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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
2
A light column of assorted witticisms spans topics from merry shopping weather to personal foibles. It playfully critiques vanity, marriage, aviation stunts, and quirky observations about disease, poets, and New Jersey bee prayers, finishing with a Texas woman’s odd bequest and a legal question.
The article notes that while cars grow cheaper affordability remains hampered by high living costs. Critics argue consumer budgets strain as essential goods and meals stay expensive despite lower vehicle prices.
A sharp remark about using anesthesia on rats to aid a plan against a fly provokes debate on humane methods and prompt action. The odd botanical metaphor underscores a tense clash over methods and ethics in a public forum.
A Chicago note reports calves valued at £1000, while New York on Fifth Avenue shows calves valued at $5,000,000. Fashion bans switches and puffs, and the public anticipates true appearances beyond disguises. The strange desire to color a meerschaum pipe remains perplexing.
A Los Angeles boy climbed to the top of a skyscraper and stood on his head to test his nerve. He was arrested after alarming passers by and drawing police attention.
In Attens an exchange notes a taxi chauffeur is described using a peculiar term polipolytan tocinetharmoxaxe. The remark appears in a local discussion of taxi services and language usage as Els Dill is mentioned in the exchange.
A prima donna says milk acts as a hair tonic while revealing the discovery of a $15,000 lump of ambergis. Publicists are noted as working hard for their money in the accompanying commentary.
Market notes hint beef prices may rise while rabbits enter markets soon. A futuristic device to remove lead shot from teeth could boost popularity of rabbit meat once available nationwide.
A playful person hurled a melon into a passing taxicab in Brooklyn the other night. Observers note the incident highlights a growing worry that melons may replace hen fruit as a common snack choice among crowds along the great white way.
The piece argues America’s oldest doctor believes modern physicians aren’t much better at cures than a half century ago amid an explosion of new ailments. It notes a one third rise in cigarette consumption over three months as proof that advertising pays.
Mayor Fitzgerald favors a six inch restriction on pins and the county will watch with interest as authorities seek to enforce the measure.
Baltimore delegates heard a report condemning the contract system and urging state control of prison labor. Training priority, then finances, with farms and outside work to keep the majority employed on the state account. Ohio’s James H. Leonard elected president with D. C. Peyton as vice president and continued leadership of H. H. Trenton H. H. Shirer and Frederick H. Mills.
New York reports Mary Jarrin a housemaid paid $579 for love powder to Jane Grindle and had the powder maker arrested when her milkman sweetheart did not return.
A Times letter by F H Fawcett exposes Peru rubber labor abuses. Agents lure indigenous people with advances, drink, and forged pledges, then force them to work a harsh 100 pound load along brutal trails. Families are bought and sold for service. escape is near impossible and debt bondage for workers persists.
Capt Edwin L. Smith of London pilots the fifty five foot Woodhall from English shipyards to Trinidad after five months at sea with dwindling provisions. An American stowaway aided the crew as they faced harsh weather and limited supplies during the perilous voyage.
Miss Adeline Gritman attracted hundreds of churchgoers in St Louis when a solid gold bracelet on her ankle showed with rings on her fingers as she walked to a drug store. The moment drew comment from onlookers and churchgoers alike in the crowded scene.
Cambridge, N J Jimmy Ryan a Harvard sophomore searched for a girl he met during a fraternity initiation prank He asked every girl he met to marry him and chose one in Watertown square The girl accepted on bended knee then bound the pact with two earrings and vanished Ryan vows to track her down even if he must hire a detective.
Government hen expert Dr. H. M. Lanen predicts cheaper and more plentiful eggs once the hens finish melting.
Teddy the parrot, owned by August Reichmann, leads city workers paving an alley in Lake View. The bird's commands keep laborers on task, with occasional political chatter, as officials note Teddy does not appear on the payroll and may even outshine city oversight.
Rivalry for corn husking honors in Topeka features young farmers of Kansas. He Hardick of Lyons set a high mark by cleaning and cribbing 160 bushels of corn in ten hours, with other competitors close behind in the ongoing event.
In a domestic vignette from Youth's Companion, Mrs. Mead pressures Ernest Mead to replace his old hat. They visit shops where hats grow stiffer, and Ernest endures his wife's selections, finally leaving with her hat choice. He internalizes the defeat and mutters about impossibility.
The narrative follows Frank P. Morse promoting an editorial favoring a half million dollar memorial arch for Titanic heroes. Morse confronts editors in New York with zealous rhetoric, then abruptly leaves after a dismissive editor asks where the sailors died. Morse escapes via a Pullman car.
A man asks a lawyer if he may shoot a neighbor’s cat that roams his fence nightly. The lawyer notes the cat is not his, but the fence is, and concludes the only safe remedy is to tear down the fence.
A fragment shows a dialogue about abbreviations with Doctor of Divinity explained to a child. The exchange hints at education on religious degrees and common abbreviation knowledge.
The lesson frames two core ideas: discipleship’s humility and Christ’s stance toward children. Jesus teaches by placing a child before the disciples to show that greatness comes from becoming childlike—trustful, obedient, and selfless, not power-seeking. It urges parents and teachers to nurture this teachable spirit early and warns against causing children to stumble.
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