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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
4
Rates for display ads to be disclosed upon application. Obituaries free for subscriber families up to 25 lines. Free obituaries for non subscribers priced per line. Card of thanks 3 cents per line with 25 cent minimum. Notices for churches or societies for events to raise funds 3 cents per line per issue.
A $1.29 shoe pair in Providence Rhode Island is valued at $800 here. Based on this ratio the $2 000 slippers should cost proportionally more in this place, but the exact price requires the same relative mark up applied to the local value.
A compact look at February’s notable dates with Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day observing historical figures and seasonal rituals across communities and traditions.
A Nevada town keeps street lights on around the clock to save money instead of employing a fighter. The writer notes Indiana once did the same when natural gas was cheap, but conditions have changed.
80 acre farm four miles from Silver Lake, on a good road, with a good and roomy house, furnace, bank barn 40 by 70, solid fencing, slightly rolling land well tiled. 4 acres timber, remainder cultivated on heavy soil. See or call H. Henderson, Akron, Indiana. Office over Exchange Bank. Telephone 163.
Russell Self visits from Chicago for his father S. J. Self's funeral. Family and friends attend multiple services including Dale Homman and J. P. Robinson funerals. Local residents travel from Indianapolis West Lebanon Fort Wayne Huntington and Chicago for illness visits sales and gatherings.
War Savings organizers tour Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan and Wisconsin promoting 1920 Treasury Savings certificates of 100 and 1000 dollars. They emphasize tax exemptions safety and guaranteed value with interest around 4 percent maturing January 1 1925 and redeemable after the second month. Also detailing exchange options for 1918 1919 War Savings certificates and conversion steps.
The Elkhart Truth argues that personal freedom comes from thrift not miserliness. It links thrift to independence from worry about the future, urging saving, wise buying, avoiding waste, and investing safely through Thrift Stamps and War Savings stamps.
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