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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1901
Page
3
The piece discusses the demand for ixtle fiber from Tampico used in brushes, noting America imports about 4,000 tons annually and pays $266,000 to Mexico. It also recalls corked bottle experiments and a remarkable tale of a battle traveling 6,000 miles in roughly two and a half years, averaging about 1.6 miles per hour.
A conductor who rang into Fulton Kentucky recently collected a ticket from Cincinnati to Fulton dated December 21, 1892. An elderly man who found the ticket said he feared a road wreck after buying it and only used it last week. Also included are notes on how Cubans peel and eat oranges, a Tennessee bill for Ridley incorporation with a strange tree description, and a survivor of Napoleon’s coffin transport from St Helena to Paris mentioning Augus Kenner of Cincinnati as a non French native.
A Santa Fe Railway excursion series lists fares from Salt Lake and Ogden to several destinations including Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Chicago and Louisville with varied return prices and dates. Freight forwarding notes report 27,000 car loads of grain at three Russian railroads awaiting shipment and growing complaints about rail handling capacity.
Missouri Pacific Railway now runs double daily service from St Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and the Pacific coast with through sleeping cars between St Louis and San Francisco No changes. Excursion tickets now on sale for details contact H C Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Mo.
Italian government aims to restore Fossano powder works with smokeless powder and artillery plant. New Yellowstone folder from Oregon Short Line Railway features park views and visitor information, with stamps for copies. Allen's Foot Base advertised as foot cure. notices include coal gift from J A Erickson to Augustana College.
In 1880 a shooting party witnessed a fakir hypnotically lift a twine ball and a boy climb it, then vanish. The fakir carved the boy into a bag with a knife in midair, dropping severed limbs before retrieving the boy unharmed from the bag. The observers could only recall the eerie spectacle and could not explain it, calling it the most astonishing experience they had seen.
The Montreal Daily Witness, over thirty years old, excludes theaters pubs tobacco ads and job printing for them. No dramatic notes or racing results appear. It avoids demoralizing court cases and is known as Canada's only religious daily. Mantua raises $20,000 for Virgil monument. he died September 21, 19 B C.
A Chicago News summary notes that foreign secret agents, paid by their governments, blend into high society in capitals like Washington Paris and Vienna. They act as unofficial diplomats, funded with salaries and expenses, earning up to $600 to $800 as special recompense for covert diplomacy. The Paris baroness case highlighted the lavish lifestyle and substantial payments she received, prompting scrutiny of aristocratic espionage.
A Bangkok school run by an English lady educates fifteen Siamese royal princesses in reading and music but mainly trains them to be proficient housekeepers. They board, cook, sweep, wash, bake, lay tables, arrange flowers, and plan meals as part of daily lessons aimed at turning them into skilled homemakers.
The article states that public school teachers in Chicago receive at least 600 dollars annually while those in St Louis are paid no less than 400 dollars per year.
The London Economist comments on Wall Street inflation, predicting an inevitable collapse as prices soar to indeterminate heights. Ipswich Jorge Iron Works chief notes cranes can be started and stopped repeatedly to test limits. Postage reduction to one cent praised. Hostetter’s Bitters advertised as stomach aid and nerve strengthener.
Herbert Jenner-Fust of Gloucester shire, Cambridge captain, is the sole survivor among the two teams in the 1827 Cambridge versus Oxford inter-university match. He is 95 years old. Visitors to Salt Lake can enjoy Sanitar ium Baths, a premier bathing resort with private baths and large pools open day and night, near hotels.
A seven foot tall wedding cake weighing 200 pounds was made for the marriage of the duke of Westminster to Miss Shelagh Cornwallis Weet in London. The Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Railway issued a booklet describing the Aberdeen to Missouri River country, now served by a new line. Copies available by sending a two cent stamp to F A Miller in Chicago.
A 16000 ton battleship, largest ever designed, is to be added to the U S navy. If 21 knot speed is achieved, the ship will be a master piece in naval construction.
The gift announcement from notable Cleveland figures totals 100000 for Western Reserve University. H. M. Hanna, brother of Senator Hanna, is among the donors.
A fragment from the East Anglian Times notes a market introduction of a bulb named The ancred Clly of the Nile. A gardener who added the plant to his conservatory found the bloom misnamed and the result an ordinary, friendly plant rather than the advertised spectacle.
A pasted collection shows a new slang phrase all sheeky used widely by officials and social scenes. The page also promotes Allen’s Foot Ease powder for shoes and a private mailing card with Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway views offering ten cent stamp mail art. It notes Vermont farm figures from 1880 to 1900 and enumerators reporting 82109 farms in Vermont.
Mrs Newcomb who died in New York leaves Tulane University three million dollars and had previously given seven hundred eight thousand dollars. The report notes various unrelated items including medicines and a Brussels war council.
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