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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
14
A promotional notice urges health awareness this spring, promoting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic to improve stomach and liver function. It claims March and April bring low resistance and offers a trial package for 10 cents. The ad ties vitality to bodily maintenance and energy for action.
The note claims Belle-George proposed that night and Nell bets on sobriety. It suggests using Garfield Tea a mild herb laxative to restore normal action to liver kidneys stomach and bowels. All druggists carry it.
Uncle Jake asks for a dollar to join a lodge named the Sublime Denders of the Royal Purple Secret of Ancient and Honorable Order of the Constellations of Epicurus. The boss jokes about higher fees and wonders at the lodge’s grandeur as described in the Florida Times-Union.
The Signal Corps seeks ten thousand skilled workers for aviation service. Rules for farm loans specify area and specialty criteria, allowing intensive farms to qualify with stable land value. Military updates note gas warfare history, bread rationing, and a $25 million French ordnance base with extensive repair and production capacity.
Naturalists recount baboon bands fighting in Africa with organized tactics. Males head columns and defend the group, while a brave elder rescues a six month old monkey from pursuing dogs. The display includes stone rolling, coordinated charges, and protective formations.
Qualified men may be inducted or enlist to fill 10,000 skilled mechanic posts in the aviation section of the signal corps. Trades include machinists auto mechanics welders and more. Recruits go to San Antonio for trade segregation then training at flying fields or factories before overseas service. Also notes new ammunition cartridges with armor piercing tracer and incendiary capabilities tested against foreign standards.
More than 1600 tons of anthracite were condemned in Pennsylvania markets by fuel administration representatives in a campaign to enforce delivery of clean coal.
Following the plan adopted for California and Colorado the food administration has appointed a commission to determine the costs of producing sugar beets in Nebraska. The commission has no power to fix prices but its figures will serve as the basis for voluntary price agreements between growers and purchasers.
Fragmentary note mentions cheese now in storage with emphasis on must and now. No identifiable persons places organizations or dates. Text is too garbled to extract a coherent event or entities.
Secretary Lane announced park openings for tourists this year with dates for multiple national parks across states from May to September. A division of pictures issued an illustrated catalogue of about 1000 official war photographs and stereopticon slides available to the public for five cents.
The peanut is re evaluated from a circus snack to a nutritious legume praised by Mr. Hoover. Once thought a mere theater snack linked to the peanut gallery it is now recommended for daily use. The piece notes peanuts are a form of legume rich in tissue building material and suggests recipes from the Washington food administration.
In Paris a young Topeka army officer sought a waist for his sister but, unsure of size, asked a Parisian clerk to try it on. The clerk kissed him, triggering a wave of clerks who urged him to buy for them as well. He fled, leaving sister’s gift unsettled.
A London suburb queue outside a butcher shop prompts distrust as customers are admitted in groups through the rear, leaving an old man puzzled by the lack of exit. The anecdote highlights heightened caution and the sense of mischief in everyday life.
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