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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
2
A garbled aggregation of gossip and headlines touches on politics in Turkey and the United States, a pearl farm rumor in New York, election fraud claims, fashion, aviation, and court cases. It mentions a Beless aeroplane, a woman in a president’s cabinet, and various social curiosities with no cohesive story.
In a Breezy American analysis, Dr Brady argues that rapid evolution in the United States is shrinking jaws and wising teeth. He cites 47 percent missing wisdom teeth and six percent missing lateral incisors, warns of dental decline, and promotes Fletcherism as prevention. He contrasts bushman jaws with modern high brows and notes racial differences in jaw structure and facial angles. The piece blends humor with warnings about a toothless future if current diets persist.
London article lauds Father Joe Algue director of the Philippine weather bureau for inventing the barocyclonometer a cyclone detecting device that warns ships and helps save thousands of lives in eastern waters and he also organized cyclone danger signals with native assistants in the Philippines.
The Braganza dagger, once sought by wealthy collectors, has been returned to the Portuguese state from Lisbon's royal palace. Valued around 50 000 dollars and linked to Benvenuto Cellini, it vanished on October 4, 1910, during King Manuel's flight. The republic is sorting royal property from state holdings as inventories are reviewed.
Cambridge leaders report the athletic council voted against organized cheering, though three rousing and perfectly respectable cheers for Harvard are planned to be simulated at ball games next spring.
In New York a public discussion arises over hotel charges as Mrs. Max Thompson alleges her husband’s high income from hotel work and side earnings. The piece notes gratuities to staff from cooks to porters and managers, suggesting such extra income contributes to higher room rates and questions why hotel prices rise.
In Fraignes les-Oliviers Ardennes a resident marked the centenary of his half brother's death in Moscow with a Mass. Arsene Laplache, son of Florestan Laplache born 1769, notes the family history including a 1789 son who died in Moscow a century ago.
In St Joseph Missouri H H Seever of Rushville arranged a marriage dinner for six juveniles. Elmer C Seever aged nineteen wed Ruby C Kelly sixteen. Florence Seever sixteen married Roy Virgil Brown twenty. Alice N Seever seventeen wed Archie M Russell of Atchinson Kansas. Only one of the six was of legal age.
The remark notes a paradoxical statement that someone died 160 years ago or 24 years before he was born, highlighting a time travel style puzzle or historical puzzle about dates. It presents a cryptic clue without identifying a person or event.
A pack of about twenty wild dogs led by a large collie raids farms near Thermalito in Oroville California. Hogs chickens rabbits and turkeys are reported victims as the animals make daily incursions.
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