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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1900
Page
2
The item surveys various topics from naval prestige to finance and labor groups. It notes Admiral Sampson’s sympathy for English readers, Rockefeller’s influence on Dr Harper, Massachusetts street railways, mint funding bills, and new worker organizations. It also covers navy prize question, European gold flows, and dog experiment findings with electricity.
A U S expedition reports vast flocks on Midway Islands with albatrosses facing intruders. The scene highlights bird abundance and potential civil service reforms as Turks exhibit curbside post chaos. An American traveler recalls biased postal charges and rude clerks amid broader calls for reform.
A column discusses a patent for a condensed milk process using freezing and thawing in a centrifugal separator, its potential benefits, and the need for demonstration of utility. It warns about contamination risks, advocates pasteurization, and notes counterfeit branding of state cheese and butter brands. It also covers the Grout bill in Congress and state policing of food within borders, plus concerns about milk packaging and tubs reaching commission merchants.
A Pleasant Hill breeder recounts using cow’s milk to raise lambs with high survival. He describes early feeding from heifers, bottle feeding, and turning lambs onto grain, claiming 98 percent survival after lambs were a few days old. He contrasts his results with neighbor Lyman Hill, attributing gains to turnips and increased milk.
Hon. Edward J. Phelps ex ambassador to Britain and Vermont politician dies in New Haven Conn born 1822 Middlebury Vermont a Yale law professor and poet who served as minister to Great Britain 1886 1889 and was a member of the Bering Sea arbitration panel His career spanned law diplomacy politics and literary work with noted lectures on jurisprudence and a sharp Yankee wit
A historical summary highlights African American advancement: literacy down 45 percent in 35 years, 1.5 million Black students in common schools, 40,000 in higher education, 30,000 Black teachers, 250 000 volumes in Black libraries, 156 higher education institutions, 600 Black physicians, 250 Black lawyers, 8 banks run by Black people, 3 magazines edited by Black editors, and 400 newspapers under Black management. Total value of libraries, school property, church property, firms, homes, and personal property noted, with $10 million raised for Black education since the War.
A traveler recounts difficulties making friends after a cold Gibraltar encounter. A congenial couple, later revealed as the duchess of Cleveland’s staff, fails to welcome his advances, ending with an awkward interruption as a maid and valet are summoned for the duchess.
A historical description outlinesJohannveburs as a near impregnable fronted by a natural tort a thirty mile stretch of earth called tallings. It notes 14 mounds of ground up rocks and debris from which gold has been extracted and claims the fort would resist shell or shot differently during recumulation of five years mining refuse.
An elderly orator appeals to a state committee on street railways to relocate a proposed electric road to shield a village center. The scene, filled with nostalgia for old towns and William Cullen Bryant, draws in committee members as the speaker urges preserving peace and quiet.
Mrs Catherine V Waite wife of former Judge Charles B Waite prepares to form a Denver law partnership with her husband. Canadian born and Oberlin educated she has been farmer teacher lecturer author merchant builder real estate dealer contractor and estate manager. She studied law during her husband’s European absence and was admitted to the bar past age 50. She once owned three large hotels at the World’s Fair earning 42000 before moving to Colorado seeking freedom and opportunity for women.
Artificial Com Montag claims a process by which any earth except sand and gravel is mixed with secret ingredients, pressed into brick forms, and produced as a hard, highly inflammable fuel that German manufacturers plan to adopt in place of pit coal.
A farm note discusses feeding young dairy calves with milk and nitrogenous rations, arguing milk supports growth and prevents stunting. It compares costs of proposed substitutes, notes regional price differences, and emphasizes natural growth with milk. Poultry notes cover hen slaughter age, feather value, and farmer perseverance amid early failures, plus a caution on protective inoculation concepts.
A writer recalls a calf that would not drink milk and survived on grain and water, noting the lesson that early solid feeding can aid calves. The piece contrasts urban wealth myths with farm life and cites legal opinion on sheep-kill dog liability, ending with a proverb about a mother’s heart guiding a child.
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