19 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
1
Local items note Mrs Myers millinery opening with a one dollar annual watch. Mentone figures include deaths and visits from Peru and Indianapolis. News covers sales, church services, fairs, and small-town social happenings with names like Gage Alexander Blue Isenberger and Rhodes.
Miss Georgia Underhill is very ill with typhoid fever. The North Manchester Fair features eight races with purses of two thousand dollars. School opens with 32 in high, 37 in grammar, 34 in intermediate, 29 primary. Prof. Aduddell leads. teachers listed. Local ads include Puritan Corsets at J T Dickey & Son and a cabbage sale. political visit by Hon Frederick Landis planned for Sept 25 at the fair.
A vintage health ad warns that consumption, a deadly disease, will not be halted by ordinary remedies. It urges heavy Scott's Emulsion doses to fortify the body and lungs while the illness runs its course. Free samples offered by Scott & Bowne, chemists, Pearl Street, New York.
An old advertisement extols De Witt's Little Early Risers as a gentle hepatic tonic that cleanses poison from the system and eases digestive discomfort. It claims relief from biliousness and torpid liver while preventing fever, credited to Chas Rager.
Hazel Dawn infant daughter of George and Wavie Bouse was born April 27 1902 in Kosciusko Indiana and died September 13 1902 aged 4 months 17 days The family mourns a bright loving child and the funeral was held at Fairview on Sunday September 14 with C J Miner officiating
Mrs I W Myers has studied the latest fall and winter styles in the millinery art and will present an opening display in the former post office building around October 1. She will offer a curated selection of hats and accessories as the season begins.
The Methodist church holds its second quarterly meeting at South Pleasant church on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 38. First service Saturday at 2 p m. Services continue Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening. Everyone is invited.
Democrats of Lake township are called to a caucus in Trustee Arthur’s office on Saturday September 27 1902 to nominate township officers for the upcoming election. Caution noted about misspellings in the original notice.
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