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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
4
Rates for display ads to be announced on application. Free obituaries for subscriber families up to 26 lines. Free obituaries for non-subscriber families per line. Card of thanks 2 cents per line with minimum 26 cents. Notices for churches or societies fundraising 2 or 3 cents per line per issue.
The article notes vacation days winding down and campers returning home to rest after the event.
The state decides no further aid for the Hoosier Dixie road, deeming much of it past help. The school book muddle is viewed as a disgrace to the state and a serious handicap to Indiana schools, with calls for an investigation growing.
The War Department announces that the bodies of soldiers buried overseas will be returned to their families for home burial if they wish. The program aims to honor veterans by allowing relatives to conduct final rites in their own communities.
Steam fitters union in Chicago demands two dollar an hour raise shorter hours and double overtime pay. commenter suggests increasing to three dollars to avoid another request soon.
A state critic accuses the war department of extravagance for leaving 47,000 automobiles and trucks exposed to the weather since the armistice. The cars sit in open fields, rapidly deteriorating, while the department faces scrutiny over the handling of these surplus vehicles.
The Red Cross explains funds are needed to extend aid to soldiers at home and abroad, distribute medical care from wartime resources, aid devastated Europe, and sustain ongoing home service, first aid, public health nursing, and Junior Red Cross programs.
A call to readers to instruct their attorneys to place all legal notices in the desired newspaper. Advises listing appointments, real estate sales, guardianships, roads, ditches and other notices under client control, to ensure publication where chosen. Encourages action to avoid notices ending up in other papers and thanks readers for future notices.
The article urges home ownership as a path to happiness and stability, urging savers to begin immediately. It promotes War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates with 4 percent interest, maturing in five years, redeemable at face value, and outlines steps to accumulate $1000 to $1500 for building a home.
Two hundred War Savings stamps bought this year will be worth $1,000 in 1924 for office equipment, a new car, education, or a rainy-day fund. One hundred stamps equal about $500 and fifty stamps about $250. The promotion urges buyers to invest, promising safety and convenience for busy people and noting candy-making franchise opportunities at 1819 Ranstead St., Philadelphia.
Residents and visitors populate a week of local life with relatives from Roann Wabash Winona and Warsaw. Mrs J W Walburn and Mrs Susan Creager plan moves and visits while teachers and instructors travel between Knox Elkhart Fulton and Hammond.
President Wilson travels by special train to California to press ratification of the League of Nations covenant. He cites war costs and casualties, urges arbitration over war, and warns opponents that delaying the pact endangers global peace and future security.
An advertisement touts Grando Pine made at home for 50 cents with durries of Glando Pine and honey or syrup. It claims relief for coughs colds hoarseness and croup and includes a testimonial from Mrs. W. M. J. Fellers of Lima Ohio about curing a long cough after fear of tuberculosis.
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