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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1904
Page
2
The excerpt recalls a Highland parish church collection stored in a box kept by the minister and a beadle. Regular small sums were taken, and when the minister confronted the beadle David Gimfound proposes the funds be shared between them. The tale title suggests a bygone church life scene.
The Boeidzewanter Trust at Enghind possessed a clock in Worsley that strikes thirteen. Workers returned late from lunch claiming they did not hear the signal. The Clockmaker set a mechanism to strike at one, proving the delay could be explained.
Moe Eo Smith a painter and decorator on Anne street reports a painful fall and knee damage from a February incident in Ste. Marie Michigan. He credits Dodd's Honey Pills for relief and claims they aided recovery after using two canes.
A Los Angeles physician with forty years of practice advocates Grape Nuts and Postum in place of coffee for patients and for personal use. He praises brain and nerve support, digestive health, and reliability during work, and notes endorsements from physicians nationwide.
Reports describe Japanese mobilization as troops depart Port Arthur and the exterior fleet joins the harbor forces. Russian battle line repositions with ships including Retviznan Veresvier Orel and Sevastopol moving to the outside fleet, while Japanese field units prepare for rail and river movements amid tense coastal operations.
William C. Whitney of New York ex secretary of the Navy died Tuesday afternoon after an appendicitis operation on Saturday. The immediate cause was septicemia from the toxin spreading through tissues to brain cells causing paralysis and death. A semi official account notes the wound was opened under anesthesia to inspect the drain area and monitor the patient as he sank.
Dispatches report tense activity as Japanese troops occupy the Seoul Fusan railroad and move field guns to Seeand while a Vladivostok dispatch claims the Russian fleet is fully manned and ready for sea. The article notes Korea seeks neutrality recognition to secure independence, and honors William Collins Whitney as a pioneer of the modern U S Navy.
Washington County Alabama purchases seven thousand acres thirty five miles from Mobile on the Southern Railway main line. Land to be subdivided into small farms and sold to alien farmers. George W. Schilling reaches Monte Carlo after leaving Pittsburgh in 1897 to walk around the world in seven years.
New Castle Presbytery of Delaware finds Rev. Robert A. Ellwood guilty of unministerial conduct for a sermon titled Should the Murderer of Miss Bishop Be Lynched. He is counseled to be more judicious. the case stemmed from a mob killing of George White after Ellwood preached a plea for lynching if trial delays or technicalities prevent capital punishment. The verdict avoids harsher punishment and asserts Ellwood’s vindication by findings published.
President Eliot reports on Harvard admissions and graduation statistics, showing public high school students excel on entrance exams and college performance. He notes 172 graduates with honors, including 54 from public high schools, 44 from academics and endowed schools, 32 from private schools, and 12 from other colleges. He emphasizes public schools produce more capable, diligent students and critiques football as the least successful Cambridge sport due to absences and game interruptions.
King Edward opened Parliament in the House of Lords with the traditional pageantry despite heavy rain. He read the speech from the throne noting mixed Alaska boundary decisions, East Asia tensions between Japan and Russia, and concern over cotton supply and efforts to expand cultivation across his empire.
Barnard Shipp of Louisville has given a £100,000 library to the University of Virginia. Dr. Matthew H. Buckham nears 76 and will retire as president of the University of Vermont. Prof. N E Jaffa of California starts as president of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. Westfield Indiana to house a new teachers college led by Prof. Walter A Jessup. A J Eveland, Johns Hopkins graduate, named geologist for the U S mining bureau in the Philippines. Prof. Frederick Hirth notes rising interest in Chinese language and literature.
A roundup of incidents across Indiana includes Albert Newman’s giant fox catch near Milton, severe injuries from machinery, a fatal stove explosion attempt in Michigan City, and a girl’s death after a horse kick. It notes train fatalities, a mussel shell market surge, and a factory shutdown threat in Jeffersonville.
Mrs John Lakine of Paterson New Jersey describes nine years of kidney pain and backache. After using Dean’s Kidney Pills she reports relief from back stings head rushes and dizziness. Sold by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY at 60 cents a box.
A humorous note recounts a friend’s relatively new automobile, praised for handling crowded streets with skill. The speaker quips about years of practice with a “baby car clage” and a familiar figure named Poples, set in a Philadelphia context.
An offer announces free access to an incubator and a catalog including a colored plate with eighteen views of chick development in the shell. Send four cents for postage and packing to GEO. C. STAHL in Quincy Illinois.
A trust magnate doubts his son's business sense and a merchant prince offers a plan by naming him a society leader. The dialogue appears in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Also, an advertisement highlights Mrs. Austin's pancakes as a welcome breakfast option for crispy autumn mornings.
In New York City a claim asserts that 150000 residents would be dead today if 50 year old mortality rates persisted, underscoring improvements in public health.
Savings banks in New Jersey hold unclaimed amounts aggregating 598135 dollars.
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