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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1902
Page
2
A collage of global curiosities and social quips. Portugal relations with Britain mooted. Mozambican tensions. portraits of a controversial figure. Kansas harvest call for 10,000 workers. drought recall of Sherman. college coeducation debates. New York fad for stone throwing at auto racers. Johnny Corbett boxing talk. Crime, politics, romance, and humor mingle with editorials on press freedom, colonial unions, and royal matchmaking.
The emperor declares that when a German gazes into the morning light he should find inspiration to last a lifetime. He speaks of the duty and resolve expected of the nation and its youth.
The Storrs Experiment Station reports long term trials on tuberculous cows. Milk from diseased udders poses higher risks, but early disease also threatens milk safety. Farmers must test with tuberculin, separate infected from healthy cattle, and continually monitor herds to prevent wider dairy impact.
Northwestern University Settlement launches a summer program to pasteurize and distribute clean milk at sixteenth and seventeenth ward stations in Chicago. Inspected twice weekly by the city health department, the plan offers milk at cost to crowded Polish neighborhoods to reduce child mortality.
An article urges cow owners and builders to study scientific ventilation to protect herd health. It stresses that stable design should incorporate a perfect system of ventilation and notes that many stable operators lack knowledge of these principles.
A raiser of Angora goats argues goats face cattle diseases more than sheep diseases and rarely inflamed mucous passages or foot rot. He notes goats resist dogs poorly, climb fences, and that well built 3.5 ft rail fences or seven wire fences reliably contain them. He questions importing Asian Angoras, preferring superior local stock shaped by American breeding.
The North Dakota Experiment Station reports conclusions from horse feeding trials. Brome hay matched timothy for work horses. oat straw suits light work or idle horses but needs 25 percent more grain. Barley is close to oats but less valuable. mules dislike barley. Malted barley underperforms oats and is inferior to dry barley. Corn plus oats improves value versus oats alone, with 100:125 and 77.5:100 ratios noted. Whole wheat alone is poor. grinding wheat with bran at two to one ratio yields good respite. Bran and shorts equal in value to oats.
Porto Rico produces 1,500 head yearly for shipments to Trinidad St Lucia and Barbadoes for the English government and about 800 head to Martinique and Guadeloupe. Prices range 8 to 10 cents per pound on the hoof with a 42 percent discount. The island has 130000 acres of blue grass and the grazing land is praised as surpassing Kentucky. Cattle raising is described as a largely expandable industry with strong regional demand and ample market potential.
Discussion in National Congress focuses on preventing branding of butter and cheese from outside their production territory. The measure, known as the Sherman Bill, seeks a national standard to curb mislabeling as Elgin butter and similar practices. The article notes state efforts in New York and the broader risk to product trust. It also mentions Japanese Bantams and their breeding history, touching on labeling issues in animal products.
Pictorial humor features a banter between Grace Bertha and a friend about an engagement ending and a joke about a tavern sign. The dialogue mocks engagements and old maid fears with playful punchlines.
A merchant tests a youthful applicant’s whistling ability. The boy confesses he cannot whistle, prompting the merchant to hire him. Benham muses on biblical parables and the ratio of foolish women, remarking the proportion seems small.
A brief comic vignette recalls mistaking a trust magnate for a friend and slapping him on the back. The magnate responds with cold restraint while Charcoal Eph notes many wait for the installment man to seize furniture next door.
A quote contrasts illusion as our own fanciful self images with delusion as the unfounded fantasies others hold about themselves. The remark differentiates internal dreams from external misperceptions.
A man recalls a young woman confiding troubles and declares affection. Years later another man recalls endless tales of servants and social figures in a discussion about Higher Criticism. The exchange laments earnest belief versus public skepticism.
An inquisitive person questions a red faced youth on the Rialto about ghosts. The youth replies that he once believed but has not seen a ghost for a long time, making him increasingly skeptical.
A quip from Mark Twain recounting a trip to Egypt where he mocked elderly guides as speaking gum Arabic. The anecdote appears alongside other remarks from Miss Cutting and Mr. Borem about liquor and its perceived benefits and drawbacks.
The quip filled items accuse Hewitt of a boastful claim to public benefaction He asserts dying rich is a grace and that he has saved many from disgrace A western bearkeeper puzzled by a tenderfoot asking for a stick in lemonade Propristor replies with a little wood alcohol for the drink
The Philadelphia Press notes a comic exchange where a spouse laments fading affection before marriage and the other retorts that perfection has become absolute. The brief humorous squabble captures domestic sentiment in a playful light.
A fragment notes that a group of politicians sparked an awful row after a member rose and suggested harmony, leaving the initial cause unclear while hinting at deeper tensions within the group.
A brief Philadelphia Record snippet depicts a dialogue between Miss Caustigne and a speaker over who made whom look foolish, framed as a light exchange on responsibility and blame.
A fragmented dialogue shows a comic ribbing about Heston Chicago Brooklyn Philadelphia and Hoboken as a performer jokes with a singer awaiting an encore. The speaker quips about being a New Yorker while the singer replies with a witty retort about wings on both sides.
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