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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1910
Page
6
A fragmented clipping from the Silver Messenger mocks weather talk, aviation folly, and public affairs with quotations about thaws, airships, inflation, railroads, and political tension. It lampoons investors, smugglers, and a New Jersey tank in midair while wryly noting global events and human folly.
The article argues China’s modernization including a 540,000 strong army and a coast guard navy signals a potential rise as a great power within decades. It stresses China’s historical peaceful policy, gradual reform, new school system, abolition of opium, expanded foreign trade, and planned rail networks, forecasting a beneficial but cautious western view.
A reader laments hatpins on women's hats extending too long and jokes about men facing the danger in crowded cars. He praises millinery and the beauty of hats while arguing men should value hatpin damage as a badge of battle scar humor rather than avoid it.
Dr Gustave Lebon, famed French scientist, argues radium is merely barium and offers to prove it with an experiment funded about ten thousand dollars. If correct, radium chloride could be turned into cheap barium, though the broader implication would reshape views on radioactivity and matter as condensed energy.
The illustrated dairy barn combines horse, cow, and calf sections under one roof to reduce labor. It features 88 cow stalls, 9 dry cows, two 16 by 38 ft silos, cement floors, plastered walls, ship lap exterior, multiple hydrants, wash traps, and a rainproof, dust-minimizing layout. The building emphasizes cleanliness, fireproofing, and efficiency with a one-man feeding capability and durable concrete construction.
A drawing shows a gas pipe hook for windling fences from five-eighths inch wire, sharpened with a thread and nut to hold a wheel or pulley wheel. A screw piece fits on to hooks behind a wagon or horn. Two other views are self explanatory. The gas pipe hook at the top passes through the roll of barbed wire for unwinding.
Elara notes farmers err by not studying alfalfa needs and by improper feeding. He cites lime nitrate production using electric power, with costs around 52 to 61 dollars per long ton, and compares it favorably to natural nitrate of soda for sandy soils.
The genial Col. John J. Martin, longtime Missouri lawyer and former defense attorney, is chosen president by a Chicago club. He has strong ties to St Louis and Chicago circles, known for courtroom work including defending Minnie Cummings in a murder case. He entered politics young and held multiple fraternal group roles.
President Tat sent to the senate the nomination of Loni B. Knappen of Michigan to succeed Horace Lurton as judge of the United States circuit court in the Sixth Circuit. Knappen, from Grand Rapids, has long been prominent in Michigan law, serving as county prosecutor and U S commissioner. He is a University of Michigan graduate admitted to the bar in 187.
The passage extols beauty as a welcomed guest and links visual appeal to cultivation and culture. It argues every woman has good features and with care can enhance personal charm, urging effort to present one's best in the near future. A dialogue then shifts to Ruth and Paul aboard an airship with reassurance about fears.
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