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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1900
Page
3
An account of how Hindu snake charmers use bamboo instruments and monotonous tunes to lure cobras from wells and coerce them into coil and strike poses. Tales recount the power of music over snakes, rabbits, dirds, and cats, with cautions about danger when the music stops.
An English inventor, Wilam Fitzgeald Crawford of London, reveals a water motor washing bath to improve toning fixing and washing of prints and plates. The device uses two grooved discs on a horizontal axis belts to a tiny water wheel, with carriers and a rubber band to keep prints in place. When washing only water is used and a small wheel turns the discs.
James C. Anderson of Chicago has designed a two passenger vehicle powered by one rider. The cab features dual hinged frames and a rear handle bar to steer while maintaining balance, aiming for economical, comfortable urban transport. Also noted is New York City health concerns regulating public expectoration and urging cuspiders in public spaces and transit.
The famed Elk Creek hermit Anton Glasmann, famed for decades of solitary gold seeking, dies in Denver after revealing nothing of the hidden treasure to a notary. The tale of Reynolds and the buried loot at Elk Creek remains unresolved.
A historical note warns against pineapple consumption citing claims that the fruit carries a dangerous poison. It mentions beliefs in Java, the Philippines, and the East Indies that the juice is a deadly blood poison used in poisonings and by aboriginal Javanese with a sharpened weapon.
The amiable Tou ran bird, usually sleepy, must balance itself before sleep to avoid a fall from its roost. It tilts its tail a few inches, then turns its heavy bill along its back, perches on one foot, and goes to sleep. If awakened suddenly it tumbles due to its ponderous bill.
A traveling preacher named Bowman faced a bold challenger who demanded a duel using half bushels of Irish potatoes as weapons. The fight, staged near a Kentucky town, had Bowman win by continually striking the opponent with potatoes while remaining somber, and the desperado was bedbound for over a week recovering from the blows.
Payta Peru claims the driest spot on earth with a seven year average between showers. A February rain lasted over 24 hours the first in eight years. Sea fogs are common. A visitor noted nine plant species seven were annuals with seeds dormant for eight years. Long rooted Peruvian cotton grows in a dried river bed supplying native subsistence.
The Santa Ana river in California, rising in the San Bernardino mountains, delivers about 9000 horsepower to machinery, street cars, and heating and lighting in Los Angeles eight two miles away. After power generation, water is channeled to irrigate orchards and groves across the San Bernardino valley.
A newborn girl left in a soap box in a Wyoming Pennsylvania woods survived days until two boys carried her to town and into Mrs. William Jones’s care. Jennie Lamers, a sixteen year old girl, admitted hiding her pregnancy and nursing the baby in secret woods each night. United Charities of Wickebarre took mother and child into care. doctors say both will live.
Rev W E Johnson a Bamberg Baptist minister clashed with neighbor W T Bellinger over a painted fence. They met in the street and exchanged fire with a shotgun and revolver. Bellinger was mortally wounded by buckshot after four shots.
For years many have pursued starvation as a remedy for bodily and mental ills. The article notes authentic cases where abstaining from food has produced good results, but the discussion questions the method and its safety.
Two American vaudeville companies sailed for Manila with a cache of jokes and songs from 1899, salted coon songs and pickled humor cited by the Minneapolis Journal as a cultural viral note from the era.
Queen Victoria commands electric illumination for St George's Chapel Windsor Castle and the Albert Memorial Chapel Exe, marking a royal endorsement of electrical lighting in key landmarks.
Health authorities push formalin ban in Chicago milk and emphasize sour milk signals poor quality. Discussion covers oleomargarine prosecutions, Michigan process butter claims, and North Carolina poultry experiments. Also notes on Great Bill, horse trends, and practical poultry care for chick rearing and housing.
A brief discussion argues exercise is not universally required for hens. It compares different fowl circumstances, noting health, feed, range, green yard, feeding methods, age, and breed influence the need for exercise and the feeding ration. The text emphasizes tailoring rations to each scenario.
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