25 Jul 1902
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1902
Page
1
A brief sales note urges readers not to be swayed by imitators and promotes Madison Medicine Co's Rocky Mountain Sea at 35 cents. Chas Rager signs the message.
Washington notes outline Hans Brook Newlands law funding of 6 million plus for a federal irrigation system over 600 million acres. Secretary Hitchcock orders nine project tracts withdrawn near St Marys Montana Gunnison Colorado and rivers in several states. surveying to begin and selections to be made with aims to resume irrigation with annual gains of about one million acres over decades. The piece also covers diplomacy around Taft Rome negotiations, Hay Concha treaty talks, and Roosevelt travel plans with decorates at Capitol.
The notice advises that obituaries over thirteen lines are billed at the local rate for any portion beyond that length. It emphasizes billing policy for extended obituaries.
Several community events are listed including the Elks Carnival in Elkhart during the week of August 17, the Red Men Merchant's Carnival and Street Fair in Rochester August 4 to 9, and the North Manchester fair revival planned for the first week of October. A stockholders meeting elected officers with commitments to a grand fair. A newspaper man comments on bulletin board notices and a store encounter with a misprinted sign.
Albert Leffel and family visited William Yates and kin Sunday. LeRoy Scoles of Claypool stayed in town with his lady friend. Dr. Meek and family traveled from Tiosa and stayed several days. A piano typewriter invention by Paul J. Cienatl of Buffalo promises to record notes played on a piano. The Tennessee Federation plans a mountain district school and teacher. Money to loan at 5 percent interest and notes bought by Arnold and Isenberger.
A so called knight of the spurs Lou Henderson performed a spontaneous trick riding display as a prelude to the Uncld ems Cabin features. Henderson rode Rantz's bronco from Rose Hill toward Warsaw, dodging, slipping, and ending with a splash in a pond amid cheers and jokes at the end.
The 6:53 morning train now carries mail to this station and the 8:48 night train takes mail from here. Outgoing mail on the night train reaches Chicago and intermediate points by next morning. Mail sent north for destinations south gains three to twelve hours on the early southbound train.
A humorous note claims women adopting men's socks, with jokes that wives wear the pants and now even socks vanish from men's wardrobes. The piece quips that hats shirts vests ties and socks may disappear, leaving men with only tobacco and suspenders for a cold day.
A Thursday night storm, not severe but with two bright bolts, struck a north town house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lundy damaging a bed post though no one was hurt. A second bolt killed a hog owned by H. A. Ferree.
The report shows 28,013 people cycled through Indiana jails during the year ending November 1, 1901, 550 more than the prior year. About 16,000 were serving sentences, 750 confined as insane, and over 5,000 housed as tramps. Tippecanoe County hosted the most tramps, with 800-plus. The board of state charities denounces inadequate jails in Vigo, Grant, and Madison counties and criticizes sheriffs who encourage the tramp trade.
Fragmentary note warns of dangerous infant treatment and mentions amberlain s remedy, reflecting historical medical skepticism about cholera infantum care. No clear event or person stated.
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