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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
2
A garbled collection of quirky lines and snippets covers weather, fashion, crime, and society. Vague references to Yale, baseball, umbrellas, and a political climate mix with odd observations and misprints.
The Southern hotel in St Louis, built after the Civil War and famed for its aristocratic interiors, burned in 1877 with loss of life and was rebuilt in 1880 as a fireproof, fashionable West Coast of the era. Notable guests included Grand Duke Alexis Lydia Thompson Lily Lanetry and Freddie Gebhard.
In Denver, John Shorts escorts Margaret Ann Sample toward marriage in magistrate Gavin's chamber when a mother bursts in halting the ceremony. Louise Crabtree pleads with her daughter and pursues Shorts as the crowd thwarts the nuptial plan. The mother warns all justices not to wed the couple due to the daughter's youth.
Cardinal Cavallari declared that women wearing revealing or tight clothing will be barred from confirmation as spectators or godmparents. He preached that immodest fashions disgust both Christians and nonbelievers and asserted the church may exclude anyone showing disrespect for the sacrament.
Mountain climbers from Canada Britain Europe and the United States gather at the Alpine Club of Canada camp in Vermilion Pass Alberta eight miles from Castle Banff. Camp stands at 5300 feet with Storm Mountain and Mount Ball nearby. Several climbers aim to graduate by reaching 10000 feet and Storm Mountain at 10309 feet may be the test.
Mrs. A. W. Frazier, rancher's wife on Buffalo creek near Sheridan, spent hours in freezing water at the bottom of a deep cistern to save her two year old. She descended by a rope fixed to the top, then pulled herself and the child to safety, both later treated in Sheridan.
James Kynoch of Ken Cington faced Central police court after his first wife, believed dead, reappeared to accuse him of nonsupport. He had remarried after years apart, while his first wife had also left her husband and later learned he was alive and with a second wife. Magistrate MacFarland bound Kynoch over for court in $500 bail.
Kansas City reports $62 000 in gold silver and other metals recovered from an old smelter dump at Argentine a Kansas City suburb over 13 months. The site now houses a structural steel company. Officials say they believe another $25000 in metal remains.
Harry WilsonComplicates his commission by falling for Isobel a farmhouse muse who turns out to be a newspaper writer chasing sensational heart throbs. Their romance blooms then reveals Isobel wrote the garden scene for newsprint fueling a plan for a real wedding ending in happiness.
The Stockton Record notes an Englishman named Redish who visits Stockton and has not drunk water for years. A prior doctor advised substituting air for water until further notice, a decree the doctor did not revoke. He remains steadfastly faithful to the order, drinking only what is in air and the all an all.
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