Local Notes And Letters From The Community
Prank Summer visits noted with citizens traveling to Decatur and Warsaw for stays. Local church class hosts a gathering at Mrs. I. C. Snoberger. Mrs. Isaac Bryant visits Southey Bend as a baptism of faith is discussed. An essay on liberty and self government criticizes aristocracy and hereditary privilege in Europe and praises republican ideals in America.
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America
Europe
England
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Lusitania tragedy book offer from Record Silver Lake
Advertises a large volume titled The Tragedy of the Lusitania with over 350 pages and many illustrations. Claims high sales and urges readers to leave or order copies through the Record at Silver Lake with price one dollar postpaid and delivery by mail.
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Eithter
Orfer
Silver Lake
Local ad offers subscription and land abstracts in Indiana
Want aid to subscribe and paper delivery for one dollar yearly. Brush & Hanson of Silver Lake arrange abstracts of title to lands in Kosciusko or Wabash counties. Dear bread joke aside, reliable receipts and self-baked bread suggested. Made by Goshen Milling in Goshen Indiana.
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Kosciusko
Wabash Counties
Brush & Hanson
Silver Lake
Frank J Cheney sworn on oath in 1886 Toledo firm
Frank J Cheney of Arm of FJ Cheney & Co states in Toledo that his firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason records the oath on December 6, 1886. The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as acting on blood and mucous surfaces with a testimonial offer and pills for constipation.
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Frank J. Chaney
FJ. Chenes & Co
Toledo
Hall
Frank J. Cheney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Halls
F. J. Cwenty & Co
D. Soi
Woman's tonic Cardui praised by nurse in Wisconsin
Maison Wisconsin Mrs Oscar Day of Fair Oaks recounts relief from severe womanly troubles and nervousness after using Cardui. An old nurse friend recommended the tonic and Day reports steady improvement, saying Cardui is the best medicine for women and she always keeps a bottle at home.
Notice to food and drug inspectors in Indianapolis 1915
Health officials and the grocery trade board publish a decision allowing interstate sale of foods in original packages preserved with sodium benzoate or sulfur dioxide. Labels must clearly show the preservative’s presence and amount. The policy cites federal law enforcement regulations and named federal secretaries.
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Supreme Court of the United States
State Board of Health
State Food and Drug Commissioner
Secretaries of Agriculture
the Treasury and Commerce and Labor
H. EB. Barnard
State
Food and Drug Commissioner
Food and Drug Act
Indiana
FLETCHER'S CASTORIA ADVERTISMENT AND LOCAL SUNDAY VISITS
Local notes record Foster Miller visiting his uncle near town and several relatives visiting from Huntington Elkheart Plymouth Rochester Warsaw and North Vernon. A publicity pitch promotes sending the RECORD to absent friends for $1 while neighbors discuss visits to Winamac Claypool Carthage and Michigan trips.
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Foster Miller
Huntington
Jacob Bouse
The Poor Rich Satire on Daughters of Wealth
A satirical tale from Rebecca Hooper Eastman in the American Magazine portrays a wealthy wife who funds spending by selling cakes at a women’s exchange. She disguises purchases by borrowing tips and fares, using a veiled plan to pay debts later.
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Rebecca Hooper Eastman
Kitty
New York
Exchange
Self Threading Needle marketed for the visually impaired
An advertisement touts the Cailyx-Eyed Self Threading Needle as easy for the blind to thread with no practice. It claims convenience, usefulness for distant buyers, and offers 10 cent postpaid packages via Lock Box 33, Silver Lake, Indiana.
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Silver Lake
Indiana
Tunneling Advances Across Mountain Ranges
The Jura, Pyrenees, and Caucasus have seen major tunnels driven or planned with lengths from two to sixteen miles. Alpine successes like the Simplon and Lotschberk demonstrate progress, and U S projects aim to pierce Rockies and other ranges to reduce grades and curvature under challenging conditions.
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Jura
Pyrenees
France
Spain
Caucasus
Alpine
Simplon
Lotschberk
Rockies
Packerton guest Ella Crery visits Akron and neighbors
Miss Ella Crery of near Packerton stayed with Miss Flossie Yates over the weekend. Mrs. Thomas Leonard planned a visit with Silver Lake neighbors and traveled to Akron. She reports her husband Leonard in frail health and turning 2 years older next fall. He has been an invalid for forty years and has often been near collapse. She is 79 and remains active at home after 55 years of marriage. Ezra and Mrs. Wood visited Goshen to see daughter Mrs. Hill and husband, with plans to tour Elkart before returning.
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Thomas Leonard
Silver Lake
Akron
Leonard
Akron News
Ezra Wood
Goshen
Will Hill
Untrodden Ways Poem Fragment
Poem fragment about Lucy, a hidden maid living unknown beside the springs of Dove. She is described as fair as a star and praised after death, noting the difference her absence makes to the speaker.
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Dove
Lucy
Insurance pitch urging fire coverage for belongings
A short sales note invites readers to insure property against fire and loss. It mentions Brush & Wanson as agents for multiple reputable insurers and promotes low rates while urging immediate coverage of household goods and bhonie.
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Brush & Wanson
A Bargain in Pearls From a London Street Vendor
Miss Grace Lane bought five pearls at two cents each from a London street peddler just before the European war. She later learned the pearls were valued at 58 dollars each. A jeweler J had hawked them.
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Grace Lane
London
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Mentone
J. D. L. Cline
Decatur
Mr. Cline
Brush S&s Hanson
J. P. Rager
Claypool
Mazda
M. E
I. C. Snoberger
Isaac Bryant
Mrs
Grace Lutz
Southey Bend
James Meloy
Syracuse
Triumph
National Medical Institute
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Texas Realeatate Company
Henrietta, Texas
State of
Ohio
Receves Ae
Phillips & Sprague
Chicago
Board of Trade
E. W. Wagener & Co
Fort Wayne
Aples
Real &Aple
Tedhor
Sbrazi
Machine & Fdry CO
Brazil
Ind
Food and Drug Inspectors
Board OF Health
Indianapolis
George B. Cortelyou
the Treasurys
James Wilson
Agriculture
Oscar S. Straus
Commerce and Labor
Fletcher
Frank Stock
Elk
Hart
Pearson
Mrs. Stock
Mr. Pearson
Clarence Viers
Rochester
Mis
C. L. Leonard
Mrs. Coe
Plymouth
A. F. Price
Iva Merrill
Warsaw
William Caldwell
Roy Caldwell
Isaac
Jaques
John Leffel
Here
Winamac
E. J. Clark
Curdie Walter
North Vernon
Myron Murphy
Hamilton
Carthage
Michigan
the Centaur Company
York Crty
Record Office
Castoria
Por
Ella Crery
Near Packerton
Flossie Yates
McCall's
McCall
McCall’s
THE
McCall CO
37Th St
Eist
Chirthe
Brush & Hanson, Agts
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