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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1900
Page
6
The Claypool Reporter prints A A Mendiss urging readers to do right without heed to others. It notes a French plan to erect a Waterloo field monument for fallen soldiers and muses on women telling their age.
A reflective line compares ideas forming quietly, like water seeping between rocks in the Alps and slowly loosening the mountains they rest upon. The metaphor links thought to natural change and enduring landscapes.
The advance report shows an increase of 2300 communicants over last year and total contributions averaging $15 per member. This reflects growing church membership and steady per capita giving across the congregation.
Quote reflects on governance as the hardest trade yet critiques self‑appointed rulers. The speaker notes that all people presume expertise in government despite lacking formal training, contrasting humility in learning with overconfidence in public service.
A Paris newspaper advert lampoons marriage by showing a young man seeking guidance from an aged, wise gentleman to deter him from marrying. The witty line highlights cynicism about matrimony and social norms in the era.
At the executive committee meeting of the National Association of Street Railway Employes in Detroit Michigan the president was instructed to draft a plan to assess local unions to raise funds to buy automobiles for use by street railway workers in cities where strikes are active.
The Lake Shore Railroad lays groundwork for a pension plan for long serving workers aged retirement. It would resemble the Pennsylvania system with a lump sum nucleus and a pension fund grown by a 1 percent tax on monthly wages. The British nonconformist church federation grows with 1600 delegates at Sheffield fifth annual council.
The Home Office in London reports world mineral production for the last year, with the United States far ahead at about 720 million dollars. Great Britain follows at roughly 400 million, and Germany ranks third with nearly 250 million in total output.
During the Shah of Persia’s visit to Brussels, minors exploited his fondness for children. A boy asked for a bicycle and a doll for another child. gifts were provided, prompting the Persian legation to be besieged on the visit’s final day as youths received various offerings.
Emperor William of Germany intends to build a Berlin Pantheon near the imperial residence to house illustrious dead. Lacking legislative funds he announces raising 6,000,000 dollars via a colossal lottery to finance the project.
Engineers plan to move a six story brick and stone hotel in Boston without dismantling it. The swampy ground will be surrounded by 780 piles to support 1000 jacks that will raise the building before it is shifted 42 feet to a new site.
The article contrasts disciplinary practices for misbehaving boys in China and the United States. It describes cangues, bamboo switches, and public shaming in China, alongside reform schools in the U S. It notes teachers’ use of rulers and canes, and boatside punishments for boating families.
The excerpt describes extreme Chinese parental discipline, including beating with bamboo, chaining, and denying pork. It contrasts how punishment in China, even for older youths, differs from American norms, noting harsh penalties for parricide and societal punishments that follow such crimes. It also cites a Hong Kong article about an elder woman punishing her son for drinking and opium use.
The article sketches rural discipline in Canton with a son decapitated for mistreating a mother and students barred from exams. It contrasts Chinese boyhood pastimes with American ones and notes enduring maternal affection. It then surveys international bread practices from Mexico to Kamchatka and Iceland, including insect eggs bread and Iceland mold flour.
The Chinese minister to France, Yu-Keng, lives in a luxury home near the Arc de Triomphe. He has traveled widely in France, married an American woman, and is six years old yet has served his country since youth. He fought under General Gordon in 1864 and, of Manchu descent, rose quickly at court.
The note states that no military parade or drill is lawful on election day in New York except during war, riot, invasion, or insurrection.
The piece notes a new fad the girl with the cane appearing in Chicago New York and the east west. It shares broader notes on smallpox declines in Europe and population ages in Spain Italy and elsewhere. It also covers Brooks Adams on global financial power shifts and cooperative railways in Victoria Australia.
The San Francisco Call reports on barber chair omens affecting luck, noting beliefs that single stroke lathers bring misfortune, chairs vacated by a black man bring cuts, mirrors show death, red headed barbers cure rheumatism, and repeated shaving on one side brings luck. Also cited are cues like not crossing legs, towel drops, chin first shaving, multiple razors, and breakfast shaving as luck enhancers.
Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer extols college education for girls highlighting four years as healthier than domestic life, later marriage as beneficial for mothers and children, and college-trained women as responsible contributors across diverse communities from farms to city charities. She says choice to attend college depends on individual conditions, but college shapes a well rounded life and character.
Goethe argues that humor reflects an inward sense of lacking merit and self dissatisfaction.
The article describes campaign demonstrations from 1840 to 1880, noting miniature fog cabins on wagons for Harrison, pioneers and prairie schooners for Fremont, rail-splitters for Lincoln, and the Hartford origin of the Wide Awake clubs. It highlights the rise of anti-Lincoln parades and the vast 1880 westward processions with 50,000+ participants, and notes the Western origin of most major clubs.
The year saw American railroads haul about 1,000,600,000 tons of freight with coal leading at 95,000,000 tons of hard coal and 200,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. Grain totaled 60,006,000 tons, lumber 63,000,900 tons, and ore 60,000,000 tons while stone and sand reached 35,060,000 tons.
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