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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
3
A Florida man advises his enslaved helper George to slow his son’s education to avoid hardship. George explains the boy can already write a letter twenty miles to his aunt and plans to write fifty miles once stronger. The exchange appears in the Jacksonville Times-Union.
A brief dialogue notes a fire at Thompson's shirt store. The husband reads the casualty in the paper and the wife asks who tore it, mishearing the report as from Blighty.
A biting meditation on experts and forecasts. The speaker derides weather predictors, contrasting ancient voices with modern grind and doubt, implying skepticism toward predictive authority.
There are no winners in a tea fight as the exchange ends in a draw. No side secures a decisive victory and both participants leave with a balanced outcome.
An advertisement stresses that genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin bear the Bayer Cross logo and come in unbroken packages with proper directions. It notes hand boxes of 12 tablets are cheap at drug stores and larger packages exist, with aspirin described as Bayer’s trade mark for monoacetyl salicylic acid.
Senator Hiram Johnson declares he will not complete West greetings and returns to Washington to lead the Senate fight for amending the League of Nations covenant on voting power. He cites telegrams from Lodge and Knox urging continuation of his speaking tour.
A village crowd on Laymouth village steps discusses the ministers convention at the state capital. Squire Lane jokes that five days spent were wasteful and cheaper, and Joe Rollins asks why they hold conventions at all. The Squire answers they meet to swap sermons, prompting Joe to remark that Mr Lamb never amounted to anything in a trade.
Indigestion causes disagreeable symptoms and Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills stimulate digestive processes to function naturally as advertised.
In Winnowed Memories Sir Evelyn Wood recalls meeting Col. John Hay in London who confessed he authored the poem Jim Bludso and claimed the verse did not embellish the real Jim’s act. Hay, then U S ambassador to Britain, confirmed his authorship with a quiet remark.
A five year old, after a day at the circus with his mother, asks his father for a penny to learn the rest of the story. The fragment ends with a playful tease about always proving a “sure thing” wrong by betting on it.
A Boston Post anecdote recalls Brittany storekeepers who bake a tiny porcelain slipper into each cake. An American in Rennes bit the slipper and learned that “the king pays for the cake,” a playful custom hinting at royal wit during wartime.
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