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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1910
Page
7
A humorous wartime anecdote recounts Horace Avery K C delivering a mordant quip when a retired cheesemonger claims to be a gentleman. Avery challenges why the man retired after attaining gentleman status, highlighting his wit in a cross examination.
Robert L. O'Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript, praises Vermonters thrift while recalling a dinner anecdote about potatoes. Dr. Robert Waggoner of Baldwin University cites changes in teaching over 30 years, noting the abolition of corporal punishment and joking about reenforced discipline in prior generations.
A Southern state school superintendent recounts his mother’s long battle with coffee related ailments. After trying Postum, the family switched completely, noting clearer hearing fewer headaches and improved health. He underscores the product’s benefits through his mother’s long standing condition and overall family improvement.
In a sunlit boat camp Bob Hunter and his painter father Dan debate Providence in a comic clash over romance. Hope Terriss, the lively young woman, charms the group while Bob contemplates a surprising proposal: to accept Dan as a stepmother with one condition, and Hope presses for a respectful shift in titles.
Steam turbines are efficient across wide pressure ranges but direct drive to slow-moving propellers is impractical for small cargo boats. To suit 2000 IHP and under 11 knots, three methods are proposed: mechanical gearing, electric transmission, and hydraulic power. Mechanical gearing appears most promising for cargo vessels.
Washington officials burned adulterated or misbranded drugs and alleged foods valued at hundreds of dollars. Department of Agriculture agents purchased items in open markets and sent them to the Bureau of Chemistry to test label compliance with pure food laws. Reports were made, manufacturers censured, and contents burned after use as evidence.
A patient asks what the writing is as the physician presents slips of paper with prescriptions. The scene hints at hidden or coded notes in the medical records, suggesting a mystery about the meaning and purpose of the scribbled pages.
A lemon slice clip designed to hold slices for oysters fish and salad. The device secures between spreading ends and is held by points on each side. A slight pressure on the side releases the juice for convenient handling.
A Lakewood Florida inventor has patented a combined crib and table device praised by Popular Mechanics. The adjustable attachment requires no tools to position and can be raised to any height or slid forward and back as needed.
An odd seismic event near Cantillana at Mest Revlonta involved stones lifting from the ground and hurling into the air within several hundred yards. Subterranean booms accompanied the event. Observers note extinct volcanic traces at the site and speculate a new water formation.
How to draw an ellipse or oval by using two fixed pins at the ellipse's foci and a looped string. Place axes a b and c at right angles, set half the major axis from the center to the focuses, loop the string around the pins, and stretch with a pencil to trace the ellipse.
A King’s London Hospital surgeon used a miniaturized bronchoscope with electric light to locate a swallowed shawl pin in the patient’s bronchial tube. After X ray confirmed position near the sixth rib, cocaine and chloroform were used, and forceps through the scope retrieved the pin, allowing a swift recovery.
A collage of scientific notes describes compulsory old age insurance in Germany, 150 cooking schools in Germany and Austria, a 400 pound halibut shown in London, 34 girls’ public schools in Prussia with gymnastics, and London police gains of 1500 extra officers per week. It also mentions Fujiyama’s 12265 feet height, 10006 pilgrims yearly, jeweled sunbursts with moving rays, a pie-lift contrivance, a slediike recorder for toads, ivy on walls harming stone, a German buoyant gas invention for ballooning, and related technical curiosities.
Scientists in Europe report experiments on controlled breathing and prolonged breath holds. They suggest such practice may let a person ascend into the astral realm and commune with spiritual beings, according to Meher ap.
Turkey shifts from a calendar to a mixed time system, sparking watchmakers to devise three styles. One features dials on both sides, another places two digits side by side, and a third uses a fixed dial for European time, framed by a novel surrounding rim.
A compilation of remarks: Judge Ben Lindsey on criminal corporations and prison thieves, a Denver jail visitor’s poverty reply, a quip about feeling in acting, trainer William Muldoon on training discipline, and Dash’s joke on married life “According to directions.”
Francis Wilson joked about food reform ideas during a visit to New Rochelle. He mocked boiling milk sterilizing salad washing berries and paring grapes while enjoying a bowl of raspberries with a wink at the fad. Mischarumsn shared a childhood memory of playing Beethoven and jokingly recalled a prince’s reception in New York.
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