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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1907
Page
3
A record page promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as a safe prompt remedy for coughs and colds for every family member. Sold by Riger at the RECORD Office, featuring a large selection of post cards and over 1000 kinds available.
A listing offers 12 farms ranging from 7 to 320 acres across Indiana Texas and Michigan with soil quality fair to good and various improvements. Prices run from $18 to $75 per acre with trades possible and some timber value noted, plus additional town properties and regional land options.
A lumber yard advertises large stock of Red Cedar Shingles and Galvanized Steel Roofing ready for any quantity. The listing notes flexible supply terminology and potential custom orders.
David Parker of Fayette New York, a Gettysburg survivor who lost a foot, writes Electric Bitters helped his stomach troubles after years of costly medicines. He would not take $500 for the benefits. The tonic is extolled for the aged, female weaknesses, back pain, and weak kidneys. Sold by Rager, 50 cents.
Grandma Amiss stays with Mrs Nelson near Rose Hill while locals promote hard coal deals and hay. A Chicago visitor, Orral Haines, visited Miles Clark home in South Silver Lake, cousin to Mrs Clark. Mrs Ethel Ames to Mr Ellis Cormican wedding planned Thursday evening. Miss Mike Wells from Des Moines visiting Silver Lake relatives. John Clark and brother plan to move two historic bodies from an old cemetery near Walsh to a North Manchester cemetery due to park development. graves date back to 1861 and 1863.
The Claypool union station now features a new window for engineers to sign and receive train orders, allowing them to operate without entering the operator's office.
The clippings humorously critique cider vinegar forecasts for apples, a lottery winning poet quitting verse, and large gum spending. A Swedish blacksmith in New York is noted as starving despite a dollar and a half in pocket. Dr. Wiley links longer life to high living costs, and a Canal progress joke notes nine tenths remaining.
The excerpt survey notes tea origins in the eighth century and links cheap pencils to coke. It cites $50 million yearly timber loss in the United States and lists Washington wheat regions named Horse Sleaven and Rattlesnake. It references Emmett Kansas marriages, a Sept 1 rain event in San Francisco, and a claim about wealth distribution per Professor Bushnell.
Practical tips for household care saving items and avoiding waste. Reuse velveteen remnants for polishing and chamois like effect, boil soap scraps for dishwashing, finish linen with even hems, hang utensils on clean wire, avoid washing combs with water, and clean teeth with a nailbrush and damp cloth between teeth.
The New York Herald notes daily city spending in clubs reaches 100000 dollars and each New Yorker averages 334 rides yearly. It cites striking street displays of jeweled women, about ten sudden deaths daily, and rapid growth doubling London to an estimated 4.55 million in the metropolis with 6.2 million in surrounding districts.
Estimates put wine production in France this year at 1 166 000 000 gallons with 1 100 600 000 gallons for domestic consumption. The Rhone river freight is largely controlled by one company while Lyons sees few motor boats in use. President Fal heres commuted the death sentence of Soleillant to life penal servitude, seen as abolition of capital punishment in France.
In Germany scarcity of female servants grows, Berlin hosts a top style restaurant serving beef steak at $4.50 with a 50 cent tip expected. Last year Germany had ninety department stores, stirring bitter animosity compared with the United States. Two years ago Berlin’s ethnological museum was sent.
Guidance on preparing breeding stock and proper egg storage and incubation temperatures for a successful hatching campaign. Emphasizes sound stock, careful egg handling, and avoiding overheating or undercooling to prevent dead embryos and weak chicks.
Floyd Gates of Jamesville retraces a winter method to feed turkeys with a formula from Mars. The recipe uses wood charcoal sodium chloride sodium hyposulphite sodium bicarbonate sodium sulphate antimony sulphide mixed into powder and given daily in small amounts, increasing as birds grow.
Some cockerels shake their heads from nerves or irritation caused by vermin or large combs. Frosted combs and wattles prompt vigorous head shaking. When frost is found rub with snow or cold water, then apply unguentine or 2 percent carbolated Vaseline.
The colony house shown in the illustration mirrors the West Virginia experiment station type. It is praised as one of the most satisfactory colony houses yet devised, noted for its simplicity and adaptability to warmer regions while remaining thoroughly satisfactory.
A terse aphorism suggests emotional state shapes power dynamics, implying misery serves adversaries by undermining resilience and resolve.
The article notes a weather-tinged claim about predicting the future by women's dress and reports DeKalb county council appropriating $30,000 for a new infirmary equipped with modern facilities.
A brief column urges readers to stop grumbling and take visible steps. It frames effort as improving daily life for the self and others and emphasizes practical action over complaint.
Plymouth ministers have placed a ban on marrying divorced people and all have agreed to refuse to perform any such marriage ceremonies in the future.
A domestic vignette centers on a father asking if all angels have wings and the mother’s reply. She sweetly allows the son to go to the club if he won’t stay out late.
Last week the pension office in Indianapolis mailed checks totaling 2.6 million dollars to Indiana veterans. About 1,200 dollars was received by pensioners in this area.
The Goddard wholesale grocery building the largest in eastern Indiana was gutted by a fire last week. Loss estimated at about 300000 dollars. Eight firemen sustained injuries while battling the flames.
A fake food inspector attempted to extort a Hammond bakery by demanding 15 dollars to suppress a report. The bribe was paid and the baker was notified that the inspector was a fraud, according to food commissioners.
T O McClure traveled to Clay last week at the request of Nickel Plate railroad officials. They conducted a trip to inspect a special strain subject as part of settling a claim against the railway company. McClure seeks to secure compensation for a loss referenced in the discussions.
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