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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1910
Page
2
A Milwaukee Sentinel item describes a woman struggling with buttons at the back of her waist in a lengthy, lurid scene. The account uses sensational phrasing to emphasize physical exertion and discomfort during self-enclosure and fashion constraints in a workplace setting.
A collage of 19th century vignettes and quips including Brig. Gen. C. C. Howard’s counsel on conversion, a Brooklyn preacher’s vacation swap, a Texas race tale, and lines from Carnegie Lipton Rockefeller on wealth. Also notes on The Wisdom of Silence and a Norwegian sardine packing shift.
In a garbled Boston transcript, Cartwright is noted for winning several aviation prizes and gaining social prominence. Duddy and Salter discuss family loyalty and affection, while references to etiquette and marriage surface amid the fragmentary dialogue.
Reports cover Siansex Wales coal shipments. UK slag treatment for cement use. Victoria Australia spending on rabies warfare. Austrian trucks for 30 ton guns. scale injector cleaning method. crack fixes with paper flour paste. hanging hook design for huts. Paria wooden pavements cure. Gulfport artesian wells for firefighting. alcohol spray creates alkonethine fuel. Michigan company testing horizontal smelter. UC experiments raising rape fruit from Amoy trees. notes on upright smelters efficiency.
A simple device for drying hair rapidly is described, featuring a metallic comb with a hollow back and a two part heating iron that fits inside. The assembly resembles curling irons and functions as an efficient home use hair dryer.
A device heats air by holding a heating element over a gas jet then inverts it into a hollow back of a comb. Heat passes to the comb teeth to dry hair as the comb is drawn through. The method promises very quick drying while combing.
A Minnesota man invents a novel cash register that not only tallies sales but also rings and records transactions in a distinctive, elaborate manner suggesting a new era in automated sales equipment.
A phonographic bargain machine prints and vocalizes the price of $1.48 aloud when keys are pressed. The device announces the amount and offers a polite closing line. It could deter clerks from mispricing, greet customers with weather remarks, or advertise department bargains.
A German investigator discovers that printer's ink emits a measurable emanation passing through opaque materials and impacting photographic film. The emanation, linked to the drying of the ink, differs from radium and other radioactive substances by transforming gum arabic into a granular insoluble substance. It reflects from metal mirrors like light and oxidizes metal surfaces. The effect on sensitive paper tests requires eight or ten days.
A curious 19th century observation explains sand behavior when dry and wet. Dry sand contains air. wet sand clumps, air is expelled, and space is not fully filled by water. Capillary action and pressure from footsteps cause pale dampened areas, as water moves into squeezed sand allowing closer particle contact. Water reappears in footprints once pressure stops.
The text explains a self closing wood box that serves as a table with a drawer and contrasts it with the old open box behind the stove. It operates like self closing kitchen bins, staying shut when closed and staying open when open. A pin at the top prevents coming out, and the hinged, pivoting design allows lifting out for dirt dumping.
A description of a French locomotive feature that uses guiding wheels at right angles to the driving wheels to keep the engine on track. The wheels are designed to press flat against the inner rails to prevent derailment and handle strong curves noted for its extraordinary arbarb curves.
Roald Amundsen, aged about thirty seven, emerges as the foremost Arctic explorer of his era. He completed the Northwest Passage in a 70 foot whaling sloop the Gjoa, conducted magnetism observations near the magnetic pole, and funded much of the voyage himself.
New York reports Sir Maurice De Bunsen, British ambassador at Madrid, may succeed Bryce as Britain’s representative in Washington. An attache in 1878, he rose quickly through posts in Tokyo Siam Constantinople Paris and Lisbon before Madrid. He is of German origin and his family ties to America helped start his fortune.
A jumbled collection of dodgy prose and odd anecdotes includes a heaven gate tale with St. Peter, warnings about mercury in medicines, and a colonial travel joke about a Scottish bog road. Also present are stray lines about a wife’s cigarette remark and a misfit horse ride pun.
Chicago sculptor Charles J. Mulligan designed a new Henry Clay statue for the Lexington Kentucky monument. The 16 foot statue will be set on a 125 foot halt on April 12, Henry Clay’s birthday. An English architect originally designed the statue. lightning last year damaged the old statue but provided measurements for the new one funded by a $10,000 Kentucky appropriation.
Mrs Smithers complains of a note left yesterday while Mrs Queerlt asks about a dog howl. Mrs Smithers explains it was her daughter taking a singing lesson from Signor Velorino.
Rome will host a distinctive library project housing Treasuries of Italian and foreign papers spanning varied eras from 1848. More than 200000 collections have already been secured, establishing Rome as a center for global press history and research.
A child called Little Wille returns home after a day away and explains he delivered old letters from the wardrobe drawer tied with a bow. His mother questions the strange mission and learns the notes were from long forgotten residents. The tale hints at multiple bachelors narrowly dodging Cupid’s bow.
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