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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1900
Page
6
An editorial mix notes photography myths and weather signs, critiques beauty ads, and urges education and Cuban mission work from census data. It also reports a Paris tragedy involving M Muret and Georgette Brunet, and a Baltimore voter eligibility dispute for Porto Ricans claiming U S citizenship and voting rights.
The eighty fourth annual report of the American Bible Society states total issues for 1899 1900 reached 1 406 801 copies with 32 497 distributed outside the United States. Over half were produced at the Bible House New York while many others were printed in China Japan Syria and Turkey.
Rejane the actress seeks to protect her name from a dressmaking firm calling itself Mme. Rejane. She has written to newspapers and may pursue court action. The proprietorship question is murky since none of the partners share Rejane’s name, though she had legally been Gabrielle Reju before becoming Mine. Porei.
Doctors urge patients to seek Helgoland for relief from their ailments. They note coastal islands offer immunity or relief, with land breeze helping many sufferers. For some, happiness lies in being twelve miles from a sneeze, highlighting seasonal relief finds.
The number of French army deserters has grown markedly to around 7000 this year. Colonial and foreign legions lead, aided by escapes from prisons. light Algerian infantry and sharpshooters show the highest rates, with artillery regiments following. The War Ministry notes foreign agents may incite such desertions, some possibly among Lord Roberts’s South African forces.
A London Chronicle correspondent notes the Paris exhibition fails to draw Anglo visitors as anti British press bias hurts French seaside towns. Dieppe residents grumble over season results while French visitors stay steady and English tourist numbers drop to about thirty percent of the five year average. Prof Kolthoff, back from Greenland with musk oxen, cites acclimation prospects in north Sweden and says the animals are easily pleased, likening them to goats.
A Cornish Maine shop experiences recurring spring and fall burglaries. Each raid steals a complete outfit of clothing shoes and hat. The annual visitation has just taken place.
At military maneuvers in Brighton an armored bicycle for infantry is shown. A Harveyized steel plate protects the front wheel allowing firing from 300 to 350 yards. Machine guns mounted on cycle carriages guard Piecombe street and Patcham as volunteers move guns to a summit forming a mobile rifle screen.
In Forest and Stream inspired tale, hunter J W Hyde explains why turkeys evade hunters. He notes turkeys possess keen vision yet fall for simple cues such as a hat brim movement or a finger near a mosquito. The anecdote ends with a night spent at Hyde's camp after a day of unsuccessful hunting.
An English vicar at Wembley cemetery bans the word died on gravestones. He favors phrases such as departed this life or passed away and says died denies Christian teaching of immortality.
A brief reflective note quotes Richter on loving all mankind and the need for suffering to understand life and ourselves, emphasizing a cheerful state of being as a goal. The passage links empathy, life, and inner insight in concise aphorism form.
An explorer in South Africa finds natives playing croquet and hearing of a Ferris wheel. With Uganda railway access into the interior, Mombasa natives copy the wheel design for a communal celebration and it becomes the centerpiece of the holiday.
A vivid portrayal of Cullaghmore Ireland where mud-walled cabins line the main road and tenants endure poverty with little hope for improvement. The piece contrasts harsh living with a nostalgic sense of home and critiques life away from Ireland.
Kentucky figure Caleb Powers faced a long Goebel murder case with thirteen conspirators named in court records. He was nominated on June 13, 1899, arraigned July 13, 1900, defended by thirteen lawyers, and his sweetheart served as the thirteenth witness, amid evidence of 1,300 soldiers ready to defend him and large sums tied to mountaineers and his flight.
An estimate places the global total of railway locomotives at one hundred thousand in the current period. This figure reflects broad industry data and highlights the scale of rail infrastructure worldwide.
At Saratoga many women weighing 175 to 200 pounds crowd the Grand Union and other hotels. Guests remark the season features bold dress and heavy-set style with ample diamonds and turquoise. An actress notes the appeal and seeks the dressmaker behind the noted look.
Berlin faces a reward bill exceeding 1,000,000 for rescuing foreigners from Pekin during the relief. German officers and men are urged to receive the payout, though American, British, Japanese and Russian troops were first to reach the capital.
A New York editor staged a front page charity stunt sending impoverished tenement children to Coney Island for a week of forced warmth and activity. A country reporter drove the effort, but the plan collapsed as island residents attacked him and the paper paid medical bills to hush the affair.
Lieut William Weaver of the Thirty second United States volunteers reports Philippine atrocities by Filipinos against American soldiers. He cites six killed at Dinalupijan with many bullet wounds and bayonet stabbings, and two named soldiers Harry Easter and McDonald shot and left exposed as rebels stripped and burned bodies.
An elderly African American man rounds doctors claiming two hearts and ability to move his hearts into the abdomen. No evidence of two hearts or aneurysm. He rehearses maneuvers causing a pulsatile abdominal swelling, audible via stethoscope and with tympanic percussion.
A compact rhythm device aims to mirror the character and rate of a human heartbeat. Its prominence lies in producing a rhythmic vibration that closely imitates the pulsation of a beating heart.
A Philadelphia Record column quotes a spruce street doctor predicting a new fashion wave the bare headed man. He argues cooler weather will popularize hatless styles to save hair and reduce headaches, saying men wear hats too much and sun exposure could curb baldness and stress.
A Poplar Bluff fisherman found the first pearl in an ordinary mussel on a Black river shoal and sold it to a St. Louis jeweler for $125. Since then hundreds have flocked to the Black and St Francois rivers in southwest Missouri to pearl fish, yielding many gems mostly white with faint tints and sizes from a grain of wheat to a pez.
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