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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1912
Page
6
The will provides that during Edwin C Well’s lifetime, the mother will maintain the property as a home for him and manage it according to her orders so he may fully enjoy and benefit from it for as long as he lives.
Katherine Lee Doyle Barringer, wife of Walter M Barringer, left her husband nothing in her 100000 estate and instead bequeathed to her longtime sweetheart, Mr Weil, a home at Deal Beach New Jersey. Weil could not marry due to faith but loved Kitty deeply. Doyle later married Walter M Barringer.
A widow dies of pneumonia on April 23 at Deal Beach after a five month marriage. Her will names No. 3 West Eighty-third Street, delegating a Deal Beach property to her mother and Mr. Weil for life, with most assets to Mrs. Barringer’s mother and two uncles, a cousin, and a maid receiving specified sums. The will also mentions Kate Well’s past romance, with Well and others recalling the long-ago connection.
A survey of authorial toil cites Livingstone preferring another expedition over writing a book. It notes Owen examining over 150 volumes on South American black population and Longfellow revising a four week draft for six months. Other writers like Bulwer Tennyson Gibbons Clark Carlisle and Eliot are described for lengthy rewrites and preparatory reading.
A Century Magazine writer extols Christopher Carson as the West’s foremost frontier figure who preferred modesty. In 1862 at Maxwell's ranch on the Cimarron River a high ranking Army officer boasted about Carson driving Indians away, to which Carson replied that sometimes they were running after him.
The Downs News quotes a pure food department expert in Washington noting scientists differ on the exact decay moment. They offer a vivid test: an egg is bad when it explodes like a cannon cracker or its breath oddly imitates a ward politician after an election, and when its interior no longer preserves its party solidarity or its surrounding atmosphere recalls a political probe.
Fragmentary dialogue places emphasis on two men Eben says are wasteful with energy while Angton Star notes ease of finding fault in a remark. No clear events or identifications emerge.
Charles Beale, a French chef at the Union Depot Pennsylvania Railroad restaurant in Pittsburg, died by electrocution while using an electric needle on his chest as part of a beauty routine. Authorities question whether the death was accidental or for notoriety as Beale’s body showed female fashion shaping with corsets, stockings, and pads. Police found beauty lotions and numerous female attire items in his rooms along with portraits of women.
Hazleton police officer John Brill pursued an old debt claim against William F. Cantner, former Freeland Central hotel proprietor. Brill swore out a warrant for gambling device operation, confiscated two slot machines from Cantner’s Freeland hotel, brought them back to Hazleton, and collected $14.
John Watson of Atlantic City fasted 46 days to drop weight and weighed 114 pounds after a final 4 meals. He sought hospital aid after visiting detective headquarters and consulting doctors who advised fasting. He then entered Philadelphia hospital for treatment.
A six year old boy named Henry Fried ran into a street hole in Allentown while playing tag. Israel Miller's car struck the boy but the sinkhole spared him by allowing the wheel to pass away from serious harm. The hole’s existence has caused disputes and a looming lawsuit over who should fill it.
Judge Dyer of St Louis mocked an old Pike County tale during a federal case against Pike County Mineral Springs. Assistant U S D A Charle H Daves said the firm shipped unwholesome mineral water. The judge noted the springs lie near a cemetery where many of Dr Reynolds patients are buried and joked the bitter taste came from quinine. The company was fined ten dollars and costs.
In Orange New Jersey three boys under ten stole sixteen sticks of dynamite from an open box car. Patsy Zullo Edward Kelly and Johnny Martin from Sherman Street tried to feed the dynamite to a cat and to shine their shoes with it. Adults were outraged by the dangerous antics and the misused explosive was stopped in time.
Monkeys that escaped Boyd Memorial Park evade capture still at large in San Rafael. They overpowered residents and drew in the Park Commission with a $20 reward and baited traps. Linemen and officials tried to catch them as decoys and traps are set to recapture the primates.
Boston report: Agostina Levanzin, after a 31 day starvation test at the Carnegie nutrition laboratory, staggered into a newspaper office begging for food and shelter. He was to receive 400 dollars for the experiment but was turned out penniless.
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