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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1909
Page
5
Miss Emma Levi, a Cleveland Eagle school teacher, claims invention of a white glaze slate replacing sponges to improve sanitation and readability on dark days. She describes development of a porous surface cleaned with water, a durable pencil, and a design aimed at reducing eye strain and gloom in classrooms.
A London paper pairs four famed conquerors Alexander Hannibal Caesar and Napoleon as examples of greatness ending in tragedy. It cites Alexander’s alleged death by intoxicants Caesar’s assassination Hannibal’s suicide in exile and Napoleon’s lonely banishment on a rock in the Atlantic. The piece labels their ends as debauch death poison murder or exile.
Seth Low recounts a western seminary tale where women hoisted a professor in a dormitory basket a scream rang out and the rope was released. The Aztec language in Mexico before contact lacked the sounds for many letters including b d f g i j and v.
France proposes 1902 naval expenditure at 62.42 million dollars, with transfer of marine infantry costs to War and Colonies boosting real navy outlay by 2.3 million. Debt accrues nearly 200.19 million dollars in interest, while population growth stalls. Jaures and radical thinkers argue France cannot sustain a first rank navy and army simultaneously given resources.
Doane college professor Howard Freeman Doane visiting New York discusses education in the west. Pref. Downe notes denominational institutions face endowment shortages as eastern funding wanes, urging western states to attract local wealth to fund growth. Also brief items on a duke’s tongue slip at Lowther Lodge and early notes on regenerative lymph for leprosy.
Three quarters of the way around the globe will be the trips of the new steamship line to be operated by the Northern Pacific Railroad company. Ships will sail from Tacoma to Liverpool via Suez and the Mediterranean. London has 21 municipal cemeteries.
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