22 Dec 1899
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
1
A historical piece defines a hotel as a public house open to all loafers and travelers. It urges guests to sit near the stove, smoke and spit considerately, and keep rooms orderly while socializing. It frames hotel life as homelike yet regulated under statute.
The Agricultural Department reports a new cattle and horse fodder from ground cornstalks leaves and tops mixed with blood or molasses. The mixture is pressed into cakes for easy shipping and feeding, with tests in Europe positive and potential for tropics like Cuba and Southern States where molasses and cane refuse waste. Estimated cost $10 to $12 per ton. nutritive value $22 to $25.
The paper trust has raised white print paper prices by over sixty percent and plans to limit output. It holds an option on timber lands for wood pulp and seeks to force higher prices. Leading papers urge tariff removal to allow Canadian logs and aid mills outside the trust.
Hicks forecasts a reactionary storm for January 3 and 5 with mild weather clouds rain and sleet and high winds. A cold wave arrives January 5 to 11 followed by more rain and storms until January 15. From January 15 to 19 a mix of weather. From January 20 onward thunder lightning rain and unsettled conditions persist through month end.
Railroads notify wholesale merchants of proposed rate widening on January 1. The shift increases the gap between carload and less than carload freight, placing a heavier burden on smaller retailers who lack organization and influence. The discrimination worsens existing burdens on the “little fellows.”
The ad claims Cham berlain Cough Remedy stops croup if given at hoarseness or after the croepy cough appears. It boasts twenty five years of success in thousands of homes and no failures. Sold by Dr. Chas. Rager. A comic wedding anecdote follows with a preacher skipped kiss and a groom’s quip.
The article argues criminals dread the public press as a check on crime, noting American journals expose crime widely. It emphasizes the press as a powerful force that deters criminal activity by informing and influencing public opinion and officials.
The President says Congress should revive the vice admiralty grade and would nominate Sampson and Schley to it, aiming to end the extended controversy. Walters serves the best table in Warsaw with more to eat than rivals.
On December 17 1899 the Nickel Plate Road will start a thru vestibuled sleeping car from New York City via D L W R R at 11 45 p m arriving Buffalo at 12 10 noon. It will connect with train No 5 to Chicago arriving 7 20 p m. Train No 6 leaves Chicago 10 15 p m arriving Buffalo 4 55 p m and carries a through sleeper to New York via D L W R R arriving at 7 25 a m.
H N Williams of Gentryville Indiana reports that One Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy for coughs and colds and claims it cures whooping cough pneumonia bronchitis and lung trouble with immediate results. He says early use prevents consumption and notes merchants recently bought new gas lamps that improve their rooms.
A narrator taunts a homeless person with a stinging tax on gin and a vivid arithmetic challenge. The piece converts 500 feet of garden into real estate cost and imagines swallowing acres of dirt as a cautionary moral about squandered money and the idea of farm independence.
A nostalgic advertisement touts Kodol as a universal digestion aid curing indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. It credits Dr Rager and asserts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy guarantees refunds if unsatisfied and that it never fails for bowel complaints.
Bob Geiger narrates a True story from the Cherubusco Truth as a woman storms the print shop. She demands the paper stop publishing, slams the editor for removing a poor couple from the subscription list, and declares the act a lesson to Indiana papers.
D. B. Johnston of Richmond Indiana says Chamberlain's Pain Balm cured his rheumatism after 1862. He notes the balm acts like magic, relieving a swollen painful foot after one application. Sold by Dr. Chas. Rager.
Advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle remedy for headache and constipation. Claims a powder mill explosion and drastic mineral pills are dangerous, urging readers to subscribe and purchase at Rager’s for 25 cents.
The Kosciusko county circuit court last week decided in favor of Enoch Rhodes in a dispute over maintenance for his father. A jury awarded Rhodes 1230 dollars after contesting an administrator’s 1000 dollar allowance for the three years and seven months of care. The ruling is expected to secure him the small farm he occupies.
The piece argues a newspaper publisher must balance selling papers with renting space. It compares free space to donated goods and notes the paper’s survival hinges on revenue from both ads and subscriptions, not gifts.
A sympathetic exchange voices support for a society dedicated to preventing cruelty to plants. The piece paints graphic rural images such as digging potato eyes and tearing the beard from rye to illustrate the brutality of agriculture.
A Miami county official overseeing roads orders hillside changes described as cut lownecked scalloped with creeks hemmed in and culverts set bins. She plans a double row of tucks around hill skirts and ruffled bottoms, with hillsides embroidered with daisies and fringed with golden rod.
A Hunantingten man’s wife refused a typewriter. In his office she finds a blotter note written in reverse script, which she cannot read due to no practice in spelling and reading backward. The scene hints at a quirky domestic moment and the misread message.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised to cure skin eruptions, sores, boils, corns, warts, cuts, burns and pains. Sold by Dr. Rager. The notice also promotes fall goods at W. H. Kingery & Co in Warsaw with blankets at 39 cents a pair and cheaper undergarments.
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