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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1902
Page
2
A collage of quirky items from Challis Idaho and beyond discusses a ten thousand dollar extermination fund against vast New Jersey mosquitoes, odd political quips, golf and racing riffs, a Wisconsin cow’s milk output, and a Chicago Bible theft. The piece blends satirical jabs at figures like Taft, Marconi, Kipling, and Carnegie with light social observations.
A Philadelphia Times correspondent describes a Bureau of Ethnology portrait gallery for Native Americans. About 15,000 negatives cover North Central and South American tribes, with free prints for posed subjects. Photographs aim to document front and profile views, with life masks and cautions about superstition.
Eastern writers of western tales supply humor with errors by misplacing towns and distances. The item cites Cyrun Townsend Brady’s tale of a rider covering ninety miles in two hours between two Oklahoma towns, and a Kansas location south of Topeka. It notes an Oklahoma story in March Harpers featuring Texas cowboys.
A Philadelphia Ledger writer recalls a tale of a greyhound claimed to be Gen George A Custer s dog from the Big Horn massacre era. An old postal inspector in Dakota said the hound wandered 400 to 600 miles after the battle to a northern town, surviving the clash in which Custer died.
A curious superstition spreads in Berlin as three self-styled doctors claim to eradicate disease by driving it into trees. They perform nocturnal treatments on Tuesdays and Fridays during the full moon week, inserting a needle to draw blood, collecting it on paper, shaping it into a pill, and inoculating tree bark three times, with the patient present.
Prince Adelbert third son of the German emperor sails as a cadet on the training ship Charlotte and will reach Baltimore around May first marking a notable visit by a member of the German royal family to the United States.
Last year sixty ocean going steam freighters operated exclusively in the trade. The fleet focused on coastal and international routes, maintaining steady cargo capacity and service consistency throughout the year.
The Fortnightly Review notes that shooting in the British Isles involves about 300 000 participants and 50 to 60 million cartridges fired yearly yet accidents remain rare. It recounts personal near misses and warns of reckless shots while recalling Lord Cardigan’s admonitions about using men as stops.
Chicago Record-Herald notes popes often emerged from modest origins. Examples include Benedict VI son of a baker, Sixtus IV a fisherman’s son, Sixtus V once a pig driver, Urban VI a cobbler’s son, Adrian VI a weaver, and Gregory VII son of a Tuscan carpenter. Hawthorne lauds the tomb of a pope who began as a swineherd.
A Young Men’s Christian Association committee in London proposes a central residential club akin to a superior Rowton House. The 400 bedroom facility would offer library, recreation, baths, gym, bicycle storage, and inexpensive meals at about 8 shillings weekly. Estimated cost stands near £25,000 with aims to be self funding.
A Washington woman living on a small suburban farm employs a colored youth as a handyman. After church he was moved by Lent teachings and humorously vowed to live without meat, asking for a dozen eggs each breakfast and plenty of oysters and fish to get by.
The West shows stronger gains in manufacturing and commerce than the nation overall, with a 112 percent increase versus 70 percent for the United States. Industry triumphs over natural obstacles, producing goods from coalless towns shipped worldwide, reflecting broader regional expansion.
Inventors report an ozone based water purification system tested near Berlin reducing Spree water microbes from 600000 per cubic centimeter to about 10 at a cost of 35 cents per 1000 cubic feet. The process passes ozonized air upward through a tower of mist and into incoming water, highlighting ozone as nature's disinfectant and potential for broad adoption if cheapened.
A study on 731 grain samples from major producers sought links between climate and cereal grain weight. Weights of 10,000 grains per sample were averaged and sorted by country, with top groups including Russia, the United States, Germany, Denmark Sweden Norway, England Holland Belgium, and France Spain Italy.
In rural and out of the way places a shortage of postage stamps is common. The article explains a solution to obviate this inconvenience and describes practical steps to cope with stamp scarcity.
In Munich a battery system used to run tram lines and lighting was submerged during a flood. One battery was entirely flooded, another also challenged, yet engineers successfully operated the submerged battery. It provided 4000 ampere hours overnight from a 600 ampere discharge, with losses to water.
Photographs in colors from nature via a new auto chromate process by A. Hyatt Verrill of New Haven were exhibited by Prof. A. E. Verrill at the Connecticut Academy of Sciences meeting. The images accurately rendered greens blues pinks purples yellows and oranges though intense reds did not reproduce well.
Adam Gelringer of Philadelphia has created a wagon loading device with two traction wheels a steel frame three buckets on an endless chain and a shovel elevator combo. The loader attaches to a wagon by a short chain and is operated by a single man guiding the elevator to discharge dirt into the wagon.
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