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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1899
Page
3
Fragmentary remarks cite Digby, Legge, and others noting long work hours and short sleep. Quoted views from Humboldt and Muller suggest minimal sleep can accompany vigor, while commentary says longevity does not always align with little rest, implying diverse patterns in historical figures.
A Bloomingbure correspondent reports rat bunts spreading, with 11 455 tails counted in a contest. One winning crowd gathered 6 502 tails and 4 653 tails for the other. Investigations show leaders bought tails at Madison Mills and paid prices that inflated costs, while another buyer offered cash for tails but was rebuffed. The same tails often secured victories in multiple hunts.
Leather coats, made of sheepskin, horsehide and dogskin, feature corduroy linings and wool interiors. Reversible corduroy models sell at varied prices from Sve to $18, with horsehide at $12 to $15 and dogskin at $18. West truckmen police and lumbermen wear them, valued for warmth and mobility.
A humorous Sunday Republic overheard in a St. Louis shoe store. An elegant large woman laments long feet while a clerk and bystander recall a neighbor’s teasing and a hunter’s remark about her feet never needing a whole cowhide for shoes.
At King Oscar II’s jubilee, Koenissen’s female fire brigade of 150 women, aged 29 to 30, displayed under a male commander who is married. Distributed via Meers attacer. Also a Topeka dispatch mentions an engineer’s accident on a western Kansas division. Ostrich industry in South Africa grows from about $500,000 to $5,000,000 in 20 years.
The article notes Ireland leads in linens for America while Holland remains central in Europe. It explains the linen industry in the Netherlands where women predominate in harvesting, processing, and sewing, and outlines traditional marriage portions and wedding outfits prepared by young women as a long standing custom.
A Philadelphia Record report describes Norway's government run saloons that finance public improvements. Saloons issue licenses to stock companies, profits exceed 125 percent with about 120 percent funneled to city projects such as schools parks roads and hospitals. Sales declined from 12 500 000 to 5 500 000 quarts while strict controls and uniforms improve temperance.
A Chicago Times-Herald item describes quarantined iron toys used by children with contagious diseases, noting they are baked to sterilize between uses and sometimes melt a leg. It also discusses a Pesther Lloyd remark on two souls animating the German emperor, one ancestral, conservative, and church-centered, the other modern absolutist, plus a note on a 154 foot circumference cypress in Oaxaca, Mexico.
A friend recalls a young man who, after periods of low mood, contemplated suicide at sea. Lacking a macintosh he delays, regroups, then travels to New York. He never wears a macintosh again, and a heavy rainstorm leads to pneumonia that ends his life at 97, suggesting the coat’s absence doomed him.
In Rochester the Fourth Ward’s Second District sees a man named Tom test the blanket ballot, claiming he voted when a ballot slipped from his compartment. Inspectors retrieve the ballot from a pile of agricultural implements after his cross marks are finally forced to be counted.
Louisville Post reports a Kentucky boy born deaf, blind, and with one arm who learned every Bible chapter from a nomadic missionary and can recite verses rapidly. He aims to teach blind children, with his mother in the field and his father a steamboat roustabout.
Salmon fishing on the Spey has been poor this season. Anglers blame whisky refuse from distilleries on the banks for driving fish away while distillers insist the salmon crave and thrive on it. In Geneva, Swiss Exposition lasted six months with only 35 rainless days, leaving a city deficit of $150,000.
A fragmented OCR item mentions grape wine and Japanese sake, referencing alcoholic beverages in Japan and dating. It reads as notes on uses or origins with uncertain details and no clear event or figures. The readable text hints at comparing drink types and terminology across contexts.
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