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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1903
Page
4
Ad rates shown with application. ads run until ordered out. Copy due Wednesday noon. Obituaries and paid notices priced at two cents per line in advance. Abbreviated funeral notices accepted free. Cards of thanks ten lines or less cost 25 cents.
A 1900s-era note predicts coal prices will remain elevated for two years. The item also mentions a Kokomo school campaign against cigarettes and a police court bid to subpoena 15 boys aged 12 to 15 to aid enforcement. A whimsical breath-reading device is described with humorous skepticism.
Benjamin Wallace of Peru plans a large expansion for his winter quarters and spring tour. He has ordered ten new train cars including two sleepers, plus stock, flat, and storage cars to make a forty car circus train. Additional dens wagons animals and acts will be added and the menagerie enlarged.
A historical note traces St. Valentine as a bishop and early martyr who died near Rome on February 14. It explores why he became patron of lovers and how Valentine’s Day customs evolved from medieval poetry and courtship rites to rituals promising destined partners and gifts, as chronicled by Ben Johnson and Chaucer.
The item notes the contrast between two communications of the same date. It reproduces them in exact language but omits the first address and signature. The writer mentions Mr Broshhoo and complains about a payment or cancellation issue regarding the paper delivery.
A resident of Inka Illinois writes Brush & Hanson Silver Lake Indiana enclosing one dollar to pay for a year’s Record. He recalls boyhood names such as Hill Colbert Regenos Parker Elder Minear Snake Ulery and others, noting time’s rapid change and wishing peace and happiness.
The Record reports the marriage of Russelly Shipley and Iva May Study of Claypool, performed Saturday evening at the United Brethren parsonage in Barket by Rev. O J Miner. Congratulations from many friends.
The Big Four road has acquired several large coal mines near Tilton and will construct a branch to them. It will also build a switch to the Coal Creek field south of Oorington Indiana, unlocking a coal region long underused due to transport difficulties.
Neighbors along North Jefferson Street urge action on sidewalk repairs after a tour by RECORD reporters. The piece urges residents to present their case at the next town council meeting for possible town action.
Miss Mary Quiver of North Manchester Indiana bought a worn violin for ten dollars after discovering 1711 inside lettering. A St. Louis dealer valued it at forty thousand, and another said it was a genuine Stradivarius. She sent it to St. Louis and received payment.
James Warren to hold a public sale at his residence on the Henry Fank farm north of town next Thursday February 12. Items include a gelding a bay mare a colt two Durham cows calves shoats a Studebaker wagon plows harrow cultivator corn fodder and more with nine months credit. Sale begins 10 o'clock with J D Gill as auctioneer. BH Parks also advertises a sale at his residence 24 miles south of Silver Lake on Tuesday February 17 1903 featuring cattle hogs hay grain with nine months credit. Sale starts at 10 o'clock with J D Gill auctioneer and C E Stoat clerk.
A reflective sketch traces a man’s life in four stages from childhood troubles and petty thefts to youth with fashion and romance, marriage, work, and decline. It notes his early sins, late regrets, and ultimate fading from memory as time moves on. The tale uses figurative language to frame a life from cradle to grave.
The Indiana board of Charities says lodging tramps costs as much as a $2 daily hotel. Officers collect 25 cents discharge fees and 40 cents daily boarding, totaling 1.30. Lodging and breakfast at top hotels run about $1, yet the state spent nearly $340,000 last year.
To ease stomach and liver troubles, Dr Xings New Life Pills are touted as able to relieve and cure. Available for 25c at Roger's drug store.
The article reports lemon grape lime and apple juices used with water as household germicides to combat typhoid bacilli. It notes lemon juice may shrink and kill bacilli after soaking water for at least 30 minutes, while grape juice may act faster though fresh juice has no effect. Doctors caution it is not guaranteed safe.
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