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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
3
In a London tale a married pair plot to seize diamonds hidden under a garden plank at Purbeck Road St John’s Wood. The plan succeeds in their absence. the trove vanished as they uncover the hollow, betraying a missing fortune. The bride urges flight to America with one child and a promised fortune.
Mrs Westerfield seeks a cipher expert to locate hidden diamonds. The untrustworthy consultant demands high pay and time, insisting on thorough work. As the week passes, she balances marriage plans and travel to Liverpool for a New York steamer, while arranging her departure from Syd with help from Miss Wigger.
A London couple confronts suspicion after a note claims a man did not steal the diamonds. A Liverpool ship owners firm reports a letter linking a Brazilian diamond loss from a wreck to the Westerfield trial.
A fragile plot unfolds as diamonds vanish and are later recovered with no loss. A destitute couple, their prospects ruined, face separation as a stern school mistress forces the child Syd away. A hopeful young teacher, Miss Westerfield, seeks work and wins quiet sympathy from Tinley, a Scotland-based suitor.
In a Perthshire school, Miss Wisger confronts Miss S W with a visitor card read To see Miss S W. Sydney Westerfield, alone in England, faces the intrusion as her class watches. Mr Herbert Linley arrives, but Miss Wigger demands explanation and confronts the scene.
A teacher notes the rising ingenuity of boys in making electrical devices with scarce materials. He cites belt line tramways, an electrical boat, and suggests inviting students to bring their own natural history specimens for a school exhibit showcasing surprising variety and skill.
A shopper argued over quinine pricing claiming a discount was due because she paid her boy to fetch it. The seller countered with the buyer urging a 10 cent cut, highlighting the everyday cost disputes in a marketplace.
A haughty patient rebukes a young doctor and declares it not for him to contradict an old experienced invalid. The patient then leaves in a fit to seek another physician.
A Chicago News snippet questions who wrote the line actions speak louder than words and recalls Tarper’s remark about a person’s thought during a late night attempt to sneak upstairs at three o'clock in the morning.
The article details Jacob H. Schiff of New York giving hundreds of thousands to Harvard and other Jewish charities. It lists past gifts including Hebrew Free Schools, a nurses settlement, a fountain in Rutgers Square, shelters for Russian Hebrews, a YMHA house and land, Montefiore home plans, a sanitarium, funds to Hebrew Loan Society, Barnard College, and semitic scholarships. It notes Harvard Semitic Hall funding pending corporation action and gifts totaling about 400000.
Astronomical items note Holmes comet, found by Perrine at Lick on June 11 with a seven year period. Saturn’s new moon Phoebe, named by Pickering, is tiny about 200 miles across and 17 787 000 miles from Saturn, appearing as a faint naked eye star. Critics contest liquid air as coal substitute, showing it needs twelve times more power. Ocean waves in the Indian Ocean reach 300–400 feet long, 60 feet high, at 33 mph, weighing 364 tons per foot. A six hundred foot ship on a lee shore would face 218 400 ton blows, capable of tearing it apart. Darwin’s earthworm work is paralleled by Dr. L O Howard noting insects as major agents in soil formation.
A London Graphic article by a woman who lived long in Japan describes courtship and marriage customs among the "little brown people" as curious and a touch barbaric. The process includes a branch pledge, costly gifts, a white kimono wedding, ritual sake pouring, and the bride’s lifelong veil burial, with obedience as the core duty.
A Cleveland pastor in past years rushed sermons without finding his Bible text. His wife away Saturday night helps by quickly supplying a Quranic Crusoe line misread as Crusoe. The incident ends with her replacing the misplaced text with a fitting Bible verse.
Miss Louise Homer, new American soprano, has impressed Covent Garden by singing Lola in Cavalleria, Amneris in Aida, and other parts. A Pittsburgh native, she studied in Paris with Juliani and Koenig and in diction with Paul Sherie. Her debut was at Vichy in 1898, later leading roles in Angers.
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