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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1903
Page
4
In London stock practice, buyers and sellers may carry over accounts on settlement day. Contango and backwardation describe interest on carried trades, with rates tied to market conditions. The piece explains how excess bulls or bears influence rates, and how cycles like cornering or rigging affect prices and settlement.
Governor Villada announces a $500 annual prize for the worker most distinguished in industry and sobriety and in prompt daily task attendance especially after Sundays and feast days. The Mexican Herald notes this initiative will boost industrial and educational progress and cites Toluca recreation efforts as exemplary philanthropy.
French writer M. Pollet reports Pavilia dorri living in Amatitian a boiling lake where water remains perilously hot. The New York Herald notes ebullition is tempered. Buckland cites experiments showing fish survive days in water impossibly hot for humans. Other travelers record eels in Aix springs and ash in a South American volcano.
Peterborough's brickyards produce about 400,000,000 bricks annually, enough to circle the north girdle four times if laid end to end. The brick industry has transformed the city economy, creating wealth from clay and earning the district the nickname Kin "itike." Experts fear future clay supply may limit output for a century.
The London Lancet flags England as lagging in applying its own scientific discoveries to technical industries. It notes that German manufacturers have capitalized on English scientific advances, harming British industry and goods quality.
A Chicago Inland Ocean piece notes attractive bronze copper and silver plated cooking aids for amateur cooks. Each can mount on its own spirit lamp or electric fitting. The article cites Epicurean and health culture trends driving growing sales of individual cooking appliances for home use.
The New York Sun notes many French con artists copy successful American ruses. One common trick involved a woman entering a store and the thief posing as a husband to steal her money before she can recover. American women are seen as more guarded. Another long-running scam used a man and boy: a pitcher swung to provoke a bet, then the boy allegedly breaks the pitcher as the man ensures a win, robbing the victim.
An account notes popes have varied on tobacco use from excommunication threats by Urban VII to Benedict XIII lifting bans in 1650. It cites Innocent X’s brief repeal, Leo XII’s snuff habit, and Pius IX smoking in private Vatican spaces, illustrating personal habits versus official stance.
The Leipzig city council passed a measure forcing city employees to live within the city limits. The ordinance, aimed at boosting growth and municipal revenues, would affect many workers across water works lighting plants storage warehouses markets and hospitals as a means to concentrate conservative votes.
Crows over Victoria roofs drop beach clams to break shells, leaving meat exposed. Musing on poison actions notes external poisons harming little and internal harm, while stomach juice may render others harmless.
Paris Conor reports ex chancellor Mgr Bauer, once chaplain of the Tuileries, has disappeared from social life. Jewish born, he retired from priesthood in 1873, frequented the opera, engaged in charity, and enjoyed ties with imperial circles. He once saluted General Galliffet at the opera stairs.
Dr L C Howard chief mosquito expert notes a new species Aedes Smithii has appeared in New Jersey and New York Harbor islands. It is the smallest and most ravenous mosquito, thriving on kerosene while other species die. Officials seek a tested poison before public announcement.
Uralite, a new material by Russian artillery officer Imachentezky, combines asbestos, silicate, bicarbonate of soda and chalk. It is waterproof, non conductor of heat and electricity, weather resistant, veneer capable, paintable and workable like wood.
Notice to the public that Boyd has reopened the old hotel run in first class style with meals at all hours. Tables will feature the best market offerings and strangers to town are assured a pleasant place to stay as CHALLIS invites patronage.
City Bakery offers fresh bread pies cakes delicious ice cream and lunch. Mary G Dorian proprietor invites customers to call for details and catering options.
Four horse Concord coaches operate on the Challis to Mackay route, the nearest rail point. Stage arrivals in Challis at a.m. and departures at p.m., carrying passengers, mail and express. Connections available with lines to Custer and Lemhi counties, DC, V, Hansen, Mer. F, Nickersons Agt., Challis.
A London paper cites Mr Baltand reporting a plant called glycine subterranea found by a Uganda coffee grower. Its edible flour tastes chestnut like, two pounds supposedly fuel a man for a day, but this plant cannot thrive in cold climates. India and Brazil are adopting it, while a forger advertises in an Italian paper for experts to imitate ancient manuscripts.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promising cure for a cold in one day. States money refunded if it fails and features E. W. Grove's signature on each box. Available from all druggists at 25 cents.
Wanted a trustworthy gentle man in each county to manage business for an old established house. Straight weekly salary of 14.00 paid by check with expenses advanced from headquarters. Enclose addressed envelope. Manager, 0 Caxton Bidy, Chicago.
Guster county in central Idaho presents rich mineral wealth and farming prospects. With a 5 000 population, towns like Challis Mackay Houston Bay horse Clayton and Custer foster mining and agriculture. The region, once explored only by prospectors, grew after 1875, aided by the Oregon Short Line extension and a Rocky Mountain Bell line to Challis.
Custer county stands as a top mining region with rich districts such as Mackay Bayhorse and Yankee Fork and multiple mills and smelters. Agriculture supports mining with irrigation potential along Salmon River, Lost River and tributaries, while stock-raising and timber add to the county’s growing economy, schools, climate, and tax revenues.
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