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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1910
Page
3
A sprawling mosaic of vignettes and speech fragments unfolds from a bustling street and dining room. Characters joke about marriage and money while neighbors trade quips, songs, and sly observations on modern life, ending with a jab at the Van Gills.
American made footwear dominates in style and finish, outpacing French and others. The article notes diverse lasts for every foot, several "Mannish" walking shoes, and abundant models in kid and calfskin. It stresses care, two walking pairs, indoor slippers, and dress shoes, with fashion guidance and practical tips.
Describes a simple Hite dress with a deep tuck at the skirt foot and slight waist fullness. Bodice joins the skirt with a prettily shaped pertha around a tucked silk yoke edged with plaited silk. Straw hat features ribbons and leather buttons. Materials listed include four yards fabric, two yards silk, and twenty buttons.
A compilation cites longevity higher in nations with low birth rates. It notes English taxation on advertisements, cider yields from apples, a Paris store selling serial fight accessories, rising insanity rates in England Scotland and Ireland, a light admitting ambulance design, Charcot’s microbes in Antarctic animals, tactile watches for the blind, patents granted to British women, and Panama Canal gear chain tensile tests at Washington.
A Philadelphia inventor improves the corkscrew with a corkpuller that neatly withdraws even tightly wedged corks. The device inserts into the cork, the upright arm acts as a wedge, and the handle serves as a lever to extract without spillage or soiling clothing. The corkscrew and wedge fold inside the hollow handle when not in use.
In weeks the evening sky will show Halley’s Comet, a rare bright visitor with a 36 year orbit. Astronomers worldwide await its sighting as history records its periodic returns. Early descriptions show its brightness has diminished over time.
A London Globe report outlines a theory that Earth’s mean density exceeds five times water, implying an iron core with a density around 7.7. The crust is estimated at 930 miles thick, and the interior is termed the bary sphere.
The United States is worn down at about one inch every 769 years based on 20 years of stream gauging and water analysis by the geological survey the engineer corps and the weather bureau with state and municipal support. Streams remove 87 tons of dissolved solids and 166 tons of suspended matter per square mile each year totaling 270 900 000 tons dissolved and 1 141 100 tons suspended matter annually.
A German invention offers a rattling alarm clock that wakes all nearby without disturbing others in the house. The device uses a mouthpiece like a telephone with a hammer on a spring striking the diaphragm to produce a sharp penetrating signal. Also noted are Royal Institution talks on porous solids and vacuum techniques, including hydrogen through glass and sodium flow through a window for high vacuum tubes. An Italian physicist reportedly passes hydrogen through iron when cold.
Rear Admiral Mason told a House Navy Affairs committee that an eight inch gun lasts about 200 rounds. The original twelve inch gun erodes after 80 rounds but with lower velocity and a wider copper rifling band its life reached roughly 150 rounds. After 150 rounds each gun would need relining at a cost near 12 000, about a quarter the new price.
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