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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
6
A playful poem from the Atlanta Constitution praising Miss Mary and her effect on light, sun, stars, and singing. Verses describe flowers, evening hillsides, and bars of night as Miss Mary’s beauty brightens all.
In Rocky Gulch a rough mining camp reshapes after Joe Hardy and his wife arrive with their baby Babe. When Babe falls ill and dies, Silent Sam comforts the family as miners organize a poignant moss-lined funeral with dust from gold and a handmade casket.
A Royal era overview notes horses suffer more than soldiers from hunger and exhaustion. It cites sieges and campaigns from Plevna to the Crimea, Egypt 1882, Afghan 1838, and Peninsular voyage losses, detailing starvation, overwork, injury, bad shoeing, and sea transport perils. The piece argues horses die from fatigue before fighting.
The weather service reports lightning kills about five per million annually, with Ohio most affected. Nine year span 1889 to 1898 saw 1,866 buildings damaged or destroyed and livestock losses of 48 thousand. Peak danger April to September, especially in June and July.
A compact note describes a rare Australian native whose lifespan rarely tops fifty years and links a bold confidence to enjoying love and sausages as part of a whimsical reflection.
The article notes about 5,000 Mormons in eight northern Mexican colonies including Colonia Juarez Dublan and Morelos. It describes their immigration from Utah, irrigation farms, cooperative colonies with 10 percent tithes and 8 percent academy tax, schooling, and leadership by a colony president. It mentions polygamy laws, missionary activity, and a harsh frontier environment with Apache raids and distant rail access.
The piece notes land between King William's statue and Trinity square in London valued at £30 10s per inch, equating to about £191,000,000 per acre, regarded as the highest price ever paid for land in England. It then states the Southeastern Railway Company was asked at the
The natives of a wild country marvel at the coming of a railroad with its snorting locomotive and rattling cars as Egyptians and Arabs react to the foreign construction.
A Colorado Springs mine owner and stock manipulator dies suddenly as the local press, initially praising him, prints a headline implying he was a mining shark. The anecdote reflects the era when mining stocks captivated the public.
The New York World notes Gabriel declares time to blow his last trump and plays the ace of spades to save the trick for himself and St. Peter in a playful whist metaphor.
In a Washington Star exchange the author asks if the latest novel was read and the blunt friend replies yes and calls it a terrible experience. The brief moment frames a candid literary dialogue.
A humorous exchange centers on Hewitt and a wife catching a kiss with the cook. The wife reportedly says it is all right and urges them to keep the cook, noting the act was unselfish.
A narrator describes a Vandoux rite in a Haitian forest night. Flaming fires, frenzied dancers, and fear drive him toward a remote clearing where sacrifice rumors loom. He notes rare European presence and questions surrounding actual ceremonies and witnessing.
A Louisiana state sword given to General Scott after the Mexican War is recalled in a tale. He praises the blade but notes the inscription would have looked better on the blade than the scabbard, calling the sword a lasting symbol even as the scabbard can be replaced. The weapon cost about five hundred dollars, with most expense in the ornate scabbard.
A little girl shows a friend a new Madison street dress with a waistband featuring three buttonholes spaced at about an inch. She explains the first hole is for morning, the second after dinner, and the third after watermelons.
The Brooklyn turret turning, Puritan chain hoists, and Wilmington blowers and exhausters are grouped on the Kearsarge and Kentucky. These two battleships have more auxiliary machinery electric powered than any other warships afloat, representing a transition between steam and electric drives and yielding coal savings.
A Washington Post excerpt satirizes courtship and gender norms through a playful exchange. A young boy questions a man’s closeness while an angel child misreads the scene. The piece critiques courtesy, refinement, and male behavior in social settings.
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