Silver Lake Record humor and notices from Peru Indiana
A compact page notes subscription rates and a July 10 total solar eclipse forecast. It also shares a string of quips and bits about wealth, propriety, and daily life in Miami county, plus a comment on Prohibition and a tease about the Panama Canal and a future takeover by American Express from July 1.
May 1882 Echoes on Trusts and Law Making
A fragmented editorial fragment discusses seed sowing and fruit, trust busting, and a Los Angeles Times quote about inside views. It notes May 1882 as a similar year for crops and laments lawmakers who resist change and fear new laws, pondering the fate of those who avoid other trades.
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Los Angeles Times
Jake
Telegraph Post Cards at the REC ORD Office
Telegraph post cards offered for selection at the records office with instructions to call and choose.
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Record Office
The Chutes Chicago’s Coney Island Resort
The Chutes offers a mixed amusements complex in Chicago featuring a circus country fair summer park theater and miniature world. Attractions include water cascades chutes Loop the Loop Laughing Gallery midair cars and the Katzenjammer Castle with a giant carousel and a racing band entertaining crowds daily from noon to midnight.
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Chicago
Coney Island
Weldon
The Tailor Bird Weaves Leaf Nests Like Humans
The article describes the tailor bird Orthotomus longicauda and related species shaping nests inside large leaves. Using their beaks they pierce two rows of holes along opposite edges then thread a sturdy line through to sew the leaf into a protective cradle for their offspring.
Sunday Guests Reach Miles Clark Home in South
Local brief noting visitors and random community events around Silver Lake including Miss Mable Jontz visiting Elmer Regents home, a band concert tonight, and various residents traveling to Chicago and Warsaw. The piece mentions Kodol digestion product and DeVoe paint, plus local business notices and post card sales at the RECORD office.
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Si Ceaay
Miles Clark
Silver Lake
Mr. Keister
Mable Jontz
Elmer Regents Home
Devoe
Claypool Lumber & Coal Co C. M
Crawford
James Decker
Warsaw
Epworth
South Bend
J. Wilbur Chapman
W. J. Fitton
C. E. Stout
William Price Spends Sunday in Hammond
William Price visited Hammond on a Sunday morning and spent the day there.
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William Price
Hammond
Paper A Custody Dispute Hovers Over Home
A domestic dispute centers on who controls access to a newspaper subscription. One party insists on keeping the paper out of the house until the other requests it, signaling ongoing tensions over shared property.
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Ccson
Five Cent Packet and Family Bottle Available at Drugstores
The 5 cent packet suffices for common needs while the family bottle at 60 cents provides a year’s supply. Ali druggists sell both items.
FINKS MAGIC OIL Advertised by Clare Agent
An agent for Finks magic oil promises relief for rheumatism neuralgia cholera diarrhea and other pains and urges readers to subscribe to the REcord to receive future issues. The message seeks subscribers rather than borrowers.
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Fink
Y Miles
Clare
Silver Lake
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Panama Canal
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Chutes
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the Tailor Bird
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L. W. Myers
Manchester
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Sylvester Perry
Disko
J.M. Bloomer
Margaret
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C. M. Larber
Argos
Eastman Kodaks Cline & Co
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Somme Bros & Co
DeWitt
H. P Rager
Samuel Clymer
Myers
Samme Bros & Co
William Isenberger’s
Pearson’s
Walter Tridie
Claypool
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New York
Electric Light Plant
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Los Angeles
Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk
Winona Lake
Indiana
the Record Office
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Gibbs
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