Voters urged to register in Kosciusko County
An election notice warns all unregistered voters in Kosciusko County that time is running out to register for the fall election. The notice notes registrations can be filed with Warsaw’s Registration Board or through Notary Public offices outside Warsaw to ensure eligibility. Election Commissioners Aaron A. Rasor CarlXZalsh John A. Sloane urge prompt action.
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Warsaw
Kroara
Aaron A. Rasor
Carllxralzsch
John A. Sloane
Burdwe Family, Visitors, and Local News From Axton
Local notes report Thess B Burdwe family visiting in Axton Sunday. Mrs Bessie Sipith and her War Law 6 son are visiting Ross Gamble home this week. John Sumnie and Miss Leanna returned from Fort Wayne with two little girl friends. Chester Bashore and Kenneth Per are guests of the Bashore family. Visitors from Chicago stayed southeast of town. A July 4th program at Winona Lake features thousands of American soldiers. Dale Wood family near Lake visits. Ford tractor seen in Whittenberger hay field. Nellie Derringer and Mrs Koy Sloane of Warsaw visiting Laugaman home.
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Bessie Sipith
Son of
War Law
Ross Gamble Home
Soul of Tows
John Sumnie
Fort Wayne
Chester Bashore
Kenneth .Persconeth
Chicago
Flashore
Town
Nellie Derringer
Mrs. Koy Sloane
Warsaw
Laugoman
Sugar and Beef Notice Limits for Town and Country
The Federal Food Administrator for Kusciusko County directs town residents may buy two pounds of sugar at a time and county residents five pounds. 25-pound allowances for canning remain, with blank forms for purchase. Hoarding is warned against as Atlantic submarine activity tightens sugar markets. Beef demand for Allied armies exceeds surplus, urging substitution with pork, bacon, and ham. warmer weather raises army beef needs while pork demand declines.
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Atlantic
James Ki. Frazer
Kusciusko County
John H. Bergdoll
Ripley County
Harry E. Barnard
Indiana
Bergdoll
Kroger Grocery and Baking Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mary Shook
Milan
Bliss Native Herb Tablets For Sale In Silver Lake
James Meloy offers Bliss Native Herb Tablets for rheumatism indigestion and kidney derangements. 200 doses priced at 1 dollar left for sale at the Record Office in Silver Lake.
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Silver Lake
Bliss
James Meloy
Indiana food administration tightens sugar and beef rules
Dr. Barnard orders Indiana hotels and restaurants to limit boiled beef to two meals weekly and roast and esisteak to one meal weekly, with household beef caps and pork substitutions urged. Sugar shipments are restricted. public markets barred from selling sugar or flour except to established daily customers. Deputized church and lodge members will assist in distributing information statewide.
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Indiana
Barnard
Food Administration
The
Local Visitors and Community Notes Across Claypool Area
Mrs Belle Johnson of Anderson visits her uncle F M Jaques on west Main. Ford tractor arrives in Claypool to work hay. Leo Leonard at Ft Benjamin Harrison may visit next Saturday. July 4 Winona Lake hosts large military program with thousands of American soldiers starting 10 a m. J K Lee Cline and Lou Midredict travel to Decatur for a week of relatives and business. Prof F C Sanders hauls a board tractor from Cuicapu to Claypool on Ford truck. Izza Funk and family visit Monticello with relatives. They are joined by the Sausaman party for a brief pleasure trip.
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Belle Johnson
Anderson
F. M. Jaques
West Main Street
Lue
Winona Lake
Mra
J. K. Lee Cline
Lou
Decatur
Community Meetings Urged for War Savings Subscriptions
Series of meetings planned in every community to secure subscriptions for War Savings Stamps during June July and August 1915. Officials urge participation to boost wartime funding and civic support across regions.
Fort Snelling Visit Describes Army Life and Travel
Letter from a 40th Infantry member recounts travel from Columbus to Fort Snelling aboard the Pennsylvania and Burlington routes, with weather, inoculations, and a message about mess meals, quarantine, and daily drill. He notes split units, awaiting rifle instructions, and plans to write to many people.
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Co A
Warsaw
Columbus
Coa
Minneapolis
St. Paul
40Th Infantry
Letter From a Former Silver Lake Boy Fights in France
The piece recalls Floyd Henderson, once a Silver Lake resident, writing from the French front to his sister Gladys Parker near Chicago. He describes moving positions, equipment, mail delays, cigarette stock, and longing for home, ending with a hopeful, defiant note about American spirit.
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Ray Wenderson
Gladys Parker
Chicago
Floyd Henderson
Henderson
Floyd
Magazine Subscriptions Offered by Brush & Hanson
Brush & Hanson of the Record office in Silver Lake promote their subscription agency services. They offer to receive subscriptions to any magazine, claim savings of money and time, and invite readers to call for a catalogue of money saving magazine clubs.
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Arthuretic
Brush & Hanson
Silver Lake
Simple Buckthorn Mix Claimed to Prevent Appendicitis
A Silver Lake note promotes Adler-i ka as a bowel flush using buckthorn bark and glycerine to supposedly prevent appendicitis. The claim lacks scientific support and reads as a health rumor from a local advisory.
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Silver Lake
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