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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1902
Page
4
A jumble of quips from 20th century papers highlights social foibles and wit. Snippets feature a railway magnate’s daughter, a possible divorce, a new editor chasing circulation, lending money with a wink, elopement by car, and neighbors failing to visit a ailing neighbor.
The London dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean details Prof. Haeckel’s note on the so called human monkey of Java, hylobates leuciscus, including its childlike stature, humanlike face, long arms, and speech traits. It discusses native views, behavior, and reactions to wine, bananas, and fruit, with observations of gestures and emotions in a household setting.
The column discusses how moths emerge after 15 to 60 days with temperature, fruit bloom and natural waterproofing, damp decay when rubbed, painters in Grenoble striking over white lead use, naval speeds for torpedo boats at 25 and 20 knots, and suggests introducing night birds to combat mosquitoes. It also notes BP Carmody's mosquito device for tropical wear and the rise of air engine efficiency reducing oil use and expanding portable power.
The Indianapolis News notes a historical drought in Indiana during 1764 after the French and Indian War. Waterways including the Maumee, Sandusky, Scioto, Great Miami, and Wabash ran low, forcing British messengers to drag canoes and hindering movement toward Pontiac’s frontier.
George Y. Russell of Park City Utah explains to a Washington Post reporter the dangers of Salt Lake bathing. He notes extreme buoyancy and that drowning is rare yet salt accumulation can suffocate swimmers, with wrecks and deaths from salt swallowing occurring after brushes with spray. He compares Salt Lake to Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay bathing and recalls Utah bathers seeking safer water in America.
The excerpt compiles varied notes on telegraph lines, sugar production, colonial governance, Persian music, naval rankings, fashion tips, and opal mining. It mentions 192,705 miles of telegraph lines, 999,153 miles of wire in the U.S., 81 beet sugar factories, and opals from Australia yielding nearly $2 million since 1889.
A Detroit Free Press essay highlights how a daughter in a family handles a demanding elderly father and moody mother with grace. She grants forgiveness, endures peevishness, and hides her own talents behind acts of care using simple tools and daily chores.
School savings banks have become a notable part of education as teachers volunteer to run them. Across the United States, especially in the West, California towns adopt the system. the movement reports 3088 banks with 03,567 depositors, $876,000 deposited since start and $355,000 on hand. In Montgomery County deposits reach $175,000 over ten years with 4,000 depositors carrying $40,018 on January 1. Atlantic City reports $6,376 deposited in the last school year.
Notics is hereby given tht the following: Hamed settler tus tiled notive of his Invention to mule Gaul proof in support of ix clalmn, and that said proof will be made twforn L. Hi. Jon ston, A. 4 Commissioner, at Challis Idaho, on January Sted, 108, vie . WILLARD G. SWEET, H.W. No, 1875, for Lot 2, SEK, SW, Seo. 7%, Tp. RK. 2H, and BY, NIM, Boo. M, Bp. HN, i. 21. He names the following Witnessex 0 prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of wald fond, vie . Frank Reed, of Chellis, Idaho. 'Chutes Waddleton, of Chuliis, Idaho. James Hooper, of Morxe, Idaho. Prank Tolman, of May, Idaho. Nd. NHTARP, Register, First publication Dec. 17th, 1901.
Under an Order of Sale by the Probate Court of Custer County Idaho dated December 2 1901 a private sale will be held for an undivided one third share of the Boomerang milling estate on Mount Estes. Bids received at B Spalding store Chalits daha terms cash Ten percent of bid due at sale balance on court confirmation Executor Albert C Bomar will sell the estate first published December 8 1901.
Joseph Moggs of Challis Idaho has filed intent to make proof on desert land claim No 00 for the NW N W H Sec 23 Tp 1N R4W before L H Johnston notary public at Challis Idaho on Wednesday February 8 1902 witnesses named to prove complete irrigation and reclamation including Kald and Charles M Colvin of Challis Idaho John Adina William H Falkner of Albert Smut St
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