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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
5
JT Babcock and wife have spent months in Citronelle Alabama with brother J C Babcock. A March 26 letter quotes warm weather at noon with the mercury at 80. They plan to return north April 5 via Champaign Illinois and Warsaw Indiana, noting Jud’s asthma recovery and a 160 pound frame.
Community notes report health updates and recoveries while readers are urged to file mortgage exemptions. Local visitors include J W Walburn from North Manchester and Mrs Jacob Zimmerman plus Mrs Cleil Kemp in Silver Lake. Bakery and insurance ads appear with church aid sale dates and employment changes noted for area residents.
Fragmentary text mentions property and Seth Buchave, with an emphasis on immediate insurance action. No clear event or context available.
Rupert Davis of Purdue University visited home over Sunday with his family. Walter Stout, studying in Indianapolis, returned home last Saturday for a week’s visit with relatives.
Washington signals Mexican turmoil will tighten sisal supply and raise binder twine costs. Manufacturers will not raise prices while grass stock lasts, but once exhausted prices will reflect the new material cost.
Bob a long time family driving horse owned by A B Cline, a veterinarian, died Tuesday night after brief illness. At 27 years old he belonged to the Gold-dust stock and never sick before. He served in harness for the family since age five and was deeply associated with them.
A. H. Bowen, long based in Wabash, has taken an interest in the Harry Bouse barber shop and will return to Silver Lake the first of the week. Though traveling often, he remains a citizen of Silver Lake and is welcomed back to the town.
The Recoup announces an allotment of government garden seeds from Congressman Barnhart for free distribution to those not yet supplied by mail. Call soon as supply is limited and first come first served. do not send children without an order.
Ezra Wood shows steady progress after ten weeks indoors as he walks from his barn and back. He completed a cautious outdoor venture Tuesday marking a notable recovery milestone.
Esta Grosso and family have moved into their new house on Main Street. The residence was erected last fall and completed this winter.
Motorists are urged to file automobile and motorcycle registration applications promptly. Brush & Hanson at the Recorp office offer to fill out your forms for you.
Ralph Wiltrout, son of C. E. Wiltrout of our town, ran an ad in a Chicago paper seeking a clean, healthy American girl for cooking and laundry for a couple with a small child. About 100 applications were received, illustrating unemployment among this class of workers.
At the regular meeting the reading club at Mrs Smigg’s home on Monday evening Mrs F D Hayman was made a member. The group will meet again next Monday evening at Mrs W E Wood’s home.
Brush & Hanson advertise as an authorized subscription agency at the Recorp office in Silver Lake. They offer subscriptions to any magazine and provide money saving club catalogs to reduce costs and save time for subscribers.
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Frank J. Cheney senior partner of Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. Sworn before me this 7th day of November 1886 in Toledo Ohio Lucas County.
Off duty report notes Miss Jessie Ferree became quite sick Tuesday night and has since been confined to her room. The brief item provides no further details on diagnosis or care.
A small family reunion was held at the Jack Burt home last Sunday. Three children Floyd of Goshen, Mrs. R. E. Ferree and son Edgar of Goshen, and Mrs. Earl Haney and daughter of Montpelier Ohio were at home for part of the day.
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