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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
1
The Ethnology building at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, to run May 1 to November 1, 1901, will showcase race origins and relations and provide North and South American exhibits. Peru plans to display Peruvian antiquities from American museums to highlight its section.
In the annual readjustment of presidential postmasters pay the offices of Columbia City Garrett LaGrange Nappanee Plymouth South Whitley Walkerton Waterloo Warsaw and Ligovier saw increases or decreases. Separately a tale describes a young man discovering a solitaire diamond ring the girl has worn long before he proposed, triggering a shell game feeling of uncertainty.
Fred Tegtmyer a freight conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad was killed near Warsaw after leaving the Warsaw to engine area he was run over by the train. His body was found near Etna Green and later taken to Warsaw. He had worked fourteen years for the company and lived in Fort Wayne awaiting an upcoming marriage to a prominent Allen county heiress.
The article warns that cannons and firecrackers are dangerous and resemble earsplitting devices. It notes that such items will be used despite advice and warnings, with small boys and reckless youths most likely to ignite them.
Fred W. Kemp, the Steubenville postmaster in Steuben county, has been jailed at Angola due to mental instability. He believes his wife is the Virgin Mary and that he is the Almighty, with the sheriff as Christ.
A Thursday night cloudburst drenched Indiana with fifteen hours of torrential rain. Flooding submerged corn fields and stranded livestock, while the Wabash River overflowed, inundating land opposite Wabashtown. A Big Four line washout near Treaty Station–La fontaine wrecked rail with sixteen cars. Passenger trains rerouted. crews rebuilt the track by Monday morning. A freight crew escaped injury.
The writer critiques a recent amnesty proclamation for Filipinos, arguing it lacks a clear U S policy toward the islands and may fail to win over leaders or the populace. It suggests the move resembles a political bid post the Philadelphia convention rather than genuine pacification.
Rear-Admiral Kempff's dispatch cites an assault on Tientsin by about 400 American marines and 1,600 Russians repulsed. Chinese regulars join defense, signaling possible action toward Pekin. Foreign troops at Pekin numbered under 800 with magazine rifles and modern artillery.
A satirical poem compares a politician to a misleading shepherd who promises favors during campaigns. It depicts bribes, saloons, cigars, and beer as rewards while warning that the voter’s loyalty fades when faced with the politician’s true face. The speaker laments being misled.
A Logansport find sends a rare 1826 patent deed bearing President John Quincy Adams signature to Indianapolis for state museum vaulting. The document conveys land along the Wabash to Benjamin Simons who never recorded it, a relic unusual for its binding to Adams.
A child born five weeks ago to Mrs Lllenry Marshall near Elk Hart had a second head attached to the neck. The extra head was removed after three days, revealing brains similar to the other head. The infant showed rapid physical development, but observers doubt whether mental progress will keep pace.
The Albion Democrat defends press honesty noting editors publish items that offend some readers. It says editors face pressure from both friends and enemies and will correct justified errors when approached, though they cannot be easily frightened into changing content.
A solid train load of leaf tobacco traveled north over the Big Four recently. The cargo came from Cincinnati and was consigned to a Chicago firm. Twenty eight cars carried the "filthy weed."
A woman writer in an Eastern magazine criticizes modern women's living and dress. She links corsets and poor cooking to weak children and warns that home decline leads to vice and national ruin. The piece urges food reform dress reform temperance morality and strong home life to save civilization.
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