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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1910
Page
3
A sample Aladdin lamp is shown on exhibition at the Record Office. The display highlights historical curiosities and draws visitors curious about antique lamps and related artifacts.
The note string describes measles causing a short school vacation and end of term after the week. Students including Emma Beatrice and Beatrice are mentioned with mixed moods. A senior class photo, pranks, an accident from Roy G. with a rusty nail, and a school organ recital add local color from Philadelphia Bulletin quoted.
The Claypool Lumber and Coal Company announces a spring line of building materials. They claim lower prices and broader selection for every construction need and invite customers to state their requirements.
Jacob Teeter was in the vicinity Monday and J W Clink lost a valuable cow last Saturday. Theodore Parker and wife visited the Frank Ulsh home last Sunday. Mahlon Rickel and Irvin Parker shared a Sunday visit. Isaac Platt and Mrs. from Silver Creek were in the area Sunday evening. Alison Swick visited the John Summe home. Better watch for fish commissioners.
A Brooklin doctor recounts sending supposed nerve remedy pellets from London to patients. He later finds the envelopes contained wild wistaria seed instead, raising questions about the treatments given and the accidental mix up reported by the Exchange.
A lank man on a cracker barrel claims a sequence of oversized catches from a river, including a ten foot pike and a fifteen foot bass, while others challenge his tall tales and joke about gear and value.
An absurdly worded fact statement at a New England funeral provoked notice. A clergyman prayed for comfort for two figures in grief: an organist described as an orphan and a mother aged beyond her daughter’s years, highlighting their losses.
The text states that Japanese medical students undergo eleven or twelve years of preliminary schooling before practice. It forbids convicts from practicing medicine and requires physicians to maintain full written case records for ten years. It also bans boastful ads and claims to exclusive healing inventions or secret formulas.
A seven year old, sent for a bath, returns claiming he scrubbed himself. He challenges his mother to check the towel as proof. The anecdote, attributed to the Delineator, emphasizes a child’s stubborn honesty.
In Irustrated Bits a panel shows Aliss Cutting recounting a bizarre moment when a stranger attempted a kiss once, prompting a playful exchange about the oddity of a second try.
Local residents and families travel between towns visiting relatives and friends. Earl Cline and family spent Sunday at Harry W. Kline’s home west of town while Mrs L Myers visited North Manchester. Arthur Hively and family dropped by North Manchester to see Rittenhouse relatives. Dennis Dulany and wife joined a visit to Mrs Henry Rager’s home. Valera Self returned from Anderson teaching to vacation with her parents. County Clerk GC Edwin Stout and wife called on former colleagues in Warsaw. Mrs Ida Marquis of Benton Harbor, Mich visited east of town with John Goss and Josiah Funk families. L D Underhill and wife traveled to Elkhart for their daughter’s illness. Beatrice Moyer visited Roxie Parker. P W Brown of Leesburg remains in critical condition. The RECORD offers mortgage exemption services. Pennsylvania Railroad plans wireless service on lines. W EF Ebert and Francis Rager with children visited A Metzger home. Walter Stout from Bloomington plans return to University studies. Packerton hosts a death-related gathering for Mrs Alva Denney and family. Ray Ferree from North Manchester visited local family. Chickens at large reminder by town marshal after previous warnings.
The notice urges readers to report family and local happenings by phone mail or in person. It encourages residents to furnish items for publication and warns they share responsibility if events are not recorded. Readers are invited to submit news through employees or at their homes.
Sunday school at 9 30 a m Y P C E at 6 30 p m Preaching at 7 30 p m Sunday School preaching at the usual hour.
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