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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
6
Veterans from both sides swap war tales in a Rural Home piece recounting a Confederate boy who risked his life to bring water to a dying Union officer. The memory sits beside a Jersey artilleryman’s tale of a $100 pie sale on Long Bridge and a banknote that later cashed for $98.60.
Jim Waters, a veteran Washington newspaper man with his green wagon, recalls wartime days selling Star extras in Union camps and along Southern lines. He also sold pies to soldiers, claiming it was the best business, as pies reminded them of home and grandmothers. Waters notes his long history with the city press and his habit of gathering information at a cent a pound.
A poem by O. W. Sears in the Indianapolis Journal envisions a sacred army encamped against peril. The speaker notes patient endurance, divine guidance, and a prophetic trumpet signaling fate, praising those who die willingly to follow God’s path as history’s high moments unfold.
A Gloucester boy named Davie, a navy petty officer in the Civil War, braved a shipboard fire by directing a hose into the smoky debris, collapsing from heat and smoke yet earning high praise and promotion. The note also recalls Gaza near the caravan route between Syria and Egypt.
A Chicago Chronicle note recounts a theatre episode where a refined young woman calmly rejects a rude man’s tardy apology. The scene shifts attention from the play to the improvised drama, contrasting courtesy with boorish behavior amid a crowd of onlookers.
Whittier held Abigail Dodge aka Gail Hamilton in high esteem and published letters between them. The series, printed for the first time in the Ladies' Rome Journal, includes a particularly charac teristic piece.
A late arrival interrupts the performance as a woman rises repeatedly for a man’s entrance and exit. In the final act a phantom of propriety breaks the moment, the man hurls a hat, the girl delivers a cultivated quip, and the fat spectator sits remorseful through the curtain.
A Philadelphia Post reprint discusses invention rivalry noting seven eighths of major devices faced litigation over priority. It cites the telephone case with Bell and contemporaries and recalls Joseph Chamberlain’s orchids monocle and Parliaments visit with Beaconsfield Carnarvon.
In ASG6 the writer recalls Amoskeag Veterans from New Hampshire and Massachusetts parading before his house with bands. Governor Smyth of New Hampshire and officers visited, prompting a grand salute. The narrator, a Quaker, felt pressured yet kept his hat lowered as a testimony.
An editor, faced by a famous general whose death had been reported, refuses to retract the statement. The editor hints that tomorrow the general’s name will appear in the births column, turning the demand into humor and calming the situation.
Across Europe multiple capitals maintain theaters with government support, except London. State funding supports repertories, national arts missions, and cultural services, keeping venues active in cities like Paris and Berlin while the British capital follows a different model.
The Sultan of Turkey rises at 6 each morning and spends six days a week in seclusion at the Yildiz Palace and gardens devoted to state matters. He appears rarely to the public, wearing a pale brown overcoat and red fez, with a wan face and thin beard. He has established 50,000 schools across his empire for both boys and girls.
A Philadelphia Inquirer anecdote describes a schoolteacher explaining that children act as barometers for imminent rain. She notes restless boys particularly signal approaching storms, while girls are less affected, ending with the remark that children have their uses.
The piece explains ossification from infancy to old age and how minerals deposit in tissues as the body stiffens. It attributes aging to mineral buildup and kidney strain, advising to avoid meat and favor fruit to prevent mineral deposits.
Ainslee's Magazine recounts Missouri's settlement by Tennessee mountaineers after the Osage treaty, noting rich soil and water that could have made a great commonwealth. It describes migration during the Civil War era, the freed slaves, and the enduring spirit that led Missourians to endure hardship and sacrifice to end serfdom.
A historical notice notes natural gas carried in bamboo tubes used in ancient China and a writer mentions boxes that repeat dead voices like a phonograph. The commentary warns readers to verify claims before investing and to hold firm to one’s stance as others bet on schemes.
A collage of comic exchanges and character sketches from Everyday life. Jokes range from a British soldier in Egypt with a rooster to a street beggar asking for help, and a conversation about a winter resort and a mailed love letter.
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