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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1904
Page
2
A miscellaneous column from SILVER MESSENGER in Challis Idaho quotes oblique jabs at public figures and events. It cheekily riffs on Salt River damming in Arizona, Whitaker Wright, German professors, Pope Pius X, and Uncle Sam's motto. The item blends quips about Byron manuscripts, Berlin cooking schools, and aviation fund collection with assorted society notes and casual political irony.
Principal leaders of Brooklyn public schools seek power to discipline pupils and advocate spanking with a rubber hose as a quick corrective method. The piece reflects nostalgia for harsher methods once used in the schoolhouse on the hill.
Doris Gorham and her sisters quarrel over a new bicycle after a delivery brings the device to their Gorham farm. Doris secretly learns to ride, reunites with her old lover Seth Watson, and they recall past hopes as the wheel upends family tensions and memories.
Doris and Seth reunite after past quarrels as he suggests eloping to Parson Woods and buying a tandem the next day. Doris, blushing, agrees in a playful turn tying their chance at happiness to a bicycle driven future.
A Chicago psychologist Dr Walter Dis Scott claims red light causes demoralization in people exposed to it. He cites an example from a French factory where workers shifted to another color and normal conditions returned. He notes red rays treat diseases, brighten mood, and that bright colors uplift patients while dull colors depress them. He mentions red as a favored color in various nations and its association with luck and royalty.
Allce Cary suggests true nobility comes from steady daily effort and virtue rather than rank, emphasizing honesty, justice, and restraint. The poem condemns seeking glory or wealth and argues honor lies in consistent right action, regardless of fortune or status.
A bashful middle aged bachelor, unable to propose in person, sent anonymous phonograph cylinders to a chosen lady. She played them and heard a familiar voice professing love and entreating marriage. Less than two months later, the couple shared their tale at a wedding reception.
Variation of the moon’s apparent size is noted by observers from a cart wheel to a silver dollar. Professor Young concludes the sky’s distance is about 110 feet for the average man, artists often portray the moon too large, and the moon’s true angular size is about half a degree, concealable behind a pencil.
Nearly 300 miners died in Pennsylvania anthracite mines during 1908 according to State mining inspectors records.
Ireland's population stands at 4 433 with a noted decrease for 1903. The report emphasizes a slight drop in the year and provides the numeric total for comparison against prior years.
Guide Albert Turner and companion Burt, trapped by a snowstorm near Big Hole Brook, discovered a tiny gold locket set with diamonds inside a nuthatch nest. The locket, containing a photo, bore the inscription L. D. and was woven into the nest’s structure along with a delicate gold chain.
Chicago tailors report the men corset vest is the latest fad from the Custom Cutters' association convention in Columbus. The vest will have no stiffening and will be cut away at the waist with a bulging chest effect, giving wearers the appearance of a Samson-like chest.
Emile Brazeau, 22, died in Montreal after living on milk and sugar his entire life. From childhood he was placed on a milk and sugar regimen and never consumed solid food. His daily intake was three pints of milk and one pound of sugar, yet he remained physically robust until a fatal croup episode.
In the Upper Aras Valley Trans Caucasia lies Mount Kulpi one of the world’s great rock salt mines. Deposits reportedly exceed 200 feet in thickness and have been worked since prehistoric times, with stag horn picks still found. Armenian lore links Noah to Kulpi salt for Ark provisions. Flies seem to have almost human intelligence. when a good thing is found people rush to share it.
Ira Preston and Charles Newell felled a pine in Sharon VI, producing eight logs: a 12 foot log 26 inches diameter, five other logs ranging from 26 to 19 inches, and two 10 foot logs measuring 16 and 10 inches. Total timber volume reached 1,720 feet.
In Whitechapel London Americans flock to the Shipwing Exhibition to view the pipe Raleigh smoked in England on his 1580s visit. The Prince of Wales guards the relic and never let it be photographed until now.
Gen Sir Frederick Lugard describes Kano as unique among African cities conquered by the British noting solid mud houses with flat imperious roofs and Moorish architectural hints. He recalls staying in a sultan palace audience room twenty five by eighteen feet with a mud dome roof supported by twenty arches and decorated in black white pale green and yellow sand that gleams like gold.
A device created to enable army boots to be resoled during long campaigns. It features a ridge on the edge of the permanent upper sole that allows an overlapping slide on the under sole, facilitating easier sole replacement.
The North Sea islet Nordstrand schmor hosts what may be the world’s smallest school. The sea's eroding force has severed the islet from Nordstrand, shrinking the population from fifty a century ago to about fifteen. A 19th century school for a dozen children remains, with attendance lately ranging from zero to about twelve.
In the Malay peninsula natives time timekeeping uses a coconut shell with a tiny hole in a water filled bucket. Water slowly enters the shell and fills for an hour then drains, prompting the watchman to call completion. Minutes and seconds are rarely used, and the half full shell would signal the time.
Indian lands devoted to crops show 30 million acres for rice 18 million for wheat 76 million for other food grains 1.6 million for sugar cane 251 thousand for tea 19 million for cotton 1 million for indigo and 300 thousand for tobacco.
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