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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
4
In a dull advertising season mail order houses flood the Chicago area with catalogs. Carriers bring piles of mailers as merchants boost promotions to offset slower local advertising and push sales, a strategy that helped them clear seven million dollars last year.
A quirky note suggests accelerating winter by placing a bank payable dated April first. The implication is playful finance humor.
A brief misquoted note reflects Edison urging less sleep and hints at a common belief that many people lack the knack for seizing opportunities. The speaker adds a personal count of those who do not need the warning.
The warm bran bath softens and whitens skin and soothes nerves. Instructions describe making cheesecloth bags filled with bran, soaking in hot water, and using the bath for weary, highly strung individuals. A cocoa butter rub may follow for extreme nervousness.
Community group at Grove Chapel reports visitors from Packerton Claypool and Hammond. Names include Beigh families Shoemaker and Rinehart plus Baker hosts and a Sunday crowd of young people with a pleasant afternoon. Preaching moved officers elections to next week.
Miss Marie Carr and Miss Alfretta Price visited friends on Sunday. Rev. McCoy had dinner with Frank Hill and family. A young people’s meeting is planned next Sunday evening. Rev. L. W. Love visited Johnston and Moyer homes Friday. Burket residents Charley Williams and Mrs. Williams dined with the Sellers family Sunday.
The article explains frying as boiling in oil with fat reaching 300 to 360 degrees and contrasts it with boiling. It describes testing fat heat, moisture behavior, and draining fried foods. It then covers baking and roasting, noting oven effects on pastry, custards, and open-fire roasting techniques. It ends with a note on ornate ecclesiastical stole-inspired lingerie accessories.
An old advertisement extols Dr. King's New Discovery for throat and lung ailments. It features a testimonial from Thos. Ariss of Concord Michigan praising the product's long, decades lasting merit and offering a trial bottle free with prices at 50 cents and one dollar, guaranteed by Rager and Jontz.
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