Silver Creek Street Notes and Village Visit Highlights
Sam Bechtelheimer and Joe Hoover with son Fred were seen on the streets Monday and Sunday respectively. Clarence Eber and family visited Isaac Platt. Mrs. Isaac Platt remains ill but improving. Lenora Brady has been helping at Isaac Platt's. W. C. Brady and Alice from Claypool visited F. F. Bucher. An ice cream festival at Arrow Landis’s place Saturday evening was a success. G. W. Platt stayed with Isaac’s family Tuesday night. Disko phone man Ed H. Warman was on our street last week for business.
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Arrow Landis Place
Ed H. Warman
Disko
Local visitors and rising illness noted in Warsaw
Samuel Clymer and daughter Bonnie visited Warsaw last Saturday while Mrs. T. B. Evans has been ill for several days. The item also notes Moment’s notice window and door frames, Dr. Hay’s expanding dental practice, and upcoming new buildings at Servia replacing recent fire losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Clymer
Bonnie
Warsaw
The Chutes Chicago's Coney Island Feature Weekday Scene
The Chutes in Chicago presents an animated resort with a circus, country fair, summer park, concert garden, theater, and miniature world of amusements from noon to midnight. Attractions include water cascades chutes toboggan Loop the Loop and a giant carousel amid a social page noting visits by Weldon's military band and local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Coney Island
Weldon
Phrenology Debunked Says Lancet Quote Review
The London Lancet declares phrenology an exploded creed embracing no reliable cranial signs of intellect. It states that only the inner skull table reflects cerebral development, not its outer shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophocles
London Lancet
Oldest City Damascus By The Scrap Book
The piece argues Damascus is the world’s oldest city, outlasting Fes, Tyre, Sidon, Palmyra, and Nineveh. It notes Abrahamic and Islamic associations, Saint Paul’s road, Mohammed’s hesitation, and Damascus’ influence on terms like damask and damaskini work. It ends noting historic crafts tied to Damascus.
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Fesnt
Greece
Rome
Damascus
Tyre
Sidon
Baalbee
Palmyra
Nineveh
Babylon
Tigris
Euphrates
Abraham
Saul of
Tarsus
Mohammed
Julian
East
Isaiah
Syria
Portugal
England
Notice of Post Office Hours Open and Close
Notice to the Public. Under the conditions of the tran service which commenced June 30, 1907, the post office will open at 5 46 p.m. and close at 7 30 p.m. except Saturday nights when the office will stay open until 8 p.m. standard time. HENRY A. FERREE, Postmaster.
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Henry A. Ferree
Rural Carrier Wiley to Resume Route Duty
William Wiley the rural carrier on route No. 2 has been on a month’s vacation with Charles Ranta filling in daily. Wiley will be on duty next Tuesday morning and will serve his patrons as before.
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William Wiley
Charles Ranta
Wiley
Runaway buggy crash injures Younts near Smith corners
L B Yount his wife and daughter Austie were thrown from a buggy when a frightened horse turned by the roadside surprise. Mrs Yount suffered a severe bruise to her left hand and all three were shaken but escaped serious harm. The damaged carriage forced use of Meredith’s buggy to reach town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Yount
Silver Lake
Austie
Meredith
Smith Corners
Mr. Yount
Mrs. Yount
Squaring the Circle: Ancient Rule Deemed Impractical
An old 4000 year old Euclidean rule from Eayot claims to square the circle by reducing the diameter by a ninth and building a square on the resulting line. While practical though not exact, modern math shows the task impossible. In 1882 Landmann published a proof accepted by science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eayot
Landmann
Zoa Phora Ad Promises Health For Women
An early 20th century advertisement urges women to protect health as wealth. It touts Zoa Phora as a safe tonic for maiden wife and mother, claiming nerve and tissue building effects and testimonials from women in Michigan about relief from leucorrhea and painful menses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tromer
Retta Griffith
Columbiaville
Mich
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Capital
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Tea Leceeons
Dres. Sylvanus Fung
C.Z. Stout
Cashier
Monroe Paulus
Slate
Alspaugh & Son
N. A
Cary
Indiana
City Barber Shop
W. W. Homman
My Harness Shop
A.J. Scott
L. O. Jones
Mecca
Batu
Hill & Haney
Newton
Gelity
Pealem
Silver Lake, Ind
G. A. Brush
Record Office
L. W. Myers
Pictorial Review
Toten
Dept C. P
Broadway
New York
Silver Creek
Sam Bechtelheimer
Joe Hoover
Fred
Clarence Eber
Isaac Platt
Lenora Brady
W.C. Brady
Alice
Claypool
F. F. Bucher
G. W. Platt
Isaac
G. W
T. B. Evans
The
Claypool Lumber & Coal Co
Hay
Hoosier
J. H. Anglin
Fargo, N. D
C. F. Yates
Paducah, Ky
Servia
Summe Bros & Co
Jacob Haney
C. 4. Nagle
North
Manchester
Earl Teeter
Heeter
Syracuse
Welt Bush County
Tiermi Leckron
Miles Clark
South Silver Lake
Frank Baidgely
Miss Carpenter
Hammond
Jacob Barrett
Warren
Mr. Smith
Mr. Clark
Clarence Sphon
Lena Brenneman
North Manchester
Noah Frantz
F. MM. Metheny
Pearson
Fenny Brenneman
Near North
Town
Jacob
Alien Zell
Fort Wayne
William Miller
Jennie Frame
Joel Arnold
J. A. Teeter
Goshen
Smith Higgins
Jefferson Street
D. Gill
Hier Uw
Oliver
Brown
Brown Manly and Avery
McCormick
International
International and
Kemp
Sharples
Mii Serer
Reyf
MC Calls Magazines
Enes
Ternt
McCall CO
West 14Th St
S. S. Ball
Ravenswood
W. Va
Kodel
E. C. Dewitt & CO
Cash Buyers Union
Cooprightock
Slammaz
Zeares and
Macks
Encyclopedia Britannica
Morocco
David B. Clarkson
Department 19
King
America
Dr. King
Julia Ryder Paine
Truor
Mass
Berra Grrrrima
Afi
Misa Griffith
Perfest
utOpers
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