Readers urged to send in notices of departures and visits
The article appeals to readers to notify the paper when they are leaving town or hosting friends. It argues timely notices would enrich content and keep the community informed.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
5
The article appeals to readers to notify the paper when they are leaving town or hosting friends. It argues timely notices would enrich content and keep the community informed.
Instructional notice urging readers to use The Record for legal notices to ensure notices like administrator ex officio guardian road ditch or real estate sales are published in papers of their choice. Warns attorneys who publish in county seat papers may seek business elsewhere.
A promotional notice cites a millionaire's million dollar offer as a warning about dyspepsia and promotes Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets from Rager & Jontz, with a money back guarantee. The ad lists three sizes 25 cents 50 cents and one dollar and urges readers to obtain Rexall Remedies at The Rexall Store.
Center items list Sunday visits and guests at several homes including Miss Clea Hill Miss Esther Snake at Alfretta Price and Jacob Rouse family at Sid Aker home, with many others attending church revivals at the U B church in Silver Lake Charles Johnston and family from Warsaw visiting Vet Johnston's family.
The article notes seniors and juniors studying Burk's Conciliation while the high school acquires a piano. Mentions of students withdrawing, running for HS lab president, tests on the new piano, and fire drill readiness. Several pupils posted perfect spelling grades across grades and a birthday celebration for Pierre Underhill.
A young girl on horseback alerted by a forest fire rode at midnight in the Catskills and guided evacuations to save lives. The scene blends heroic rescue with an ad for Dr Kings New Discovery for lung trouble and coughs, citing a testimonial from AV R Patterson of Wellington Texas about recovery after consumption. Trial bottle offered free by Rager and Jontz.
For Everyone Who Sews a treasure for those with weak eyes. The self threading needle threads for the blind and sighted alike, no practice needed. Send 10 cents per package postpaid to Lock Box 33 Silver Lake Indiana. agents sought for after school sales.
J. H. Bonhue of So Haven Michigan a Civil War captain served as a lighthouse keeper and averted wrecks. He credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney trouble chills and stomach liver and eye issues after other remedies failed. At seventy he remains in good health praising the tonic available for 50 cents at Rager and Jontz.
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