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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1900
Page
1
The article urges Easter preparations with a cheerful tone. It highlights Spring Suits Hats Neckwear Shirts and other goods at low prices. It invites readers to attend a big Easter Opening to celebrate renewed vitality and bright fashions.
The Methodist Advocate argues for a new religion urging debt payment over loud protest. It criticizes preachers who avoid addressing unpaid debts and condemns using homestead exemptions or statute of limitations to dodge repayment. Readers are urged to pay up and read on without excuses.
The season defies all predictions with extreme swings from heat to cold. People joke about chasing flies then the coalman as fashion shifts from low-necked shoes to Buffalo robes. Hospitals and asylums see citizens trying to track this kaleidoscopic winter.
A Wabash Star letter argues the U S administration favors Britain over the Boer republics in South Africa. It accuses the president of bias, cites British naval seizures and weak U S action, and praises Senator Hoar for opposing conquest while recounting the envoy’s London stopover and Boer sympathy meetings in major cities.
Norman Ayers of Warsaw was struck by a locomotive on the Big Four bridge north of town while crossing. The engine could not stop in time. he died at his East Warsaw home hours later. No blame assigned to the train crew.
Farmers should use hard solid wool twine for tying sheep during shearing. Wool tied with Sisal or binder twine causes fibers to cling and later show in dyeing, reducing value. Manufacturers will pay less for wool tied with binder twine, so growers should use proper wool twine to protect prices.
An Indiana fireman from the Nickel Plate road serving between Fort Wayne and Chicago drowned in the Pasig river on Luzon Island in January. While patrolling a river bridge at night he fell into the deep rapid, comrades tried to save him but failed, body recovered and buried at Manila. He was thirty eight and unmarried.
A well sunk at the main corner of Wakarusa in Elkhart county yields a flowing, excellent quality supply. A pipe driven down after excavation produced a nearly inexhaustible flow. A test with the new engine used all afternoon without lowering the water, and two other cisterns will be filled by pipes from this well.
A Syracuse Register note highlights a lake side industry collecting cat tails. Boys earn one cent per pound, daily wages often reaching one to two dollars. Over ten tons have been shipped by a single person. Cat tails replace cotton wool and hair for stuffing in furniture and mattresses, offering cheaper material.
Local sportsmen report wild ducks appearing in the lake region north of town signaling a larger spring migration than usual. The duck hunting law expires on the fifteenth of next month, with thousands of birds expected on area waters and hunters preparing shotguns for the season.
Walter Scott private of Company G Fourth U S Infantry died at Manila October 4 his home was North Webster and his remains were buried there on Wednesday last.
The Wabash Plain Dealer ridicules Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's Topeka Capital praising pulpit focus over journalism. It calls Sheldon’s secular paper a failure as news and incompatible with public morals. Local readers disgusted by his attempt to judge Jesus by editorial standards.
A Record representative toured Warsaw and found aggressive street campaigning as candidates multiplied ahead of the May Republican convention. Announcement cards littered Silver Lake and nearby streets, with one conspicuously absent card hinting at a rumored ex-railroad detective running for sheriff amid the show of political fervor.
William Galligan, a Nickel Plate section hand from this area, was seriously hurt Monday near Claypool when a hand car traveling at high speed threw him. He fell on the rails, was knocked unconscious as the car passed over him, and was taken to his Claypool boarding house for treatment. his wife was informed and traveled there.
William Gilbert files $10,000 damages suit against the Chicago and Erie railroad in Adams circuit court over injuries from an accident a month ago. He says he and his wife and infant child were crossing the track in a wagon when struck by the limited. the wagon was demolished and the baby fell onto the locomotive pilot but was unharmed when the train stopped.
The Big Four will make Warsaw the northern terminus for the Indianapolis accommodation No 21 leaving Warsaw at five and Wabash at 6 30 with a return from Indianapolis at 4 30 arriving here 7 55. No 24 northbound express departs Indianapolis later and arrives here at 2 35 with No 23 from Wabash arriving Indianapolis at 2 30.
The Senate rejected Hoar’s amendment to pay ex Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii a $20,000 pension and $10,000 yearly lifetime gratuity. While some senators supported aid to the ex ruler, broad opposition prevailed and the amendment was laid on the table without a vote. Senator Tillman argued any claim would rest with Hawaii’s people, not the United States.
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