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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
3
James Raymond Perry offers a meditation on the clock and time in Youths' Companion. The poem contrasts daytime bustle with nighttime stillness as the clock's ticking becomes a voice that reveals future currents and deep quiet thoughts.
Garry Von Ritter, the laziest man in Farmdale, shocks the store crowd by trading his wife Elvina for a stove. Abe Hawkins recalls Elvina’s past as a gentle, afflicted girl. the crowd mocks the couple while Garry insists on leaving for home with his new stove.
Abe Hawkins and Garry barter a wife for a stove and wood, facing village scorn as Elvina Von Ritter dies after years of hardship. Abe and Mrs Hawkins defend their actions while Elvina dies peacefully after a final request to view bittersweet berries. The tale notes a bitter scandal, a grieving partner, and a quiet ending.
A fragmentary passage ends with a man kissing a pale forehead and whispering his deep love for a young sweetheart, describing warm, affectionate farewell as the New York Mail and Express caption appears.
A playful exploration explains why walkers drift to one side as one foot tends to move faster than the other. The article proposes blindfolded trials with stakes to reveal which foot leads, noting natural imbalance causes circular drift in a straight line.
A Le Figaro correspondent reports Styrians consume arsenic as a habitual practice similar to opium use in Asia or tobacco in Europe. Doses range from millet-sized pellets to pea-sized pills and follow a lunar pattern with moon phases guiding intake. Proponents claim regular users live long, strong, and brave lives.
The Washington Navy Yard is building a six inch fifty caliber gun for the bow that will carry a one hundred pound shell and use American smokeless powder. In tests at Indian Head the forty caliber American gun beat a English fifty caliber by 400 feet per second, while the new gun targets at least 3200 feet per second initial velocity.
The National Museum in Washington houses ancient coins from Bible lands and broader antiquity. Highlights include silver shekels tied to Simon Maccabaeus, the widow's mite from Alexander Jannaeus, Herod Antipas coins, Agrippa bronzes, and a pouch-like fish-mouth bank found at Ostia with 145 coins.
A compact reflection on how thoughts shape sin, arguing that God sees thoughts and that private thoughts lead to outward deeds. It traces a progression from imagined delight to repeated transgression, labeling this chain as the genesis of sin and urging sincere inward virtue.
The piece argues that heroism arises from shaping one’s resources and conditions into a worthy ideal. It quotes Carlyle and asserts that heroism is accessible to all, achieved by making the best of any situation through purposeful effort.
J H T Rogers of Freshwater notes his great-grandfather Rev James Rogers, last man and wife to pray with Wesley before death. The entry recalls John Wesley's sermons at Lambeth on Feb 17 1791 and Chelsea the next day, emphasizing haste in the King's business and Wesley's interruptions during preaching.
Religious news notes a Congregational Church recently built in Douglas Alaska near Juneau. It also reports on Cape Colony evangelical missions 530000 adherents and Catholics 3000, and details leaders and missions across Japan, Scotland, Utah, Cuba and the Morning Star mission steamer.
A Canadian barrister recalls a farmer who insisted on a holograph will and grew enraged when refused. The farmer declared he would die intestate rather than accept terms. A tradesman sought a deed to self transfer, hoping to shield land. when denied, he left in a rage and pursued legal action against the lawyer.
A Philadelphia man keeps a frugal diet with a mid day staple of soup and a baked potato or cow peas, rice, stale toasted bread, cabbage and occasional cheese scraps. He buys two loaves weekly and ends Saturdays with a beer. He claims twenty years of good health and no indigestion.
An old note links red flags to oxen and grazing habits noting red is the complement of green and intensifies sight as cattle focus on forage. It also claims women have a foolish habit and asserts a disrespectful tone toward women in a disputed social remark.
Reports from New Albany to Evansville note smallpox outbreaks and fires, murders, suicides, accidents, arson convictions, and public ordinances. Notable items include a Lafayette gold mining company formation, Lincoln Avenues Planing Mill fire, a Brazil tailor’s suicide, meningitis deaths in Linton, and a Tipton gambler crackdown threat.
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