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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1899
Page
3
Busan Coolidge, a Congregationalist writer, reflects on hourly ascent and the mind’s endurance. He likens each hour to a hill conquered, offering glimpses of the Gates of Gold if one endures, climbs, and keeps eyes on distant, hopeful vistas.
Edith Tut tle recounts a brave voyage from Seattle to Hoquiam in western Washington to file timber land claims. With sister, she faced dense forest, rough trails, rain, and wild animals, enduring a grueling trek to establish two parcels, blaze boundaries, and build rudimentary shacks before five years of toil yielded patents and a home.
The article notes printers formatting tricks with blank pages, a tiny inhabited island near Cornwall with a lighthouse, and a Sheffield craftsman who made 12 pairs of ultra light shears weighing less than a postage stamp. It then reviews historical Bible translations by language and date, listing many nations and years from Spanish 1475 to Chinese 182.
European bike makers resist wood rim improvements while the two hour record stands at 616 miles 340 yards held by Dutch rider Maurice Cordang on the Crystal Palace track in London. In Chicago street sprinklers are told to keep a dry four foot space beside curbs for cyclists as Mayor Harrison rides a bike. A Tioga track race saw four men on a quad race five miles against six running horses, the wheelmen winning as horses stayed fresh. Up the road from Philadelphia to Atlantic City a resort offers lots at 10 to 17 dollars with meals and lodging credit for cyclists.
The piece describes trends in Russian dress including torn collar revers and oblong epaulettes in velvet with fur or braiding. It notes black satin mull with sable trimming, black velvet with flounces and pink satin bows, chinchilla fur borders on a dress, lace scarf at the decolletage, violets, and veils. Blue veils abroad gain popularity, with a spotted blue gauze veil in England.
The passage claims German women are domestic and dull, French women lack achievement but have chic, Russian women are the most capable, Italians and Spaniards are lazy and ignorant with poor dress, and overall contrasts European femininity with American ideals. It treats national groups with broad, biased judgments.
Kitchen helps advise on cleaning brooms in ammonia water and placing oyster shells to prevent clinkers. Salt on a greased stove reduces odor. Oil or gas stoves need a sand box for fires. Lift candle wicks to mouth and blow upward to prevent smoldering. Lamp wicks soaked in vinegar before use prevent smoking.
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