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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
7
A string of satirical notes and brief items comment on public figures and events. References include Albany refusing a Carnegie library, a man jailed for stealing an umbrella, a Shannon County post office closure, and critiques of social norms and disasters. The tone blends humor with pointed social critique.
The article chronicles widespread unrest across the Russian Empire with student and worker protests, harsh government measures in Moscow, Warsaw, and St Petersburg, and resistance in Finland. It notes a shift toward engineering studies, the neglect of languages in technical curricula, and the critical role of clear English expression in engineering reports. It closes with a satirical remark on the abuses of a typical mother-daughter dynamic.
An account estimates annual global deaths from wild beasts and snakes. India leads with tigers, wolves, leopards, and others causing thousands of deaths. snakes including cobras claim tens of thousands across Asia and Africa. The combined toll from beasts and snakes reaches about 4.7 million per century, with a noted 5.47 million deaths attributed to wild beasts and snakes in the nineteenth century.
A Missouri activist named Walter Vrooman builds Ruskin College at Trenton converting a 2000 acre farm into a self supporting campus where students labor for room and board. He forms the Western Co operative Association with stores dairies and a theatre across Missouri and Kansas City area investing about half a million dollars and planning twenty five stores and a model village near Kansas City. He aims to spread the co op system to New York with Carnegie Hall meetings and 200 to 300 wealthy backers ready to invest.
A terse remark contrasts life’s span with uncertainty. The speaker rejects the value of a thousand dollars, stating they would not pay even ten cents for it, underscoring a philosophy that money holds little price against time and fate.
A Sunday battle near Superintendent Cassell’s residence in Baltimore featured twelve to fifteen crows attacking a large chicken hawk. The hawk swooped, fought on the ground, and finally perished while the crows remained unwounded, spectators aboard Emory Grove cars watching the dramatic scene.
The article explains a triplicate baggage check system conceived by William F. Connor of New York City. It would create three identical coupons including departure and destination for railroad baggage. Two coupons stay with the owner, one remains on the luggage to verify ownership at delivery and provide a receipt on delivery.
The summit of Mount Goufriere in St. Vincent rises 3500 feet above sea level and hosts two craters. The first spans three miles around and 500 feet deep, separated from the “new crater” by a slim granite lava ridge. The new crater covers about three acres. An English sailor crossed the narrow dike while intoxicated for a wager of port wine, a feat no one else has repeated. A circus Waninees advertises earnings for anyone with “good paper” and a large tent.
A Captain Samuel Langholme long known in St Louis circles is not a native of St Louis. He was born in 1885 in Missouri and educated in Pike County and Hannibal. He reportedly adopted his nickname from river name sounds on the Mississippi.
A fragment describes a ritual involving a kerchief and a small linen piece. The performer folds, lights a candle, and discreetly extinguishes and hides the burning fragment, preserving the unburned rag for the owner. The instructions emphasize ensuring the rag is fully extinguished before pocketing it.
A historic note recalls Lord Salisbury as a living model for a sculptor’s niche of Christian saints. It describes him at forty, with sword and pose, chosen as a fellow of All Souls, and mentions figures for a Magna Charta mosaic and a New Testament passage.
A Weather Chronicle anecdote relates an eight year old girl who, frightened by rapidly dark clouds, ran indoors telling her mother she would not stay outside because God blew out the sun. The scene captures a childlike interpretation of an approaching storm in a small town setting.
A brief Philadelphia Bulletin quip notes a traveler recalling a trip abroad in which in Berlin the speaker slipped on a banana skin and narrowly avoided serious injury. The joke highlights slapstick danger while abroad.
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