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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
3
The text describes Navajo social structure with matrilineal descent and women owning wealth and children. It notes property rights, independence, and a practice where death is linked to witchcraft, shaping housing customs. It mentions clans, hogans, and summer brush wick yups where women weave and live near rocks.
In Bed Three Months at Oolitic Indiana Mr W A Terry suffered severe kidney trouble for months. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills he improved within days and soon could move about. He praises the remedy highly and recommends it to all with kidney or bladder issues.
A garbled local snippet hints at discussions about the heat indoors and outside temperatures. Fragmentary names and phrases obscure the broader story but suggest residents commenting on current warmth levels and how it affects daily life.
A garbled 1902 notice mentions October dates and transit terms, referencing the Nickel Plate Road and municipal tramways. The text also includes stray fragments about schedules, limits, and local officials, with several garbled phrases and names.
Fragmented OCR items mention a colonist rater on a road with drifting references to the Northwest and west routes. It notes ticket sales at stations daily in September and October plus scattered names and phrases, but details are incoherent and inconsistent across the text.
The September 1 corn condition stands at 84.3 percent, above ten-year averages in several states, with Kansas Nebraska and others reporting mixed gains and declines. The report notes improved or steady conditions in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, while Iowa and Missouri show variations. Wheat and oats conditions are described with regional differences and expectations for yields tied to late-summer weather.
Local column highlights marriages, deaths, accidents and crimes involving Indiana residents. Brief notices profile community happenings and personal milestones in concise items with names and places whenever readable.
Gas prices increase to twenty cents per thousand in Marion on October first. The town faces a spate of fire damage to industrial sites and multiple local legal and civic developments across the region.
The piece describes whirlwinds formed in storms, detailing funnel clouds and waterspouts at sea. It explains how tornadoes uproot trees and devastate areas, how observers note the funnel and path, and notes debates on water content and spout movement.
Among the Greeks bracelets were worn only by women, but among the Romans they were regarded as a military decoration. In monumental inscriptions the number of bracelets conferred on the subject is often stated. They were thin plates of bronze or gold, sometimes gold wires spirally wound. Some bracelets weighing twenty ounces have been found.
Travel offer from October 7 to 11 with return eligible through October 16. By depositing the ticket and paying a small fee, the return limit can extend to November 17. See nearest Agent or C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind No 1Su.
A short diary style note from 1901 recounts a servant’s reaction to an out of the house message for Nora and mentions a household exchange. The item includes reader letter style lines and a reference to Pisa's Cure for Consumption and a claim about Hindu living standards.
An advertisement lists rubber stamps made to order with self inking daters and ink pads. It invites readers to request a catalogue from Lock Box 219, Fort Wayne Indiana, and repeats a self dating stamp price of 75 cents.
Nickel Plate Road offers summer Sunday excursions from Fort Wayne to Chicago and back for $2.00. Tickets valid on train No. 5 outbound and train No. 6 return the same day. See Ticket Agent C. & Asterlin, T. P. A. Fort Wayne, Ind. Dye. 1236.
A young man born and raised in a Pennsylvania town returns home after six to seven years. He meets the longtime whitewashing helper of the town. The man comments that business looks up and the old worker jokes about calso-minin the church ceiling while confirming the partnership with the whitewash brush.
A Tennessee father cites his daughter’s five year struggle with indigestion and constipation. After one fifty cent bottle of Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin she can walk a mile, then 3 1 2 miles in a day. Doctors had said recovery unlikely, yet she improves steadily. Sold in fifty cent and one dollar bottles with guarantee by all druggists.
A brief exchange between a poet and editor about pushing a short verse further out. The note suggests a nudge toward bolder phrasing and larger impact, reflecting tension between brevity and heft in editorial decisions.
Nickel Plate Road offers discounted tickets to Washington for the National Encampment of the G A R. sale dates October 3 4 5 and 6 1902 with return limit until October 14 or until November 3 1902 by deposit and small fee. See local Agent or C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind 191.
Bessie recalls that Charlie confessed his love after her father asked him directly if he loved her. The exchange reveals how the romance began through a candid question from Bessie's father.
An old advertisement-style note touts Ball's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. It mentions Wordsworth favoring pheasant, praises Mrs. Austins Pan cake four, and ends with a weather superstition about an approaching storm indicated by an owl hoot.
Nickel Plate road offers one fare round trip from Wayne Indiana to Cleveland Ohio for the Hungarian Celebration marking the 100th anniversary birth of Louis Kossuth. Travel date September 26 and 27, 1902 with return by September 9 or by deposit of ticket with fee until October 28. See nearest Wayne ind station.
Ad copy claims despair and nervousness disappear after first day’s use. Offers a free trial bottle and treatise from Dr. Kline’s treatment at 931 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
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