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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1900
Page
2
Hall Caine in the Home Journal meditates on a majestic oak as ruler of the wood. The poem contrasts vast life cycles and storms with the tree’s fall leaving a barren clearing in the dell.
In Platteville Nebraska a stubborn prospector Barden endures a decade of drilling for coal while his young lovers Walt and Laura plan their wedding. A dream of a diamond drill inspires hope, but fate and frost thwart the coal wish and a deed secures a future home.
The phonograph is emerging as a tool for political orators, letting candidates reach electors from home or through an agent. It offers benefits for popular and unpopular candidates by delivering recorded views, gathering audience feedback, and letting the candidate respond without personal attendance. Frederick John Dornimen, M. P. for Falmouth and Penrhyn, is noted as the only English MP to use this method to date.
In scorching heat about 500 farmers from Monmouth and Ocean counties gathered at Wreck Pond between Sea Girt and Spring Lake for Salt Water Day. Caravans served as bathhouses while women wore calico wrappers and men wore overalls. Vendors offered three card monte shell games and cane and ring. there were light fights as guests from Asbury Park Long Branch and Set Girl joined the event before dusk.
A Chambers Journal note extols the onion as appetizing in raw and fried forms. It highlights pickled onions for cold meats and fish, vinegar aging, and the fried bulb for rich gravies colored by caramelin from carbon in onion and sugar. The piece discusses flavor, aroma, and culinary versatility.
Eight Russian detectives from the international service trail the empress dowager during her return visit to Russia. Four detectives take position at Fredensborg and four at Copenhagen, reversing long held custom at the czar's command.
A great auk egg, from the extinct water bird once common near Iceland and Newfoundland, sold at Stevens London for 1678 dollars after spirited bidding. The piece notes the bird's history, its flightless nature, and the high value of skins and eggshells to museums and advertisers.
Sister Alice O Sullivan a Syracuse resident and member of the Sisters of Charity was killed at Tien Tsin China during a massacre of nuns. Born December 1 1836 in Clonmel Ireland she joined the order at twenty and served in France Shanghai and Tien Tsin before her brutal death. The Protestant chaplain Rev Charles Butcher called her sacrifice an act of humanity and memory of the community in Shanghai and by many in Ireland.
The article notes a decade long effort to promote American corn in Europe and reports exports exceeding 200 million bushels last year. Europe accounts for eight to nine tenths of shipments, with Britain Germany France Belgium Denmark and Holland as major buyers. Corn is mainly used for animal feed, with some brewing distilling and food production.
Army and Navy Journal recalls Commander James W. Carlisle of the Vandalia at Apia Samoa during the 1889 storm. He saved a drowning mouse by gently tipping out water from a basin, saying the bravest are the tenderest.
Jean de Bloch a Warsaw financier and political economist publishes The death by own action of Nations arguing military science progress makes war impossible except at the cost of the warring nations lives.
Dr Parker, renowned London Congregationalist preacher and City Temple pastor, announces plans to retire next year at age seventy after weighing the loss of his third wife last year.
Since 1894 nearly 350 men living in Bremerhaven Germany have died in shipwrecks or fires at sea.
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