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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
7
The Tattler reports a quarrel over a rank between a corporal and sergeant with accusations of deception. A guard room action is referenced as punishment for the alleged mislead.
A Hewitt Brothers Soap Company promotion from Dayton Ohio offers a free beautiful reproduction of world masterpieces. To claim, send a two cent stamp and twenty five wrappers from Hewitt's Easy Soap.
A former Ohio House member, described by Sloane Gordon in iSuccess, displays a large roll of bills in the Neil house lobby. A fellow member reacts with awe and a terse joke about hogs and many hangers.
A tourist in Tennessee shares a dinner with a querulous mountaineer who talks for 15 minutes about guard times and corn shipping schemes. The man offers that the stranger could make money shipping green corn to the northern market, but the mountaineer laments his land and the old woman’s laziness to farm, ending the discussion.
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay praised working women at a Stampstead garden party. She cited a pretty girl who left a good job to marry a sixty eight year old for money, arguing that marrying for love means the old fellow’s seven million is what trials the heart.
Tommy Jones woke weeping after a vivid dream about a whole pie while Jimmy asks what caused the tears. The exchange hints at a playful household moment and sibling rivalry over dessert.
In a fragmentary exchange Miliv wonders if a bathing suit stored with camphor from last year has evaporated, Biliv asks if the suit is the issue. The dialogue hints at a playful or puzzling topic about odor and storage.
A brief, whimsical exchange questions whether soup qualifies as edible with a clever line about an audible edible. The fragment hints at humor or a pun-filled feature in a column. No identifiable people or organizations are named.
Henry Astor of West Copake New York, eighty, disinherited by the William Astor line for marrying farmer’s daughter Malvina Dinehart, lives quietly on his farms. He owns vast real estate, yet shuns autos yachts and showy wealth, choosing simple living with the Dinehart family. He has refused to discuss the John Jacob Astor marriage and keeps his fortune within trusts and parcels managed through his wife and the Dinehart kin.
Representative Underwood, chair of the ways and means committee, visits a Bible county settlement to win farmer votes. An old man urges him to sign a petition requesting a young lady be appointed postmistress, noting signatures from strangers may go unnoticed.
Miss Etta Narber of Spring Lake Michigan reports four years of eczema on her hands improved after using Cuticura Remedies. She details initial pimples spreading to hands, burning pain in water, and cracking. After trying three doctors with no relief she used a full set for three days and improved, now fully healed. She notes samples of Cuticura Soap and Ointment are mailed free on request to Boston.
A dialogue features a prominent millionaire's son boasting of his preparations for a rainy day. He lists owning a roadster and a limousine capable of carrying six girls as part of his lifestyle.
A playful exchange features Elia the pitcher dubbed with a glass arm and Stella recalling a stalled moment. A wry line on women chasing men follows, then an ad-like jab about Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething and a quip about sunshine and debt to a wife.
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