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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
6
A former aide recalls Ulysses S. Grant’s legendary horsemanship from boyhood to Civil War campaigns. Stories recount Cortez and Garland, Belmont rescues, and Grant’s calm daring on battlefield and after, highlighting his steady leadership and lasting legacy.
A biased 19th century account portrays Chinese justice as cruel and methodical with flogging bamboo, blood loss, and slow torture via cages. It emphasizes a simple, callous brutality observed in courts and corporal punishments across China.
A historical account describes the cangue device a fifty pound collar with a sharp rim that maims over weeks. It details ling-chee crucifixion, slow slicing with swords, and prolonged mistreatment using pits, snakes, hunger, and thirst to cause death.
In Indiana a busy roundup reports injuries and deaths across counties. Adam Bruce’s 7-year-old son loses a foot in a cutting incident near Aurora. A gas well near Gwynneville hits 960 feet. Finance moves include a Gaston bank push and a county fair revival in Huntington.
A newspaper proprietor visits President Lincoln in high dudgeon after his editor is arrested. Lincoln declines interference, jokes about restraint, and writes the release order, freeing the journalist. The scene ends with humor and a rare moment of press liberation.
A Scientific American writer explains that bell tones come from the ring of metal on the bell flange just back from the edge. Bell-founders adjust this ring’s thickness and dimensions to impart a specific tone, planning these measurements in advance.
R C Gill, superintendent of models in the patent office at Washington, oversees about 400000 models of United States inventions granted during a period of something over a hundred years. The man who always speaks the truth is sure to have other virtues. All is not gold that glitters. Sometimes it is a diamond.
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