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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1900
Page
2
A five year old newsboy visits a barber shop, climbs into a chair, and tries to sell a paper to customers while navigating missing copies and trades with another newsboy. The scene ends as the barber finishes a shave and the shop crowd reacts.
Ian Maclaren writes in the North American Review on American progress and invention. He envisions a future where transportation and communication advance from trolley cars to steam cars, pneumatic tubes, stenography, telegraph, telephone, and wireless telegraphy enabling rapid global business. He notes Americans’ current impatience with idle feet while listening to the telephone and predicts future employment for feet in the coming age.
A design for a light framed truck with a single rubber wheel and basket aids letter carriers carrying heavy bags. A new reckoner uses paired circular pads to display quotients and multiplicands by rotating disks. Spectacles with separable temples fit a smaller case and reference-book paging devices use a curved-fingered metal slide to mark pages. A Michigan inventor combines dinner pail and lantern in one unit with separate lamp compartments. A film developer adds a tray, roller, and crank to process photographic rolls more easily.
The Andaman Islanders hold that the first human drowned and became a whale. His wife and grandchildren hunted in a boat when the whale tipped it, turning the wife into a crab and the children into lizards. They believe many animals are ancestral forms and that murderers are transformed into a two-pronged fish.
The New York Sun projects about fifteen million votes in November and analyzes factors behind the rise since 1888. It cites new states and suffrage expansions in Utah Colorado Idaho and discusses border-state shifts and multiple tickets boosting turnout.
The source notes that the estimated total vote for this year’s election is about 15 million, considering all factors. It emphasizes the optimism of observers in projecting turnout.
An elderly Maine man recalls subbing to a branch railroad stock, paying a large assessment, and losing the money with little to show for it. A passerby and local storekeeper discuss Yankee thrift, corruption fears, and a tale of nearly panicked fear when a Boston bank failure is misremembered as his own lost fortune. The tale ends with relief when no bills are found.
A Kansas City Star account describes South Missouri contractors employing many negroes to load railroad ties for the Memphis railway. The workers haul, balance, and carry ties up planks all day, earning about $3.50 daily. They sing or whistle during the routine, inspector scrutiny adds humor, and few save their earnings.
The article lists exact baggage limits for mounted officers in the South African war. Personal items include a whistle compass notebook water bottle clasp knife plus sword pistol and ammunition. On the saddle are many gear items with total weight capped at 7144 pounds. regimental transport limits to 25 pounds per officer packed in a bed valise with clothing linen boots and camp kitchen items.
An Indianapolis Press note mentions the Anti Superstition League opening its meeting tomorrow as a clerk replies the boss plans to raise coats from 12 to 13 dollars in large figures and place them in the window.
Official figures show more than 500000 tenement dwellers in Brooklyn and 31687 tenement houses. The data highlights widespread urban housing conditions in the city.
A Louisville Times anecdote uses a pharmacist and a deaf man over a prescription to illustrate disputed charges. The tale ends with the customer paying five cents and the pharmacist muttering in frustration about a supposed four cent Poe profit.
The Nickel Plate Road will run a Joemsseekers excursion to western and southern points on April 8 1900. Tickets on sale that date with return within 21 days at one fare plus 2 69 for round trip. For agents or address C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind.
In a lively exchange Brownn notes he warned Thompson against marrying Liss Ernot who is praised as charming yet deaf as a post. She reads lips so well that Thompson endures repeated wakeups to reassure about the crying baby, Life.
Homeseekers travel to western northwestern and southwestern points on March 24, 1900. Tickets on sale for one fare plus 2.00 round trip return within 71 days. See agents or contact C. Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind.
The article notes a remarkable phenomenon the singing shells on Batticaloa Lake in Ceylon. Arrangements were made for the Governor to hear the novelty and after dinner Sir West Ridgeway sailed the lake as the night was quiet and still, with the shells heard clearly.
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