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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
8
Silver Lake defeats Claypool 8 to 5 at the local ball park in the season opener. Joe Nickown, manager, announced a Sunday matchup against the Warsaw Tigers, drawing fans to the ground.
A daughter named Marjorie Louise was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kreamer in Akron last Sunday. She is doing well. A son named Olanude Irwin arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Tully in Claypool on Wednesday morning and will be kept. Mr. Tully works in the local lumber yard and is well known.
Kirk Holt of Dayton Ohio was visiting the area around Palestine lake when found fishing without a license. He was taken to Warsaw where he pled guilty and was assessed a fine of 318 60.
A newly invented high explosive named heramifrodiphenylamine is described as especially snappy in its energy output, promising a stronger effect than its appearance suggests.
Instructions urge clients to direct all legal notices to be published in The RECORD including administrator executor guardian and real estate sale notices. Attorneys should send notices to preferred papers or risk publication in county papers. Readers are asked to inform counsel to ensure proper placement.
Ben Fuller foreman for Bolley and Son on the Silver Lake street project received word Monday forenoon that his wife was seriously ill at their Hartford City home. He drove home in about an hour and three quarters, found the family well and a girl helping with duties, then returned to work and was ready the next day.
Members of the Mothers Club were entertained last Friday afternoon by Mrs. C. S. Bashore. Members of the Embroidery Club were entertained last Friday afternoon by Mrs. Ohloie Glacer.
George Hammer returned home Monday from a several week visit in Plymouth with his son Percy and wife. He traveled to near Claypool to the home of his daughter Mrs Len ius Elder and family, and was brought to Silver Lake Monday morning.
An out-of-town company president, meticulous in contracts, visits Washington to close a deal. He signs with a fountain pen given as a souvenir, then travels to Boston, only to discover the ink vanishes from the papers. Washington friends reveal the hoax by wire, prompting his quip that he will return with his own ink and pay the dinner bill.
Captain E C Carter after winning the Welsh Open parried a 100 to 1 gamble by driving a ball over Harleck Castle, a 13th century fortress atop a rock above St David's links. His second try cleared the battlements 200 yards distant, a remarkable feat reported by the London Mail.
A 50,000 pound consignment of human hair arrived on the steam ship Hattie Lucenback, the first of about 300,000 pounds en route from China. The hair will be used to manufacture press cloth and replace camel hair in this industry.
The Forest Products Laboratory of the Forest Service tested seven crate types and evolved a design that can carry 300-pound bombs and 1,800-pound bombs. The work was conducted under the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find satisfactory crates for army aircraft bombs.
Detectives will hold the regular meeting of the Detective Association on Wednesday evening June 6 in the town hall. Several important matters will be brought up and every member should attend.
James Sunday and his family relocated to Elkhart after living there for a few months and spending a weekend at a home they recently bought. They moved in Wednesday and plan Elkhart as their future home.
A New York initiative led by actress Evelyn Hall uses theater training to help preachers employ voice as an art form in sermon delivery. Citing Parker Irving and Beecher, the piece argues for balanced vocal technique to enhance gospel messaging without extremes.
The passage recalls Robert Burns sharing winters with innkeeper Mr Bacon near Dumfries. Burns enjoyed tobacco and snuff, often visiting Bacon at the posting house. In a token of affection Burns gave Bacon his snuff box, cherished as a pocket companion for years.
An oval hollow near a mountain summit on Java Island earns the name Valley of Death for its carbonic acid rich air. The deadly atmosphere harms animals and humans, with the ground strewn with bones of tigers pigs deer birds and even people beyond its seldom explored borders.
W E Wood of Illinois arrived here at the week’s start to stay through Decoration. He had been at the Soldiers Home in Danville and spent weeks at the Roy Bowen residence in Hoopston helping care for Mr Bowen Sr.
Mrs Charles Shirley of South Bend visits her son Gordon Shirley and family. Chet Brady, recently ill with paralysis, shows slow improvement. Frank Rariok and family of Warsaw called on the Shillings last Saturday. Louis Wilcoxson of Warsaw visits Abbie Whittenberger. Allison Swick and family spend Sunday in Bourbon with their daughter Mrs McHatten and family.
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