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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
2
Long letter form piece discusses civic leagues, currency debates, and local education needs. Notes Verona Board of Education planning for a possible new wing and Verona high school, plus reflections on Philippines warfare and local dry effort sentiment.
The article recounts how Benjamin H. Brewster, Arthur’s attorney general, faced brutal ridicule over facial scars during a Pennsylvania railroad case. Brewster, humbly recounting his youth, explains how a bashful childhood moment shaped his resilience and earned sympathy from the courtroom audience.
A lengthy discussion argues that face value and legal status define money, not its material. It urges the News to promote fundamental finance truths, warns against silver demonetization, and notes the balance between bullion value and coinage value, with dam and water-supply notes interspersed.
A London sewer note reflects on how centuries of progress pass from predecessors to successors. It lists transitions from the goose quill to the typewriter and from the moving machine to the cylinder press, then railway and electric lamp to the telephone and wireless telegraphy.
The article discusses designs for smokeless stoves and automatic devices aimed at eliminating smoke. It argues the smokeless city is achievable in the twentieth century and urges rapid adoption of smokeless technologies to curb smoke from coal and wood.
The Bo Tree in Anuradhapura, sacred to Sri Lankan history, is described as the oldest known tree on earth planted in 288 B C. Its venerable age is cited as 2188 years, with dynastic and religious significance traced to Sakyamuni and Buddhist enlightenment. The article notes extensive records, alterations to preserve the trunk, and supportive masonry pyramids protecting the ancient relic.
A garbled article fragment laments enthusiasm as key to action and recalls heroic sacrifice with mixed historic and fictional phrases. It references a French general, English imagination, and a Normandy girl linked to a golden bal or plait as curiosities with monetary notes in francs.
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