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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
7
A Harper's Weekly poem honors the brave who fight illness and fatigue yet serve others. It contrasts the weary with the noble who endure mercy and forgiveness, portraying steadfast courage through hardship on the path to God.
Lottie Armstrong spends her Maine vacation at Grandmother Eton's old farm in Bar Harbor with Aunt Julia and a hired man named Edmund Roberts from Plymouth. Sparks fly as Lottie fancies him during carriage rides and berry trips while her mother frets over engagement plans and Roylston rumors.
Oklahoma ranchers replace horses with hired tramp labor to run binders and reapers. The 101 ranch in Cherokee strip leads the trend, owner Joe Miller says he hired twenty men from neighboring farms this season, cutting costs by half as horse prices soar.
A sudden storm drives a couple to shelter on a mountain road where a kiss breaks the tension. Later a dangerous rail curve near Kate Shelley causes a fatal wreck, killing the engine crew and wrecking several cars, with the heroine Kate Shelley lauded as a national heroine for saving a train years earlier.
In Bar Harbor the Boston Post notes a prominent mention of Miss Lottie Armstrong and Mr. Robert Boylston indicating a happy reconciliation has occurred.
In a Detroit Free Press excerpt Mrs Blank remarks that marriage is serious while Julia, her maid, jokes that not getting married may be even sterner. They debate the gravity of marriage and the risks for both partners in this humorous exchange.
Louis L. Troy a Chicago railway mail service supervisor shows photographs of what is described as the most complete wreck in the history of the service. The crash occurred on Moingona hill near Boone Iowa the morning of August 1. Four men were killed and six injured as a Chicago and Northwestern mail train wrecked consisting of an engine two express cars and four mail cars.
An article fragment describes a train wreck with car trucks derailed and engines. It also includes brief humor about a letter demanded at breakfast and a satire on Buxton divorce rumors. The piece notes Austria-Hungary’s polyglot parliament using interpreters for diverse delegates.
A swimming instructor in a city natatorium advises aspiring swimmers to study the frog in nature. The frog starts with a slow leg draw then a sideward kick, keeps toes straight, and glides with full stroke power before drawing legs back. He compares human swimmers, noting common faults in recovery canceling the kick’s effectiveness.
French engineer M Fayol argues in Loco motive Engineering that coal formed from transported vegetable debris. He describes muddy basins, floating forests, and layered deposits where denser rocks settled first and lighter matter formed later, explaining inclined strata and non parallel layers.
A reading class debates the meaning of furlough. A student, Mary, asserts it means mule citing a home book. The class tests the book and finds an illustration of a soldier with a mule captioned Going home on his furlough.
The old Treadwell gold mine on Douglas Island Alaska houses the world's largest stamp mill with sixty batteries of five stamps each. The site now operates 880 stamps and crushes 3 520 tons of ore daily valued at about 14 000 dollars.
Cuba and Porto Rico once bought 5 million dollars of Spanish shoes annually. A superior American shoe now selling in the islands costs about half as much, replacing the older imports.
An old colored man asks a white man for work. The man offers to share driftwood he catches. The worker labors but quits when he realizes the wood belongs to him, leaving him unemployed again.
Scientists claim music soothes nerves but quicker cure is a strengthened nervous system. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is offered as the fastest remedy with a warning against substitutes and a stamp on the bottle neck.
A humorous tease about a clock that slows and gains, with Mrs McGorry-Yez and McGorry-Save arguing over whether they live in yesterday or tomorrow. The speaker wonders if the clock is correct or if they are right and the clock tells time ahead.
A compilation listing patent medicines Hall's Catarrh Cure Piso's Cure for Consumption and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup with prices or addresses. It also reports wildlife slaughter in India for 1897 including tigers leopards bears wolves and snakes with counts. It notes travel fare Fort Wayne to Chicago and a proverb on stupidity and contentment.
A writer from Camden New Jersey shares relief after years of menstrual pain and a flooding episode. She reports weakness and leucorrhea eased after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash, saying she now feels well and is nearly unrecognizable in health.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped Mrs Mannie A Brown of West Pleasant New Jersey with irregular menstruation. After two bottles she reports regular periods every month since, and she recommends the medicine to others.
Nasal catarrh yields to Ely's Cream Balm which is aromatic and administered through the nostrils. It cleanses and heals the surface it diffuses over. Druggists sell the 50 cent size with a trial mail option of 10 cents. Test it and you will continue treatment.
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