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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1904
Page
4
The Chicago Tribune reports France will replace the bright red trousers of its infantry with a darker hue. The change aims to reduce visibility to enemy sharpshooters, sparking regret in Paris over losing a cherished military landmark and iconic Parisian image.
The piece notes a coming cohort of young lawmakers in the fifty-eighth Congress, with 50 new members aged 24 to 32. It cites Mr. North Overton Messenger and compares their potential impact to a president who started at 44, emphasizing a blend of youth and experienced guidance to drive legislative power.
Mothers at the Battersea municipal milk depot show lively interest in infant weights. A shell shaped scale used by grocers weighs eight to ten month olds, with a champion eight month old at 28 pounds and a three week old at about four pounds. Municipal milk serves 400 mothers daily. daily cost for six to nine bottles per child runs a few pence. The program, called Mills Hope, has cut Battersea infant death rate from 110 to 94 per thousand.
The article discusses how muscular energy speeds alcohol removal from blood. Experiments by M Grehant show slow elimination at rest versus rapid decrease when a dog is exercised in a three meter wheel. He suggests implications for overindulgence and mentions possible benefits of movement to offset intoxication.
A fragmented report notes that 9700 Americans visited Switzerland last summer and claims American Tuurteus and shoe stores are expanding into multiple German cities. The text references broad American commercial activity abroad with unclear specifics.
A nostalgic account describes a haymakers picnic for children in a rural setting. Girls wear sunbonnets and gingham, boys broad hats and overalls, riding a decorated hay wagon to the hayfield. Meals are simple eaten outdoors, milk in a dipper, lanterns light a barn dance with a small orchestra.
A short London tale recounts a jealous husband enforcing his claim on his wife after a flirtatious exchange with a young man outside a tobacconist. The woman later retrieves her bracelet, and the husband accepts the loss, while a second item urges debiliated readers to rise early for vigor.
The Washington Star reports a jailhouse exchange where a reformer thanks a prisoner for a change of heart, praising tracts and newspapers over personal coercion. The inmate admits a promise to avoid burglary, highlighting a dubious get-rich-quick scheme as the true lure behind crime.
The Kansans City Star lauds Lady Curzon as a model of American adaptability in royalty circles. It notes she rose from Chicago roots, lacks hereditary culture, and has earned poise through a keen mind and amiable nature. The piece contrasts British and American social development, highlighting faster American social cultivation.
Three Pittsburgh women started a new ready to serve dinner venture in Oakland a year ago. They built a heat retaining buffet to keep meals hot and fresh for hours. The service quickly appeals to housewives, offering a simple meal solution and easing the burden of cooking.
Dr Wilhelm Oswald of the University of Leipzig invents a photography process using silver on hydrogen peroxide treated negatives. The invisible image transfers to gelatin, develops with iron sulfate, then fixes with gallic acid to yield a lasting positive. The method promises indefinite sensitized paper reuse and rapid, night-free copying of any design.
The Avaligipads off southwest Persia are described as the hottest area on earth with Bahréin averaging 99 degrees yearly. Travelers say nightly lows hover near 100 and daytime highs reach 140 degrees, with 75,000 Arabs living in the Aval group and 26,000 on Bahréin. Other cities list extreme temps like Hyderabad 105 and Death Valley 122.
The Scottish Field notes deer often sleep during daytime and feed at night with rest periods from about ten or eleven a.m. to four p.m. or noon to five p.m. Foresters recall stags asleep in groups, some at close range, and a three year old found asleep near a recently shot stag.
The Baltimore American notes crusades for public health face many obstacles including public indifference. It argues health reform requires awareness of sanitation rules, since many feel fine despite surroundings. It cites surprising cases where dirty gutters coexist with low mortality, challenging assumptions about cleanliness and health.
A quirky collection of quotes and notices includes Col Williams of the Second Kentucky regiment praising Kentucky as the finest state for cattle, women, and dining. A Florida amusements caterer recounts meeting him in Cincinnati and a breakfast anecdote about a steak, whisky, and a dog. Also noted are Baron Henri de Rothschild fined in Paris for auto searching, and a Chicago Record-Herald line favoring Shamrock II as a prettier mare than Len MI- Jon, with light collateral remarks.
Report of the surgeon general shows 45,218 candidates examined for enlistment with about two thirds accepted. Of whites 27,790 were accepted and 2,386 of 4,036 colored men were accepted. Among enlistees 781.05 per 1000 were born in the United States, 64.76 in British territory, 45.25 in Germany, 8.79 in Sweden and Norway. Indian scouts included 18 examined. 736 Filipino Malays were tested for Philippine scouts with all but 20 accepted, reflecting high physique standards.
The Bauk Ste Marie district produced about 160 million feet of lumber in 1902 and projects over 400 million feet in 1903. At least 76 percent of the cut is from mills owned and operated by Americans. Two large saw mills were built this year and a veneering mill has operated profitably during the season.
A historical sketch extols Custer County Idaho as rich in scenery people and resources. It outlines mining districts such as Mackay Bayhorse and Yankee Fork, agriculture grazing and irrigation potential, growing towns, transportation links, mills and smelters, ample timber, and a booming tax base while noting need for better transport capital and development to realize its vast mineral wealth.
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