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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1903
Page
5
Government notices show deadlines and names such as JAMES M. STEVENS, Judge, with dates August 24 and September 7 for Bingham County and references to Fremont County and month identifiers. The readable fragments indicate official actions or deadlines.
Custer Encampment No 10 1 CC F meets in the Odd Fellows hall Challis on the Istana 3rd Wednesday nights at 8 o clock. visiting Patriarchs in good standing welcome. John Stephens C P J & Finnell Serie present official notices and salutations.
A New York Sun noted Adirondack bear at Sanders Mill near Mud River attends the local district school. The bear, learning manners, eats scraps from the children and teacher, then returns to the woods, becoming a daily guest of the school lunch routine.
A Chicago Tribune note claims women’s pompadours with sunburst fringes are being puffed up to the forehead, a habit starting in seminary dining rooms and spreading to Philadelphia and beyond. A witness describes hundreds of girls in springtime dining rooms blowing their fringe while rolling eyes in coy, coquettish fashion.
A London exhibit features twelve satin panels 11 by 3 feet each, woven with 120 silk and chenille shades. Mme Leroudier, a French needlecraft artist, created the complex work depicting mythic figures such as Venus Juno and Mars amid floral motifs, with thousands of stitches on Venus. Also recounted is a Washington report about a life insurance policy used as a passport substitute in Russia. Oregon leads American exhibits at Osaka with state funding and a Japanese syndicate purchasing the display.
M Spencer, head of Cleveland National Bank, plans a world circle in roughly 29 days if connections hold. The route centers on Visdivostok to Yokohama and includes Moscow, Vladivostok, Niche, Yokohama, San Francisco, and Cleveland with days allocated for each leg. The plan awaits final detailing and fast transfers to beat existing records.
The electric whip by J A Giles of Eiberon Georgia passed a successful test at Chicago stock yards. A small battery powers wires to copper plates in the saddle. a button shock makes all horses spurred simultaneously. Giles claims it will drive teams quickly and outperform ordinary whips. The first test freed a stubborn horse and others followed with similar success.
Kenosha Wisconsin principal Hamill issues an ironclad edict expelling any pupil who uses cigarettes until they prove reform. Board of Education backs him as tobacco use among boys reaches alarming levels. A state law against sale of cigarettes does not stop paper pipes. some boys threaten strikes but rule stands.
The Methodist Recorder prints an ad by President Gladden calling for three or four pastors for circuit work. Applicants should have a small family, be able to furnish a horse and begin for a nominal salary of 400 to 500 dollars, likely a parsonage, and stay under fifty. The piece also notes a Hoboken resident, age 103, climbing five flights of stairs occasionally, joking about training for the golden stairs.
Arboriculture notes that Mexican houses use minimal wood with solid stone and brick walls or adobe, brick floors, and brick arch roofs. Doors and roof-supporting joists are the main wood elements, while church roofs use brick arches. Fire risk differs from the wood-heavy structures of France, China, and the United States.
An Indiana newspaper notes a north front plinth of the new federal building bears a delicate tracery appearing as rattlesnake outlines. A Bedford quarry stone expert recalls ancient petrified markings and explains damp weather reveals the pattern while sun exposure would erase it, making the snakes disappear.
Edison argues no worker is as mechanical as the telegraph operator. A Cincinnati cub operator fails to grasp Lincoln's shooting, reading the news mechanically from a file. Also notes hot springs in Cimarron area, a phonographic record of the brown thrush, and advances in electrolytic caustic alkalis and chlorine for bleaching powders.
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