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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1898
Page
3
W H Beokhead receiver overs Wil Hore. case details uncertain in readable text. Public record item notes legal action and appointment of receiver with district reference. Entities include W H Beokhead and Hailey district.
A veteran Chester S Hessington from Somesville recounts years of debility and nervousness, losing health and memory. After taking four boxes of Pink Pills for Pale People he recovered strength and quit tobacco, and he praises the remedy. Druggists market the pills as a powerful blood purifier and cure.
The New York Sun notes sailors often treat toothaches at sea by the captain using the medicine chest, sometimes pulling teeth with string or forceps on board deep water ships. Captains, experienced and educated, act as ship physicians, handling fractures and even emergency surgeries when needed.
Dr. Washington Matthews described Iethyophobia as an antipathy to fish among Navajo Apache and other southwest tribes. He noted a water taboo extending to aquatic life, touching on education and dietary habits. The discussion cited a pact between river and mountain tribes over deer and fish, and mentioned Zuna beliefs about water sacredness in desert regions.
An English paper reports a sergeant at a brigade encampment near Scarborough boasted he could swim to a buoy a mile offshore. He reached the buoy but sat there, later found stuck to the tarred buoy as a rescue party arrived. he was not dead, just stranded.
The Literary Digest reprints a French note on birds crafting nests from unlikely materials. Examples include wool and telegraph paper in Lille, watch springs near Besancon, and dog hair from a St Bernard area, all chosen for heat and insulation. Chinese cant for California also noted as mined in China is being imported.
An Alaska service venture plans a Seattle dog nursery to train hard footed long haired dogs for packing and driving to the Klondike trails. Mayor Black and J B Powles back the effort gathering dogs from Chicago and St Paul. First car load of 2209 animals arrived, weighing 60 to 70 pounds each, to be trained by Oscar Jones and sold or housed until spring for harness fitting and driving.
A Washington man, famed for family ties, suffers nervous prostration after a quest to map kinship reveals a great grandfather hanged by a rope in a public scene. He retreats from society for weeks as doctors label it a severe nervous breakdown.
A French physician Dr Morticole introduces Theater Sickness a stage related ailment resembling seasickness. He notes it strikes unexpectedly especially women causing giddiness faintness and even death. Men bow heads between knees while women tilt feet upward in vertigo. Cases remain rare and the sight of such a theater scene would be odd.
The excerpt notes costers use unique slang like dater for halfpenny and teasesb-guy for eight shillings. also binds phrases such as erth-ewli-gens for 15 shillings and fumble to your bar rikin meaning understand you. It adds a remark on French game prices varying with the moon, predicting scarcity under a dark moon and abundance with a full moon.
A political essay contrasts aging rulers and officials across Germany Britain and the United States with the lack of formal age limits for statesmen. It recounts Count Blumenthal delaying resignation, Kaiser’s forceful demand, and similar cases of Prince Bismarck and the Duke of Cambridge. A Washington Post column and a playful Willie dialogue about the Spanish American War follow.
A brief note from the Chiengs Chronicle explains why hard water hinders hand washing. It states that soap reacts with sulphuric acid and lime in hard water, causing flake separation. It also notes salt water contains muriatic acid, which clouds the soap solution.
The article explains the origin of the name Bismarck linking it to the castle Ismarek near Steinal on the Cologne to Berlin road in Brandenburg. It notes the castle defended the Mane or Marea boundary along the River Biese, marking defense against intruders and relates Bismarck to this lineage.
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