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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
5
Practical Christmas advice urges simple, thoughtful giving. It recommends planning lists, sharing shopping tasks, and avoiding excess by writing letters when funds are tight. Emphasis is on affection over expense and timely, careful wrapping and mailing.
A Victorian menagerie of Christmas customs from Norway and Sweden describes Santa visits, gifts, and child behavior. The piece includes excerpts on Santa’s arrival, family songs, and festive rituals, with quotes from Harper's Bazaar on gifts and small trees.
A child narrator describes staying up to greet Santa Claus as he delivers gifts. The cozy scene shows stockings hung, a sleeping family, and Nannie finding a trove of toys and dollies after Santa leaves a kiss and Merry Christmas wishes.
A disjointed passage describes a family moment where a ten year old terror carefully scrapes his shoes before a parlor visit. Mr Softly and a sister feature in a box of taffy candy sent for Christmas, with dialogue about its contents and sharing.
Obituary for Mrs Bouse Cathrine Clink Bouse born September 2 1848 in Seneca County Ohio died December 1914 at her Silver Lake Indiana home aged 66 years 3 months 7 days She moved from Ohio to Kosciusko County Indiana at 16 lived near Silver Lake Married Jon Bouse January 11 1865 five children survive Charles Alvin Ada Hill Lillian Maggart Harry Bouse Her husband died November 23 1962 She was baptized in infancy and joined the Lutheran church in Silver Lake in 1902 She leaves one brother John Clink one sister Ellen Vangilder four children ten grandchildren and many relatives and friends. She faced illness with Christian fortitude trusting in Jesus to lead her to rest.
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The 1915 Irl R Hicks Almanac is promoted as essential for homes and businesses across the continent. It highlights astronomy storms and earthquakes and notes the author’s seventy-year milestone. The almanac offers email delivery for 35 cents and Word and Works Magazine as a bundled offer for a dollar, with mailing address in St. Louis.
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