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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
2
A collection of curious notes and vignettes from New York society and daily life. Highlights include a theatrical manager seeking a married chorus, discussions on health and fashion fads, anecdotes about loans, sparrows, and animals, plus humorous items about aging, marriage, and novelty inventions.
The piece surveys Kansas City court life as women learn law while hints touch on a new nickel design and its reception. It cites Sir George Hirdwood advising genarian status, musings on married women and institutions, a Connecticut laborer’s dig story, schooling debates, a label debate on imitation goods, German aging claims, naval oddities, rising costs in production, and a distant German aviation fund.
New York news recounts the Bowery's decline as a refuge for hustlers and fences. Despite lingering saloons and back rooms the dime museums and “dart game” pits falter, with cappers profiting no more and visitors scarce.
Rome reports a 1909 Italian law to safeguard artistic patrimony. An art dealer misrepresented a painting valued at 2600 dollars as a van Ruysdael, triggering a preemption buy for 2000 dollars and a later sale to a collector for 75000 dollars. The dealer bragged, was exposed as a fake, yet kept the profit.
Benjamin Lucky, a Birmingham circus attache, was to be sentenced for manslaughter when another man, James Gaughan, confessed to the crime. The district attorney accepted the confession, canceled the case, and Lucky was freed.
Eight year old Katherine Barrett is injured while en route to a doll hospital to have her doll's broken arm fixed. She tells workers she is fine and asks that the doll be cared for.
A dearth of operatives in Lancashire and Yorkshire mills grows from the growing dislike of factory dress. Girls reject clogs and shawls seen as unbecoming and compare favorably to shop and office workers who wear bright hats gloves and shoes. Managers discuss making mill work more attractive to deter foreign labor reliance.
North German Lloyd steamer Neckar from Bremen to Philadelphia deviates across Delaware Bay to avoid a herd of swimming deer heading toward the New Jersey shore. The crew reports the sight as the most unusual witnessed. the deer escaped hunters and reached the Jersey shore safely.
Twelve policemen cooperated to arrest H. Lorrie a one legged man in New York City and place him into a patrol wagon after he was apprehended.
The Keokuk dam on the Mississippi, a 0.9 mile concrete barrier with 119 arches, will supply over 200 000 horsepower from 30 turbine wheels. A grand complex includes a huge power house, a 40 foot lift lock, dry dock, ice fender, tracks, and riverfront structures, aiming to boost national and Pan American commerce.
The managing editor pressed the city editor about not printing Pounder's last night report on a man scattering money downtown. He doubted its truth, suspecting Pounder fabricated it. The city editor argued if true, Pounder would still be tracking the man.
A Boston woman visits a department store and asks a courteous floor walker for a small, silver thimble with a rounded top and perforated indentations. He directs her to the two counters at the rear.
A German survey shows an increasing number of people in the empire leaving the church or religious affiliation. The report highlights shifting beliefs and declining formal adherence amid social change and secular trends.
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