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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
4
Prices are low on books at Cline & Co’s store, featuring the latest copyrights. The piece highlights deep discounts and fresh releases attracting readers.
An old advertisement notes a product called New Life Pills by King and family, claiming blessings to the family. It promotes cures for constipation headache indigestion and dyspepsia. Available for 25 cents at Rager and Jontz.
Community notes include visits of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bash in Wa bash to relatives, travel of Newton Getty and wife to Indianapolis, school medical exams for South Bend children, and moving updates for local families. Ads mention lumber supplies, shingles, self threading needles, and Jersey cattle breeding.
The piece notes Chicago mail order houses pile up catalogs in early mornings to exploit the quiet retail period. By targeting the lull when local merchants advertise less, these firms push sales and claim they cleared seven million dollars last year.
An article extols the Jersey cattle breed noting its gentle temper, deer like calves, and appeal to farmers. It highlights ease of care, milk quality over quantity, and the Jersey’s lean muscular conformation with a fine skin and thick coat.
The coloring of apples improves with thinning as half colored fruit left at first picking enlarges and colors more in 2 3 weeks. Early thinning enhances this effect and reduces windfalls by lessening fruit defects and tree drain. Thinning supports annual cropping but cannot fully alter biennial fruiting varieties nor replace other measures.
A guide recommending a compact 8 by 10 foot yard fenced with chicken wire and a small inside-outdoor hen house. Provide roosts, no nests, humane care, regular feeding and water, and observe hens begin laying without harsh treatment.
The article explains that a firm seed bed is essential for oats and other small grains. It advises fall plowing for non puddling land, double disk harrowing, spring tooth harrowing, and cross harrowing to create a clear drill line. For grass seed, smooth with a harrow to cover fine seeds. rollers are discouraged in certain soils.
Thos Ariss of Concord Michigan testifies to Dr. King's New RoR medicine as a trusted cough and cold remedy used by many families for forty years. He claims it relieves lagnip sore throat and lung ailments like flu asthma hay fever croup quinsy and sore range. Trial bottle offered free, price 50 cents to one dollar, with guarantee by Rager & Jontz.
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