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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
6
The weekly health department bulletin shows six deaths in Chicago last week from Influenza. Experts warn of a possible severe epidemic as colder weather returns. Turpo is promoted as a preventive germicide for nasal use.
A Popular Science Monthly item quips that a turkey is a Bolshevist among farm birds and describes a farmer's device—a board around the neck with a cord under the wings—to keep it from raiding neighbors’ cornfields.
An 19th century advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy affecting mucous surfaces, with a money back promise and circulars from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
In a tense moment a butcher offers a pig's head to a woman who declines preferring a friendly looking pig. The exchange highlights market humor and shopper discernment, drawing reactions from bystanders.
An advertisement extols Cuticura Talcum Powder as a fresh antiseptic scent for face and skin, advertised as economical and convenient. It positions the powder as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio, alongside Soap and Ointment, with renters urged to prefer this fragrance over other perfumes.
The dialogue shows a despondent resident declaring loneliness and a night watchman retorting that his temperament makes friendship unlikely. The exchange underscores suspicion and social isolation in the segment.
An overnight report claims eye balm from Rome eased granulated lids and inflamed eyes. The ad promises one trial proves its merit and urges readers to try the product.
A terse dialogue shows a father asking if the courting girl can bake bread and a son confirming she can handle the dough, hinting at domestic capabilities and humor.
Ad copy claims Cascarets cleanse liver and bowels, relieve stomach upset, and improve skin and energy without griping. It promotes the product as gentle, inexpensive, and effective while you sleep, contrasting with Cilomel Salts Oil and harsh pills.
A fragment notes a single class of people who are always upright in their methods, described as piano manufacturers. The text is brief and lacks further details or names.
President Wilson’s address to Congress links delays in peace with unrest and calls for a unified budget system, efficiency audits, broader tax reform, and extended food control. He urges measures to improve production, rural life, and federal oversight while stressing constructive labor capital relations and a defined program for labor rights.
A speech argues for collective bargaining as humane, declares labor deserves fair wages and capital a reasonable return, and defends government protection for all. It warns against minority aggression, urges reform through representative government, and champions lawful, orderly progress over disorder or revolution.
A teacher reads a jungle tale to young students and asks for a definition. A confident boy rises and defines the jungle as the place where the circus lives, illustrating a playful misinterpretation of the tale.
In Pennsylvania workers lose about six days yearly to sickness. A new coffee strainer fits inside any pot with wires. England yields nets to recover golf balls driven into water. A motorist’s new electric torch includes a cigar lighter on one side.
General Pershing topped an army examination by one point after both he and Higginbotham diagrammed the sentence I love to run. Higginbotham split the subject and predicate differently, while Pershing marked T as subject and to run as the object, guiding his solution to secure the appointment.
Belge, a four month old Belgian police dog, becomes the first European born canine to accompany an American YWCA secretary to the United States. Presented to Miss Marion Alchin of Lynn Massachusetts by an officer of the occupying army Belge joined her at the Coblenz hostess house after earning a high rank in a Coblenz dog show.
M Bleriot completed a giant aerobus that recently underwent trials at Bucker drome Paris. The craft carries twenty eight passengers and demonstrates a new era of air travel.
The article outlines the historic custom of a Saturday half holiday, tracing it to a 1203 Scottish council under King William that decreed the day should be kept holy after noon so people could attend Vespertin for Sunday.
The famous bell in London known as Big Ben strikes the hours. It weighs 14 tons and accompanies the world’s largest clock.
Lesson centers on Peter's denials before the high priest and servants, Jesus entrusting Mary to John, John and Peter at the empty tomb, and Peter's restoration and call to serve. It connects Judas and John’s gospel events to a Christmas lesson theme, emphasizing love as the motive for ministry.
Quotations caution that deceit and fallacy cannot escape divine judgment. The speaker emphasizes that moral errors will be exposed and punished by the All-Seeing One, leaving no subterfuge unchallenged.
The quotation compares shaping vulgar aims with precision to hewing blocks with a razor, attributed to Popse, and reflects a paradox about delicate craft versus rough effort. It highlights an insistence on refined technique even for crude material.
A short ecclesiastical quotation from Matthew 7 7 8 offers a call to seek ask and knock with promise of responses guidance and opening for believers. The verse is cited as a source of personal spiritual instruction and motivation.
In 1917 there were 1 832 132 persons reporting income of 2000 a year or more with total income 11 191 246 207 and average about 6100. The average tax paid was 368.56. 141 people had incomes of 1 000 000 or more, nearly half of them women, and 315 had incomes between 500 000 and 1 000 000. About nine tenths of wealth was held by those earning up to 2 000 a year.
A vintage advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion, cleanses the stomach, stimulates bile, and purifies the blood. It claims wide domestic use for indigestion, nervous dyspepsia, sluggish liver, and constipation and notes availability from druggists and dealers.
In a Boston transcript excerpt a speaker condemns rising car prices and profiteers likened to the Forty Thieves, reflecting public anger over cost and market manipulation.
Bayer markets Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in a Bayer package with directions for Colds Pain Headache Neuralgia Lumbago and Rheumatism. The Bayer name denotes genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy 12 tablet tins cost a few cents. Aspirin is a trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoa cetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
In a papery exchange Lipton plans to bring another yacht to lift the cup while readers debate banning schooners and favor a sloop as the preferred craft for competition.
Clear bluing promises bright results with no ugly streaks. Advertisers claim strong cleansing and stain-free whites, noting wide availability at grocers.
A Kansas City Star excerpt quotes a farm hand declaring a strike due to excessive work. Critics counter that he does little labor himself, while he argues another worker’s output tires him, highlighting tensions over labor duties on the farm.
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