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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
3
A compact survey of devices and advances including a timber cutting machine with oscillating saw blade and dual platforms, a cushioned gunstock reducing recoil, automatic telegram and letter delivery machines for stations, and discussions from the Hydrographic Office on naval charts. Also notes on animal orientation research from the Paris psychology society and various practical gadgets for daily use.
A New Yorker touts a dinner pail lined with non conducting material that keeps interior food at a steady temperature for hours. It features a feltlike lining surrounded by a wire frame with an easily removable insert for washing. The report also notes Germans making wool from turf fibres for textiles and a post office bill funding a trial of telephone use with rural free delivery to read letters to farmers.
A telescope has been built so perfect that ordinary print can be read from two and a half miles away, enabling distant observers to discern typography with unusual clarity.
Travelers describe Cairo access via Cairo Express or Suez route through Ismailiya and Port Said. Ismailiya impresses with tree lined avenues and desert irrigation turning delta lands green. Shepheard's hotel remains a cosmopolitan hub alongside Royal khedive displays, while Cairo blends splendor and squalor, a perpetual carnival of life and spectacle. The piece ends with a note on the condor raising its young longer than most birds.
A dated analysis argues Friday is the luckiest day of the week and Monday the unluckiest, noting that accidents and disasters skew toward Friday in some records while Wednesday and Thursday follow in risk. The article cites a 160 year average showing most disasters on Friday and claims Columbus began voyages on a Friday.
The Chicago Tribune notes a string of 16th to 19th century events dated on Fridays. It mentions shipwrecks and explorations, the arrival at Paris and Hispaniola, the discovery of America, the battle of Bunker Hill, Adams's motion for independence, the Saratoga victory, treason concerns, and the sinking of the collier Merrimac by Lieut Hobson, all stated as occurring on Fridays.
A long analysis argues Friday is not the unluckiest day. It cites famous assassinations on Fridays and compares shipwrecks rail accidents and fires from 1893 onward. The expert concludes Friday is unlucky for some events but other days show higher risks for others.
In the old New York Custom House sub-basement a sturdy little wagon carried over four billion dollars in daily customs receipts to the sub-treasury for more than thirty years. Custodian Lawlor plans to preserve it despite weak joints and repairs, noting its faithful service and daily trips ending each business day.
A New York City public school teacher selected three pupils to judge solo voice in private, asking one girl to sing a hymn verse. The verse became garbled, morphing from Lead, Kindly Light to a humorous Meow, Meow, highlighting the difficulty of word garbling when children sing.
Mississippi shows rapid banking expansion with twenty nine banks reporting deposits over 23 million dollars, up nearly seven million from the prior year. The increase is described as the largest in a single year in the state's history, reflecting peak capital and deposit levels amid a thriving financial scene.
James B Reynolds secretary to Mayor Low has been honored by the Chinese emperor with the order of the doubly dragon for courtesies extended to Prince Teal Chen.
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