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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1906
Page
7
A Chicago antiquary highlights a 1665 tract titled A Brief Treatise of the Nature Causes Signs Preservation from and Cure of the Pentitence. It notes tobacco’s air purifying use and claims it warms cold, cools hot, aids digestion, and suits all dispositions and moods when smoked in a pipe.
First officer of a liner recalls sailing hardships before steamships. He endured 156 days from Liverpool to Fristo and eight weeks rounding the Horn with perpetual cold. Sailors slept in soaked underclothes to keep warm and spent hours aloft reefing sails in ice. Ropes split hands, producing sea cuts.
Poem by MU Lewis printed in the Houston Post expresses timeless vows of love and devotion. A narrator invites an idealized beloved to share a life as the Earth spins, lovers idealize fidelity, shared memories, and enduring romance under celestial imagery.
Mrs. E. T. Gould of 914 W Lake Street Chicago credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her from Brights Disease after years of back ache languor and frequent headaches The 1902 claim notes quick relief and lifelong well being The ad promotes 50 cents a box sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Also mentions earache relief and hot water therapy for children with guidance on positioning and a mustard plaster behind the ear as a pain aid.
Several young men from Clyde near Philadelphia engage in catching and shipping frogs to the city market. The work pays $5 to $9 daily. They can collect from sixty to 180 pounds of frogs legs daily, selling at about fifteen cents per pound.
A witty jab on the habit of writers complimenting themselves in print, with the New York Press quipping that a man who reads his own joke in a paper feels he should compose comic opera.
Somerville lawyer John W. Converse defended a poor boy charged with malicious mischief for throwing a stone through a window. The judge, acknowledging the boy’s family poverty, fined the defendant 50 cents and ordered the court to pay half the fine while Converse covered the other half.
Soule, former president of the Massachusetts senate, recalls a young East Boston Irish member who ardently argued to abolish a grade crossing. In a heated moment he quipped that people in East Boston have been killed repeatedly at that crossing, underscoring the danger and urgency of the debate.
The Prince and Princess of Wales sought to inspect the Golden Temple in Amritsar Punjab but were refused entry to the main gate by Sikhs who said non Sikhs could use a slide door. The offer was declined.
An English officer testifies to Chinese troops fighting bravely under British officers near Tientsin in 1910. He praises Chinese soldiers in British uniform, arguing courage comes from following leaders up barricades amid gunfire rather than cowards.
A brief adage presents a reflection on friendship, noting true friends appear during hardship without invitation while prosperity invites only those who are asked. The quote attributed to Theo phrastus contrasts loyalty in tough times with selective attendance in good times.
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