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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
4
A mixed page of holiday quips and household wisdom pairs with an advertisement for a 320 acre farm near Walnut Grove Minnesota. G W Olson invites offers and a potential trade for a city residence at 65 dollars per acre.
The passage urges that delaying correction hardens error and leads to negative living. It notes that continual guilt over wrongdoing is not productive and that one is not a hypocrite for failing to achieve immediate satisfaction but should strive to make things right.
A frightened academic sought safety in a log during a violent thunderstorm. The storm intensified with rain and noise as the man clung to shelter, later realizing he had not paid a newsreader subscription and felt ashamed yet determined to address it.
The text contrasts reactions to crime and debt both seen as offenses. It notes thieves are ostracised while debt dodgers face punishment, with offenders appearing in various places including churches and trusted offices, reflecting social enforcement.
A New York World editorial argues the nation needs a parcel post like other countries. It blasts the express trust, cites how rural delivery is hampered, and cites cross nation price contrasts, urging reform and public ownership to serve millions efficiently.
Readers in Silver Lake are urged to sample the opening chapters of Robert W. Chambers new serial in the November Cosmopolitan Magazine. The feature is described as the year's greatest novel and is illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
Wanted notice invites non subscribers to enroll for home delivery at 81 per year, with the paper mailed to their address.
The Claypool Lumber and Coal Co advertises a large stock of building materials in Northern Tundiana including doors windows and barn siding at low prices.
The article notes ancient Romans' beliefs on marriage timing. June was seen as the best month for contracts, especially when choosing the Tulline or sun and moon conjunction. March was avoided due to spirits considered adverse to happy households.
A writer laments modern education steering youth toward professions like law and medicine, arguing it drains the workforce of trades such as carpentry and mining. The piece contends misaligned schooling harms traditional labor, leading to a degraded social sense and respect for useful trades.
The passage credits Dame Juliana Berners as the real ancestress of English sporting literature, noting her rhymed Cooke of Sr Ab bands as the first book on sport in English. It mentions Wynkyn de Worde printing a second edition, and describes her other works on hawking and fishing.
Myron Landis of Carrington New Jersey reports good weather with no snow and good roads. He notes local improvements including a $100,000 courthouse a new electric light plant a 30 000 sewer system and a new railroad. He says health is good and sends regards to friends.
The Aid Society of the U B Church will host a Christmas Bazaar at the Swibart store. The sale begins Friday December 9.
E i Keplinger will hold a public sale at his farm two miles east and one mile south of Silver Lake on Saturday December 10 starting at 10 oclock. Items include 4 head horses 15 head cattle 2 saws 15 pigs 27 good breeding ewes Shropshire duck 100 or more black chickens incubator and broader lot farming implements 25 tons timothy hay corn in the crib and many other articles Usual terms 10 months time.
D. T. Sandera of Harrodsburg Kentucky recalls friends misjudging his illness as consumption. He suffered years of coughing until trying Dr King’s New Discovery, which stopped the cough and improved his health, labeling the remedy wondrous.
Charles W. Smith will hold a public sale on Wednesday December 7 starting at 10 o'clock. The auction will feature 1 horse, 18 head of cattle, 15 hogs weighing 150 pounds, 6 shoats at 75 pounds, 2 horse wagons and 1 cultivator, and additional farm items. Sale location is one half mile east and one half mile south of Rose Hill.
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