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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1911
Page
3
An exchange with Edison and a French academician touches on wireless telegraphy concepts, Hertzian transmitters, volts and ohms. The dialogue includes quips about hydraulic pumps and a church joke, ending with a German woman correcting a teller’s error and writing age 23.
An assortment of clipped lines shows a conversation about marriage and love, plus a remark about smoke control in the city. A speaker admits quitting a salary job and notes a relative bequeathed an interest in a large machine shop. The text mixes personal emotion with urban issues.
In a London sketch a master demands to know what harmed his rug while the housemaid protests she did not do it. She reveals Johny was the culprit, riding a lawn mower around the room. The exchange touches on duty to country and sharp inspectors.
A collage of humorous exchanges and brief vignettes from a late night social scene. Witty lines about curtain lectures, a wife and husband, a missionary appeal, political references, and neighborly banter blend into a jittery parade of puns. Notable figures and playful misreads populate the snippets.
A teacher reads to elves about Amerion forests. A pupil asks for the longest and sharpest needles, answered with porcupine. Jokes about paying large sums for a tile or a race horse mix with musings on money and sympathy. Plodding Pete and Meandering Mike discuss routes and temperaments of Eskimos in a humorous dialogue.
Prairie Farmer notes concrete feeding floors offer infection protection, easier cleaning, and faster feeding. They reduce feed loss and labor, deter rats, and pay for themselves in about a year. Construction details cover site, trenching, grading, materials, forms, curing, and future troughs.
An article praising an excellent five horse evener for sulky use. It explains configurations with two against one and three against two, noting superiority over four against one. Also discusses feed efficiency, comparing feed cost to milk output, with per herd returns ranging from about $30 to $100 and $1 feed yielding under $1 to over $2 in milk per cow.
A brief note on raspberry blackberry and grape cultivation notes the challenge of supplying buna and available plant food to sustain fruit production.
An Iowa style discussion by EEKAXLINE of Missouri on why purebred hogs outperform grades. Purebreds reach market earlier, fetch premium prices, and are easier to manage at farrowing. Dams are gentle, aiding winter farrow care. uniform color and style aid sale. Breeding purebreds for feeding pays the farmer and feeder.
A fragmentary exchange notes the department store profited from ads for bargain brooms. The witty remark claims a sweeping reduction drew in women buyers, implying trickle down impact on sales and appearances of bargains.
A fragmented sketch piece features a dialogue about debts and social balance. A narrator notes a worker’s pride and a man named John reflects on sheep as foolish while a whimsical wager or pun appears. The text reads as a humorous, absentminded aside in a column or cartoon caption.
Farmers report low feed use yet stock thrive on buffalo grass which cures like hay. The dry blades revive green again after drought while Russian thistles, once a pest, are fed as hay and bees chemsting.
The note argues that early maturity can be beneficial but risks overreach. It questions labeling calf beef as rhampion beef until a new standard for beef excellence is defined, signaling concern about definitions and quality criteria within the meat industry.
In Carberry a scandalized town watches Tommy Belding as Susie Conover reshapes the school. A reforming fall term yields discipline, praise from Mrs. Belding, and a secret engagement between Susie and Thearle while Tommy plots to test the next teacher.
A pine native to the seacoast grows slowly and forms utterly closed cones that never release their seeds. Trees in Kew Gardens show cones that persist on branches for years, requiring a knife and hammer to open. Some propose that only intense heat from fire can crack the cones and release seeds, allowing the species to perpetuate.
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