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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
6
A patchwork column from Challis Idaho riffs on gossip, humor, and fleeting social vignettes. It lampoons Corbett, King Peter, and a parade of titled figures while noting floods, weddings, yachts, autos and a New Jersey oyster pearl find.
A report on Professor Pfluger's lecture from the University of Bonn argues life expectancy is rising. He cites Munich heart disease linked to heavy beer use and tobacco, noting among forty centenarians only one smoker and most drink in moderation. He warns against fear of death, urges mental occupation, and links longevity to hard work, temperance, and steady living. He notes census shifts since 1871 and 1900, with Germany sharing modern urban stress and health challenges.
A fragmentary column reworks old maxims with mixed prose and quotes. It blends sayings about money honesty hypocrisy and philosophy with garbled OCR-like text and references to Lucius Won Schenk and Susilo M. Best, unclear origin, in a reflective, antiquarian tone.
Hughie H Lohman the young Colorado student became the first American awarded the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford. His self made path included interviews with boy’s journals and process papers to inspire peers. He supported college work by earning 26 cents an hour pushing an invalid in her chair.
A fragment notes an application filed and mentions Browhatone and Brickfront with a stenographer and union member status. It hints at an engagement to be married, though details are incomplete and unclear in the text. The readable items point to a potential union connection and forthcoming nuptials.
A Boston firm won a government contract as Congress funded 5.5 million dollars to remodel West Point. Plans include Gothic style cadet barracks extensions, a grand post headquarters with an inner court and tall tower, a monumental chapel, and a new academic building doubling lab and lecture space.
A York city firm outlines fall and winter work to prepare plans for a new West Point academy complex. Proposals include cliff-inspired foundations, a monumental arch and bridge, a new landing stage for boats, redesigned approaches, and landscape features planned for the next twenty five years. The centerpiece is a large connecting structure with residential and reception rooms, a battle monument, and a future names inscription space. The plan also reorients the superintendent’s quarters toward the main avenue and river, with a prominent axis through the academy and post.
The Milhals station reports that alfalfa yields improve only when seedbeds are inoculated with nodulating germs. They offer 100 pound infected soil shipments to Champaign or Urbana for fifty cents per hundred pounds plus handling. Orders should be placed weeks ahead. Provisions cover distribution, timing, and spreading method, emphasizing uniform inoculation across fields.
German researchers compare awned and awnless wheat heads in two plots. Awn removal speeds ripening and reduces grain size and weight but increases ash content. Bearded varieties show different yield stability than beardless, with economic implications for harvests and markets.
In bulletin 27 of the Montana Station guidance covers hog house design with long narrow plans, passage on the north, pens on the south, doors, vents, and durable troughs. It also includes advice on dairy flavors from leaks, heat treatment, and pasteurization. Mexican irrigation, night yarding cows, and a Pawnee county revival joke close the column.
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