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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1902
Page
7
Ad listing seeks workers for a national job with salary and expenses. Mentions company box address in Springfield and references training and meals. text is garbled and partially unreadable.
The New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station reports experiments with squash bug odor affecting a live toad. A half pint jar with a half-grown toad showed increasing stupor and death after seven bugs released. An additional toad showed convulsions and partial hibernation after eight bugs. The study aims to value the odoriferous secretion of related insects.
A claim states Hall's Catarrh Cure will pay ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each cured case and references Frank Cheney of Toledo as signer notarized in December 186. The text promotes internal use and blood mucous effectiveness and invites testimonials while listing local druggists as sellers.
Fragmentary text shows casual dialogue about a mil district and a nearby auto shop. Several garbled phrases reference a friend, a neighbor, and a potential muffled audio bollers shop next door. The readability is too poor to extract concrete events or names.
An old advertisement offers air cushion rubber stamps and a variety of stamps with printing items like outhits and daters. It invites readers to request a catalog and price list, mailing to Lock Box 219, Fort Wusque, Ind.
The readable text is garbled with nonstandard words and no clear event or names to identify. It cannot credibly establish a person, place, organization, date, or outcome for a valid summary.
Local notes cover marriages and deaths, accidents and crimes, and personal pointers from Indiana communities. Names and places appear in brief items about neighbors and events affecting daily life.
A sweep of brief items records fatal and nonfatal incidents across towns including Paoli Madison Petersburg Goshen Kokomo Muncie and Princeton. Notable events include burns from accidents and a fatal gas explosion at the Goshen Gas Co plant plus a shooting misfortune near Milroy.
Hon Amos J Cummings of New York says Peruna is good for catarrh. He tried it and found relief on his Cuba trip and keeps a bottle in reserve. He reports no catarrh since returning and asks for another bottle.
Major General Joseph Wheeler in front of Santiago endorses Peruna as an excellent tonic and cure for Catarrh. He joins Senators Sullivan Roach and McEnery in sharing a favorable opinion of the remedy and its effectiveness for catarrh.
A humorous reminiscence traces lawyers fees from Sir Walter Scott’s early client who paid with two bits and a terrier as protection to a French advocate Monsieur Rouber who demanded two francs or nothing and faced a farmer’s quip about paying poring.
An advertisement announces Ely's Liquid Cream Balm for nasal catarrh use with an atomizer. The preparation preserves healing properties and does not dry secretions, priced with a spraying tube at 7 1/2 cents, available at druggists or Jae Bros in New York.
In a Louisville Times item a pretty girl asks her father for consent to marry Cholly, but the grave window warns that a long engagement may reveal faults and cause wretched outcomes. The couple discusses delaying marriage while the girl tries to assure him. Garfield Headache Powders are advertised at 4 for 10c with a cure claim.
A Brooklyn Eagle item notes Mr. Boerum Willie scolds about eating between meals to preserve appetite at meals. Willie counters that eating between meals does not reduce his appetite for eating between meals. The clipping also mentions Mrs. Austins dress and a Siberian dog’s speed, a printer’s Eagle Linen Paper recommendation, and a runaway horse in Denver riding a moving trolley car.
Reports from Kansas delegates touring Alberta detail strong land sales and rapid settlement. A Didsbury letter describes large land transfers, rising school activity, and settlers improving property while projecting a bright wheat season and ongoing development in the district.
The fragment cites claims about Putnam faceless dyes avoiding uneven coloring, notes the alleged thinness of Indian skin, and mentions Garfield Tea as a cure for constipation and liver disorders. It also oddly states rain signs from an auctioneer’s umbrella and claims entomologists say sugar cane has 227 insect enemies.
Company invites inquiries for a catalog and price list. Respondents should send requests to Lock Box 219, Fort Wayne, Indiana, giving full mailing details.
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