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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1908
Page
5
Two English girls in a Paris bakery struggled with French words and chose what looked like bread. They ate bird food instead of cookies or pastries, insisting French cooking was a delusion while a French waitress sighed at the English eccentricity.
Chambers\" Journal reports a trial fog signaling system at Feme Point in the Gulf of St Lawrence. Four fog horns spread seaward in different directions emit distinct sounds every minute. A ship in range hears all but one horns clearly, allowing the captain to deduce position by which signal is clearest.
The Philadelphia Record cites a physician praising avarice as beneficial to health promoting calmness, regular habits, and longevity. It contrasts rage, hatred, fear, and grief as harmful, noting grief can trigger serious physical effects. The piece shifts to Missouri mules, describing a mare eight years old, 18 hands high, weight 1706 pounds, and a gentle 35-year-old male mule in Joplin as a playmate.
A new grain named corn-wheat is being cultivated in eastern Washington. It combines corn fattening qualities with a wheat-like appearance, producing grains twice as large as ordinary wheat and yielding 60 to 100 bushels per acre. The crop promises to solve domestic corn shortages in the Pacific Northwest. The Automotor Journal also describes a traction engine named pedrail that walks stairs and hauls heavy loads beyond wheeled engines.
United States Land Office Hailey Idaho announces Kinney D Williams of Robinson Idaho intends to apply for a U S patent for Pittsburg Placer Mining Claim Mineral Survey No 2256 in Yankee Fork Mining District Custer County Idaho The claim covers 156105 acres with corners described by bearings and distances and location recorded in Volume 7 Quartz Locations page 57 No known adjoining claims First published January 28 1908 by A L McMahon Register
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