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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1898
Page
7
The note promotes the Omaha Exposition running from the 1st to November 1st and urges readers to consult the WABASH for travel rates. It emphasizes the event as a premier display, likening it to the World's Fair.
Agents report the Nickel Plate Road offers excursion tickets for $1 on Sundays to groups of five or more. The promotion targets organized parties, with agents coordinating group sales and travel arrangements.
A devotional excerpt argues that children reveal parental faults as a mirror when misused and celebrate parental piety when children prosper. It likens a cradle to a gate to healing and spiritual life, noting the loss of a child can sanctify parents and shape faith through grief. Rev. T. W. Cuyler closes with a view of spiritual growth through family experience.
Poem by Willis Gaylord Clark urging a youthful seeker to choose heavenly rest before age and worldly charms fade. It contrasts mortal fading pleasures with an afterlife promise, describing shadows of life as brief and urging turning toward home and bliss beyond. The author invokes a life span, mortality, and the consoling vision of heaven.
A traveler asks a steamer clerk to reserve a stateroom for that evening. The clerk assures a good room will be secured and confirms the booking with a simple pledge. The narrator doubts yet ultimately sees the clerk acknowledge him an hour before departure.
Reverend W. H. Boole cites divine and human promises urging believers to trust the word of the Lord. He quotes Christ promising that what is asked in prayer, believed to be received, shall be theirs, urging steadfast faith.
A minister visits a young forgery convict in prison. The youth blames a Sunday school raffle and stolen names used for lottery chances, claiming the church's raffle caused his fall as his parents weep over his fate. The tale appears in Ram's Horn.
The gospel centers on a person not a plan and the atonement frees from sin itself. God in Christ shows the divine self sacrifice and believers must become Christs living for others. Christ reveals God's character and transforming influence makes one a new creature. The sin against the Holy Ghost is rejecting this present divine influence.
Curiosities claim Bible counts and patterns found during a Spanish prince's 33 years at Madrid's Place of Skulls. Noted figures include word frequencies, middle verses, shortest and longest verses, repeated lines, and total letter and word counts.
The piece argues that early steps to aid spiritual growth begin with being familiar to others. Welcoming gestures like a nod smile or brief chat with strangers act as advertisements for Christ and open paths to spiritual help. Cultivating friendly relationships will eventually lead people to Christ.
A reflection on simple language as the most effective form of greatness. The analogy compares true grandeur to a quiet mountain revealed by looking from a distant valley.
The British Museum staff recall amusing requests from visitors. A German asked for a piece of ruins from the Great Fire for a curio cabinet, while others sought original Sanscrit and the roll of the law Esdras found. A radical MP once asked for a copy of the English constitution at the center desk for impeachment purposes.
Mrs. Adams wife of Rev A R Adams pastor of the Bedford Christian Church Blandinsville Al shares six years of illness with weight loss pain and nervous exhaustion. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People she reports relief and renewed vigor and urges others to try the remedy.
In a casual exchange, Dick quips that the heiress indicated it was a pity their best men had gone to war, implying a discouraging social setback amid wartime changes.
An antiquated mix of claims and quips includes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 73 cents, travel boast of a Wabash Continental Limited train to Buffalo New York and Boston, and assorted personal endorsements. The fragmentary text mentions onions as a sedative and cites Piso's Cure for Consumption with a dated testimonial from John A Miller in 1895. It also notes lake subsidence in Tyrol over the last century.
A historic note outlines folk use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to vitalize blood and renew health, reflecting era’s medicinal beliefs and reliance on tonics.
Geologists report vast beds of petrified fish covering hundreds of square miles in northwestern Colorado extending along toward Green River. Some deposits reach 150 to 200 feet thick at high elevations, puzzling scientists with their immense age and scale. Wabash excursions hint at western home seekers visiting the region.
An abandoned mile long Edinburgh tunnel has housed a mushroom farm for years. The operation yields nearly 5000 pounds of mushrooms each month and has halted the import of foreign mushrooms into the city.
Advertising copy urges readers with relatives in the army or navy to mail for a 25 cent package of Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It claims to cure aching feet, prevent blisters, and ease tight shoes, noting 10,000 testimonials and free samples.
Dialogue notes a Rockingham girl who wed a French count. The punchline states the count has done nothing wrong, only behaved himself. The piece humorously contrasts expectations with a calm outcome.
On Sundays groups of five or more may travel anywhere within one hundred miles on the Nickel Plate Road for a one dollar round trip. Ask agents for details and restrictions.
Golf can be traced in Scottish history to 1457 and likely predates that year, with historians noting earlier activity and local traditions surrounding the game.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movements aid health and gentle action on liver and kidneys. It promises cure for sick headache and lists a price of 25 and 5vc, with a quotation from J. G. Holland about self-disgrace.
WABASH Railway trains offer reclining chair cars with seats free and palace cars sumptuously equipped for passenger comfort.
A fragment notes Cascarets as a cathartic option for ill health. It claims taking Cascarets will do no harm and may ease ailments, urging cautious self care through laxative use.
The piece cites the ocean surface at 150000000 square miles and a globe height of 197000 miles, then mentions depths near four miles. It lists Nickel Plate express routes between Fort Wayne and Chicago, with stations at Van Buren Street Union Station and references to agents and schedules. It closes with a Stephen Girard quote about industry as a man’s best capital.
A fragment notes a Young People's Union event in New York state with unclear details and dates around July 14 to 17. No full names or organizations are readable to confirm scope or location beyond the basic reference.
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