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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1900
Page
6
In a Challis Idaho column the writer critiques modern temptations and displays, noting easy allure and easy forgetfulness. He contrasts heroism and service with vanity and debt while musing on Lincoln figures and the Dewey campaign. The piece Bills paper armor and naval poetry.
European buyers lift appetite for U S apples with a 1 217 787 barrel excess over last year and New York prices at 75 cents to 1 25 a barrel while Baldwin remains the standard for Europe. The article also details Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr’s will cut and estate plans, plus Puerto Rico’s rail line and foreign ownership concerns in U S rail bonds.
A York Pa correspondent details a morphine epidemic wrecking families. Prominent residents’ wives and daughters succumbing to addiction, divorces granted on statutory grounds, and druggists pressured by law and prescription limits. Cases include injections to youths, mothers appealing to druggists, and a bar for illicit supply despite legislative hurdles.
A deteriorating tale from Greensburg Pennsylvania profiles Peter Zimmerman a veteran horse thief who boasts of stealing hundreds of horses across western Pennsylvania. He claims a sixty five year criminal span and has spent forty years in prison, with multiple transfers between counties. Despite a remorseful mood he shows no intent to reform and expects further confinement. The account notes his birth in 1800s era Downlathie county and early crimes near Mont Pleasant township.
A Moron Indiana fisherman tale portrays attorney Seavill as a recluse near Mudlake, once famed for defending Charles Guiteau in the Garfield assassination trial. The article notes his isolation stems from public shunning and personal misfortune, while he maintains Guiteau was mentally irresponsible.
Anand Adavani, a Chicago weeklong visitor and Brahmin indigo merchant from India, has secured Virginia Tyler Hudson of Kentucky for marriage in June in Germany or London. Hudson is daughter of Rev. Virginia Tyler Hudson and D. L. Hudson and a direct descendant of President Tyler. London will be their future home.
A worker at a shale mill near Inétanter Pu, owned by W. B. Delmage, McGuire, 29, was fatally injured when a drag mechanism caught his right hand and a moving belt tore his body in two. He was unmarried and from Youllhe MAL. A related note mentions Japanese women tattooing faces to resemble men with facial hair.
A government bulletin describes Crotalaria sagittalis known as rattleweed or wild pea. Hairy annual 3 to 18 inches tall with yellow pea flowers in July. Seed pods mature around an inch long, nearly black, walls stiff and thin, rattling when seeds detach. Native to low sandy soils from Atlantic coast to Minnesota and eastern Kansas, also in New Mexico. Found in Connecticut New Jersey North Carolina, common in Missouri valley bottomlands. poisonous in leaves and seeds, fatal to horses and sometimes cattle. Attention first raised by Dr Stalker Iowa in 1884 linking to bottom disease. Burning fields after seed maturity reduces rattlebox in meadow hay with little effect on perennial grasses.
Farmers' Review discusses keeping squashes for winter, noting that most fails come from late field harvests. It advises harvesting before frost, sorting by ripeness, and storing ripe fruit in warm dry spots or a furnace area to prolong storage. Immature fruit can store better if gathered before frost, while overripe or too young fruit may rot.
The report notes that ripening prospects depend on variety and rainfall. Thin stages vary with different varieties, and rain patterns influence the pace of ripening.
An extended discussion outlines the ideal roadster horse with height, weight, and temperament, stressing education and nervous energy. It also covers Fall Web-Worm description, habits, and treatments, followed by notes on potato leaf injuries from Paris green and dairy preservative concerns amid Indianapolis milk adulteration cases. It cites expert opinions on cattle breeding and Guernsey cow selection methods.
The outline describes a parallelogram shaped profile with a square front view and slight depth. It details head, ears, jowl, neck, shoulders, back, ribs, belly, ham, legs, bristles, and coat texture. Coarse ears and long bristles indicate slower fattening and late maturity. fine bristles suggest a stronger constitution.
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