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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1901
Page
6
A garbled parade of phrases mentions the Grand Duchess Olga, Lord Rosebery, Mark Twain, and Brown County Indiana, touching on wealth, literature, and early communications. The text is fragmentary and inconsistent, with references to a large stone, investments, and absent rail or telegraph lines.
An English observer commends American soldiers for facing the enemy and resisting temptations in Peiping under challenging conditions. The record also notes a new slot machine that charges car batteries in minutes, exhibited at New York, and mentions Whaleback steamers on the Mississippi River with water tight compartments. One vessel demonstrated pumping to trim the craft from a sand bar in fifteen minutes.
The article discusses speed trials comparing ships and suggesting U S victory in races if engagements arose. It notes fears of naval superiority if foreign squadrons meet in combat. It also covers plans for the world’s longest electric railway in Montana from Billings to Great Falls about 200 miles, to be powered by stations on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, transporting coal and other heavy freight.
The piece mentions the Journal du Mal de Mer and its satire on seafaring sickness remedies. It reports that about 1,000 deer were moved to Bangor from hunting regions north of the city, many owned by hunters from other areas who took them home. Deer kills show a drop of 251 from last season, due to dry weather and deep snows, but there is plenty of deer in the woods and the season total is expected to approach 1899 levels.
The country awaits the Isthmian Canal commission report after nearly two years of study into routes for a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific. The report will be submitted to the president next month and then sent to Congress. The action upon its recommendations is highly anticipated due to the work's magnitude and significance.
The city of Biberfeld Germany saw William and Empress Augusta Victoria dedicate the new Terlal railway along the Wupper from Barmen Ritterhausen to Sonnburn. The six- mile line suspended cars travel up to 25 mph with automatic block signaling and multiple cars possible. Officials claim safety and efficiency, with broad European expansion expected in years ahead.
From The Inner Life of Fenelon by Charles M. Stuart in the Chautauquan for October, this excerpt discusses Fenelon’s religion shaping his character. It argues true piety enlarges the heart and governs life, and that his Quietist interpretation is rational, scriptural, and practical. The text defends Madame Guyon and outlines three core aims: love God, subdue rebellious temper, and accept God's guidance. It notes his daily exercises of prayer, scripture study, holy living, and benevolence.
Pamton Play Actors and the Oberammergau season yield high profits as tickets and photographs surge. Despite uniform fees for all roles the village reports record sales with ticket revenue reaching £75,000 and wood carvings rosaries and holy images adding £7,500, leaving local stock depleted.
In a terse note from the Tyrol region, the Bavarian mountain village of Zerl and its neighbors are said to have endured a poor spell yet achieved a golden harvest, signaling relief after hardship.
The preface to Wordsworth’s second edition argues that even distant scientific discoveries will become proper poetic material, and the poet will aid science’s transfiguration as knowledge becomes flesh and blood. Healy’s Prazeeay notes Italy’s late start yet rapid unification after revolutions, transforming a fragmented peninsula into a powerful, united nation.
Quote notes that tribes lacking policy or urban structure still possess religion as their core. Blair suggests religion remains central even where laws and arts are absent, implying belief guides early social organization.
Austrian tailor Johann Hiselinger, bereft of legs, strapped into a hand powered pedicab, has reached Paris from Vienna in fifty five days. He aims to cross to England and continue around the world, reporting blistered hands and exhausted skin from constant use as he travels about twelve miles daily.
In a mix of war dispatches and curious anecdotes a Boer War artillery account contrasts Krup guns, gun crews, and range mastery with English matériel. The piece also recounts a Kentucky 1814 pig follower tale, a harmless crowd-signal balloon note, and a veteran clergyman’s wartime wireless idea tested with Morse signals. References include Vechtkop action, Botha, Methuen, and Admiral Fremantle.
The annual pension bureau report for the year ended June 40 outlines disbursements totaling 129,698,719 with 249,000 for the War of 1812, 332,905 for the war with Spain, 63,657,449 under general laws, and 1,260,250 for survivor pensions. It notes large payments to various beneficiaries, including widows and orphans, and cites the Buffalo Agency as handling the largest disbursements. The text ends with an unrelated note on the Great Pyramid of Giza’s original base dimensions.
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