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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1906
Page
2
Nature Notes discusses the peewit as a friend of the agriculturist, feasting on grubs and insects rather than crops. It notes the bird’s wariness, the frost and seasonality forcing it to water meadows, and condemns the ongoing plover eggs harvest while warning that peewits may be thinning due to egg collection.
Mrs. Sarah E. Rowe of 11 Jan Street praises Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing her longstanding rheumatism and kidney trouble. She says at seventy seven she feels like a new person, stating the medicine restored her health and energy beyond any prior years.
A Collier's popular science piece questions what posture creatures take at rest. It cites birds sleeping on one leg and wonders about mackerel, foxes, snakes, turtles, whales, and primates. It links sleep to memory, hypnosis, and consciousness, noting life's mysteries persist.
A groom moved horses from England to Australia under an employment agreement with a resident of Australia. He required a special exemption certificate to land. After six months the certificate expires and he must return to England.
A reflective line notes that humans are equal yet face different costs and stations in life. It emphasizes gendered disparities as people move along the journey of existence, comparing the railroad of life to a shared human experience with divergent outcomes.
A Michigan farmer's wife describes spring 1902 illness marked by fatigue and nervous breakdown. After failing medicines and coffee, she uses Grape-Nuts with sugar and cream, noting renewed flesh, steadier nerves, better sleep, and capability to perform all housework for a family of six.
A retrospective declares a year of unprecedented prosperity across agriculture, industry, and trade. It cites record harvests, high cotton prices, and strong imports and exports, with forecasts of continued growth and a forthcoming pan American conference. Arizona and New Mexico to join as a state, Oklahoma and Indian Territory to unite, and a national quarantine law anticipated to curb yellow fever risk.
A survey of 1906 disasters notes Calabria Italy earthquake causing 400 deaths on September 8, plus a Madrid reservoir collapse in April and a Texas tornado in April with 100 deaths. US events include Oklahoma and Sidney tornadoes, Brocton shoe factory fire, Western Maryland rail wrecks, Rush Run coal mine explosion, Ziegler mine gas blast, Wattstown gas explosions, Southampton steamer Hilda wreck with 100 lives lost, and Bennington gunboat boiler explosion killing sixty sailors.
The year 1906 saw the lowest lynching total since 1886 with six deaths. The table lists lynchings by state and territory led by Mississippi with seventeen, Georgia eleven, and Texas eleven. Among victims, one hundred percent were specified as six whites and five Negroes, with motives including murder rape and robbery.
The 1905 Nobel Prizes were awarded December 10 with no American recipients among the five categories. Peace went to Baroness Bertha von Suttner of Austria, honored for lifelong peace work and as a delegate to the International Peace Congress in Boston last year. Physics laureate Philip Lenard is named among the honorees, with ceremonies in Kristiania and Stockholm.
At Kiv University researchers pursued cathode ray studies while Adolph von Hoerger of the University of Muenchen advanced organic chemistry and industry development. Prof Robert Koch of Berlin honored for tuberculosis prevention. Henry Sienkiewicz cited in literature. This was the fourth Nobel distribution. No American had won a prize.
National Champions of 1905 lists top individuals in various sports for the year. Notable names include James J. Jeffries in boxing, Willie Anderson in golf open, H Chandler Egan in golf amateur, Pauline Mac ay in women’s golf, David Nicol in jockeying, Norval Battle in professional skating, Morris Wood in amateur skating, and Elizabeth Moore in women’s tennis.
Travelers killed and hurt. The year's railway disasters total 3,142 deaths and 16,904 injuries on steam lines. Electric and elevated roads also account for 464 deaths and 2,622 injuries.
The Bradstreet year reports heavy purchasing power and record prices with broad activity. It notes agricultural rewards, labor demand, high bank clearings, and rising securities despite financial rot in high places, plus strong iron and steel outputs. The outlook for 1906 predicts continued growth and high prices across industries.
Montreal Herald describes two German patented watering devices. The first uses a long untwisted wick through a glass tube bent into a siphon that slowly dispenses water to several plant pots. a flexible wire draws the wick and a paddle of water starts the flow. The second device is a pear shaped glass bulb with a lateral fill hole inserted into soil to release water steadily for days or weeks.
The article extols the foster-father as a new duty of modern domestic life. He drills boys after school, supervises their recreation, and bears responsibility for their neatness and behavior, relieving overburdened mothers and fathers across classes.
Prophets forecast Mexico becoming a leading manufacturing nation, driven by abundant hydro electric power, cheap organized labor, stable climate, and favorable geography. New petroleum discoveries and coal field developments enhance fuel supply, with power in use rising toward levels second only to Niagara as plants expand.
During the next term at Washington State University a special course in sociology will be given. It will include anarchism, communism, social reform in its three branches state agrarian and single tax and religious or altruistic, taught by Washington Gladden.
A testimonial claims Dr Williams Pink Pills cure feminine illnesses including leucorrhea and headaches. Mrs Arthur Conklin of Battle Creek Michigan describes long illness followed by full recovery after using the pills. The ad asserts the pills improve blood, relieve pain, and are sold by druggists and Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
Drunkards in London numbered about six thousand admitted annually to Pentonville Prison. An advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children to cure constipation feverishness bad stomach teething disorders and regulate bowels while destroying worms. Another notice markets eye bright remedies and plant distillations as cures for cold in the head bronchitis measles hay fever and related ailments with internal doses recommended.
Fragmentary OCR item listing names such as Dooly, Lake City Utah, Toledo, Curry, Cammy Co, and Chewet with scattered phrases about payment of dollars and cures. The text appears as a damaged public notice or advertisement with multiple unreadable segments and person names, lacking a coherent event or date.
A man who had been twice divorced took his third wife to the theater and, upon looking around, found he sat with three wives in a row beside him.
An OCR fragment describes Quito near the Pinchincha volcano crater and looming giants in a perilous region. It foresees recurring seismic cycles globally and hints at repeated disasters like Saint Pierre and Mont Pelée in a distant future.
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