peart Goon writes in praise of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound describing how it transformed her health and energy, making work enjoyable and life more carefree. She urges other women to try the remedy to reduce suffering.
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