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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
6
A Baltimore park board forbids automobiles in all public parks and pleasure places under its control. The note cites safety and preservation concerns as the reason for the ban.
A gentleman reports an experiment on spiders watching a tuning fork. He noted a reaction by the spiders to the sound, describing his observations in Public Opinion. The piece hints at behavioral responses to auditory stimuli in arachnids.
A shopper quarrels with a shop assistant over an engagement calendar. The man insists the calendar is useless to a young woman who has never before been engaged and warns that any man claiming otherwise would have to fight him. He storms out before the assistant recovers.
In Southern France a tour group hears a Boston newspaper joke about a found glove ad. The clue asks the owner to leave the other glove, puzzling the English clergyman who misses the point that the ad helps locate the lost item.
A giant crustacean sixty two centimeter diameter with yard long claws was caught a mile from shore in the Indian Ocean and is now housed in the Calcutta Zoological Society aquarium. It devours fifty fellow crustaceans in hours and emits milky phosphorescent rays each evening drawing naturalists from afar.
Statistics show the United States and Russia together produce about 120 million barrels of petroleum annually, with non‑US, non‑Russian nations increasing output to lift world production to roughly 150 million barrels. Russia's output is constrained by limited development and transport. It ends with a reflective contrast about human virtue.
A portrait of Tsi An, later Empress Dowager, tracing her rise from a Canton slave girl to ruler of China over 300 million people. The piece covers her early life, ascent, control during the regencies, and impact on the Qing court amid Boxer disturbances. It also notes the political mobilization of Republican and Democratic committees to reach voters with literature and arguments on issues like imperialism.
A political memo stresses disciplined national and state committee coordination. It notes some states are hopelessly antagonistic and not worth a real fight, while decisive contests will occur in doubtful states to determine overall victory after nomination.
The account recalls a transport master in the last Sudan expedition who slept through a desert march after removing his helmet and belt. He awoke to find the caravan gone and, after chasing the trail, met a camel and driver returning to search for a lost article rather than him.
An old chief hears a case of a young man failing to honor a promise to a squaw. He denies undefinable attentions and gifts. The judge decrees a symbolic punishment of a yellow feather a nose brooch and dozen coon skins, prompting the squaw to cheer ready for court again.
A veteran Irish servant recalled a battle in India with stark humor. He described the advance and a rider falling, his pistol firing to kill his own horse. When asked what haunted him most, he replied that of all, the bullets missing him struck him most.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote raises concern over a demand to halt a pattern of abusive language within a family. The remark contrasts with calls to avoid creating or tolerating disrespectful or harmful terms.
In Chicago the minister’s sermon did not align with his scripture and he appeared to forget his notes. An observation notes that pitting a man by appealing to his wife is a cheap manipulation.
Recent finds at Bosco Reale near Naples unveil a buried wine and oil household. A self-contained villa held a private bath, cistern for rainwater, and a wine reservoir. In the Vesuvius eruption autumn, a family sought refuge with silver plate, gold coins, a dog, horses, and poultry perishing in the toxic gas. At nearby Vona villa archeologists uncover a grand peristyle with twenty frescoes, including Epicurus, banquet scenes, a lyre player, and a gladiator figure, now at risk from light exposure.
Gen Merriam reports Lake Chelan in Washington State is a narrow, long chasm with cliffs 1500 to 2000 feet high. The lake averages 3000 feet deep, ranges 1.5 to 2 miles wide, and measures about sixty five miles in length when traced from head to end by boat and return.
A San Francisco Examiner description notes a lake carved by ancient glaciers cutting a narrow, deep basin through mountains with a substantial moraine at its foot.
A crowded approach to Senators Platt and Fairbanks leads to a clash when the clerk refuses further courtesies. A throng of visitors prompts a blunt exchange as Senator Hoar of Massachusetts quietly observes. The clerk apologizes, and the senator notes the rudeness could be acceptable if directed at the President.
A collage of witticisms and anecdotes features Senator Hoar on reading, Spurgeon at Mentone, a Colorado millionaire and Whistler, Sir Robert Finlay on a mare’s age, Hans von Bülow and a fan, and pupils debating party loyalties.
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