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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1900
Page
2
A New York Sun reader recounts a childhood wart ordeal. A Woodchopper allegedly carved forty small sticks and promised relief, placing them on each wart. Six weeks later all warts disappeared with no repeat cases since. Doctors supposedly dismissed the tale as superstition, though the wart cure remains unexplained.
A London News report notes Penn relics tied to the church at Penn Bucks Jones, including the pulpit and ancestral pew, an altar cloth by Martha Penn, and various rubbings offered for 175 guineas. The coffin said to be William Penn’s is not part of the sale, with lore linking the Penn lineage to Botua, Sherwood, and the By mone family, and a note on Sir William Penn’s grandmother Agnes Penn.
The ring, a symbol of remembrance and eternal recollection, traces from neon stones in Prometheus legends to its use as a pledge of faithfulness in Christianity. The fourth left finger origin links to Egyptian and Greek practices honoring Apalio, sun god, with gold symbolizing the sun and a nerve connection to the heart supporting wedding vows.
A fragmentary note describes an evening at a house with the speaker’s mother in law, baby's uncles and aunts, planning to name the baby. The speaker asks another person to attend, then excuses themselves to avoid involvement in family quarrels.
The page includes a feature showing a jag car used between New Britain and Berlin for nightlife and intoxication access, plus a British officer Captain Kennedy of Royal Engineers highlighted for electric telegraph work. It also mentions Germany’s war notes, Berlin’s transit issues, and various travel and wireless telegraphy references in a chaotic OCR fragment.
Lady Delamere and husband, famed as big game hunters, travel from Mombasa into the interior of Africa. The piece notes her bold status and their extended expedition, with months ahead before updates reach friends.
An old Chepstow castle ruins, once the castle of Strigull, faces sale to highest bidder. Built among Norman fortresses under William the Conqueror, its 250 yard wall overgrown with ivy rises 100 feet above the Wye cliff. A Marten tower recalls historic associations including a regicide.
In Les Baux France a shadow of a famed sixteenth century Cour d Amour survives. Once run by noble ladies the court dictated troubadour topics judged singers by merit and punished breaches. By the twelfth century these courts even set rules for love etiquette and display of affection.
The article describes a fan service in New Britain using a rebuilt trolley car called the Jag car that runs after the sober car, with Anne Spector watching for drinkers and directing them to the Jag car. It mentions interest from other towns and potential second sections of the Jag line. It also includes a meteorology note by Prof Barr and a Porto Rican belle portrait, plus a Chicago joke about shopping for wraps and a wife husband exchange.
An old Cascarets advertisement touts the candy as a universal remedy for stomach and bowel issues. It cites many testimonials from diverse readers praising relief from constipation and related ailments and urges readers to try the product for its claimed benefits.
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