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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1903
Page
5
Directory fragment lists James M. Stevens as Register and Neal J. Sharp with A Hodgman. Dates include April 23 and May 4 with Custer County. Other entries show Lewhi County September 7, Bingham County May 25, Fremont County September 21.
Reports show Hamburg exporting 124 kinds of merchandise to Cuba last year and Japan importing 2.7 million dollars in bicycles. French cities adopt telephone girl systems, while Austrian navy expand commerce aid. Miners in the Southwest claim 300 percent growth in two years. Potatoes import totals surge, with 8 million bushels last year and 272 thousand in the prior year. An urn unearthed in England hints at 2000 years of Celtic cremation. Arctic explorer Harry De Windt recounts a Russian Croesus near Irkutsk who hosted him lavishly yet slept on three chairs.
Wisconsin's deer season brought large hauls along the Wisconsin Central line in November. Hunters transported deer by wagon, with many bucks weighing 180 to 190 pounds dressed and some near 200. Bucks were mostly killed with rifles, buckshot failing to stop many shots, as meat and antlers filled camps from Fifield to Price county.
The School of Tropical Medicine reports sleeping sickness has killed 20 000 to 30 000 people in Uganda and spreads with increasing virulence. Described as a brain inflammation, it begins with mental changes, leads to coma and death within months, and is spread by overcrowding. Only prevention is early case detection.
The excerpt notes immigration to Canada exceeding 70 000 in the year, with Americans dominant. It cites Gulf Stream depths off Cape Florida and near Cape Hatteras, and mentions Long Island road taxes and Southampton poor relief. It discusses London’s 19th century population growth, New York’s rapid rise, and a comparison of future populations. It explains pawn broker symbols traced to the Medici and describes Simeon Willard’s crude clock hands in Beekman and Cliff streets, still ticking after two centuries.
A Chicago Tribune tale shows an elderly passenger demanding identification of the woman she seeks and the exact street to stop at. The conductor refuses, offers her fare back, and the passenger exits at the next crossing awaiting a smarter conductor. The piece ends with a Chicago Daily News joke about a confession from a desperado after a staged cigar trick.
A sunfish weighing one and a half hundredweight stranded by the tide at Blakeney Norfolk. A 29 pound badger was killed in Kemingley Lincolnshire. The Chester County Historical Society erected a Lafayette monument on the Brandywine battlefield. In Gibbet Lane Halesowen Worcestershire authorities plan to rename the street after three suicides occurred there. A Vienna Danube canal incident left a man frozen but alive after rescue. Illinois supreme court upholds weekly pay day law for manufacturers. New York City miscounts in agricultural lines. $182.20 from Croton dam aqueduct apples auction proceeds credited to the water fund. O C McCurdy of Sunbury Pa. 20 years in railway mail service, 767,034 miles traveled. A planter device helps gardeners plant by a tong-like tool that inserts plants into soil.
Water for tea should be fresh and boiled promptly to brew properly. Brew with caution, scald the pot, and serve after three minutes. Superstitions say a forgotten lid predicts a visitor, cream before sugar brings love troubles, and tea stalks or beans foretell romance or postponement of a male guest.
Article notes microbes in the mouth ferment sugars to acids that dissolve enamel, linking candy and sweets to tooth decay. It highlights how children’s teeth suffer from early and extensive decay due to frequent sugary foods, with emphasis on dental health and prevention.
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