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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1906
Page
3
An investigative note traces crooked actions in fund handling. It condemns graft and aims to locate the money allegedly moved to Kova. Authorities pledge a steadfast pursuit, driven by righteous wrath and the drive to reveal the culprit despite scant compensation.
In 1908 a Japanese student Kodasura Kin nose studies American girls at a college. He tentatively resolves to marry Miss Florence Maynard after falling in love though unaware of Western customs. She laughs at plans for a fast wedding but accepts the affection, leaving his royal pride challenged by heartfelt emotion.
A visiting Japanese officer misreads an American girl’s expression as reincarnation. Realizing the error, he apologizes, thanks her, and departs, leaving the girl in a trance as Kodasura Kinnonuke returns to Japan with the mystery lingering.
A thin woman recalls the comfort of travel when crowded cars guarantee her a seat. She chastises vanity after a man explains that seating is frequently given to the thinner passenger, a practical benefit she accepts with gratitude.
Mr W. 8 Gilbert watched horses at Sandown with a friend when a well dressed stranger bumped him twice, apologizing each time. Moments later Gilbert found his watch, chain, scarf pin, and pocketbook gone, suspected the nervous man as the thief.
A rustic poem about old fashioned roses, their faded beauty, and the speaker's reflection on family memory. The verse compares roses to sunshine and mornin glories, recalls a mother’s love, and ends with a note on sentimental value despite simple appearance. The speaker admits the roses suit a cabin’s life and evoke home and heart rather than gaudy flair.
An old recipe claims to cure cancer by gathering wood sorrel when in bloom with a blue flower, pressing juice into a sun dried paste in a corked vial, applying by cloth during the day, and sleeping without the treatment at night. It advises drinking yellow dock tea and credits an Indian doctor.
Mrs Richardson, author of In Japanese Hospitals in Wartime, recalls her Japanese attendant. She describes the woman warming her fingers over a hibachi when unused, smoking a tiny pipe hidden under her feet, and replying I am a fool after being told she forgot something, unaware of the odd phrasing.
The Japanese Imperial Library in Tokio houses about 2,000 mathematical writings and printed works dating back to 1595, spanning a wide historical range and showcasing rich scholarly material.
The Alton Me Baptist society planned a seven mile river trip led by Ike Leavitt famed for knowing every rock. Despite calm assurances to the Sunday school maams, the boat struck a rock causing a jolt and a burst of shrieks before Ike spotted another rock.
A Uruguayan pavo del monte winged by a hunter turned the tables as the hunter pursued it. The bird triggered the uncocked hammer of the hunter’s gun, causing a painful leg wound that lingered for weeks. Separately, a new mountain climbing device clamps the heel to lift the foot, easing descent.
The India Times reports the derby dog appeared again during the grand maneuvers at Rawal Pindi as the Ninth Queen's Royal Lancers followed a stray manly male who walked with comical gravity, unbothered by jeers or calls to stop.
Gardiner Maine school department reports a conscience fund receipt after Supt Turner received a letter from a former pupil who admits embezzling 1.25 dollars years ago while collecting funds in city schools to buy candy. The note implies she rectifies the act by returning the amount.
Aged couple tied the knot at Blunsdon St Leonard with a combined age of 155 years marking their third wedding ceremony each. London Answers reports the notable milestone in a rare nuptial record.
An explorer notes scarce amusements in Persia but high interest in athletics. Persian Sandows display immense strength after days in bed, then train with heavy clubs for hours as music plays. Wrestling feats include beating twenty opponents in a single display, making such performances popular.
Dr Eydam a noted German meteorologist claims a new barometer using telegraph wires strung along roads. By listening to wind sounds across the wires one can predict weather days ahead. A deep mellow note signals showers and gales. a sharp high note signals cold stormy weather with possible snow and sleet.
A diminutive vehicle capable of fifteen miles per hour stands about forty inches high and four feet six inches long, drawing attention in Columbus, Ohio as an odd local marvel and curiosity.
A Belvoir castle household entry dated 1615 shows a payment “to Mr. Shakspeare” in gold for painting and making prints, and to Richard Burbage. The note confirms Shakespeare’s gentility and ties to Burbage, who was an actor and painter, with Shakespeare obtaining arms from the College of Arms in 1599.
A local pedometer study at a dance event shows women cover more distance than men, averaging sixteen miles per evening for feminine dancing. The man logged thirteen and a half miles, while the mathematician estimates the average waltz about half a mile and polka about three quarters, with galop eight miles and lancers a quarter mile.
The article notes that Greeks and Romans used hinges like modern ones and presents a cut image of four bronze Roman hinges preserved in the British Museum.
An authority notes that almost all so called natural wintergreen oil now sold is sourced from sweet birch due to the high cost of gathering wintergreen leaves or checkerberry. This shift highlights supply pressures in the oil market.
Ellsworth Maine sea captain Captain Alexander Hutchine, famed for absent mindedness, built a spare chamber at home and plastered it. After completing the work he proudly showed his wife, who discovered there was no doorway. In a rush of surprise he realized he had inadvertently locked himself inside the finished room.
A Maine graveyard epitaph on John L. Jones born February 7 1811 died August 11 1875 proclaims a skeptic’s view of faith and salvation. The verse ridicules belief without proof and asserts self reasoning over superstition in a blunt anti religious sentiment.
A motor car encounter with a large buck near Perth Scotland ends when the deer charges the vehicle, demolishes a headlight, and tears a tire. The drivers flee and crash into a tree before one man shoots the animal, ending the extraordinary battle.
The oldest existing watch, made in France in the sixteenth century, is displayed in the accompanying Minstration. Despite its age it is still considered a very artistic product. It is nearly twice the size of today’s watches and has a crude mechanism by modern standards. Elaborate decoration of the period is evident.
In ancient China the census was taken by groups of ten houses. The oldest man in each group visited nine other houses with his own to count every family. He then sent his report to the Imperial census bureau for compilation.
In Lima Peru builders construct houses with cane frames and heavy clay plaster, then paint over. The technique aims to resist tremors by using flexible materials and thick coats.
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