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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1902
Page
2
A detailed report describes the launch and expected service date around October 4 for the new battleship Maine. It covers construction, armor, armament, speed, engines, and waterline features with emphasis on Krupp armor and submerged tubes.
A Limestone area farmer in Aroostook County clings to belief in witches and accuses Aunt Collins of witchcraft. He shoots a sow and hen blamed on the witch, while Collins testifies she knows nothing of witchcraft and seeks damages for his killings. The Fort Fairfield case hinges on proving a direct link between Collins and the alleged misfortunes.
A tourist observed chamois on a steep snow slope performing repeated coastings from a 150 yard run. They crouched at the top, sprang off in groups, skimmed the surface kicking up powder, then rested and repeated the fun, clearly treating it as sport with evident enjoyment.
Dr W Schlich warned at the London Society of Arts that a timber famine looms unless measures lift world supply. He cited rising per capita European wood use, declining North American stocks, and limited exports from Scandinavia and Russia, urging timber cultivation on waste land to gain self sufficiency. The remedy would revive the US timber industry as well.
The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post cites James Bryce Seaman MacManus and others noting Ireland’s current prosperity from better living and incomes, but underscoring a lack of manufacturing. It states Ireland covers 82,337 square miles plus 246 extra miles from small islands, being similar in size to Indiana and larger than South Carolina.
A local observer asks what counts as a good score on the Ballycastle links. The response notes players aim to complete rounds with minimal strokes, while referencing Penelope's Irish Ex and Ontario letters as context.
Historical discussion of Camille Flammarion and Norman Lockyer on a sun spot linkage to Earth weather. Notes India rainfall ties to solar changes, global weather cycles, and the prospect of long-range forecasts from solar observations. Mentions a large sun spot observed recently and expected increase in sun spot activity in 1904.
An American physicist Henry Rowland, who recently died, devised an eight telegram apparatus dispatching four messages in each direction on one wire. Berlin and Hamburg conducted experiments with eightfold telegraphy, while two-way duplex on a single line had long been in use between Berlin and Paris via the Boudot apparatus, and the German imperial telegraph administration permitted the Berlin Hamburg line for such tests.
The municipality of Berlin will receive 1,600,000 marks for benevolent purposes under the will of Dr. George Vierling, the composer, who died in Wiesbaden recently.
The polar bear is a cautious predator that flees from humans yet may approach boats and attempt to enter them. Hunters use spears and weapons, watching for the bear to surface, and success hinges on timed dives and Swift withdrawals. In Greenland, bears are feared in some districts but less so in others. they eat seals and raid bird roosts and eggs in summer.
The consular report claims Palestine’s trade outlook is hopeful though shy of 1899 imports and exports. Wine and citrus regain status with Jaffa oranges and grapes leading growth. southern Palestine thrives in vineyards with Richon le Zion, Petach Tikvah, Ekron, and Sarana as key colonies. Richon leads grape production with modern wine works and vast underground cellars storing about 1,190,000 gallons plus depot reserves at Hamburg.
The Washington Post notes that senator William Fl. Chandler was never tardy, a trait drilled by his New England mother. When missing an umbrella at school he was told to walk back six miles, a lesson in perseverance that shaped his later life.
Harriet Prescott Spofford lives on a small island in the Merrimac river near Newburyport, spending part of winter in Boston and Washington. A new trolley route between New York and Connecticut promises frequent service outside urban areas. An Irishman quips that a Yankee castaway would sell maps of the place to every inhabitant.
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