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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1904
Page
4
Wealthy New York women are embracing hand painted gowns as a new fashion innovation. The painted gown, costly and exclusive, blends chiffon silk and velvet with designs by Paris artisans. Gowns are painted before assembly, with separate components later joined.
A railway car in Australia hosts a quarrelsome commercial traveler who reveals a box contains a pigeonhole mangoore or mongoose. The exchange turns on delirium tremens and imagined snakes, ending with the punchline that both smoke and mongoose are imaginary. Lord Sandpans ship rumor and the American Heiress headline appear in dialogue echoes.
An article argues ordinary thermometers vary by two to six degrees, undermining hospital temperature charts and patient care. It notes tests show serious inaccuracy across wards, retail stock, and home devices, urging voluntary certification and questioning compulsory standards.
A Paris Psychological Institute report cites M d Arsonval claiming electricity will be the sole medicine of the future. He describes sudden shocks and slow permeation, noting benefits for skin maladies, microbes, circulation and respiration, and a surprising effect on cellular vitality. The institute includes notable French scientists. Varnish care advice ends the piece with a cold tea wash and dry polish.
A Chicago Tribune feature profiles a young man who built wealth via inventions while warning of the brutal pursuit by fortune hunters. He recalls schemes aging whisky in ten days and copper turned to gold, noting investors back weak ideas and the varied types of inventors seeking capital.
A jesting exchange centers on a proclaimed professor of physiognomy mocked by a man with scanty locks. The museum manager asks for proof of his claim about 80 percent accuracy, and the kicker explains the test involved his wife’s weak chin.
Stage Line offers four horse Concord coaches on the Thunder Mountain route between Challis and Mackay the nearest railroad point with daily stages arriving Challis at noon and departing at 1 pm carrying passengers mail and express. Connections are made with stage lines to points in Custer and Lemhi counties.
Guster county Idaho offers vast inducements to settlers and capitalists with rich mines, extensive agriculture, and grazing lands. The region, centered on Challis Mackay Bay Horse and Stanley Basin, spans about 5000 square miles, larger than Connecticut and richer in copper, lead, and gold districts. Rail, telephone lines, and growing irrigation are noted, with 5000 mining claims and multiple mills, smelters, and a dredge operating in the county.
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