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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1901
Page
7
The article discusses plant breeding to endure extreme temperatures, noting Swiss tests on 35 plant orders across 90 genera and 120 species. It describes root division trials, effects on underground parts, hairier foliage, thicker bark, smaller leaves, and larger flowers, plus partial reversibility after returning to plains.
A historic note discusses a pivoted box on a wagon for mail collection, enabling drivers to retrieve letters without alighting. It highlights benefits for rural delivery, weather protection, and streamlined routes, alongside unrelated medical advice about corns and foot care.
The article describes extensive underground Champagne works in Epernay and Rheims where workers, often foreign to the surface world, toil long shifts to shake sediment from countless bottles. The piece notes the monotony and taciturn mood of the miners, mentions an elderly cellar worker who claims forty five years of labor at a rate of fifty five bottles per minute, and highlights the surprising, ghost haunted atmosphere reported by locals.
The article explains corns as overgrowths of the horny skin from indirect friction or pressure by footwear. It notes common sites on toes especially the little toe and describes the thickening of the scarfskin from papillae enlargement, leading to atrophy under continued shoe pressure.
Introduction of European methods threatens to dull the distinctive qualities of Japanese paper made from various plants. The wood or bark paper, lacking English names, is cultivated in many varieties in Japan. It serves as window light, room partitions, lanterns, umbrellas, and even printing bank notes. when oiled it becomes waterproof, and varnished it imitates Cordovan leather. items like handkerchiefs and molded articles resemble Dupler-mache.
A New York City inventor outlines an envelope that can be remailed across many recipients. The sender can list a single address or fill the entire space, with perforated stamp strips guiding postage to the next reader. Explicit directions accompany the device to encourage sharing among friends.
In the island of Cyprus a basin near Lamarca contains a salt lake, cut off from the sea and sun dried in August to yield a salt harvest. Cr Bellamy, who visited, suggests sea water percolates through rocks into the basin supplying the salt. Heavy midsummer rain can ruin the crop, and Cypriots divert flood water away from the basin to protect the lake.
In Indianapolis two children required surgical removal of small metal dogs from their throats after swallowing them from candy sold with the treats. The metal dogs resemble tobacco tags and are placed in the candy packaging to entice purchase.
A vivid travelogue from Padua to Verona describes bustling wine harvest scenes. Peasant workers, carts, and vineyards fill the countryside, with pilgrims, guilds, and markets shaping a lively medieval mood. The piece notes open wines, informal tastings, and the Italian approach to pressing and aging in casks rather than bottling.
Grace with sensitive skin overuses soothing lotion in cold weather. She rubs in a questionable liquid, finds it slow to dry, and later realizes she used furniture polish as lotion. Kerosene then blistered her hands, leaving her with a painful night before three upcoming card parties and a bridesmaid role.
Consul Hossfeld of Trieste urges American manufacturers to imitate Viennese lamp makers and open stores to sell cheap lamps in Southern Austria. He notes natives struggle to compete with Americans who understand language, customs, advertising, display, and hustling. retailers resist buying foreign wares while sales remain tentative.
A curious society in Bradford named the Seven Days Rest Association gathers retired workers who abstain from toil yet earn esteem. They spend evenings in parks away from the forge and loom and, at their second annual dinner, host former youths who did not share in material success, mixing quiet self-satisfaction with generous hospitality.
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