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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
2
A collection of wry remarks on language, safety, civilization, and social norms. Observations touch on Esperanto slang, asbestos safety, railroad risk, fashion, diplomacy, and humor about marriages, gender, and travel. The tone is editorially playful with social commentary and aphorisms.
An Illinois inventor secures a patent for a safety pin featuring two points. Meanwhile wearers of the gallus still await a two headed nail.
A humorous note recalls Susie the pet ape chewing gum despite her teacher’s instruction. The piece highlights a human vs. animal learning moment and playful classroom mishap.
A Philadelphia man died in a high color choking incident that would rival the sensational deaths that would make Harry Lehr and Berry Wall envious.
The United States reported recovering about five hundred thousand dollars in counterfeit coins over the past year. The question remains whether any genuine money has been recovered in the same period.
Correspondents debate when Ye is justifiable and a Brooklyn judge rules that dam is not profane. The piece notes shifting standards as public discourse on language evolves and decorum tightens.
In Paris the filet of beef sells for 56 cents a pound while only cheap horse meat cuts drop to 20 cents. The line that follows calls Paris "that dear Paris" reflecting price contrasts in the market.
An observer notes that the North American Indian and the Japanese lack certain bass words. The note suggests a humorous handicap if an aborigine were to injure a finger with a prehistoric ax.
Canada finds vast peat bogs valued at 29 billion and seeks ways to promote peat as a low cost substitute for expensive coal to reduce energy prices for its people. The plan involves policies and incentives to boost peat usage across industries.
The uncle of Portugal's king witnessed a fatal street fight in New York and now contemplates returning home to write a book about American civilization.
A literary note asserts Esperanto will not violate pure food laws as advocates, though human, resist extreme language. The language is claimed to lack any swear words, underscoring a restrained approach to emotional expression.
England contemplates building two gas driven battleships to render obsolete the dreadnought type as officials warn people to stay awake to new public spending ideas.
A Poughkeepsie resident who traveled to California to seek quick wealth has come back after a 51 year absence. The elderly man plans to spend his remaining days reading get rich quick literature and evaluating it thoroughly.
A fragmented notice evokes aviation wonder and questions of national honor across a divided country. The sparse text hints at themes of pride, separation, and air power amid conflict.
Colonel Harvey’s essay in the North American Review draws broad business support for a hopeful view of the American future. He argues unity between labor and capital, prudent governance, and a civic creed taught to youth, emphasizing common sense as the nation’s lasting resource.
Col Roosevelt was initiated into the Ak-Sar-Ben order in Omaha, with lively ceremonies and stunts depicted in illustrations. The ex-president reportedly enjoyed the initiation. The society, mainly business leaders, promotes cooperation for Missouri region development. Taft was inducted last year.
Harrisburg Iron and Steel company has processed about 1,500 tons of de Lesseps era Panama Canal machinery scrap. The old French equipment—including locomotives, cranes, dredges, and casting material—was shipped north after the Panama project collapsed and is being remelted into usable metal in American furnaces.
A pet alligator belonging to Jesse Irving Taylor of 249 Broad Street disappeared and was found in a chicken coop nest with its head under an old black hen. The gator named Ted was moved to an aquarium after growing large and feeding on eggs.
Magistrate Cornell refused consideration of a claimed hypnotism expert offering to aid a troubled marriage in the New York Court of Domestic Relations. The unnamed professor of hypnotism claimed to calm couples by gaze and touch, saying he could resolve disputes by placing himself at the court's service.
Miss Zoe J. Boyle declares name analysis explains luck and character. She assigns numbers to letters in Christian, middle, and surname, sums them, and links the total to personality traits and fate.
The passage argues that spirituality must be native and practical, expression of living rather than ritual. It links religious type to the mode of living shaped by physical and economic life, urging open country religion to integrate indigenous affairs and daily life.
Ethnologist Professor Wilhelm Verbeck, studying Eskimo folklore, returns from St John’s Newfoundland with notes about a myth where a sister is cast into space by her brother and lands in the middle of the TEGon rather than at the moon.
Robert J. McRian a New York carb broker endured a year of nitric acid and remedies to remove seven warts from his left hand. Miss Lilith Borsberg agreed to marry him after the successful treatment, overcoming the obstacle their betrothal faced due to the warts. The pair had dated for 13 months before his cure changed her mind.
A historical temperance lesson outlines Galatians text and Golden Rule themes. It urges teachers to collect temperance material from papers, stage exhibitions, and use anecdotes about President Taft Lincoln Harrison and other figures to illustrate abstinence benefits.
In Switzerland a new clock type requires no hands or faces. The device stands in the hall and, when pressed, speaks the time aloud using phonographic internals, announcing phrases like Half-past five or Five minutes to nine.
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