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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
1
The article outlines upcoming census questions covering personal details and home ownership. It notes a push for free rural mail delivery, possible closure of small post offices, expansion of letter carriers, and a new rule requiring return of misdelivered mail with penalties.
The Indiana centenarian Lucy Washington, born a slave in Virginia, is 110 and keenly remembers General Lafayette and the 1812 war. The article urges strict census secrecy, outlines Methodist church policy changes, and critiques Indiana road funding and public-sphere charity debates.
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