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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
3
Abigail Wray greets Miss Perceval, the lecturing woman, at the Wray home. Elihu Wray recalls the past as the two women confront old wounds and a rediscovered letter explains a family rift and a chance at happiness.
The piece portrays Miss Perceval smiling in a deep window seat with a daisy, and Abigail asking for a stepmother. Perceval suggests Abigail may have her way, and the world wonders at her marrying a quiet country farmer and retreat to the wilderness. The New York Ledger notes her happiness.
A proposed Lake St John Limited Privilege Club aims to secure 30 000 square miles of hunting and fishing rights in Canada with thousands of members mainly Americans. It will include trout and ouananiche waters, rivers up to 300 miles long, and two 1000 square mile game parks in Quebec stocked with moose elk caribou red deer foreign birds. Expenditure so far totals 400 900 dollars for rights hotels steamers and gear.
A farmer and an old English workman offer devout, memorable prayers. The farmer trusts God’s knowledge of needs during cattle disease, while the alms-house worker prays for virtue and calm in trials. A mill hand during Civil War era pleads for cotton but rejects Surat cotton.
A suburban London cook tells her mistress she recently married. She reveals her husband is a hotel chef and will be away on honeymoon in Jersey for about a fortnight, planning to stay with her current employer for now.
A humorous fragment from Tit-Bits depicts a barter over butter and sugar with a tall tale on witness stand caution. It mocks thrift and petty tricks, then pivots to riddled quips about eating feats and a cat’s nine lives and a girl’s singing overload.
A Chicago woman Mabel Burke shoots her deception lover at the Hotel St Anthony piano parlor and then kills herself after learning he was married. Burdened by childhood hardship and illness she pursued music and a career as stenographer and secretary before the fatal meeting with David J Wise.
A bronze statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant by Daniel Chester French and Edward C. Potter was unveiled in Fairmount Park Philadelphia under the Fairmount Park Arts Association. The 15 ft statue sits on a granite pedestal 15 ft 3⅔ in high with a five ton sculpture weighing 22 675 dollars 95 cents total.
Mrs William C Whitney a longtime New York society figure died at the Whitney country home on Long Island after a life as a prominent social leader. She married William C Whitney in 1896 and had two daughters with her first husband.
English herring fishermen are highly superstitious. Whistling on boats is forbidden and milk or burnt bread are not allowed aboard. The hare is taboo, a dead hare thrown into an enemy’s boat serves as a punishing omen, and luck is thought to favor crews with odd numbers unless a member has red hair.
Gases previously wasted from blast furnaces are being used to power gas engines. In Germany an experiment reports the neglected gas to be economical and satisfactory, costing little to secure.
A Elizabeth New Jersey schoolgirl died from blood poisoning after a playful blow to her arm on her birthday. The incident, tied to a jokey prank, sparked discussions on respect and recurring tales of troubles among women.
Theodore Steiner eight, son of the hotel owner, dashed into a Blazing San Bruno Hotel to save a two year old child left in an upper room. He vanished in smoke and flames and reappeared carrying the baby just as the walls buckled, saving a life at the cost of his own danger.
Paper mills in Bavaria protest a Sunday work ban arguing water power is unreliable. They say using strong Sunday currents is essential to avoid losing time. Authorities weigh suspending the law for paper mills.
The document traces the expression to the whistle tankard of olden times. When the tankard was emptied the whistle signaled the waiter that more liquor was needed, linking the phrase to a cleared out vessel and prompt service.
A historical note observes that twenty four Indiana governors lie in unmarked graves, though in life they were prominent figures and marked men of their era.
A brief dialogue shows Manford questioning love while Sanford notes the girl belittling others. The scene shifts to a broader remark on neighborhood chatter about people who borrow excessively and become the subject of talk.
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