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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1902
Page
3
Lettered scraps report presidents ancestries English Scots and Welsh with odd note on Madrid statue fund and Alaska dog relay. Mentions historic transit records and medical cures. Ends with an ad urging rightness before tempting neighbors.
An open letter from Mrs. E. C. Suir of Kansas City endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's ailments. It claims the medicine cures fatigue and health issues, urging women to abandon doctors and follow the remedy, with a call for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
The Czar shows keen interest in naval progress with a marine museum housing about thirty ship models in copper steel and wood. Some models cost as much as 112000 each, highlighting luxury and technical achievement in maritime design.
Captain Dreyfus, long in exile at Cologne near Geneva, intends to leave Switzerland for Alsace where he was born. He will spend the winter in the Riviera before settling in Alsace to devote his time to literature.
An essayish chronicle blends anecdote and natural history on bees hornets and wasps with a country tale of moonshine uproar and a hornets nest misadventure. A second excerpt describes a clever Chinaman using a sucker lure to trap sea turtles for fishing.
In Frank T. Bullen’s A Sack of Shakings a remora or sucker is described as a nine-species shark under a dozen pounds with a flat adhesive head that can cling to ships, whales, and even a whale’s palate. The piece notes remarkable parasitic attachment and occasional clinging to a sperm whale jaw.
A college professor explains how ice temperatures behave in different conditions. He notes 32 degrees as the melting point, 0 degrees as a cold limit, and that ice can get colder with weather while remaining brittle. Mixing salt cools, iron and ice share cooling, and extreme cold makes ice shatter.
Veteran actor J H Stoddart stars in The Bonnie Brier Bush at Theater Republic. Scots by birth also stars Reuben Fax who plays the bibulous postman. Fax, after a sea journey, recalled a Glasgow tale of two Scots misreading war news with comic bravado from the Broomielaw quarter.
Digging Deeptor notes engineers of Transvan mines will push shafts to search for gold veins after the Boer War. Some existing shafts reach 4,000 to 5,000 feet, with others seen at 12,000 feet. Temperatures around 100 degrees are expected. cooling air might enable deeper work.
The report notes more than 6,000 building and loan associations nationwide with about 1,250,000 shareholders and aggregate net assets exceeding 450 million dollars. A large portion of these bodies operate under local charters and serve small savers across many communities.
Publishers announce that the author has six volumes of verse published and sold 536,000 copies with receipts exceeding 1,000,000 dollars. The note includes references to Scott on his deathbed and Lockhart, who quotes the Bible as the sole book. It also mentions the Thames Angling Preservation Society and royal kitchens valued at millions.
The article notes the British black rat nearly wiped out by the brown Norwegian rat over a century and now is carefully protected at Greenlees, highlighting wildlife management concerns and species protection efforts.
An old advertisement blend touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy claimed to cure catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It promises $100 for any failure, cites testimonials, and promotes Hamlin's Blood and Liver Pills and a throat and lung cure from various patent medicine makers with dated endorsements.
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