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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
7
Tom asks about progress in winning Miss Millyan with Dick replying their efforts pay off gradually. Dick recalls Millyan’s father once repeatedly turning suitors away, but the rejection has softened over time.
In a short session Mrs Finicker asks Mrs Becker if she had a session with her husband. Mrs Becker replies she had him pass an appropriation bill, indicating routine legislative maneuvering within a constrained agenda.
Trade notice invites readers to request a free package of Munyon's Paw Paw Pills by writing Professor Munyon at 53d and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia. The ad promises confidential medical advice and home diagnosis, praising the pills as gentle liver stimulants that do not gripe or weaken, unlike other laxatives. It claims constipation causes many ailments and stresses the pills’ tonic benefits for stomach liver and nerves with no calomel or dope. Regular bottle has 45 pills for 25 cents from Munyon's Laboratory.
The article credits Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry as foundational to modern electricity. It notes Henry's early long-distance current, magnetism for motion, and likely Morse telegraph principle, plus his Smithsonian leadership. It recounts Henry’s moral stance on patenting discoveries and a life conversation with Hugh McCulloch on science and finance.
In 1892 Grover Cleveland, at his Gray Gables summer home on Buzzard Bay, received his third nominating news and sparred with a Tammany messenger about hiring a practical politician to run his campaign. Cleveland challenged the idea and implied he could lead without string pulling.
A 1911 reminiscence recounts how Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown, a Yale graduate and Civil War brigadier, fell ill in New Haven during the Liberal Republican campaign of 1862. A physician attributed the ailment to ptomaine poisoning from soft shell crabs, a story suppressed by party managers to protect the ticket.
From London comes many stories showing that King George is an industrious and businesslike monarch. An early riser, he is in his correspondence and papers by o clock in the morning. He works steadily until luncheon then spends the afternoon in recreation before returning to state tasks at night.
A quirky column notes an office boy who stays home after his grandmother dies to avoid missing a baseball game. It also mentions a boy who is told his little brother faces infantile paralysis, hinting at the era’s mixed humor and fear in everyday life.
A Wharton subscriber asks if it harms women to play bridge all day as much as husbands who play poker all night. The paper plans to consult their pastor before giving a final judgment.
Hazel tells Willie that the 18k inside an engagement ring signifies the kisses needed to get engaged. The playful exchange highlights romance and humor between the couple in a domestic scene.
Mrs. Hudson-Well I wanted to vote both ways so I parred with my self.
A narrator recalls a humorous old wager about swallowing an egg whole without cracking its shell. Michael Dolan confirms the challenge and explains that a hidden hatchling would cause pain if he moves. The scene blends rural speech and a comical fear of internal hatchlings.
Testimonial from Dean’s Kidney Pills user at Mendota Illinois detailing backache and chills when wet or cold as signs of kidney weakness and claiming recovery after taking Doan’s Kidney Pills. Story mentions multiple gravel stones passed and urges purchase of 50 cent boxes from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Miss Frances Hartz reads a Sabbath school lesson on creation to her class. A child quips that God dried man in the sun like mud pies, prompting a discreet response and continuation of the lesson.
Housewives wonder why undergarments linen and fabrics wear out quickly. Yellow soap weakens fibers, causing tears. Hewitts Easy Task Soap offers a pure white alternative. Five cents a cake. Try it.
A brief note suggests that a street fight can remind a married man there are other places like home, hinting at tensions between public altercations and private life. The remark frames the incident as a personal reflection rather than a standalone event.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder to relieve tight shoes by shaking into them. The copy urges rejecting substitutes and mentions a trial package offer. The note references Olmsted and Le Roy in New York and ends with a proverb about perseverance.
For over fifty years Rheumatism and Neuralgia sufferers have found great relief in Hamlins Wizard Off. Don't wait for inflammation to set in. Get a bottle. An artist is one who can create that which has the power to haunt the mind.
Natick Massachusetts resident Mrs Nathan B Greaton credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with ending a nervous, sleepless period and a suspected tumor diagnosis. She says the remedy carried her through the change of life and recommends others seek Mrs Pinkham’s confidential advice.
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