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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
4
The notice advertises attendance at Warsaw Business College with a Complete Bookkeeping course and shorthand contest. It mentions an individual instruction plan and home boarding, plus a travel deal: 23 round trip tickets from Silver Lake to Warsaw and back on the Big Four for 3.85 dollars. Contact the college office for details.
Nickel Plate Road offers holiday travel tickets good December 23 24 25 30 and January 1 1900 at one and one third fare round trip with return by January 2 1900. Peerless daily express trains and dining car service highlighted. Hair regrowth ad included stating Beggs Hair Renewer stops hair loss and promotes new growth with a testimonial from Mrs M McLeever.
Historical advertisement touts Beggs German Salve as a guaranteed remedy for skin diseases ulcers and wounds with testimonials from Hilda Hamilton Ottawa Iowa and William Whitefield Lincoln Nebraska claiming cures for piles consumption and coughs.
James E. Gordon of Augusta Georgia testifies to lasting benefit from Beggs Blood Purifier after years of gout and rheumatism. The ad credits Dr. Rager and markets the remedy as a superior blood cleanser.
Neighborly visits and travels across North Manchester, Silver Lake, Milford, and South Whitley are listed. Names include Pearl Leffel, Grace Cramer, Henry Brown of Nebraska, Edward Leffel, Grandma Olinger, Sol Leckrone, Nora Keller, Blanche, Trude Quay, Thomas Townsend, Wm Paulus, Earl, Lew Bussard, Bertha Swank, Jess Martin, Sam Coble, Retha Landis, and Frank Creiger. A wedding with Lew Bussard and Bertha Swank is noted along with a holiday gathering and neighbors sharing a Buckwheat cakes supper.
A playful collection of old sayings about animals and objects failing to do their own tasks. It contrasts writers and doers with traits like weighing by scales and packing trunks, noting how creatures avoid self reference in a humorous parade of proverbs.
A 19th century weather rhyme links the dozen days after Christmas to the year ahead. The first day predicts snow storms and thus signals the number of snow events the winter will bring.
Silver Lake Record notes subscription price of $1.00 a year and highlights holiday offerings. The ad promotes dresses, table linens, china ware, lamps, shoes, hats, and men’s goods, with a grocery line and high prices for poultry and produce. Sender thanks customers and extends New Year wishes.
Milo Scott in Claypool and Mrs J J Babcock in Warsaw report midweek visits. Schools plan two weeks vacation. Miss Ethel Swartz of Akron visits Miss Roxy Terry. Miss Blanche Leffel of North Manchester visits Miss Dessie Oldfather. Recorp office moves to over Blanche's General store. Mrs H T Larber trades property near the millinery store. Alfred Babcock and Miss Susie Clymer wed at the Clymer home. Various visits and travel notes. church services planned at Lutheran church. Community notices include recipes, ads, marriages, and local greetings.
Advertisement extols a sugar coated pill claimed to convert weakness into strength and listlessness into mental power. It markets Dr Rager as seller at 25 cents per box and frames the product as a mighty health aid.
Breeders are notified that Prince of the Realm Jr. a dapple grey stallion of seven years and 1700 pounds will stand for service in fall 1899 and spring 1900 at the owner’s Claypool stable. The horse, awarded a Warsaw Street Fair premium, is owned by S. B. Wuittenberger with W. P. Kinsu as keeper. Also promotes One Minute Cough Cure praised by HN Williams of Gentryville Indiana as a universal remedy for coughs colds and throat lung troubles.
An advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure by Dr. Rager, asserting it cured severe indigestion, sour stomach, heartburn, and all forms of dyspepsia after patients suffered from dyspepsia despite doctors and mineral springs.
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