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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
6
Chicago packers report a strong push for pickled pigs feet as the season opens. Analysts note high annual consumption in Chicago, especially among German and Scandinavian communities, with workers and laborers driving steady demand.
Prof Herbert L Willett of the University of Chicago Divinity School told students in Haskell hall that Belshazzar was not a king but a deputy. He said the biblical tale of the feast and the writing on the wall illustrates historical inaccuracies in Daniel.
A two and a half carat diamond from the Lamphar family of Mexico lay unnoticed for ten days in a Van Nuys hotel lobby chair. Bellboy Campbell McGavin found it and reported the discovery. Miss Lamphar offered $100 reward, which he refused. The gem has historical ties to Miguel Lamphar from Philip II of Spain in 1590.
Substantial subsidence in the Bank of England foundations near Princess Street prompts underpinning and removal of old wooden piles. A concrete raft will support the four to five acre site while vaults and daily operations remain intact. Excavations reveal Roman pottery, boar tusks, and fossil remains. An expanded stock office and three bays are added at Bartholomew Lane.
Susie Gibbon rushed her eighteen month old Pat from a Third Avenue apartment to her sister Mary Mahoney across the hall after the child swallowed a pin. Mahoney reportedly shook the pin from Pat and took him to Flower Hospital where doctors prepared X rays. The pin was produced by Mahoney as Pat’s rescue claim.
In 1843 Samuel Colt tentatively pursued a submarine telegraph idea, testing insulated yarns and wax in a lead pipe from Fire Island to Coney Island. A thousand revolvers for General Taylor diverted Colt from the cable plan, fueling a booming revolver business and stalling the ocean cable project. Colt later credited Taylor with reviving his fortune and hinted Taylor helped popularize the concept that Cyrus Field later pursued.
In a New York post office, former United States marshal Isaiah Rhynders and abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison meet after years of opposing views. The encounter shifts perceptions as they converse, exchange respect, and part with mutual admiration and a pledge of lasting memory.
A Philadelphia woman rode to New York with a fifty-dollar bill for tips. She left it on a seat in a Pullman car, another passenger took it, and the two parted in New York. Back home the wife reveals she spent all the money, though she thought it remained safe.
A 1877 New York discussion with John Brougham reveals his view of dramatic luck. He recalls London Assurance and how Boucicault profited while he remained lesser known, then recounts conceiving a one act Little Nell and the Marchioness based on Dickens. He notes the later rise of Lotta Crabtree and his own posthumous unresolved play fate.
A young woman found buried alive in a newly dug grave on the Central plain of Hungary is rescued by workmen near Gross Wardein. She says she traveled about 200 miles from a village to visit a soldier lover who rejected her ragged appearance. With no money and three days with no food she tried to end her life by burying herself.
Fragmentary text recounts Dela wares being beaten by the Five Nations and forced into a treaty in 1682 as Quakers arrive in Pennsylvania. The phrasing reflects colonial era bias and a marginal note about submission and “called women.”
A tale about Augustus Johnson testing his clock knowledge. He claims it is eight o clock when the clock faces show both hands pointed straight. The employer disputes, noting the hands will not be at eight for about twenty minutes.
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