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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1911
Page
2
A jumble of 1920s style quips and street talk covers fashion tiffs including harem and trouser skirts, radium chatter, a match trust, crime in Texas, odd weather notes, and a light joke on reading and breathing exercises. The piece intermixes city life in New York Chicago Rio de Janeiro and Nova Scotia with fleeting headlines and humorous asides.
A New York offer boy earned 51000 dollars in Wall Street but the next day the amount was kept from him and he continues wandering in the financial district.
In New York a woman offers letters as evidence to prove she loved a man. She refers to him affectionately as gly monkey and curly bear, saying it must be splendid to be loved like that.
An astronomer contends that centets are dust only and pose no danger from collisions. He notes they resemble the solar system being cleaned by a vacuum, implying no risk to Earth or other bodies.
In Winsted Connecticut a fisherman says a pickerel jumped at his nose thinking it was bait. The tale argues the fisherman’s nose is so brilliant that the fish mistook it for bait.
Under the net law the cost to carry a pistol in New York rose to ten dollars from two fifty. Despite higher fees, experts say the measure will likely fail to curb shooting incidents as enforcement remains lax and the impact mirrors the old rate.
An antiquated column extols dishpork and beans as a cherished American staple. It hints that a future foreign authority may elevate the pie above tradition, provoking reflection on national culinary pride and forgotten flavors.
A jilted Brooklyn man sues for time lost in courting a woman who pleads the right to pursue happiness by changing her mind. Courts have upheld the right to change his mind, leaving the swain with no case. The issue predated creation according to the text.
The Siamese monarch, Chao Fa Maha, expresses gratitude for sending an American representative to his father's cremation. He notes general willingness to send more cremations of oriental potentates but hopes American interpreters avoid twisting His Majesty's given name in court etiquette.
Dr. Frederic S. Lee of Columbia University opened the Jessup lectures at the Museum of Natural History with a Sketch of the Normal Human Body. He argues distrust of medicine stems from ignorance and urges acceptance of medical science as revealing wondrous bodily mechanisms and adaptations.
Rear Admiral C. F. Kingsmill and Commander G. B. Roper, royal navy officials to the Canadian government, visited the Ottawa naval school to gain ideas on its conduct. Supt. Bowyer welcomed them and Lieut. Commander Paul J. Dashiell led the tour through the academy.
W Goodacre a Finchley businessman spent seven years to create a unique moon map at 30 miles to an inch. The vast chart covers about 77 inches diameter with 40000 tiny squares and 1433 measured points, depicting around 30000 craters in fine detail.
Dr. Caroline Hedger told Chicago's Women's Trade Union League that long work hours force women into fashionable but burdensome dress. She urged shorter hours and highlighted 600 workers in a single room enduring nerve strain. Mary E. MecDonnell pushed for higher factory inspection funding and more women inspectors to protect some 20 000 workers in Illinois factories.
A 168 pound seaple with a three inch crust was served at an annual banquet in Goreston England. It contained six rabbits three ox kidneys three sheep kidneys twenty eight pounds of steaks forty six pounds of turnips and carrots fifty six pounds of potatoes and twenty eight pounds of Brussels sprouts and was cooked by a North Sea skipper.
West Grove report shows Editor Hitchler of the Oxford News denouncing a Lancaster County woman accused of trying to steal his board money from a pigeonhole at the News office. He rails at theft from an editor and mocks the thief as a specimen of degenerate behavior.
A 1911 Sunday School lesson discusses Joash restoring the Temple in Jerusalem with Jehoiada guiding priests. It highlights temple funds raised from poll tax and offerings, urges early church work involvement, and compares devotion to self‑improvement in religious service.
Baltimore mother reports her fifteen year old daughter Alice recovered health after taking three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter praises relief from pale complexion dark circles weakness and irritability once blamed on Green Sickness. The company says hundreds of such letters arrive and urges girls with menstrual and digestive troubles to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The catbird displays dual nature. It is a restless brown bird smaller than the robin yet capable of sweet liquid notes. At times it screeches in complaint, at others it breathes divine melody from its delicate throat.
Rhodie says the place is top on the route with steady wood sales from the locals. Joe confirms and notes the buyers frequent the shop for sawed and split wood.
Wisconsin elder credits quitting coffee for relief from recurring headaches heart pain and dyspepsia. She switched to Postum at breakfast two years ago and reports fewer bad heart spells better digestion and no headaches for over a year. The ad blames coffee for liver congestion biliousness and nervous prostration and promotes Postum as alternative.
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