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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
7
The text explains that an almanac provides essential, timely guidance for every daily act in China. Correct information on timing and orientation helps avoid bad luck and seek prosperity, making the almanac perhaps the most widely circulated book in the country.
An advertisement claims St Jacobs Oil cures morning soreness and stiffness after a good rub before bed. It suggests sufferers in changing weather keep a bottle on the mantel for nightly use to ensure they wake in a better condition and ready to work.
A boarder quips the chicken soup is weak and the landlady notes the cook may not have grasped the idea. The boarder mulls perhaps the cook didn’t catch the chicken, prompting light banter about the kitchen.
The text praises Southern resorts in Florida and the Gulf Coast this season. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company offers through Sleeping Cars and Coaches from northern cities with tourist return tickets at low rates until May 1. For details contact C. P. Atmore in Louisville or Jackson Smith in Cincinnati.
Dialogue scene shows Harry insisting on speaking up with his thoughts and Fannie noting his habit. The exchange highlights personality traits and comic sharpness in a domestic quarrel snapshot.
Try Grain O. Ask your grocer for Grain-O the new food drink that replaces coffee. Children and adults may drink it without injury and all who try it like it. Grain-O has a rich seal brown color like Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains and agrees with delicate stomachs. Priced 15 and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers.
A light exchange centers on the Hamiltons marriage lasting duration. He admits affection endures, still kissing her upon returning home each night. The remark prompts reflection on lasting partnerships and public perceptions of romance.
It claims to keep feet warm and dry and to cure chilblains frost bite damp sweating feet corns and bunions. Shaken into shoes the powder is available at all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Sample offered free from Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A terse dialogue scene captures a couple's tension after their honeymoon as she asks if he still loves her and he struggles to answer. The exchange hints at underlying doubt and strain in their relationship.
An 19th century style advertisement claims Lane's Family Medicine cleanses the bowels and liver and kidneys, cures headaches, with prices 25 and 60 cents. It promises gentle action and health benefits and notes fast trains to Jacksonville via the Queen and Crescent Route from Cincinnati.
In Polk County six so called Wiss are six wells deep from 120 to 160 feet. The James Coltin well at 120 feet dares to roar before storms with a hot wind that can boil water on the cover. The wind serves as a barometer predicting cold or heat changes. Other wells, 130 to 160 feet deep, share similar traits within a mile, yet no underground outlet has been found. The eerie wind sounds frighten the uninitiated.
An unidentified letter to this paper recounts Canadian delegates praising Western Canada. It highlights abundant lakes and wildlife, fertile soil, and rapid land clearance with 160 acres free to settlers, while agents in Ottawa organize excursions and supply information.
Leather coats come in sheepskin horsehide and dogskin with corduroy or sheep wool linings. Corduroy lined coats are reversible. Prices range from five to eighteen dollars with sheepskin about five, horsehide twelve to fifteen, dogskin eighteen. Worn by truckmen policemen hunters lumbermen and sportsmen for warmth and mobility. The leather coat combines warmth and ease, sometimes worn under another coat or with the corduroy side out in urban wear.
The British War Department tests compressed flour molded into bricks to conserve storage. The brick form resists damp and insects, remains sweet and wholesome, and saves space as 100 pounds of loose flour becomes 300 pounds compressed.
A chestnut street vendor aimed to sell a Newfoundland pup using a handbill reading For sale Inquire within. He crossed out within with a pencil and tied it to the dog, creating a laugh when a boy asked who to inquire of and the vendor finally tore the lower half to read simply For sale.
Dispatches from Washington state warn of upcoming developments in the Japanese imbroglio with the Government of the Hawaiian Islands. The piece notes a stomach disturbance risk and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for gastric trouble and bowel irregularity.
An elderly physician recalls a dangerous case as his most memorable in retirement, revealing a candid medical confession to a curious young disciple. The exchange emphasizes humility and the hidden risks of healing.
Washington Post reports that during the Blair statue placing in Statuary Hall a square hole in the pedestal drew a cent from each Missouri delegation member. The act spread to bystanders as names and autographs followed, leaving the pedestal nearly copper-full when the statue was set.
One hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co claim honesty and solvency. West & Truax Walding Kinnan & Mannix endorse the firm. Cure is taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. sold by all druggists.
A fragment notes a playful exchange about kissing a sleeping girl and a nurse’s warning. It also mentions travel distances on the Queen and Crescent Route and a dentist scene in China where an assistant drowns cries with a large gong.
Miss Clara Barton is named president of the ree Society in a brief early notice. The item records leadership and an upcoming meeting or activity associated with the group.
The text promotes Grain-O as a grain based drink to replace coffee for children. It claims Grain-O is nourishing, religiously appropriate, tastes like chicory coffee when prepared, and costs about 14 cents per serving. Grocers sell it at 15 cents and 2 cents per unit.
Fragmentary lines echo a playful Renaissance style about cream turning sour when neglected. The oddly punctuated text evokes archaic phrasing and whimsical imagery rather than a clear news event.
An 1900s appeal warns against morphine addiction from unexamined pain and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy. Letter from Mrs Lucy Prasry of Derby Center, Vermont, touts relief after five bottles and urges other women to try it.
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