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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1898
Page
7
The ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as it expels impurities from the blood and nourishes the body. It claims to build the nervous system, restore energy, improve appetite and sleep, and cure spring humors like boils pimples and eruptions.
Er nest Kemper of Pierceton Indiana overworked himself studying and teaching three miles from home. After months of illness including pneumonia catarrh and debilitation a Cleveland specialist Chicago hospital and Colorado trip failed to help until Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Nine boxes cured him restoring health strength and five pounds gain with an affidavit sworn September 10 1897.
In a humorous exchange Diggs laments a tarnished reputation tied to the handle of a $10 umbrella, while Biggs jokes that the name is the core issue. The light dialogue plays on mistaken identity and social faux pas.
A historical advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement support for health. It says the remedy acts gently on the liver and kidneys and cures sick headaches and is priced at 25 and 50 cents.
Miss Goodwin-John jokes about removing the parrot as it repeats neighbors' harsh remarks. Mr Goodwin-Well counters that the bird heard the comments and should have been kept away.
Try Grain O Fry Grain O Ask your grocer today to show you a package of Grain O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. Grain O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. 15c and 25c per package sold by all grocers.
The Chicago Tribune notes the chainless bicycle remains less known than the standard model because it travels in cog. The item highlights the novelty and public familiarity issues surrounding this new design.
Nickel Plate Road will shift all passenger trains to arrive and depart from the Van Buren Street Station in Chicago starting Sunday March 6. The Great Union Depot in central Chicago offers lower fares, three express trains daily, through sleeping cars to New York and Boston, and enhanced dining service, likely boosting travel.
A compact note highlights weddings and deaths, crimes and casualties, and general state news. It compiles notable local actions, family milestones, and community events with emphasis on residents and nearby towns.
News items recount a Brazilian man Edward Murray beheaded while boarding a train, Evansville banning hog farming after March, a minister suing for back salary, a teacher finding two tramps triggering a fatal collapse, a fatal shooting in Indianapolis over 10 cents, and a string of oddities from a 99 year old cigarmaker in Evansville to a large Draft horse in Bar den. Also covered are a doomed burglary, a midwinter exodus from Marion Soldier's Home, a deadly shooting in Tipton, and health alerts for smallpox.
A Pearson's Weekly front reads a dialogue where two burglars recount a night break in. The man tells his wife he will buy her a diamond necklace, prompting thoughts on sleepless consequences and the strain of paying for it.
Between now and the next presidential election there will be many discussions of sound money and silver. The public and professional opinion favors Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy and preventive for malaria liver trouble and rheumatism.
In the south of France people fear earthquakes while locals say the earth quakes not them. The piece promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo claiming a constitutional treatment for catarrh and offering one hundred dollars for any failure to cure.
Simkins and Timkins dispute a morning purchase as Winkins-It allegedly bought a tray of diamonds for fifty cents and Timkins asserts he also received fifty-one additional cards.
A Salzer Seeds promotion proclaims a summer contest across 30 000 farms to boost yields with two new potato varieties named here and offers $400 in gold for best corn and oat names. Seedsmen are urged to order the Northern Grown Seeds catalogue from John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wis. for samples and a chance at $10 worth of farm seed samples. The ad closes with a humorous home key gag from a comic dialogue.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes to cure corns bunions chilblains swollen nervous damp sweaty smarting hot and callous feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores 25c with free samples offered. Address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York. A separate note states the Ottawa Parliament neon gun will be fired daily from Montreal Observatory. Kemp's Balsam offers cough relief with free sample bottle. Ian Maclaren earned 35000 from The Bonnie Brier Bush and Auld Lang Syne.
The text extols St Jacobs Oil as the right treatment for bruises from animal clashes and mishaps. It claims bulls and goats suffer bruises, then heals with the oil, asserting the best cure comes from using it to learn the proper method.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Gienn's Sulphur His Hair and Whisker Dye and an eruption banishment context with unclear meaning and no coherent event or named dates.
A short editorial highlights prudence as a guiding virtue for artisans. It argues careful judgment prevents waste and mistakes, advocating methodical work and steady improvement to achieve quality results.
An advertisement from New York claims Grays Swaine powders used by a nurse at a children's home cure feverishness teeth disorders and bowel issues while destroying worms. It cites over 10000 testimonials and offers a sample for free at 3 druggists for 25 cents with Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York as contact.
A troubled narrator seeks relief for insomnia by turning to reading portions of his literary work as his friend suggests. The exchange appears in the Boston Traveler with a witty, reflective tone about creative toil and sleepless hours.
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