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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1905
Page
5
The column notes visitors are welcome this week and mentions Miss Nellie McClure and other students absent from school. It records teachers institutes, twin pupils on the street, and various local residents' activities while describing ongoing learning, revival meetings, and winter weather effects on attendance.
The piece asserts Chamberlains Cough Remedy is harmless for children and praises its safety for coughs croup and colds. It also notes a leap year related chatter among Silver Lake girls and a debate on religion in civilization at the local school. A local incident on Main street is mentioned and a senior prank recipe is referenced. Zimmerman sells the remedy locally.
W H Howard of Husband Pennsylvania reports his mother suffered rheumatism for years. He gave her Chamberlains pain balm and after a few applications she could walk again and remains free of pain with occasional uses. Zim the druggist lists the cure.
Miss Zula Showalter served as a Warsaw caller Saturday while Miss Faun Worley visited as guest of Miss Iva Garman Sunday. Simon Rhodes and family were the next readable item in the social notes.
A group from this place attended church at Silver Lake Tuesday night. Several residents were guests of local families including Miss Frankie Worley and Her schel last Sunday. The report mentions Mrs. Winnie Worley and Miss Tressa Wilson for possible dinner visits. Lloyd Finton has returned to the Medical College at Ann Arbor after vacation, and Bert Vangilder was headed to Warsiw. Uncertain travel keeps locals anxious about a missing person.
An eminent astronomer develops a device combining phonograph telephone and telescope to record sounds from stars. Light on polished steel supposedly yields musical notes, with distant fixed stars producing the sweetest tones though notes from brighter stars are less pure.
The article notes the England poet laureate earns 360 dollars annually plus a hogshead of wine. It explains the amount is a fraction of Alfred Austin’s real earnings and that no raise is expected. The rise was intended for Lord Tennyson before his death, and the current laureate benefited posthumously from that decision.
In La Harpe Review's mail a reader asks if a man may marry his brother's widow. The editor says yes it is possible but often ends badly, noting that laws can differ from first impressions and comparing to King Herod and John the Baptist.
Raisuli proved smaller than feared as he demanded provinces and kept $70,000 while his captive remained with him. The outside estimate of his danger rose and the price on his head remains, but Moroccans expect the bounty will not stay long on his shoulders.
A Boston Globe quote laments that public speaking in the senate has diminished as real business moves to committees cloakrooms and dinner tables, while house debates showier but less decisive. The piece contrasts chamber pageantry with practical legislative work.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for convulsions fits and epilepsy. A testimonial from E H Bunnell of Lincoln Indiana describes a son who recovered after long illness and hospital care, with claims of dramatic improvement after starting Nervine.
A short reader promotion invites locals to join the Record’s growing subscriber family and enjoy continued access to news and features.
The fortress monastery of Mar Saba on the Dead Sea, called the Prison of the Ten Thousand by wandering Arabs, once housed about 10 000 monks and now has over a thousand. founded around 1 300 years ago by Euthermius. A help‑wanted notice seeks a bright businesswoman for home work to distribute magazines and compile an official census for Sprague Wholesale Co. in Chicago with weekly pay.
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