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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1901
Page
3
The article reviews convulsions in children, their causes and dangers, including fever-related fits and conditions like meningitis, epilepsy, and hysteria, with cautious treatment guidance. It also describes an English armored motor car for rail protection and dispatch, noting its automatic engine, armor design, armament, and potential military utility.
Captain J C Bernier of Quebec pursues a North Pole expedition with aims to reach the pole or its vicinity. He believes even incomplete success could yield data and images of surface features and elevations, potentially capturing photographic records for later study.
The English entomologist Professor Moseley proposed that the death's head moth emits its sound via air blown through its proboscis. Professor Poulson recently used a hoscope before the Linnean Society to show the noise arises from the proboscis and stops when its end is dipped in water, supporting Moseley's idea.
Nickel was first found in Canada in 1887 and now towers at about 40 percent of world output. The Sudbury district in Ontario hosts ore bodies spanning roughly 70 by 40 miles, with ore containing about three percent nickel and copper, plus iron and sulphur. Extraction occurs in the United States, while one mine has reached 1,100 feet depth.
A digest of notes on bridge design costs and domestic steel production, silk worm light sensitivity studies by Flammarion, a German coal substitute from peat, peat bricks, and a geographic fact about the Gulf of Mexico. Includes a quip on the limits of knowledge.
The piece lists wedding party adornments such as bows of button roses and lilies, bouquets on staffs, butterflies in chiffon, and canoe florals, plus sunshades for bridesmaids. It also mentions gift ideas like fans and parasols and notes on outdoor weddings and tasteful contrasts with dresses.
The garment features a satin faced cloth with a tucked circular bottom ruffle, a low neck bolero with an underwest, pale yellow fabric embroidered in silver and gold in a Napoleonic motif along bolero edges, a stock collar of embroidered lawn, tie and plaitings at neck and wrists, a high black sash with a gold slide, a black straw hat with chiffon trim and a low crown, plus a black velvet band bow and a brim edge adorned with flowers.
Marble Falls Texas tale recalls Kate Mayland who risked her life to save Charlie Waynock dangled from a precipice while pursuing a rare bird of paradise. Cowboy aid and a rope rescue followed as she direct-ordered the hoist and kept calm under peril.
A newly described U S mint facility in Philadelphia will use electricity to automate all processes. Motors from a quarter to 50 horsepower drive four engines and a big rolling mill to coin gold and silver. Eight boilers supply steam, with dual pipe systems reducing smoke and fuel waste.
The last session of Congress fixed the Virginia Tennessee boundary along the main street in Bristol Tennessee creating a border in the street. A car lines the state divide with passengers on opposite sides now in different states. The piece notes a marriage of minors forbidden in Virginia may occur on the Tennessee side and urges against border arrests with requisition papers obtainable from Tennessee.
The World's Work summary credits 24 years of Diaz administration with peace for 14 million, a modern army of 35,000, vast railroad expansion from 420 to 5,000 miles, metal production rising to 76 million, imports up to 51 million and exports to 75 million, foreign investment in mills breweries and more, rising wages, a government always in surplus, and a capital city investment of 10 million for urban services.
A Chicago Journal note explains that Welchta Canadian Scent silver coins serve as standard weights in the tea trade. Tea brokers rely on these coins to balance samples, with many efforts to hide or replace the coin using lead or paper. The practice is an old trade custom likely to endure as long as tea is bought and sold.
An 83 year old peasant in Grocholets Poland wed a maiden of 18 in a ceremony attended by 200 guests. The wedding included 11 of the groom's previously born children aged up to 60, plus grandchildren totaling 29 great grand children and four fifth generation offspring.
Contemporary Chief Justice Fuller is a pane reader of contemporary novels Classica of all sorts he has at his fingers ends but after a day in court the light er sort of Action he finds to be more of a diversion.
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