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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
3
The issue blends business promotion and updates from Silver Lake and surrounding towns. Advertisements for Hall’s Cough Cure and Hall’s Family Pills sit alongside local bits about merchants like Goldsmith & Boots and Pearson’s Bread. Community names Willsow, Vandermark, and Whitley County Telephone Co. appear with social notes, card sales, and residents’ visits.
Bears the au store of Bears the au store of CAS TEREA is visiting with his parents this week from the Big Four railroad. Get writing tablets at the RECORD office. Mrs. T. B. Hathaway rises after illness. Charles Shipley and family visited Dr. J. M. Amiss. Goldsmith & Boots advertises a one price clothing store. Mrs. Joannah Stauffer visited from south of Silver Lake. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup advertised. Miss Valeria Self visits home while teaching in Anderson. F. E. Leonard and family from Oklahoma are mentioned.
Readable sentences note Mr O and Mrs Bensie Drudge visited the Warmon Drudge residence. The rest mentions McGlennen's Red Frout Restaurant offerings and promotional lines for cement and local goods. A line mentions DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills and a subscription request.
A Field Fence praised for value appears alongside notes of social visits by Misses Jessie Ferree and Rath Burt in Warsaw last weekend. Reference to DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Saive sold by Rager and new hat lines at Mies Edna Swhcke, Michael Yoder, plus a fire or burn incident involving Yoder are noted with several garbled phrases about straw and clothing.
Notice states readiness to receive Pax in Lake and Seward Townships and adjacent Wabash county areas. It indicates ongoing preparedness and local coordination for distribution and support operations.
Property listings describe a good house and lot on South Jefferson street at 1350 dollars, a house and four lots on South Silver Lake at 100 dollars, and a house and lot on the Kellers priced below real value with a corner location. Prices upon application. call Leroy Leonard to see.
C Leroy Leonard advertises private financing for solid farm properties and lists farms for sale from 40 to 240 acres. He invites inquiries for Texas land or Indiana farms and provides contact.
Purports to create appetite purify blood and cure rheumatism. Claims relief for kidney bladder and stomach trouble. Sells large one dollar bottles for 35 cents. Advertised by H. P. Rager.
A playful local column notes that men achieve lofty status in the area through feats and performances rather than literal flight, highlighting pride in community talent and daring acts.
Bargain menswear offer highlights £6.00 and 8.50 specials including premium tickets and suspenders at Gold smith and Boots in North Manchester.
N. H. Brown of Pittsfield Vermont says Dr King's New Life Pills have long given satisfaction by easing stomach liver and bowels. Guaranteed satisfactory at Rager's store.
J. O. Goodwin of Reidsville North Carolina says Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured a bad leg ulcer last summer with no scar left. The ad guarantees relief for piles sores burns etc and is sold for 25 cents at Ragera.
P J Daly of Chicago shares a method to gain strength. Hessus testifies his mother, previously feeble, shows marked flesh gain and improved sleep from Electric Bitters, with overall health improvement in stomach, liver and kidney issues. Sold under guarantee at Ragers drug store. 502
John White of 83S Highland Ave Hisulton Ale reports chronic winter coughs ended by Dr King’s New Discovery. He bought a 50c bottle last winter and again this year with strong relief. The remedy is sold under guarantee at Rager’s drug store with trial bottles free and priced 40c or 81.
The Claypool Lumber and Coal Co promotes a diverse coal lineup including Jackson washed Nut and Egg for cook and retort stoves, Pocahontas for cook and heating stoves, Hocking Lump, Eastern Gem, and West Virginia Splits. They boast of using fines at their lighting plant and offer fine coal at half price.
The advertisement states Kodol will soon enable the stomach to digest all foods, making the stomach work as it should. It emphasizes a sweet taste and pleasant ingestion and notes it is sold by Rager.
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