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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1901
Page
6
A miscellany of aphorisms on charity and character contrasts with brief notes on the dowager empress planning an imposing funeral for Baron von Ketteler and a mayoral candidate in Atlanta. It also reports an Antwerp dockyard spanning sixty seven acres funded by leading German shipowners.
The Houston Post reports an odd gap in scavenger activity amid Galveston’s disaster. No buzzards appear to scavenge bodies, despite expectations that dead animals and people would draw them from afar, while Paris unveils new street lighting with 1,000 candle power lamps near the Tuilleries garden.
A life-size Apollo statue discovered near Athens is thought to date from the fifth century BC and is praised for preservation. The work is larger and better crafted than the statue in Munich, and could claim a high rank among antique sculpture.
An educational society in Manila sent three Filipino youths to Ann Arbor for an American education. They have learned to be apples and pumpkin pies and dislike irregular noun plurals. The youngest, eleven, wants to see the snow and ice. In other respects they resemble other boys.
About twenty years after Congress gifted an 880 pound cannon to a Grand Army post at Attieboro Massachusetts a thieves gang stole it. Parts were later found at a junk dealer who had unknowingly purchased the same. Much of the metal has been melted down into various shapes.
Alpine energy is now harnessed for electric power in northern Italy. The Adda at Paderno already supplies 13,000 horsepower, and works on the Ticino below Lake Maggiore are expected to add 12,000. Power will reach Lombardy towns rather than Milan, surging through manufacturing centers as Alpine streams await further development.
David R Hosterman of Springdale and Miss Mary Herpst of Oil City Pa have just married. Forty four years ago Herpst was a girl in Shippenville and Hosterman a school teacher. After a quarrel they separated. he remarried and was widowed. Last spring he wrote to Postmaster McKim about the Herpst family. Miss Herpst replied and the old attachment was renewed.
The piece argues against imperialism and assesses military and economic costs of Philippine involvement. It links U S farm interests and tariffs to imperial strategy, warning of competition from Philippine products and the waste of public funds. It cites costs, labor, and transport, urging fiscal restraint and American self reliance.
The National Association of Democratic Clubs met in Indianapolis on October 4. The event drew strong enthusiasm and momentum. Hearst was re elected president Marcus was also noted among attendees.
The Philadelphia Times rails against imperial centralization of authority and money as the bedrock of trusts that dominate industry and fix costs. It warns that a November motion would force obedience to imperial mandates, urging revolutionary political action to resist.
The Philadelphia Times abandons the party of trusts and imperialism and becomes an avowed advocate of Bryan and Stevenson. As a leading national paper, its new stance shocks Republicans and stirs utmost consternation among party ranks.
An American dealer describes Florida hunting parties using a long forked pole and a noose to capture snakes. The method traps the head in a sack, then tightens the noose as the bag tightens around the snake, allowing safe transport. A second item explains a moth extermination device using a sloped metal receptacle, lamp, and reflectors to attract and kill pests.
German physicist G Tammann reports that ice varieties depend on pressure and identifies three distinct crystalline forms of ice. Water now has five known forms including water vapor and ordinary ice with labeled forms I and II. Some non-scientists joke that hot weather adds a sixth form called ice cream.
Russia studies transport methods used by China. A wheelbarrow like machine, pulled by mules or horses, carries load in a howdah mounted saddle. It promises to move larger road loads in rough country than other vehicles and suits rapid ammo and forage transport and light mountain guns to fronts.
United States Consul Mahin of Reich enburg cites a Reichenberg newspaper claiming an Australian manufacturer has successfully used turf as a cheap raw material for paper making. The dried turf fibers reportedly yield a durable paper substance and plateboard and paper boxes. The method is said to be patented in several countries and gaining favorable results.
The Norton Sound sands near Cape Nome Alaska contain gold that shows no water transport clues. Gold flakes and nuggets found there are sharp and angular, unlike sea-worn particles. A widely accepted theory holds they were moved from distant sources by glaciers, though the original source remains unknown.
The German worker Bohnengal has developed a smokeless powder claimed to be silent. He demonstrated its practicality by firing a shell at fifty yards with only the shell plunger sound audible. He has not sold the secret publicly and remains in negotiations with several governments for purchase.
The renowned earlier photographs of nebulae show a drop in star counts over time. In 1886 one plate recorded 403 stars, while a 1895 plate shows 272, suggesting celestial images may fade or disappear from standard photo plates. Roberts proposes immediate reproduction by a process yielding permanent pictures.
Reports survey a Los Angeles liquid air factory for refrigeration, a fire hydrant lamp post in England, widespread German acetylene use with many towns lit, and a dangerous deceit in India where thieves swallow lead to hide jewels. Calcutta x rays show throat obstruction but exact object unidentified.
The readable lines discuss variations in pronouns and relationships, noting endless differences and superficial notions of sameness, with puzzled reflections on identity and counting.
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