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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1902
Page
3
A miscellany of verse, curiosities, and wonders from near and far. Poems weave romance at sea by JT Know, while Detroit showcases a grand floral clock clockwork with five thousand plants. Oddities include a Bohemian imposter tale, Roumanian salt mines, a petrified ship rumor, and a Jamaica earthquake survivor tomb inscription.
Pampas plumes have become a key California industry. After cutting, an 80 day drying period leaves the hills white with plume dust. Plumes are cured, sorted, and sold in 36 inch lengths, packed in 2000s or large cases. Prices range from 200 to 500 thousand dollars, with orchards from 5,000 hills yielding 250,000 plumes to small ranches. California produces about 2.5 million plumes annually for U S and Europe.
In Adams county at the mouth of Sulphur a blind 72 year old mother of the Gifford family manages all housework and sewing with skill. She identifies her two cats by touch and times the day by sun heat on a window frame. Her 80 year old husband needs extensive care and once kept rattlesnakes as curiosities in West Union. Georgetown 0, News-Democrat.
A well known student of nature once tried the growing force of a vegetables. The fragment notes a curiosity about natural growth and plant power, hinting at experiments or observations by an familiar naturalist.
Four months ago two kittens were left in Dan Kindly's yard in German Town Ohio. They were ignored until scraps were given to the chickens. One kitten was killed. the other now roams with the flock and follows the chickens at night, sleeping under a Plymouth Rock hen.
Randall B. Andros of Boston, Mass presents an automatic corkscrew with a spiral spring inside a telescoping barrel. Grasp and press to drive the blade into the cork then pull. the blade twists as it exits and the spring then drives the blade back, freeing the cork.
E C Woodhell of Highpoint North Carolina unveils an air powered generator that uses a tall stack and heated intake to drive a small dynamo. The device aims to cut fuel costs by using ambient air currents, with storage batteries for intermittent power and potential use charging auto batteries.
Lloyd B. Smith of Portsmouth Ohio presents a natural bed sand or gravel filtering system for towns. Water flows by gravity through sand to perforated pipes buried in the bed and into a main conduit to the pumping station, aiming for quantity purity and low installation cost. The design covers natural river or lake beds and adaptable artificial beds.
Inventor H C Needham of Los Angeles unveils a rotary powered kitchen stand with a driving gear clamp to hold assorted implements. The illustrated unit shows a nutmeg grater in use and includes egg whisks, an emery wheel, a drill and a shell cleaner, all adjustable without turning the crank.
A new fluid lens enables instantaneous photography in ordinary light, improving action and depth of focus for night scenes and theater. Early demonstrations with kinematograph pictures showed promising results, capturing both performers and backdrops sharply. Nancy Washington of Boston dies at 107, noted as the oldest King’s daughter in this country.
A quirky humor column parodies life and science talk with snippets about germ theory limits and a champagne dinner mishap. Cartoonish exchanges feature Mrs De Vince and Professor Miss Skylight weighing life paths and ambitions alongside domestic quips about roast, lawn care, and a luminous clock sales pitch.
A comic set piece centers on a marriage license bureau exchange where a little man seeks trouble for $2. A gruff neighbor jokes about discharging a nurse to tame a habit, while a dog trained to sing and a line about a dog shot at seven times provide farcical interludes. A Missouri man refuses a $12,000 name change legacy amid reflections on girls and names.
A collage of brisk exchanges and wry quips on finance bragging, love, and daily life. A stock tip bluff, a campaign fund joke, a mortgage quip, elopement letters, balloons and memento humor, and a sly crowd of anonymous conversational bits.
A memorial plaque over a Missouri scrapper’s grave quotes him as constant in seeking fights. The excerpt includes quips about a tramp at Martinique and a party couple’s exchange, reflecting old humorous snippets and definitions of a politician as a skilled evader of big promises.
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