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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1903
Page
7
In a rural scene Ebenezer Pert, a widower with nine children, woos his former love Janie Dobson, now widow Jumper, after lamenting poverty and loss. Deb counsels action, and Ebenezer travels to Durham to ask Janie to reunite, hoping to run a household together.
A newly elected congressman tall and confident registers at the desk. The clerk mistakes his name as John Barker, and the man explains the change to H J Barker indicating his election. He jokes about the honor and the initials, claiming the title Honorable.
A long list praises turpentine as a valuable household item. It claims relief for croup and throat troubles, cautions skin irritation from use, and recommends wrapping in flannel. It endorses turpentine for burns, cleaning leather, cleaning clothes, repelling moths and mice, whitening linens, preventing starch sticking, and polishing floors and furniture when mixed with wax or oil. It notes external use for lumbago and neuralgia.
Ex-State Senator A H Carter of Fort Worth cites severe cotton pest damage in Texas and South Texas farmers leaving for New Mexico Oklahoma and Indian Territory. He warns the boll weevil menace now threatens the entire cotton belt. The piece notes recent sightings five miles north of the city and frames the crisis as the era’s gravest challenge since statehood. The Open Sky poem follows with reflective verse on nature and hope.
A member of Congress notes that the postscript often carries weight in a woman's letter while his wife quips that amendments are the crucial element in a bill. The exchange highlights informal truths behind formal politics and legislative fragility.
A dramatic frontier duel at Magdalena New Mexico on November 18 pits professional gambler Beatty Reed against livery stable owner Herman Horn. Both men fire as the other draws, Reed dies smiling, Horn wounded and dies soon after. Witness Ed Placker recalls the scene where Reed showed “table stakes” bravery and Horn insisted on a fair fight. The confrontation ends with both men dead and buried together, illustrating a harsh frontier code of honor.
Mr John A Dickson from Morganton arrives with a pint of peach brandy aged fifty three years. A cedar hill discovery reveals a wicker jug labeled 1849 containing a level syrup of brandy. Dickson shares half pint with two men who question him. they choose not to harm him and let him keep the rest.
A historical note claims Slav residents of New York far outnumber other foreign groups among males under 71. It states Slavonic men in New York City over 21 exceed most nationalities of the same age group except Germans and Irish, with vivid lines on drinking mortality.
A mixing of brief antiquity notes and comic misadventures. Egyptian beliefs on the judgment of hearts are contrasted with a German student Adolf Bunge who trains a calf to protest a noisy piano. The tale blends mythic imagery with a modern nuisance case and legal rebuke.
The article notes fish produce sounds such as the red gurnard called scaench for its crowing, and the piper among others. Opht hium species have ribbed bone drums. the malgre can drum can be heard at thirty fathoms. A wealthy New Yorker’s child received a harp-tined doll for Christmas costing $150.
David Thompson, a famed Black Hills prospector, reportedly struck a thick gold ledge of quartz with free gold assaying up to $500 per ton. After ten minutes of elation he collapsed and died from a ruptured brain vessel. partners will split his stake among the others.
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