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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1898
Page
3
A meditation on purging hate through compassion as the speaker reconciles with a former foe. The verse contrasts violent aims with a transformative act of kindness that heals both parties and brightens the speaker’s conscience.
Diego Domingues y Agramonte recounts a tale of love, flight, and guilt that leads him to seek refuge with the Mission San Pedro fathers. Through confession, labor, and a vow, he earns redemption and becomes El Padre Triste, until a midnight rescue and a rekindled bond with Maria reverse his fate.
Dr. A Donaldson Smith reports from Swaikot on the Indian frontier that Afridis picket hills to deter attacks while secretly tampering with telegraph lines. He recalls a night raid in which dynamite was hidden but the fuse cut, and notes Afridi sarcasm after disturbing English sentries.
A London Zoological Society python, just over twenty feet long, died in the reptile house. The female Indian python in captivity is the longest about eighteen feet, challenging popular myths about lengths and captioned pictures in old geographies. The London specimen, from Malacca, lived twenty years in England and fed mainly on ducks, sometimes four to five at a time, and sometimes went a month without eating. It will be mounted for the Tring Museum.
An elderly horse named Bawley, once ridden by a mail rider in West Virginia, now pensioned in Kentucky, famously consumes massive meals daily. Colonel Andrew Yates recounts the animal's diet of hay, corn, bran, oats, bread, meat, and fruit, plus notable feats like emptying a hog trough and narrowly recovering after a jam incident.
The wealthiest princess is Crown Princess Louise Josephine of Sweden and Norway, tied by heritage to the Crown Prince of Denmark.
John R. Proctor details Kentucky’s limestone plateau and the Green River valley, noting hundreds of sink holes and caverns, some extending thousands of miles of underground channels. He cites Edmonson County’s Mammoth Cave and the sandstone cap protecting large caves.
A medical note explains sprains can exceed fractures in severity for joints such as the ankle knee elbow and wrist. It details degrees from minor wrench to ligament tears and possible rupture of joint membranes with fluid leakage.
A Century excerpt by John Sidney Webb describes Alaska settlements along the Yukon with stores, native huts, and sled dogs. It notes the cache as a central feature to protect supplies from dogs and the environment, and questions the fate of mission children amid frontier life.
The Phoenix city fountain in Arizona yielded an unexpected finding when cleaned out. Many goldfish births appeared in the basin with fully formed offspring already swimming. others were tiny globular forms with visible eyes and tails. No eggs were found, and specimens were sent to experts including the Smithsonian Institution.
A humorous sea tale recounts a whale awakened from sleep by a passing vessel. On a sunny afternoon aboard the Vancouver the whale leaped from the water, causing guests to rush to the rail while an infant asked if the whale jumped into the eating window.
A traveler notes a curious practice where a widow who remarries must cut off the joint of a finger to give to her new husband on her wedding day. Each time she widows again she sacrifices another finger joint.
A fragment describes a remarkable plant with a root formed of knots that allegedly advances about an inch, suggesting movement to a new location. The readable text hints at the plant’s travel behavior and its original site.
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