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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
2
Describes a log hauling wagon with double timber axles and notched joints. Hounds and reach are fitted with cutouts and slots, holes, and iron plates for sliding parts. Turntable ends use wooden sides with iron bolts. wheels feature bored holes and rolled logs.
Improvised smoking setup using two empty barrels. Lower barrel holds smoldering chips or corn cobs with an opening for adding fuel. Upper barrel rests on hooks or rods, with meat hung from its bottom or through the sides to smoke.
Practical notes warn to prune with care, keep thorns away, and place manure near the surface for wheat. Root crops benefit from damp sand cover, rye on thin clay may outperform wheat, and can feed livestock. Do not seek farming talks while wood is spent. feed pigs with barley shorts and skim milk in dry, well kept pens.
A farmer’s son, exposed to new engineering ideas at college, secretly installs underground water pipes from a hill spring to his house. He proves water can flow to kitchen taps, but his father blocks extending the system to the barn, illustrating how people resist natural-law improvements.
The text outlines improvised contrivances to work as a wheel and rope guide, rat control methods using trained animals or fumigation with carbon bisulfide, and advice on forestry and agricultural practices. It warns against overharvesting timber and stresses cleanliness, fresh air, and pure food to prevent disease.
A writer describes a single worker hog killing system built from a galv iron vat four by two by eighteen inches deep and a windlass pulley setup. A frame of two by four strips supports a carrier and hay wagon traveler repurposed as a bench, enabling a single man to move heavy hogs from vat to bench without extra help.
Farmers report spring outbreaks of canker or sore mouth in pigs. Symptoms start with lumps on the sow’s udder and mouth sores, then blisters on the lips tongue and mouth. Treatment includes carbolic acid rinse, powdered sulphur, and wiping or bathing the sow’s teats and udder while isolating affected pigs.
Ex-Gov Hoard advises improved breeds and ground grain for hogs with poor teeth. Inspect teeth before winter and float if needed. Avoid feeding old corn unground, keep hogs cool and hay mixed with meat for best feed efficiency. One ear of corn daily plus alfalfa keeps a brood sow in good condition through winter.
Culled beans mixed with other grains can feed sheep swine and dairy cows. Tests show swine gain about one pound daily at roughly $2.50 per 100 pounds. Feed only when cooked after soaking several hours. Cook via live steam in a barrel or a regular cooker. for small quantities a pot works best. Breeding notes emphasize sturdy animals with bone muscle and good constitution.
A physician answers a winter morning call to find a man fearing death but the doctor teases him about his premonition. The man nervously asks about wills pastors and lawyers while the doctor quips about fooling him on a cold day. Nearby humor strips follow in brief snippets.
A humorous exchange cited by the Chicago Daily News shows a lady patient lamenting eye troubles. The physician replies that everyone suffers, and she would suffer even more without them, highlighting medical bluntness and irony.
In a Royal Magazine style piece Horace asks if college authorities reinstated a student named Smith after expulsion. Helen replies almost, then the dialogue shifts to a teacher asking Benny Bloobumper how far the moon is from Earth. Benny hesitates and complies with a stern cue to sit.
The Caylloma silver mines in Peru sit higher than any others and are likely first worked by the Incas. The author notes the Incas would have understood advertising as a tool. A collection of quoted remarks from various sources reflects playful, clipped snippets and misheard phrases.
A fragmentary dialogue reports a mother wanting cremation and a young wife urging action. A separate line notes a newsroom item about new offices in a New York skyscraper and a judge asking about social strata. The text resembles a columned gossip snippet from a city paper.
An Artful fragment describes West Side despair at a rain-soaked pushcart market showing ruined goods and struggling sellers. It also notes a book titled Nursing from GW Putnam’s Sons as essential for nurses amid ongoing care improvements.
London Country Life salutes Bury St. Edmunds as a model English agricultural town. It praises its lack of noise and smoke, describing it as free from turmoil common in large manufacturing cities and delightful to visit.
A Bobbs Merrill release from Indianapolis presents Rosalind at Red Gate as a romance laced with mystery. The review lauds the tale as a vivid old love story with captivating situations that unfold to keep readers eager through the chapters.
John Ruskin lauds reverence as life’s power and joy in youth and age. Bernhard Berensdt's The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, published by G. W Putnam's Sons, New York, offers scholarly discussion of master painters, sketchings, and portraits and should appeal to art enthusiasts.
Quote heavy brief reflects on preparation for the future and the value of completing present duties with care, attributed to George Macdonald.
A fragmented 19th century column discusses cider as a universal but mixed drink in Rouen and villages, mentions a 1892 pageant, Louis de Brozes in Normandy, Harold Morton Kramer’s Gayle Langford, and a theater adaptation by Joseph Mitel. It weaves in social morals about parenting, dress, and a wife’s varied historical roles across nations.
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