Post Office Run Silver Lake Item
An item notes that it was entered at the Silver Lake Indiana Post Office as second class matter.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1902
Page
4
An item notes that it was entered at the Silver Lake Indiana Post Office as second class matter.
The page lists advertising rates for messages and obituaries, with charges per line and special rates for longer notices. It also recounts various local items from February events, including deaths, marriages, weather superstitions, and a teachers institute report in Clay and Lake Townships.
Local items from Claypool and Fairview recount visits and travels by residents such as Chas Shoemaker and E E Minear. A chimney defect sparked a quick response saving a possible fire, with a fire department on scene. Community updates include church attendance, business purchases, hospitality visits, and plans to move Simeon Mattix to Marshall county. Snow and subfreezing temps are noted alongside ongoing revival meetings at the U B church.
Wes ley Nelson of Hamilton Ga recalls hobbled entry to Mr Blackmans drug store where he tried Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatism. He had little faith but the seller offered a money back promise if it failed. After one week of use he was cured and has not suffered since. Sold by Chas. Rager.
St Louis boosts the 1903 Louisiana Purchase Fair with an envelope design featuring a globe of North America and the Purchase, a star with the American flag apex, Spanish and French flags on the lower points, and portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon I on the sides.
A toll station for the Eel River Telephone Co has been installed in the Recorgp office. C C Hasson is the manager.
Classified notice seeks a renter for a small farm. Applicant must keep fine hogs and wife is an eager poultry raiser. Renter to furnish one horse. Inquiries at the office.
An early advertise puff proclaims Bucklen's Arriva Salve the best and most famous compound to conquer aches and pains. It claims to cure burns bruises inflammations boils ulcers felons and skin eruptions with money back if not cured. Sold widely at C Rager's drug store for 25 cents.
Pale children with bad breath, nose picking, irritability, poor sleep, hollow eyes, pale complexion, or thinning frame are urged to take Mother’s Worm Syrup. The ad claims rapid relief and restored appetite and digestion. Priced at 25 cents with no other worm-killer claimed as effective.
The ad claims Ripans Tabules remedy indigestion constipation biliousness and other stomach liver and bowel ailments. It says the tablets go to the trouble seat relieve distress cleanse and cure the parts and tone the system, avoiding a physician for many minor ills.
The five cent packet suffices for common needs while the family bottle priced at sixty cents provides a year’s supply for a household.
Mrs W Watkins of Pleasant City writes that her three week old pneumonia strike turned her son toward a skeleton but after using Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption the child became sound and well. The ad claims it is the only sure cure for coughs colds and lung diseases with Chas Rager guaranteeing satisfaction and trial bottles free.
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