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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1904
Page
2
A mixed collusion of quotes and quips from newspapers on weather, royalty, aviation, politics, and social trends. It cites German marriage to a circus rider, radium, rubies, Peary, and the Czar, with jokes about clocks, breath tags, and a Chicago teachers union label amid a flood of wry observations and era-bound references. Idaho
The plan calls four bents for a barn 25 by 85 feet with 14 foot posts and square root. Rafters 2 by 4 or 2 by 6 inch, rafters 18 feet 6 inches long. Materials include 14 squares shingles 1400 feet roof sheathing 2000 feet weather boarding 30 rafters 18 feet 6 inches, 8 posts 10 by 10 inches 14 feet. Driveway joists run crossways with 486 feet of inch lumber and matching planking. Also covers turnip storage, corn ensilage feeding, and Bordeaux mixture questions with guidance on fresh mixtures and lime storage.
A device hailed as a talking machine creates a stir in medical circles. Dr. Murage of the French Academy of Medicine demonstrates a fully mechanical system that reproduces human speech using plaster head mouths and steam sirens. The apparatus allows visualization of vocal chords and phonetic syllables, proposing a new international alphabet via mechanical sound production.
Dr. Joseph Boehm explains that even trained divers cannot stay under water beyond about ninety seconds to two minutes. He cites tests in Wavarino, Ceylon, the Red Sea, and England showing extreme endurance is unlikely and that cases of five minutes underwater are generally false. Drowning is a rapid death with quick loss of consciousness.
William Morris recounts touring The Lost Paradise in a religious Western town where theatergoers packed the house for a Miltonic reading. Clerics and locals filled seats, shouting abuse and demanding a Milton text the production did not provide, leading to a abrupt exit and no return engagement.
In March Harpers Magazine traveler C J Post chronicles a dangerous Bolivian mountain ride. He describes ascents between winding walls, a narrow table land, a ragged gorge, and a sunken valley below where mules slide down shale while riders watch for missteps amid scattered valley skeletons.
A damaged OCR tale centers on the ghost of John Gear at a funeral. The clergyman preaches praise while the specter recalls past wrongs and fear, as the crowd watches and the dead man named Walter Foss lingers in memory.
Spilkins, a philosophical fellow, resents his father in law’s stale stories told as new ones during Sunday dinners at the newlywed couple's flat. The elder, a congenial but repetitive storyteller, clashes with Spilkins as he recounts the same Pat Irishman yarn, prompting a mock confrontation. The scene ends with mutual exasperation and a relieved Spilkins.
A sly office ruse by Blivin repurposes old photos with crepe rosettes to deter life agents. He feigns grief over obituaries, lamenting consumption as each relative dies, then blocks a policy pitch by revealing no policy can be bound. He finally shrugs, then hurls a heavy letter press under the desk.
Railways save thousands yearly by scrap departments that collect iron and steel from moving cars and repair shops. Scrap trains gather odds and ends, sorted by size, with reusable bolts bars and couplings recycled. Refuse is sent to iron works under contracts, a slow growing but systematic program.
The piece describes Paris bourse seats priced around 2.5 to 3 million francs with profits from 5 to 15 percent annually, often shared among multiple partners. It outlines strict, clublike selection requirements, including age, background, and ministerial approvals. It then reports a Spanish cathedral robbery in Santander, where 450 pounds of gold and silver, including priceless items, were stolen by thieves who fled in a car before alarms could sound.
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