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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1905
Page
4
A man is known by the language he uses when he slips on the icy sidewall. Habits, like weeds, grow spontaneously while good habits require cultivation. Fruit men ignore buds harmed by the severe cold of the past month.
A Bloomington style column surveys topics from insurance opposition to a Chicago professor proposing disformity for men over sixty. It notes varied death rates across Indiana counties and potato and green vegetable markets. It remarks on school commencements, dog assessment rules, harboring dogs, and taxes on bachelors. It also jokes about energy, rogues, and emigration incentives for maiden ladies to Texas.
Mrs Roosevelt sets a stylish example by choosing American designers over European modists, showing that the nation’s home enterprises can supply the ultra-fashionable gowns.
A historical note stresses the importance of reading petitions prior to signing, arguing men are often too busy to pause. It recalls a Chicago anecdote about a man who walked through a large office building on a dare, illustrating risks of hasty actions.
A fragment reports a petition signed by twenty individuals urging the public executioner to hang each signer, reflecting violent language directed at those who supported the petition.
The article urges patience with aging relatives and encourages letting grandparents help, even if slower, to ease their day and share responsibility. It highlights understanding that everyone ages and that supporting elders lightens daily burdens.
The piece argues that Indiana spends heavily on schools and will need more money and a reallocation of some existing funds. It insists education justifies the tax burden and that supporting schools is sound long term economics.
In many townships the school term is only 120 days but our district reports a 140 day term. Schools will close Friday April 7, 1905, after extending beyond the legal period.
The piece argues the new two year election cycle saves costs but yields longer tenure for underperforming officials. It suggests returning to semi annual elections to allow replacement of unworthy leaders and maintain public trust, noting good officials would welcome ongoing public endorsement while bad ones fade away.
An exchange claims alcohol removes stains from summer clothes and other items. It argues alcohol is unrivaled as a remover of things, but warns too frequent use can ruin clothing and even furniture and happiness.
Colonel John M Fuller of Honey Grove Texas nearly died from kidney and liver trouble. He credits Electric Bitters after failed medical help, saying they cured him. Sold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia biliousness and kidney disease by Zimmermin druggist at 50c a bottle.
Mortgage exemptions must be executed before April 1. Executions may be completed at the Recorp office. G. A. Brush.
Notice requests all parties knowing themselves indebted to Dickey and Sons to call at the Commercial Bank and settle without delay.
Tax duplicate authorized to collect taxes until May 1. Unpaid taxes after the date become delinquent and penalties will be added. ComMERCIAL Bank.
Wanted 110 men in each state to travel tack signs and distribute samples and circulars of our goods. Salary $75.00 per month. $3.00 per day for expenses. Kuhlman Co. Dept. P Atlas Building Chicago. For sale 60 acres of land 1 mile east and 1 mile south of Disko. Ten acres timber good location good room frame house. Heaory Clinker.
Anthony De Frees, aged 84, longtime local newspaper man, died in Goshen on March 5 after a long career in journalism. He was the oldest newspaper man in the region and left behind a legacy in reporting and community service.
A Iowa woman asserts she can feed a man properly on nine cents daily, suggesting most women could afford a husband at that price. In Kansas, the name of Standard Oil magnate was misspelled as John Rocafeller, and the Northern Indiana Teachers Association plans its first out-of-state meeting in Chicago on April 6 7 and 8.
The annual session of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference opens in Portland on April 5 with Bishop Henery Spelliyer of Cincinnati presiding for the first time.
The Wabash Athletic Association and the Wabash Elks announce a major winter festival the week of March 27 with a large crowd expected and promising good times. A neighbor reports a humorous incident where a man mistook a child for someone else during a late night call.
The wrummer room of the Silver Lake schools was dismissed last Friday afternoon so teachers and pupils could attend the funeral of Mrs. Albert Thacker.
Mrs J H Girken and her granddaughter Miss Ruth Simcox came home last week after an extended visit with Perry Little and family in Hamilton Ohio and with relatives at other points in Ohio.
Mrs G. W. Worley, whose sickness was noted last week, is slowly improving.
An advertisement declares neuralgia is nerve pain and promotes Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a reliable remedy for neuralgia headaches backache stomachache and other pains. It includes a testimonial from Fred R Swingley cashier Atkinson Nebraska and notes a money back guarantee with 25 doses for 25 cents from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
The 29th annual Indiana Medical Association meeting will take place in Goshen on Thursday March 23. Preparations are underway to host over a hundred out of town guests making it a premier social event and the largest gathering of Goshen physicians to date.
In Warsaw circuit court last week Jessie Ashley pled guilty to prostitution and was sent to the Indiana School for Girls reformatory by Judge Royce. The blackmail indictment will be quashed and she will remain until age 18 at the reform school.
In Warsaw a newly married woman kneads bread with gloves while the editor mocks readers who are delinquent. The piece frames bread and boots as needed by the editor for payup,Quantity, and old clothes.
A humorous catalog notes tinners rising to the spout plumbers in the gutter bakers raising dough and workers on the beat. It paints a portrait of enduring labor woes with playful allusions to daily trades and routines.
A teacher prompts for a head fog to cover a wardrobe mishap and a rural student suggests a dramatic belt line wreck as the solution. The exchange ends with the class being dismissed.
A. F. Norton of Marion plans a Bluffton grocery store described as run like Christ would, marking his sixteenth merchantile. he bans chewing gum and tobacco, buys and sells for cash, does no delivery, pays his workers each evening, and refuses a civil war pension at age 59.
A veteran writer notes that a country newspaper office shows diverse reader habits from those who demand statements to those who pay without one. Some dispute amounts owed while others settle promptly, illustrating varied local attitudes toward the paper and its billing practices.
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