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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1901
Page
6
Ice yachtsmen prepare for a lively season on northern lakes with large windless ice ideal for lightweight skeleton yachts. Racing dominates the sport, heightening both excitement and risk as crews chase speed amid crashes, splintered debris, and fatal accidents, while enthusiasts insist racing remains essential to ice yachts.
In a Chicago Philadelphia long distance call a wife hears her mother call out Daughter and sobs with joy as they reconnect after years apart. The event, costing fifteen dollars in tolls, is cited as proof of the telephone's human value and personality behind the voice. A bishop cites Mississippi’s lack of wealth as a factor in the high life expectancy of older men.
The piece extols Swiss glaciers with vivid contrast. It ranks the Matterhorn as the grandest sight while praising Aletsch Rhone and Mont Blanc ice fields as immense frozen torrents. It emphasizes Gorner Grat as a surround of frozen seas where snow peaks loom and evoke overpowering glacial splendor.
Bishop Thompson of Mississippi remarked that the state has a higher share of elderly men than any other state. His comment reflects concerns about aging in the state and implications for social services and policy.
Proposal to equip cod fishermen on Newfoundland banks with underwater microphones, telephones, and a battery to detect steamers by sound transmitted underwater. The device could hear a ship's screw thrash about three miles away, allowing time to warn and signal.
John P. Holland argues in the North American Review that submarines avoid seasickness since motion is absent underwater. Electric propulsion from stored batteries eliminates odors and steam, with propulsion confined to an airtight chamber. Submerged boats can travel at varying depths to prevent collisions.
After a public career of thirty years the late Senator Davis faced persistent stage fright before speeches. Other veterans of public life shared this fear. Joseph Jefferson speaks yearly of his nerves before an audience and John B. Gough noted his knees knocking when presenting.
A Georgia farmer near Seven Bridges establishes the first known alligator farm with 37 breeding saurians on 300 acres of swampland. He plans to hatch eggs in sunlit sand boxes and rear babies for curiosities as wild market demand grows, while noting slow growth and risks from predators and egg harvesters.
A succinct aphorism asserts that when a man fulfills his duty to himself he fulfills his duties to the broader world, linking personal integrity with public responsibility. The quote emphasizes self-governance as a foundation for communal good.
A New York Almanac earns praise for artistic cover colorings precise calendars and rich information. a unique Baby's Record page blank for birth dates may be mailed. Western Missouri reports light earthquake shakes Tuesday night.
Dr Llewellyn Jordan medical examiner of the U S Treasury Department praises Peruna for curing catarrh after one month of use. He asserts Peruna acts by stimulating nerve centers and mucous membranes, offering a guaranteed cure with no substitutes. A free book on catarrh is offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
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