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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1898
Page
7
An Irishman asks the captain for work and is given a rope challenge. He demonstrates by showing one end, then two ends, and finally hooks both ends together to prove a hidden end, earning employment aboard the vessel.
A Detroit businesswoman, Mrs. C. W. Mansfield, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring her health after a long battle with female ailments. She asserts the pills build the nervous system and help many women, saying doctors could not provide relief.
A succinct reflection attributed to Carlyle on perseverance, noting that initial difficulty marks noble endeavors rather than their futility.
The weekly climate and crop bulletin reports favorable weather in the central valleys and middle Atlantic coast, with drought intensifying in East Gulf South Atlantic Southwest Texas. Cool, frosty conditions affect the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast regions. Corn planting nearly finished in north, late cultivation in drought-stricken South. central valleys show excellent growth. Winter wheat harvests mostly completed in South Atlantic Gulf. North Carolina Tennessee begin. Rust complaints in some states. spring wheat growing rapidly across the region.
Oscar Straus nominated as minister to Turkey is a Democrat who previously held the post under President Cleveland. He and his brothers own Macy & Co. in New York City and he remains active as a lawyer and in Jewish historical circles.
Congress approved an urgent deficiency bill funding army and navy needs for the war. The measure estimates costs at 17.8 million for the Philippine expedition and Cuba movements, with a broader one year war cost projected around 600 million and 350 million pending existing appropriations.
A vintage advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure painful swollen smarting feet. It claims instant relief from tight or new shoes, sweating, calluses, and tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, trial package free, 25 cents in stamps. Address Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy New York.
A weary man asks for a job at an eating house, arguing his long experience distributing pies qualifies him. The manager bars him unless he can show decent clothes, noting his ragged attire won’t help. The man asserts decades of pie sampling make him knowledgeable.
A description of fast vestibuled express trains from Fort Wayne to Chicago and eastern cities. The Nickel Pirate Road offers a peerless trio of trains with built sleepers and dining cars. All express trains arrive at and depart from Van Buren Street Union Station under agent R R J Hamilton in Fort Wayne Indiana.
A fragment praises the WABASH line claiming it operates the fastest mail train in the world. It notes superior road bed and track as evidence of performance, though the text is incomplete and lacks full context.
The Nickel Plate Road touts lower rates than competing lines with daily east and west service. It features a trio of vestibuled express trains in each direction with buffet sleepers and dining car service. Agents are asked to provide the lowest rates.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls attempts at treating digestion with a kissing cure. The narrator describes testing with his wife, then kissing the nurse and provoking a sleepless night, prompting questions about the test and its outcome.
The advertisement promotes Lane's Family Medicine as a daily laxative acting on the bowels liver and kidneys to keep health. It claims gentle acts and cures sick headache with a price of 25 and dUc.
The exchange questions the legitimacy of a pugilist who has retired from boxing and has not entered stage or saloon work. It mentions Wabash as the favored route to the National Convention of the Baptist Young People's Union in Buffalo, New York, July 14 to 17.
A fragment from a Philadelphia Inquirer column quotes a dialogue about a daughter's kiss and a mother's surprise. It also notes old advertisements praising Piso's Cure, a Machiavellian adage about success, and travel notices for the Continental Limited train, the Nickel Plate home seekers excursion, and the Omaha Exposition route via the Wabash with June 21 dates.
An artistic booklet titled Summer Outing from the Nickel Plate Road outlines vacation resorts along the south shore of Lake Erie and lists country homes open to country boarders. Applications for copies are to be sent to B. F. Horner, General Passenger Agent, Cleveland, Ohio.
Fragmented ad notes one fare Sunday excursion tickets on Nickel Pixies Road with sales at all stations. Mentions June 21st and designated points in Northwest West Southwest and South. Urges agents to promote, warns delays are dangerous and right thinking affects behavior.
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