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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
6
The article argues alcohol is not a heart stimulant and cold therapy is superior. Kellogg describes chest compress therapy with water at about 6 degrees to stimulate the heart, contrasting German and French use of alcohol with cold baths. It notes alcohol depresses nerve centers and is a narcotic, regardless of dose, prompting practitioners to favor cold treatment instead.
Editorials from Utica Globe and St Louis Globe Democrat condemn Memorial Day profanation and praise solemn remembrance of fallen soldiers. They contrast early observances with today’s merriment and call for restoring reverence before public indifference erodes meaning. The British military system is criticized as unsatisfactory and due for reorganization after defeats.
A historical discussion argues that one cent letter postage would not significantly expand first class mail if unsealed matter remains untaxed. It notes the prior rise was due to price lists and unsealed circulars, not sealed letters, and warns revenue would fall without further rate changes. It then shifts to praise for Boer War resilience, comparing Transvaal fighters to historic defenders and highlighting amnesty in the Cape Colony peace talks.
The text notes Boer forces, though not aged, faced heavy losses and captured the British commander. Despite defeats, they yield under terms honoring soldiers and retreat from independence claims. The Transvaal and Orange Free State are discussed as shifting under British influence and English-speaking dominance, with Admiration for their tenacity.
An Indiana man designs a wind operated scarecrow with a central revolving mirror wheel and lamps at both ends to project light across fields. The device uses a two sided opening frame, metallic hood reflectors, and sun or lantern light to deter intruders day or night. Also noted is St Lucia’s Sulphur Mountain volcano once thought extinct, with a 1000 foot summit and a four acre crater, once home to Louis XIV’s heated springs sanitarium.
The Des Moines Register reports a government order cutting rations for over 1,000 able bodied Brule Sioux on the Rosebud reserve in South Dakota to test self support. If successful, the plan moves to Pine Ridge and other tribes as part of a wider Roosevelt era policy.
England bears a heavy burden from the recent conflict with vast expenditures and social costs. The article notes Britain spent about 1.1 billion dollars to subdue a large rural population, describing the war as a costly and controversial effort with limited pride.
A Chicago Chronicle editorial questions why death penalties differ by sex for willful murder. It argues women commit murder less in heat and more through deliberation, often with male accomplices, and urges punishment be based on guilt, not gender. It cites England and the United States and warns against societal bias.
The New York Journal argues that an injunction grants a judge unchecked power to punish disobedience without appeal. It condemns such self serving punishment as lynch law, urging the bench to abolish this abusive authority.
The belief in the waters curative powers proved false, leaving the sanitarium vacant as a monument to a misplaced judgment and mistaken hopes.
A couple sits on a parlor sofa as the man doubts his true feeling for the woman and mulls how to break the news. He asks what she would say if she could never be his, and she replies she has a bundle of his letters to keep him honest. London Answers.
About 40 percent of miners in Minnesota mines are Finns and another 40 percent Hungarians. Italians account for about 8 percent, with the remainder divided among Americans, Germans, French, Scots, Welsh and Cornish.
George C Becker long known as George stands at doors of Back Bay halls and private houses to admit guests. He has served the fashionable set for two decades ensuring only proper entrants are admitted. He recently marked his seventieth birthday with many gifts from admirers. One Effect Of Russia s Great Railway reports Trans Siberian butter trade expanding to London with Russian product competing against Denmark Ireland and Normandy promising growth and new supply lines.
A Nantes story records the voyage of the Italian brig Anita S. led by Captain Rosa. From Martinique on June 6, 19, the skipper borrowed funds at every port, using ship and cargo as security, living on the high seas until storms drove him to Santa Cruz Tenerife in Sept. 1900. He reappeared in May, secured another £3,200 loan, and sailed four more months, with reports the brig cruised England’s coast. Arrested in Teneriffe, he had borrowed £5,000 while the cargo depreciated to under £600. the sugar finally reached Nantes in a nearly worthless state.
A Civil War era ring was unearthed eight to ten miles from Shelbyville Tennessee. The illustration shows the ring’s design and notes soldiers camped in the vicinity with the nearest fighting about twenty five miles away at Stone's River. The ring appears to have been lost by a solider or traveler during that period.
A Civil War era ring shows the inscription One of Nineteen July 4 1858 revealing it belonged to a Virginia Military Institute graduate from the class of 1858. Located at Lexington Va the institute is called the West Point of the South and records show nineteen graduates that year. The ring is well preserved.
A unique summer house to be seen in Washington on the United States Department of Agriculture grounds is formed from the hollow trunk of a California redwood. It is large enough to shelter a family, and readers are urged not to cut such trees, which is deemed sinful by some.
A fragment quotes Caneree Natan Cable of Illinois discussing a moral dilemma with his young daughter. He imagines selling his younger son for a room full of gold, but the daughter refuses, preferring to keep him until he is older and potentially worth more. The source cites the New York Times.
Bulletin quotes a witty exchange where Edna voices admiration for a man she sees as worthy and May counters that a girl bragging about followers is not becoming. The snippet captures light social banter on admiration and propriety in relationships.
Seattle reports on the pursuit of Convict Harry Tracy with only a single tangible clue. Indian sightings near Port Madison hint at movements since he left the Johnson home Saturday night. Also noted are preparations for a San Francisco boxing arena for Jeffries vs Fitzsimmons on July 25, plus obituaries and multiple suicides and a major freight handler strike in Chicago affecting 24 railroads.
A German sanitarium regrets the limited use of goats milk noting its advantages over cows milk including greater richness closer to human milk and being free from tuberculosis germs.
A compact column parodies evolving manners in society with quips about misgiving heartlessness and polite suppression. A Detroit Free Press exchange mocks readers for focusing on sensational tales while contrasting rude and courteous behavior. The dialogue riffs on a vanished Washington man and the humor in vanished manners.
France held colonies totaling 3 740 000 square miles with 56 000 000 people. German colonies and dependencies covered 1 027 120 square miles with a population of 14 687 000.
Fragment from North American and Chicago Post notes humor on marriage age and stenography skill. Miss Frocks described as twenty five by Gargoyle while others joke about her courting decline. The Test of Expertnen highlights a stenographer who can transcribe a church sewing circle discussion without error.
The Fourth of July celebration in Havana included American residents and locals, with fireworks display blocked only by an order from the mayor. The event also echoed celebrations in other places where Americans gathered.
The problem notes that to view objects 100 miles away the observer needs 6,667 feet of elevation above sea level. It states a rule where distance in miles equals the square root of one and a half times the observer's height in feet, with atmospheric refraction considered.
The successful author counters that his drive comes mostly from the women in his life, not his wife alone, asserting that about three-fourths of his energy is owed to “those other women who would have me.”
A five generation family resides together on a farm near Fauquembergues in the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The household spans grandparents to young children, illustrating enduring rural life and kinship across generations in northern France.
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