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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1912
Page
5
Cold weather continues with more snow as local residents make brief visits and daily tasks. Names mentioned include William Parker Vet Johnson Elmer Stuay Theo Parker Mahlon Rickel Irvin Parker Ed Clink Jacob Shoemaker Charles Netzen Joho Homan and families in Claypool and Silver Lake vicinity.
A young girl on horseback alerts and evacuates townspeople during a midnight fire in the Catekills, credited with saving many lives. The piece then endorses a new lung cure from Dr. King, featuring a testimonial from WR Patterson of Wellington Texas and a trial offer from Rager and Jontz.
A moral urging emphasizes the sacred nature of promises to children. It cites a boy whose parents broke three times to take him out driving, provoking the child to call them the two darnest liars in the country. The piece argues a broken promise is a lie and an offense regardless of the recipient.
The excerpt discusses freedom as a test of character rather than mere absence of constraint. It argues that while fate may decide liberty, individuals determine whether they deserve it, warning that suffering without deserving it would be the saddest fate.
Miss Eva Swick and family visited Wednesday with Lawrence Alspaugh. The Moyer, Irvin Parker, Elsworth Brady, Rowland, and Boush households hosted or were hosts last week. Revival meetings are in progress inviting all to attend. Several residents visited relatives including Mrs Meese, the Allison Swick family, and the Kreiter school in Bessie's stead. Local promotions feature Nyal's Little Liver Pills at Toline & Co.
The call asks readers to overcome timidity and inform the paper when they are leaving town or hosting visitors so the publication can be more informative and engaging.
A reader urges directing all legal notices to The Record for rightful publication. It advises clients to instruct attorneys to publish administrator executor guardian road ditch or real estate sale notices in papers of choice and to inform them to avoid defaulting to "political county seat papers."
A drugstore advertisement by Rager & Joniz promotes Rexall Orderlies as a safe gentle bowel regulator and tonic. The notice guarantees relief or the medicine is free, citing suitability for children and the elderly and noting three sizes priced at 10c, 25c, and 5c.
J. B. Bonhue of Haven Michigan, a Civil War captain and lighthouse keeper, credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney trouble and chills after other remedies failed. He reports improved sight and general health at seventy and endorses the medicine for dyspepsia indigestion stomach liver and kidney troubles. Sold by Rager and Jontz for 50 cents.
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