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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1902
Page
4
A Chicago Tribune report details new scientific barber schools promising to unite barbering with dentistry and medicine. The program trains barbers to clean teeth, assess facial skin, and treat skin diseases, with diplomas signaling expertise and even doctor-like titles.
A Richmond dispatch reports a rash of bold fox attacks in Buckingham, a noted fox-hunting region. Locals doubt rabies, citing aggressive behavior and unusual tameness toward people. Incidents include a fox pursuing cows, a confrontation near New Store, and a woman chased up an apple tree before her son shot the animal.
The fragment discusses Americans seeking to gain control of British industrial concerns. It notes efforts by American capitalists and hints at transferring capital to the United States, with comments attributed to financial sources. The text is fragmented and lacks coherent details or names.
Dissatisfaction runs through manufacturers and wholesalers over an order for 4000 yards of crimson alk velvet for peers robes. English velvets compare well on price with foreign goods, but real velvet remains costly and premium fabrics face strict dyeing and creasing challenges. Some orders shift to brocades and warps for other ceremonial wear, while silk blouses gain brisk demand in Manchester and Macclesfield.
The death of Anna Catherine Draper in Hastings on Hudson recalls the birth of photography. John W. Draper, then at the University of New York, first used Daguerre’s process for portraits, with his sister as the sitter in 1830. A six minute exposure, white powder dusted face, marked the early toil of science and the dawn of a world leading in this art and industry through Rochester’s great firms.
Ra's View of a single term in a quirky dialogue shows a child asking about a drydock and a father offering a playful misinterpretation. The Chicago Daily News tone captures comic cadence and language of the era.
The article catalogs vast projects reshaping global connectivity from extensive railway lines to undersea tunnels. It highlights the Cape to Cairo plan, Pan American proposals, major canals, and a proposed double tunnel under New York to Brooklyn, with an electric passenger system and a multi mile underground station, foreseeing future transcontinental links.
Wendelin Krisch of near Nestoria earned pay for wolf pelts while a secret was kept. He kept a female wolf chained in a yard to lure others, then shot them from his cabin as howls drew wolves from miles around. In Dickinson county a camp worker escaped after wolves closed in. Ontario health officials move to stamp out smallpox with medical tents and isolation in lumber camps across 42 sites.
Thé Gommoner The Commoner has attained a circulation of 100000 copies within six months of the first issue, a record in American periodical literature. The paper shows there is space for a national paper on political economic and social topics with a subscription price of 1.00 per year.
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