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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
4
Advertising rates are announced on application. Ads run until ordered out. Copy due by Wednesday noon. Obituaries and paid notices require advance payment. Abbreviated funeral notices are free. Cards of Thanks up to ten lines cost 25 cents.
Items from Warsaw and surrounding towns include a warning about a steel range swindler, road gate obligations on Center Market and Main Streets, and upcoming church and camp meetings in Indiana. Local editor Pricket plans fiction with titles referencing Edenland and California mining days.
Readers note recurring reports of youths sent to asylums allegedly linked to cigarette smoking. The writer argues teens persist smoking despite warnings, treating cigarettes as harmless.
North Manchester resident John Bush will construct a cement and rail road project measuring 650 feet in length and four feet in width. Work is set to begin immediately.
Local column invites community news with appeals to teachers ministers and physicians. Notes on recent walks and street improvements along East Main Street promise a durable cement path to the depot while recalling past wooden walks and bids due Friday. Social visits report Miss Bessie Creiger Grandma Eaton Rev N F Surface and Rev J Rowland plus travel to Logansport and Yellow Lake for excursions and carnivals.
A J Noberger writes from Los Angeles on August 15 1903 detailing a pleasant trip from North Manchester to Pasadena Alhambra and Catalina Island. He notes a large grape vine at San Gabriel the glass bottom boat ride and the wireless telegraph station first in the US for commercial use. He visits Santa Monica Soldiers Home and praises Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and city amenities while mentioning 120000 population and extensive parks and streets. Several North Manchester families accompany him and they plan to leave for Ann Arbor tomorrow.
Chicago’s Chutes offers noon to midnight entertainment with a circus country fair summer park concert garden theater miniature world and amusements. Attractions include chutes toboggans loops mirrors animals and magic shows with Weldon’s military band and a big crowd enjoying lights and displays.
A dubious health claim promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for dizziness back ache liver complaint and constipation. The ad claims relief and warns of unbearable pain while offering the pills for 25 cents guaranteed by C Rager, druggist.
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