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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1902
Page
7
Fragmentary note narrates a chaotic scene where Adabert Caldwell mentions conspiracies, sewing, patchwork, and a detained person named Jesson. The quirky text blends domestic work with alleged plots as characters shuffle through a blurred, old-time setting.
The article recalls the infancy and early reign of James VI of Scotland born in June with Elizabeth I and France sending pomp. Crowned at Sterling Castle at thirteen months, he faced a troubled childhood as his mother’s fate and court politics shaped his schooling and early rule. His tutor Buchanan disliked him, while the boy learned Latin and spoke boldly to the public, dreaming of authority even as a child.
A fragmented excerpt describes tadpole development and eating habits, alongside a lively description of the postman game where children act out letters between cities. It includes a tale about Willie chasing perpetual motion and a note on resisting imposition by others.
A misassembled mechanical man called Hercules, eight feet tall and steam powered, toured a Cleveland park during a summer event. It roamed the grounds pushing a wheeled iron cart, inhaled steam, and toppled a bar while frightening campers and workers for about an hour before exhausting steam and collapsing head over heels. No one could stop the rolling figure until its steam deactivated.
A Washington note describes Mrs. Roosevelt arranging Porto Rican needlework gifts for the White House and details a child’s school enrollment, a bicycle mishap, and a later express wagon entrance. It covers social scenes with Ambassador Choate, Senator Frye, and the Red Cross, plus a card reception with Mrs. Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt.
The American Museum of Natural History debuts a new caribou specimen named Rengier Stone from the Kinai Peninsula Alaska. The preserved head and antlers illustrate distinctive coloration and unusually large front-branch antlers, marking a significant addition to northern North American caribou knowledge. The specimen’s full body was not preserved and measurements are given for the living animal.
European cities report fire losses far below those in the United States. Paris with 2.5 million residents posts far smaller losses than Boston, Budapest’s losses are less than a tenth of Boston’s, Milan averages about 150000 yearly, Venice sees around 20000, and London’s rise is roughly one fifth of New York’s. The note attributes lower damage to fireproof building practices rather than highly efficient brigades.
London gossip notes the austere routine of Francis Joseph. He rises for breakfast at dawn with cold meat coffee and fresh bread. Lunch and dinner follow in his library desk area with a tray service. He drinks beer over wine and smokes Virginia cigars costing about four cents each.
The article notes that many poorer families face financial hardship when their sons enlist in Japan's army. To ease the burden and honor their sons, neighbors propose creating a private allowance fund for privates from their community.
The Ganges delta marshes with extensive vegetation and tropical sun are described as the native home of cholera and plagues. The text links yearly cholera epidemics in Europe and plagues to outbreaks in this region, suggesting a common origin in the mouth of the Ganges.
News from Clermont Ferrand reports sculptor Bartholdi, designer of the Liberty statue, has created a 14 foot high, 16 foot long statue of Vercingetorix. It weighs four long tons and cannot travel by rail, so a test will move it one block by automobile wagon from Paris.
A queer looking craft with a pair of balanced sails on either side of a central mast aims to improve handling and speed. The sails, set in swinging frames on horizontal booms, adjust in parallel planes to share wind and reduce mast strain during tacking.
A Sunday morning tale of a boy who received two nickels from his father one for the Lord and one for himself. While waiting for Sunday school he dropped one coin into a crack and exclaimed with childlike faith that the Lord's nickel had vanished.
Nantes correspondent relays a tale of Captain Rowt of the Italian brig Anita. The ship left Martinique with sugar on June 6, 1908, endured storms and arrests, ferried between ports, and surfaced in Tenerife by September before docking again in Nantes with a devalued cargo and a £5,000 debt.
A weary cyclist recalls a Portuguese inn run by two widows near Santa Comba Dao with a simple menu and a flower filled room. The piece shifts to a memorial of Margaret Tomie born beside Waterloo, who saved her husband after the battle and later died at 86 in Kirkcaldy.
A stray New York Times mention describes Counselor Bo Hassett of Steuben County meeting Jack Switzer of Bath at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Switzer jokes about naming a dog Moreover and recalls a biblical line about Lazarus. The tale blends humor with a Bible citation.
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