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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1901
Page
3
A Cuban planter describes chronic labor shortages since the insurrection and outlines worker composition and wages. He notes that women do no field work in winter, favoring Negro women during harvest, and details monthly gold wages plus ration scales for overseers and guards. The piece also mentions a Paris exhibition on a microbe based distilling process converting starch to sugar and then alcohol.
A survey of French chestnuts as a common lunch or dinner item with methods for roasting or boiling and mashing. The piece cites U S government experiments on nut indigestibility and moisture, fat, and starch content. Notes on a sultan's milk practices and a digression into nails and a Boston charity will.
An expedition to capture a Malay youth's attacker, a “man monkey” or malas, ends tragically as the hunter is seized from a palm tree. The beast pulls him up by the arm and hair, swinging him before throwing him to the ground where he dies. A white hunter then shoots the ape, which collapses and dies.
A Book World note describes a Chinese editorial ritual praising rejected writers. The piece depicts a fawning, ritualistic letter claiming supreme literary merit and begging forgiveness for not publishing the manuscript. It mocks excessive flattery used to soften disappointment.
The Portland wreck of November 1898 is recounted with survivors from the City of Monticello confirming a near duplicate fate. Side wheelers, aging and used on dangerous routes, reveal persistent hazards in open sea service and question the continued employment of such vessels.
A Philadelphia youth, regular visitor to Chinatown, drinks a special tea at 25 cents a bowl. He reportedly consumes fifteen or twenty bowls in an evening, becomes foolish but does not stagger, and later claims memory gaps after the ninth or tenth cup.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes a man in the midst of a spree suffering a severe headache and dry mouth. He does not drink alcohol due to dislike of its taste and remains in good standing with a total abstinence society despite attempts to expel him, as he violates none of its rules.
Gold discovery in 1851 at Mitchell or Gold Harbor on Queen Charlotte Island, reported by Dr G M Dawson. A nugget found by an Indian woman led to a Fort Simpson shipment, then a quartz vein seven inches wide yielded up to 25 percent gold. The vein produced for months before fading, with estimates of value ranging from 20 000 to 75 000. Concurrently, coal mining began anew at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
Luke Tint a worthless old vagabond infuriated townsfolk for years. After repeated drunkenness arrests and failed plans to curb him a vigilante group, though avoiding mob violence, hurled him from the town, dumping him in a creek and ordering him to move on. He cursed the regulators as he crawled away.
The Great Northern railway tunnel through two and a half miles of solid granite in the Cascade range is a landmark of the century. Boring begun from both ends, the center meeting differed by scarcely one inch. The work took 45 months with 6 000 men using compressed air drills.
Purely personal sketch profiles Ethelyn Leslie Huston born in Toronto, raised in Idaho, and based in Chicago as vice president of the Independent Pen Woman’s club. Her writings on social evolution and moral independence propelled her to prominence, with early clashes over clergy narrowness and a career in patriotic and literary circles. Extravagant college sports are criticized as overindulgent, urging reform to protect study time and student safety.
Viscount Cranborne, eldest son of Lord Salisbury, is parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs. He spoke in parliament on the Nicaraguan canal treaty tabled by Henry Norman. He is thirty, entered Parliament at twenty five, educated at Oxford, and married to the daughter of the fifth Earl of Arran.
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