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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
3
A U S Navy crew aboard the Wolverine spots a derelict off a distant Pacific stretch as a strange glow and a shifting, tempestuous light show draws them toward a mystery. The tale sketches past shipwrecks and rumored treasure seekers tied to the Laughing Lass and Dr. Schermerhorn, hinting at peril, science, and sea legends.
A humorous Harper's Weekly anecdote describes Dr. Russell Cool of California feasting with Chief Dreavin in Tahiti while praising Nobel laureate Stevenson. The piece then shifts to a historical note on freezing meat, Bacon’s chill, and the birth of modern frozen meat trade and early dry air refrigeration in the 1870s.
A Hartford Post anecdote recounts a German friend near death who improved after the doctor allowed any food. His wife, noting the recovery, placed Imburger cheese in every room to grant the patient a bite. The next morning the doctor arrived and asked when the patient died, revealing the joke.
A Washington Star quips about Senator Sor ghum saying he never tells funny stories in speeches because audiences laugh at them. The tale traces how a listener admires the joke, retells it badly, and ends by accusing the speaker of lacking dignity, harming the candidate’s reputation.
Miss Elen Tompkins wins a Cun fins prize for oratory at State Presbyterian College Hastings Nebraska. Mrs Shelby M Cullom remains active in Washington social and philanthropic circles. Miss Anne Morgan investigates German institutions in Berlin. Mrs Clara Clemens appears as London singer after studies with prominent teachers. Maria Mitchell, noted astronomer, honored by Nantucket memorial observatory. Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy reaches eighty seven with quiet observance. Florence Kollock Crocker marks 32 years as Universalist minister and 4th as St Paul’s Jamaica Plain pastor. Mme Gude, Danish born wife of Norway’s minister, arrives in Washington and speaks several languages including English, Norwegian.
A historical note describes a joint hymn book project by the United and Wesleyan Methodists of England, parishes in the San Francisco Atovose observing Archbishop Riordan’s silver jubilee in September, and mentions aging church figures plus ad-like product notices.
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