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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
7
A California woman, Mrs. A Edwards of San Francisco, writes that she has used Ayer s Hair Vigor for many years and found it very satisfactory in every respect. She has recommended it to many friends who are all satisfied. February 9, 1889.
Advertisers claim Ayet's Hair Vigor satisfies users with improved hair quality. It supposedly restores color whether hair is gray or white and helps with thinning, splits, roughness, and falling out. Sold by druggists at a dollar a bottle.
The Wabash proposes a 30 day Mexican tour for 50 travelers in Pullman drawing room and compartment cars with dining and observation cars. The $10 per day trip covers 7 000 miles and deluxe service. Mr R G Thompson will manage. bookings through C S Crane at Lincoln Trust Building St Louis Mo.
A tale contrasts a nickel English New Testament for the poor with a lavish deluxe edition gifted to the Chinese dowager empress for her sixtieth birthday. The grand volume, printed by Presbyterian and Canton Silversmiths, features silver covers, bamboo and bird designs, and gold page borders, encased in a silver casket weighing over ten pounds.
A solicitor overhears a cook and a nurse discussing a recent funeral of a race member marked by much floral display. The nurse requests in a grim if oblique way that upon her death no flowers be planted, but a waterneelow vine be planted and its ripe fruit crushed on the grave allowing the juice to seep into the earth.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cortney & Co. swears the firm will pay $100 for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A W Gleason verifies December 6, 1886. Cure advertised as internal and blood-facing. Sold by druggists for 75 cents in Toledo Ohio.
Cecil Rhodes dislikes writing letters and foresees a future when phonographs telephones and other devices remove the need to write. He believes communication will be fully replaced by spoken and recorded messages.
Try Grain O the new food drink for all ages. It resembles Mocha and Java in color but is made from pure grains and is gentle on delicate stomachs. Priced at 15 and 25 cents per package and sold by all grocers.
Report notes Jinks remained calm during the incident. He calmly removed a nightshirt and dressed in a suit of pajamas before actions. The exchange cites the New York Press commentary.
An ornate ad discusses Eagle Linen Paper, urging printers to choose the brand. It extols Louisville & Nashville Railroad facilities for tourists to Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, or Nassau. It notes double daily sleeping-car services from Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, and St. Louis via Jacksonville to Florida and Gulf ports. It directs readers to contact Jackson Surry, D P A, Cincinnati, for folders.
An advertisement offers air cushion rubber stamps at low prices with mail orders directed to Lock Box 219 Fort Wayne Indiana.
A concise aphorism stating that wealth gains meaning only when it serves others, highlighting social value over personal possession.
A motherless girl named Jennie McLaren learned her father Thomas McLaren, jailed for killing his wife, is serving twenty years in Trenton penitentiary and dying of consumption. She collected signatures for a pardon petition and convinced Governor Voorhees to help.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report recounts a hereditary six toed family in Kimble County Texas. The Higgins clan includes a 90 plus grandfather nicknamed Mexican Bill, his six-toed wife, four middle aged sons, and 25 to 30 grandchildren. Every son except one shows six toes, and many grandchildren have six or seven toes. The family, called the Sixtoe Higginses, is described as barefoot and widely known to locals.
The Postoffice Department orders house to house collections in cities with free delivery and rural routes. Citizens must provide mail boxes, with postmasters offering guidance. A recommended box uses automatic signal flags for mail presence and delivery, white indicating mail inside and red signaling the carrier’s departure.
The article notes the Post Office Department plans to implement a house-to-house mail collection system soon with large front slots for letters and separate spaces for papers and packages. It also quotes a Washington correspondent on Admiral Dewey's meticulous wardrobe, including numbered shirts stored in a chest and worn in order.
J Marsden Hawaii agricultural commissioner plans sea toads for island districts with scarce fresh water. He will breed toads in brackish and then increasingly salty waters, aiming for pure seawater. Supported by Prof Noebele and other supporters, he believes success is near.
A Philadelphia man keeps a rare collection of blotting papers from his father a White House official. Each sheet bears backwards the signature of a President spanning Harrison to Garfield. The prized piece shows the last Lincoln signed official letter blotted before his assassination by Booth.
A plainspoken country farmer at a Queen Anne ceremony compares royal splendor to his own dress and, jokingly, to a throne in Westminster Hall. Richard Cromwell, lately head of state, contemplates his brief tenure, resigns, and returns for legal business decades later.
A vintage advertisement fragment touts Lane's Family Medicine promising daily health benefits for liver and kidneys and headache relief. It references Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with softening gums and wind colic relief, priced at 25 cents.
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