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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1898
Page
3
A nostalgic scene recalls a mother lost to winter, the speaker and a child recalling the mother’s beauty and warmth. The child sits with the speaker beside burning logs as they list her blue eyes and remember the mother resting beneath the snow on the hill.
In Alphonse Daudet’s tale a Paris precocious boy Stenne with his soldier father endures siege life near the Temple. The boy secretly visits the Prussian camp, glimpses harsh war, and is moved by a moment of generosity from soldiers. The father, upon learning the truth, returns the prize money to the givers and vanishes with the troops.
A civil engineer recalls sleeping rough in Arizona with a colleague. They lay on coats when a rattlesnake alarmed them at midnight. The man awoke first, shouting about a rattler under his coat, prompting a tense scramble.
Readers find notes on silk and sheer fabrics for women in the Home Journal. Patterns and dress ideas highlight delicate textures and elegant trims for the season.
The article discusses dangers of improper footwear, praising medium heels with proper arch support to avoid strain on the feet. It also notes dramatic, sensational anecdotes about women and insurgents, including improvised weapons and disguises, reflecting period fears and sensationalism.
An American relief worker in New York argues that trained nurses would greatly aid the U S Army and Navy. He notes England established a training school nearly twenty years ago and Queen Victoria founded Netley Hospital after Florence Nightingale's Crimea work. Nurses there wear uniforms and serve worldwide, responding to plagues and battlefields. He hopes the United States will create a similar corps.
The passage offers beauty tips against wrinkles using ammonia in soft water with oatmeal, elderflower borax and eau de cologne. It discusses facial massage technique, olive oil use, and a fashion description of a Ladies jacket with Heliotrope cloth, braids, and velvet trims. It also notes cycling skirts and summer fabrics with lace trimming and embroidered outfits.
A fragmented report describes a 1 foot diameter candy beam exhibit from a Paris demonstration, with references to a $10,000 board action and polished optical glass components. The account mentions Sandy Hook and a Wet Id 2 site, plus 55 volt current and interchanged interconnections.
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