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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1899
Page
3
Warrants mail express and passenger service twice weekly on Saturdays and Tuesdays between Challis and Salmon with connections at Salmon to Bedrock Gibbonville and other Lemhi and Custer county towns. W Raddicker proprietor Salmon Idaho.
The cheapest shortest and most direct route to Bayhorse Clayton Bonanza Custer Stanley Basin Seafoam and Sheep Mountain carries U S mail passengers and express P Spalding agent Challis Idaho.
A new English industry uses oxidized vegetable oils from linseed and others to mimic rubber and gutta percha. The process hardens oils, enabling sheets and fibers to form tire, waterproof fabrics, and electrical insulation. The material resists heat to 240 degrees F, can be vulcanized, and yields tires and wire coverings. It may reduce demand for rubber and gutta percha as supplies wane.
A Chicago report notes a Chinese Clark Street dog that drinks liquor from a tavern, staggering about the shop and fading into a drunken stupor for hours. Separately, a Hindlayas orchid expedition near Athwick, England, has cataloged nearly 6 000 new species in Sikkim valleys, with plans to export and supply for botanical followers in West Birmingham.
A compilation notes insurance app values, long distances by Laplanders, clay pipe manufacture by child labor, sealing wax usage by the Great Seal, Baltic wrecks and daily loss, medical men in London, fish landed value in 1599, number of London corner men and profits, oleomargarine versus butter test, Pillis circus in Cape Town, and Capt Taylors infant christened in a lions den named Affrica Fillis Taylor.
The article catalogs Bank of England and global currencies with descriptions of paper, color, and engraving. It contrasts British, French, German, Russian, Italian, Norwegian, Austrian, and South American notes, then shifts to health, warning that poor diet and early miseducation cause many midlife illnesses and that better knowledge and nursing reduce risks, with emphasis on youth foundations for aging health.
A Boston Transcript excerpt depicts a teacher urging blunt truth about faults and a boy named Johnny reflecting on a past near‑mistake at the water. The father’s impatience and a tense family moment are implied in dialog about responsibility and obedience.
Short items discuss uses of fine hardwood sawdust for cleaning furs jewelry and silver marquetry and scent bags. Coarse sawdust for fuel has demand. Voxwood is scarce and expensive. Sawdust exports rise to Canada England and the United States. Also included are oyster soup instructions from Ladies' Home Journal and a theatrical note about salaries from the New York World.
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