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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
2
A Silver Messenger clipping discusses political remarks by Lord Salisbury and King Leopold, plus a note on maple sap flow from a Washington meeting. It cites a New York paper criticizing city governance and warns of public money being siphoned by private interests.
The British government launches a risky plan to prove malaria is spread by mosquitoes by placing two volunteers in the malaria hot spot of the Campagna near Rome. They will live months among locals, forego quinine, and later test transmission by releasing infected mosquitoes back to England for observation. The aim is to establish a decisive, global public health proof with wide implications for empire and science.
In Richmond Yorkshire the market church Trinity mixes church and commerce. The north side is divided into shop spaces occupying lower rooms, with a dwelling above. The south aisle is ruined, and the church’s ancient history features a curfew bell and centuries of secular use before restoration. Shops yield about £100 yearly rent.
James Matthew Barrie famed author of The Little Minister enters political arena as candidate for Edinburgh and St Andrew’s University seat. Career includes political editor, London journalist, and commentator for J. James Gazette National Observer British Weekly and the Speaker. Recent works Sentimental Tommy and Tommy and Grizel boost his public appeal.
An interview outlines Philip England's claim to co inventing the first working locomotive alongside George Stephenson. England, now 88 and based in London, recounts the 1838 opening run from London to Boxmoor Heath on the London and Birmingham line, noting crowds and heated reactions as railways rose in controversy. The piece blends his memories with a broader dairy farming note on watering cows and winter practices from Wisconsin dairy men.
I grew in the coachbuilding trade then moved to London and joined George Stephenson’s locomotive shop. He valued my ideas and I helped shape early steam engines. He warned me I lacked the will to fight for glory, yet I stood tall at six feet five inches and witnessed the era’s dawning trains.
The marquis of Lorne becomes duke of Argyll on his father’s death. He is allied to the royal family through his mother, a daughter of the duke of Sutherland. A learned man and writer, he authored political works and poetry. He served in parliament and held the Canadian viceroyalty. He is 56 years old.
A fragment describes a South African town market square crowded with low corrugated-iron houses and government building at one end. It notes the square dust or mud and mentions Harper's Weekly traveling there. It briefly hints a weather-based remark and a cavalry leader’s career shift from a ship deck to infantry and then cavalry.
A New Jersey farmer recounts a remarkable tale to an evangelist, proving the pig’s return after being sold. The pig, muddy and exhausted, wandered back across swamp and knolls to the farmer’s barn, returning the payment and staying at home.
The article discusses subsoiling as deep soil loosening to enlarge root zones and moisture retention. It then shifts to U S cheese exports to Great Britain, noting declines since the rise of processed cheese, with figures for 1898 to 1908 and Canada’s export share. A suspicions accident in New York involves olive margarine fines over one million dollars tied to railroad bill of lading records. It ends with a warning on dangerous butter colorings linked to arsenic in some cheap products and a fatal poisoning in South Dakota.
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