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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1901
Page
6
A jumble of items notes a man eats yeast to win a pet, Texas has no oil despite a new stock company, an ostrich dies chasing a collar button, and a goat remains key to a collar button plot. J Pierpont Morgan met King Edward to show a man can run without tassels. A Chicago woman cites a wooden leg as a marital obstacle.
The War Secretary’s refusal to remit penalties imposed by court martial at West Point is approved by the President. Senators failed to intervene for cashiered cadets. some are expelled, others suspended or demoted. The actions aim to restore order, teach obedience, and prevent corruption of future officers. A mutinous outbreak is described as a serious breach. A Chicago man and associates plan an automobile trip record from New York to Chicago.
An 98 hour travel note suggests roads may improve and European standards could be met, predicting shorter future journeys with better inns and roads. The piece then critiques Sarah Bernhardt on American female education and marriage, contrasting American independence with European expectations and arguing American women marry in haste rather than late.
A Washington pension official admits difficulty forecasting when the national pension roll will end due to year to year shifts and war pensions. With 993,529 names at year end and net increases, he estimates exhaustion around 1924 if averages hold, citing long lasting Civil and Spanish war pensions and high costs since 1861.
In a light exchange, Edgar jokes about rejecting a horse while the other partner refuses any option besides a conveyance. They admit financial constraints prevent even street-car fare, underscoring everyday frictions over transportation choices.
A large mastodon bone deposit near Kimmerick Missouri yields 200 to 300 individuals with ages and sizes represented. The article also cites Prof H. Vines on transpiration pressures in trees, notes mosquitoes and fish reducing larvae, explains snake egg laying, and reports Delauney on preferred numbers across nations. It discusses drought, westward migration, rising farmland values, and expected profits as farmers move to the Northwest amid a surge in land acquisition and low western rail rates.
A prairie bound migration from the East and South states gathers pace since mid February. Native American homeseekers sell small holdings to buy larger tracts in Washington North Dakota Oregon and Idaho. They travel in colonies and families, aiming to leave a farm to each child as they depart dense eastern farms.
A historical portrait highlights Helen Gould as a devoted bowler who owns a grand Lyndhurst bowling alley in Irvington, with a spacious setup, river views, and tea on a veranda. The piece also recounts a shooting incident involving Bagán and the nickname Calamity Jane, plus a biographical segment on Martha Burk born in Princeton, Missouri, and her rise as a female scout for General Custer in 1870, including frontier campaigns and daring exploits.
Four year old Marjorie, owner of a fox terrier with license, notes a guest wearing a gold heart pendant and asks why only Fido and Miss Smith have licenses. The scene ends with the girl sent off to bed while Miss Smith leaves with her tag.
The passage notes the most expensive state funeral ever, possibly Alexander the Great. It claims around a million in cost, a gold coffin filled with costly aromatics, a diadem on the head, and a funeral car adorned with pure gold. The car’s weight required eighty four mules and took over a year to move from Babylon to Syria.
A fragment from a western humor item mentions Sureshot Sam and witty banter about marks and sentinel duty. The line mocks Western rifle bravado and a guard guarding a sentinel, with a note on a husband keeping watch even when a wife is pleasant.
The article recounts the life of Calamity Jane born Martha Burk, a frontier woman who served as a scout in disguise as a man, carried dispatches, and worked as a U.S. mail carrier. It covers her service with Custer and Miles, the Big Horn campaign, her pneumonia, Wild Bill Hickok’s death, her later life selling a memoir, and her marriage to Clinton Burk with a daughter in El Paso.
A London scientist reports Indian earthquake tremors of 1807 traveled at 345 miles per minute as preliminary waves through the globe, with larger quasi elastic gravity waves reaching Europe at 113 miles a minute. He notes the waves’ extent and timing, suggesting vast, global propagation with undulations seen on seismograms and a period around twenty two seconds.
Superstitions about rattlesnakes persist among Americans and Indians who credit occult powers to the snake. Rattlesnake oil sales for rheumatism and neuralgia have grown into a modest, profitable trade. In Maine and New Brunswick neckties of rattlesnake skin are used against coughs and colds. The rattle is also valued by voodoo believers in the south as a charm against bad luck.
News from Antwerp details a Norwegian expedition to Spitsbergen locating very rich gold mines and a rich coal deposit. Explorers return with fossils of ferns tropical plants and fruits, signaling diverse geology and paleobotany from the northern island.
In Icelandic fishing practice sailors now routinely carry oil in boats to smooth waves allowing work in rough weather. The note suggests honesty in accounting and self-assessment, warning against overestimating one’s abilities and proposing a song about promises after marriage.
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