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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1899
Page
7
A reflective verse piece titled Every Other Saturday describes a mourner revisiting a corner shelf full of relics: a worn book, faded yew, hair in a locket, a blue ribbon, an empty needle-case, two watch keys, a heart and ring. The vision of a beloved figure appears, eyes earnest, then fades as the speaker lays the book down.
In a Nantasket studio Vane teases Gladys Ferrers about marriage while he longs for freedom from romance. Miss Ferrers rebukes him, but warmth lingers as Vane hints at new plans with Saint Bernard puppies through Dick Story. A sister arrives with Horace and a hamper, broadening the domestic scene.
In a comical domestic caper, Vane steels himself to charm Miss Ferrers while planning a prank. Van Winkle the Angora disappears during a visit to Gladys, then reappears after a snowy chase as Vane retrieves the cat, prompting apologies and a tense, playful reconciliation.
An Irish sailor aboard a man of war mutters in frustration as he hauls in a long tow line. Exasperated, he laments the task, then jokes he will lose someone’s cut off end of the line if the work drags on.
The latest paper collar is treated with a waterproof preparation enabling it to stay presentable for a couple of weeks. Like the celluloid collar, it only requires wiping with a wet cloth to stay clean and bright.
A humorous tale about Governor Oglesby of Illinois who explained how being overly absorbed in a topic delayed his address on the Holy Land. After a long journey he spoke two hours on Europe Italy and Greece before finally attempting the Holy Land, then ran out of time and never reached his subject.
An English traveler in Russia faced arrest at the frontier after her passport failed to authorize departure. She endured detention, was charged for accommodation meals and costly telegrams while authorities investigated her activities. She eventually left without apology or reimbursement.
The article marks last year as the seven hundredth anniversary of coal use as fuel. It notes coal’s long presence, its limited early impact beyond warmth and cooking, and praises its growing role in human progress especially since the present century.
A bachelor farmer facing money troubles marries a neighbor famed for ban bees. He buys a horse with part of her money and calls his wife to see it. She notes her sister’s influence brought him the match, and he fires back that her sister led to her own existence.
In Fonda on a Shetland island, locals rear skaul gulls to control eagle depredations. The red sandstone cliffs host nests where eagles multiply, terrorizing farmers and fishermen. The invincible gulls fight the eagles and triumph, prompting the islanders to feed and care for them despite their fierce nature toward their ancient foe.
The Secret Service uncovers another band of counterfeiters and seizes a batch of bogus bills. The report notes imitators of popular remedies like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, praised for indigestion dyspepsia and constipation, as highly valued for imitation.
Beatrix bets her bonnet that few eaters can name the grape flower’s peculiarity. The unopened bloom resembles a balloon whose ballooned portion is the corolla with a calyx rim at the base. On opening petals detach below, then cohere at the top to hood the stamens, and the hood drops as the flower fully expands revealing five stamens.
Advertises Gali's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. Claims credibility and legality for sale. Progressive tone typical of period patent medicine notices.
A note on Americanized culture describes today’s woman as progressive and mentions the opening of a milliner’s shop in Porto Rico, signaling fashionable commerce abroad.
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease a powder shaken into the shoes. It relieves tight new shoes and bunions and claims to cure swollen feet blisters callous spots and in growing nails. Sold at druggists and stores for 25 cents with free trial by mail from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A fragment notes British presence in India with a claim of 100000 Britons to about 3 000 locals. An endorsement for Piso's Cure for Consumption appears from C L Baker of Philadelphia dated December 8 1895. A line mentions Emperor Franz Josef only greeting fellow sovereigns. Also a travel ad offers Fort Wayne to Chicago round trips Sundays on the Nickel Plate Road.
Letter recounting relief from female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Ives reports improvement after one bottle and full recovery, urging others with female complaints to try the remedy.
A Newark New Jersey woman writes that after two years of illness and near-fatal diagnoses she was cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She details womb, falling, ulcers, kidney and bladder troubles with severe bowels pain and credits the treatment for regained health and strength.
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