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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1898
Page
3
A fragment from a poem titled Forgiveness expresses mortality and longing. The speaker imagines dying tonight and asks a loved one to weep beside the cold body, describing death as a marble statue. The piece ends with tender yearning and a blessing for the soul.
Dr Cranleigh uncovers a plot in a London house where Lena Vernon nearly dies from curare concealed by Mildred Ravensdale. The motive lies in a forged will and family money as the doctor uses antidote insight to avert tragedy.
William George Jordan in Ladies Home Journal calls the Great Pyramid of Cheops the greatest structure. It dates back 4000 years, base 746 feet square, height 449 feet, built over twenty years by 100000 workers. Stones were quarried in Arabia 706 miles away, with an estimated cost of 145 million dollars.
The Washington Star reports a vast government powder reserve near Picatinny New Jersey hidden in a mountain valley. Seven powder warehouses totaling 200 by 60 by 40 foot spaces hold thousands of tons of gunpowder and gun cotton stored for crisis use. Guards guard the 1,860 acre site, with navy and army stores separated and connected by a Morris County Railway branch. Major Buffington oversees the post, long known to locals yet largely unknown to New York as war fears rise.
Local medical circles report a successful agglutinative test for yellow fever at the Louisiana Board of Health lab. The method uses a drop of blood to detect clumping in a culture with yellow fever germs, aiding diagnosis alongside typhoid and malaria tests.
The article urges women to earn at home through patient effort and proper tools. It promotes house to house canvassing, church fairs, and parlor sales for selling articles. It warns against false pride and stresses gradual skill building to meet public demand.
Kansas City moves to farm Belgian hares as an emerging industry. George Lamphier of the Memphis Railway Company and W. W. Simons started a rabbit barn in Kansas City Kansas. From thirteen pedigreed hares they now have over 100, aiming to supply eastern meat demand at high prices. Sales reach up to twenty five cents a pound. hares are killed at four months weighing four to five pounds.
In the Covopah Hills of Arizona a feature called the Lake of Ink is described. Local Indigenous knowledge notes its black ink like water and medic inal qualities. Treatments involve burying the patient in hot volcanic mud then immersion in the lake followed by mud wrap and sweating on hot sands.
The notice warns against sellers advertising cheap substitutes as the same as durable Alabastine. It urges buyers to purchase only properly labeled Alabastine in sealed packages to avoid misrepresentation.
A statistical table on German divorces over twelve years shows Berlin leads Europe with 32 divorces per thousand marriages, followed by Hamburg at 27 and Paris at 21. The data ranks Berlin above American totals, second only to Utah and a few Western states.
advert claims a one day cure with Laxatives Bromo Quinine Tablets and refunds money if it fails. The fragment also asserts that our acts define us as children of our own deeds.
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