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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1900
Page
6
The Claypool Reporter notes a local cynicism with promises and postponement. It reports a Denver claim that one million dollars was wagered on the presidential election result. The column contrasts a minister and a lawyer with a fickle politician. It also describes paper money’s premium at home and miners paying above face value for it.
Sunday laws are strictly enforced in Honolulu with saloons and bars closed and stores forbidden to sell. Those who play ball or engage in any sport on Sunday are brought before a magistrate to pay a fine or face jail.
Svred¢n experiences a manufacturing boom that pulls thousands from rural areas to larger towns. Rents rise 20 to 30 percent as many manufacturers overinvest, leaving many in distress and a crisis threat looms.
Rail line officials warn that robberies are frequent on the western lines and plan to invest in bloodhounds. A litter of puppies has been distributed to agents along the route, ordered to rear them for the purpose of tracking and catching thieves.
Raphael Dubois, a French chemist, discovers a method to nourish phosphorescent animalcules in glass vessels. The organisms emit light as bright as the moon and he plans to increase the intensity. He believes the light is free from heat and may have scientific value.
The year shows a record surplus exceeding 2 009 600 over expenditure. Public debt stands at 47 000 009 pounds, about 228 715 000 dollars, and a further loan of 1 000 000 pounds, roughly 4 866 000 dollars, is urged mainly for railway expansion. Parliament is expected to authorize the loan.
Two of the old English cannons seized from the French in 1745 and dumped in Louisbourg harbor have been retrieved by divers and purchased by the government. The nine foot long, over 3000 pound cannons lay 150 years at the sea bottom before their recovery.
A Lyons France firm exploits shortened cotton fibers under caustic potash to emboss silk webs. Cotton threads at fixed distances shrink while silk maintains length, creating tiny folds and diverse patterns in the finished fabric.
A woman climbed the tack platform as the Roosevelt train left Greeley Colorado to offer a home made cake to the governor. The train’s momentum forced her to swing off in a flying trapeze move into the sand. She rolled, rose smiling at Roosevelt and waved a handkerchief to cheers from onlookers.
The Philadelphia Record notes a scene at a bankruptcy petition where two Quakers, a creditor and debtor, reconcile as they shake hands and discuss repayment. It also reports Pan-American Exposition costs at 10 million dollars with 6 million in sight, a 5000-strong work force, a 3 million midway, and grounds 350 acres opening May 1 1901.
A picture shows a Chinese military band frightening foreign soldiers with drums horns and blasts. The article mocks ancient tactics and recounts incidents in Shansi involving Empress Dowager Li Hongzhang and anticlimactic warfare. It weaves in anecdotes about river justice disputes and animal hunts among Pegu people.
The Hartford Courant in 1777 was owned edited and managed by a woman known in history as the Widow Watson. Her role as editor marks a rare early example of female leadership in American newspaper publishing.
The camel back arch design, common in China, spans streams that dry in heat and flood in rains. A near Yang Chow bridge illustrates the pattern, noted for withstanding centuries’ freshets. The text also mentions Mrs. Watson, first woman editor in the country, after her Hartford marriage.
A female hunter recounts killing Mrs Emma Tweddell and describes accompanying her husband through Cashmir to Little Tibet in search of ibex. She details waiting in cold, crawling to within a hundred yards, firing at a white-horned animal, missing, and feeling the sport’s fascination.
A historical note claims women held superior rights in China and fought in wars. It cites the 1850 rebellion where women fought as men and a 1853 Nanking campaign where 8.5 million women formed brigades of 13 000 under female officers, with 10 000 selected soldiers.
In Morbihan Brittany a giant stone effigy called the Black Venus sits in a forest. Bretons worship it for weather and harvest powers though it predates Christianity, having survived two attempted sea sacrifices and an 18th century relocation by Count Pierre de Lannion.
The article notes corn stalks can be fully used by shredding into fine fodder for cattle and sheep. Machines convert stalks into silage and hay alternatives, reducing fattening costs and enabling year round feeding.
When Master Ralph Fitch traveled in Burma over three centuries ago he found a court tactic that tickled him. The text notes a plan for settling lawsuits used at that time and its humorous appeal.
A survey of thirty nine German waiter associations asked if fees help or hinder wages. Fourteen answered yes and twenty five said no, indicating mixed views on the effect of fees on earnings.
In this discussion a New Orleans Times-Democrat piece compares cosmic scales using Herschel’s model with a two foot sun and planets as seeds. It contrasts solar system sizes with interstellar distances, notes the immutability of constellations over millennia, and ponders planetary lifetimes and habitable conditions.
The last living great auk’s eye, an extinct bird’s remains, fetched 1678 pounds at Stevens' London auction after a spirited bidding. Historical notes trace the bird’s plundered eggs and rising prices from 1859 to 1899, with eggs and skins bought for museums and used in advertising.
An American soldier details the Forbidden City's division by walls North to South with eastern and western sections housing government offices and grand halls. He notes the emperor Kangxi’s 1722 birthday reception, the Empress’s Palace and gardens, the Hall of Intense Thought, the imperial library, and the return through the north gate after crossing the moat to Mei-Shan.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes Paris wakes earlier than Americans with 5 4. a.m. shutters and gas lights for workers. Bakers and milkmen follow, shops open by 8 a.m. Early omnibuses run at 6. A Boston hotel menu features hash as a culinary symposium.
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