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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1912
Page
6
Silver Messenger column from Challis Idaho lampoons modern life with quirky items on education New York death rates wealth and crime while roaming topics include fashion hemp of new comets aviation plans and bath tub symbolism in a brisk column voice with local color and ephemeral social jabs.
A National Child Labor committee exhibit in New York exposes the brutal toil of children in mines glass works and cotton mills. The piece details ages as young as eight to fourteen toiled long hours under dangerous conditions, with examples from Pennsylvania West Virginia South Carolina and Massachusetts, highlighting fatalities sickness and lifelong harm among child workers and the lack of protective laws in several states.
The article argues beef tea and meat broths aid digestion and recovery. It cites Pawlow like experiments on dogs showing stimulation of gastric fluids, asserts broth supports assimilation after real food, and claims physicians can safely recommend beef tea as a rational, scientific aid to digestion. It notes preserved meat in war lacked aromatic constituents, harming flavor.
The Brighton Railway, celebrating its 70th anniversary, pioneered low fare day trips to Brighton with regular excursion service. Return halves were sold openly, cutting profits, so the company prosecuted sellers at Brighton station. It established that transfer of return tickets created an express personal contract and is not transferable.
A senior partner questions a junior about trusting a struggling young man. The junior defends the choice, saying the risks are fair and the man hopes to marry into wealth with hopeful prospects of security.
Archibald N. Campbell was held on $1,000 bail by Magistrate Butts in Yorkville court for burglary after allegedly taking love letters from Miss Adela Landar, orchestra leader at the St George apartments. Detective Taczkowski kept the letters hidden as Mrs Lottie Guyer, the janitress, testified they led to the arrest. Campbell, a tall thirty-year-old man, remained silent as the proceedings opened.
George W. Brown argues for strict farm sanitation to prevent cholera. He describes shifting swine pens, fresh forage, and avoiding streams to minimize disease risk, noting shade, dry housing, and clean conditions as essential for healthier hogs and soil enrichment.
A Missouri inventor describes a versatile window guard that acts as a gate built from parallel pickets linked by cross bars. It slides on rollers, folds compactly beside an opening, or spans across and can be fastened. The device’s many practical applications are noted, though the text is incomplete.
A guide on building and placing poultry houses for laying hens. Emphasizes dry warm ventilated spaces, lumber framing over stone, seasonal construction, and keeping hens safe with proper roosts and secure yards.
A garbled entry mentions swindlers and a mayor of a city, with unclear references to potatoes and weights. It appears as fragmented OCR text from a 2010s era paper, lacking coherent events or verifiable details. No clear person, place, organization, date, or outcome can be reliably extracted.
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