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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
3
A reflective verse noting annual sorrow as old affections fade and time, illness, and mortality tighten their grip. The speaker laments repeated recollection of past joys and losses while recognizing aging, fading blossoms, and shifting shores of life. Immortal imagery contrasts mortal limits and brighter dawn.
A Wild West tale describes a Flagstaff to Pittman Valley coach ambush where a highwayman shoots at the driver and loots a money box. A pistol drawn, a wounded agent, a child’s voice as a Christmas gift moves the robber to pause, reflecting on a possible change of life.
A light exchange about Christmas shopping and gift choices features a humorous back and forth about what to get a husband. The quips reflect holiday tensions and festive banter.
Agent G Frank Willard plans a bold return trip after bandits shoot at a coach and steal a load. He secretly shelters baby Helen Grace Morris and rides an elk with the loot to Pittman Valley where a posse pursues the riders and uncovers a cavern stocked with stolen goods.
In a Puck cartoon caption a lecturer recalls a grim scene where a man who strutted as a human ostrich died after eating candy from his son's Christmas tree. The exchange frames a tragic, sensational anecdote from a past exhibit.
Washington notes announce a new Wenatchee telephone exchange and after December 5 daily mail from Wenatchee to Waterville. Other items include local commemorations, tax payments, belt shipments to the National Guard, and crimes from Tacoma to Walla Walla.
An old advertisement style piece urges readers to judge health by blood quality and promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a natural blood remedy. It frames illness as fatigue and nameless pains, blaming blood 90 percent of the time.
Dr. Norman Macleod is named as the next moderator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly. He would be the third of his name and fifth family member to hold the high office, highlighting a rare hereditary trend in this pulpit role.
Comic and press items note Portland Wire and Iron Works as a supplier. A judge from New York, Judge John R. Putnam, dies at sea near Hong Kong on a trip to visit his son in the army. Samuel Gompers is reported injured after a Washington bicycle collision with a streetcar.
Sudden Death in Tacoma reports John Nelson instantly killed at the Paul and Tacoma mill when a piece of fly ash flew back over the jaws and struck him just above the heart. Married, Nelson had worked at the mill eight years.
A statistician claims the typewriter created 500000 jobs but omits cases of weak stomachs caused by sedentary work. The article promotes Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a remedy for strain from confinement.
An ambling reflection notes that life resembles a race yet swift people prove hardest to manage and most prone to stray from the path. It argues that great abilities often hinder more than help their owners compared with moderate endowments.
Colonel Hesseltine told the Loyal Legion in Boston that in his opinion the Marseillaise is the grandest and most powerful war song ever written.
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