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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
1
Graduation program at the U B church in Sil ver Lake on Wednesday evening June 7 features common school graduates. Includes songs in a parade and medleys, addresses, diploma presentations, and benediction with Ina Stout Anna Jaques and Roy Hoxe among speakers and glee club members listed.
A Sunday evening program at the church five miles southwest of Silver Lake features songs, scripture reading, invocations, and a schedule of performances. Sam Keller presides with performances by the Clipper Quartet, Lottie Shipley, and Hazel LaRue among others, including readings, declamations, and duets by Ottis Sherbondy, Walter Tridle, and others.
Indiana health officials on April 14 reiterated the 1899 law requiring burial permits only after death certificates. A fine for illegal burials ranges from ten to one hundred dollars, plus coroner inquest and disinterment. A bystander comment about a job on Sixty-first Street appears in the fragment.
A weary young man asks directions to a distant intersection at city hall corner, explaining he is broke and jobless. Two fortunate youths offer transit tips and charity, but the speaker insists he will walk all the way to San Francisco rather than accept aid.
A young man in a fancy vest recalls mother-in-law jokes as his feelings hurt. He recounts a tale of a wife threatening to withhold rent and bills unless the stories stop, prompting concern over cold blooded threats.
A Michigan judge in a county seat marries a poor woman while friends mock the union. His sister defends the match, noting mitigating circumstances as the wife is valued at $500,000, changing the perspective on the marriage.
A young Irishman, seated beside a young maid, astonishes onlookers by adding no sugar to his tea. She asks for sugar, noting his papa prefers three lumps. The professor, gallant, replies the tea is sweet enough after she looks into the cup.
A Chicago Chronicle item recounts a bank check misaddressed to Sweetest of the Sweet. The wife indorsed the name as drawn, the bank paid the ten dollars, and the tale features a playful note on language and business prospects.
A deacon's son tells a pastor of bees stinging his father and the father’s late nights hunched at his desk by a whitewashed wall, while a wife brushes chalk from her husband’s coat and shares tears of sympathy. The boy requests a private word, murmuring for discretion.
The exchange jokes about brandy from sawdust and a prohibitionist’s doubt. A reporter’s dream shows a blank paper at press time. A play on printers and ads follows with quips about birth and work, ink, and profits.
A reader testimonial urges Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for whooping cough after recovering from croup. The note praises quick relief and cure and lists sale by Dr. Chas. Rager. The notice also advertises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a preventive for blood poisoning from scratches and wounds.
J. D. Bridge, editor and proprietor of the Democrat in Lancaster New York, declares he would not be without One Minute Cough Cure for his boy when troubled with a cough or cold. He calls it the best remedy for croup he has ever used. Dr. Flavien.
Breeders urged to contact C M Weprick at his barn near the depot in Silver Lake to view an esshot horse this spring with reasonable terms.
Pneumonia grippe coughs colds croup and whooping cough readily yield to One Minute Cough sure. Use this remedy in time and save a doctor's bill or the undertaker's Sold by Dr. Flavian.
Dr Flavien promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers as a remedy that would prevent poisoning of the entire system by allowing bowels to accumulate. The claim urges readers to try the product and asserts habitual use.
Mrs Ada E Hart of Groton South Dakota credits Dr Kings New Discovery with curing her consumption after four doctors gave up. She suffered a severe cold that settled in her lungs and cough, but eight bottles restored her health. Trial bottles were offered free at Dr Rogers Drug Store with a guaranteed or refunded price.
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for burns cuts sores ulcers boils felons corns and hemorrhoids. It promises quick pain relief and healing for various skin injuries and cures piles, sold by Dr. Rager for 25 cents a box with a guarantee.
An advertisement urges sufferers with piles to use De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve claiming it cures the disease by addressing root causes. The text touts a person named Dr Flavien endorsing the product as a reliable remedy.
De Witt's Little Early Risers are advertised as the famous laxative pills by Dr. Flavier. They claim to aid torpid liver and other irregularities of the system. They are promoted as a dependable remedy from this period advertisement.
For sale or trade 160 acres of finely improved Nebraska land within five miles of the capital in Red Willow county. Land is cultivated with scarce crop failures, good water, and proximity to schools and churches. Will trade for an 80 acre Indiana farm or sell on reasonable terms. Inquire at Arecorp, Silver Lake, Indiana.
An advertisement claims these pills cure torpid liver by removing congestion and opening bile ducts. It lists symptoms such as tenderness on the right side, pains under the shoulder blade, constipation, biliousness, and dull lethargy. Dr. Flavien is referenced.
Weak nerves caused severe pains in the back of his head. Electric Bitters, America's greatest Blood and Nerve Remedy, relieved his pain and boosted his vitality. The medicine purifies the blood tones the stomach strengthens the nerves and renews vigor. Each bottle guaranteed 56 cents. Sold by Dr Bager.
Fragmentary ad text touts DeWitts Hazel Salve for rapid healing without leaving a scar. It minimizes the wound concerns and suggests effective results, though details are unclear.
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