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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1901
Page
7
A correspondent recalls first experiences in Mexico starting at Laredo crossing the Rio Grande, noting polite officials, racing conversations, adobe houses, and vivid colors. He visits Monterrey, Morelia the Magnificent, and the City of Mexico, touching battlefield sites, industrial works, and historic revolutions, with scenic mountain vistas and Per
A traveler describes stops from the border to Monterey, Catorce, and San Luis Potosi. He notes Monterey as a booming capital of Nuevo Leon nicknamed the Chicago of Mexico, Catorce’s perilous mountain approach and silver wealth, and San Luis Potosi as a key agricultural hub with parks and hotels. The journey also recalls historic links to Juarez Maximilian and other eras, and mentions a proposed monument for the battlefield at Monterey.
A correspondent reports on the Simplon tunnel project with 143000 Swiss and 2500 Italian workers. Two parallel bores, 17 metres apart, will finish by May 13 1904 with daily penalties for delays. Each side reaches about 3000 and 4000 metres, tunneling by drilling blasting and masonry.
Instructions describe building an ice house using poles or boards with sawdust for insulation. Key points include ventilated, well-drained design, laying ice in large blocks, packing with sawdust, and leaving gaps around the edges to be filled. Roof should be spreading and extend beyond gables, with gable ends left open for ventilation.
Gitto Farm School receives a 10000 donation from Max Schoenfeld a former Philadelphian now living in Rorschach Switzerland. The funds will buy farms to be rented to graduates to showcase the value of their instruction and enable Jewish youths to support themselves through agriculture.
The Japanese government weighs whether to adopt execution by suffocation in an airtight chamber, exhausting the air via a cumb. The statement notes the consideration of this punitive method as a possible capital punishment option.
A London Saturday Review piece argues that science should not dull the love of flowers. It contends keep old plant names, cherish beauty, and let botanists classify without degrading the garden's memory and meaning. It also describes an automatic skate-detachment device from Red Bank, New Jersey, and notes advances in nebulae observations and high velocity experiments.
Smithsonian expert Mr. Charles T. Simpson supports a former path for the Tennessee River. Geological survey members proposed that water once flowed south into the Coosa and Alabama rivers toward the Gulf of Mexico via a channel, a view now corroborated by distinctive fresh water mass distributions found in Coven and Alabama.
A historical telescope glimpse describes the Great Nebula In Orion with spirals and unusual masses. The text notes its vast size and the notion that our entire solar system would be a tiny speck beside it, highlighting awe at such celestial scale.
The article describes a patented, lightweight metal coat hanger that shapes to shoulders, supports coats and trousers, reducing creases from wire hangers. It also reviews Valdemar Poulaen's wire-wound phonograph exhibit, using a steel wire and electromagnet to record and reproduce sound, with reversible action to erase traces.
Sir Norman Lockyer notes statues and plaques in the Gizeh museum show private mummifiers in Memphis 6 000 years ago possessed deep anatomy knowledge. He asserts science is an art and suggests progress by ancient practitioners. Excavations in Italy reveal many finished surgical tools resembling modern instruments.
A miner has discovered bones of three madodons in Death Valley California and filed a claim to excavate them. Separately a mining dam in Southern California is planned to cover the extinction of a flash whale of the Pitocoity mpoch.
A damaged OCR fragment records a joke about loyalty and dog following behavior attributed to Todd Watsties and Waller, with a sarcastic punchline about a dog eating a good portion. The readability is limited and names are uncertain.
A new ice breaking steamer named Bufal, built by Whitworth & Co, is described as a 400 ton vessel with twin 1,260 hp engines and a bow screw to draw water from under the ice. It will carry three trains and two freight trains, achieving 13 knots and able to break 48 inch ice with five inches of snow atop. Trials show it can slice through thick ice. winter alterations swap to larger stern propellers, but dock construction on the lake is pending. The ship’s makers note winter operations and future dock needs amid Baikal's annual December to April freeze.
A condensed lesson on how aspiring writers must endure years of diligent study and practice. It argues that ordinary talent lacks a royal road to mastery, style reflects mature thought, and even geniuses require patient refinement beyond impulse or talk. Robert Louis Stevenson is cited on choosing the right word.
The Swiaa watch factory presents a pocket timepiece with a balliesring mechanism. Prinicipal uses include the driving wheel of a worker's throw and the winding arbor of cranks, all with fine precision. Made by Lem Gruet, a Paris foreman, the device features arbors rolling on steel balls and is acclaimed as a leading horological exhibit.
A local servant girl was sent to the fishmonger for herrings while Mary Jany minded her business. The shopkeeper muttered about Crenjes and a five for threepence deal as the maid hurried home to show her mistress the purchase. The scene hints at a misnamed catch and a village rumor.
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