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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
3
The notes reveal a busy start to the term with exams looming, teachers overseeing crops, and students like Sherman and Wilbur noted for absences and napping. Parents are urged to review first month grades, with any below 73 percent flagging concerns and calling for action.
Aaron M. Yates and Martha J Wiley petition Kosciusko Circuit Court to vacate a portion of Washington Street west of Jefferson Street in Silver Lake Kosciusko County Indiana and vest title in adjoining property owners. Hearing set for October 18 1909 before Judge Francis E Bowser at the Kosciusko County Courthouse in Warsaw Indiana.
A Fort Edward resident climbed Bald Mountain to aid a neighbor by using Dr King s New Discovery said to cure asthma and other throat and lung ailments. The tale claims it cured the neighbor and later his son s wife. The ad touts 60 cents to 1 and offers a trial bottle free guaranteed by Rager.
In Grantville a local editor hatches a publicity scheme around widow Spicer to attract readers. He offers 1000 in cash to the new husband pick, runs a bean jar guessing contest, and the widow becomes a recluse awaiting the winner. A humpbacked widower wins by guessing beans and they wed, yielding the editor a surge in newspaper sales. The piece then shifts to travel advice and a domestic remedy for boils.
A kitchen tip explains that pouring boiling water over onions and covering them briefly before peeling reduces tearing and makes the task easier. The method relaxes the onion’s membranes to minimize eye irritation.
A narrator recalls Billy Riggs leading a daring ascent up a ridge to break a stalemate in the Civil War. The daring advance inspired a brigade to follow and win the ridge, later culminating in the narrator meeting Private Riggs years afterward as a commanding officer.
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