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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1903
Page
3
James Barton Adams writes in the Denver Post praising the Overland Trail era. The poem recalls heroic wagon trains, scouts, and bull-whip labor on the plains, contrasting past grit with modern speed and rail. The work honors a coterie of tough frontiersmen and their songlike legacy.
An editor reveals a pious fraud during a clergy dinner as a bishop’s one sermon, meant for thirteen parishes, is published in full with dates and parish names after the manuscript was secretly shared. The tale underscores the bishop Latane’s humor and the risks of manuscript notes.
The book Eternalism by Orlando Smith proposes a theory of an immortal soul preexisting birth and enduring after life. It claims creation and annihilation are transformations of old matter and that individuals shape character by neglecting health and opportunity, reaping what they sow in past existence.
Rt Rev Isaac Lea Nicholson preached in northern Wisconsin where a crowded church heard a baby cry. The bishop paused to hand the infant a candy from his pocket, calming the child instantly and prompting the mother to explain she had walked five miles from a lumber camp to attend. The exchange touched on baptism as the mother affirmed the baby was baptized.
A Boston Courier clipping narrated by Ray A Spencer tells of a young clergyman fleeing his first curacy due to welcoming ladies. His successor asks how he navigates the ladies, and the reply cites safety in numbers and Exodus as justification.
A peasant named Zeco Kamenow was executed at Widdin Citadel Vienna after attempting to stab warders with a hidden poniard. Three rope attempts failed and the condemned man was finally hanged, with the process drawing a graphic account of the mishaps and the crowding scene.
Twenty four Lancashire miners owed their lives to engineer Scott who, as the Tyldesley pit cage descended, fought dizziness and applied the brake to stop the engine. He saved the men but died minutes later from the effort, leaving a grave record of duty.
A strange walking fish from Santa Cata One Channel California belongs to a pediculan tribe with congeners along the gulf weed of the Mexican coast. Its pectoral fins function as legs enabling it to rest and snap at prey. It builds a nest of seaweed.
In Oron Vaud Switzerland villagers were unsettled by a nightly ghostly visitor believed to signal crime or disaster. A Mesieres gendarme found a naked, deaf and partially hair covered girl about 16 in a secluded path. She cannot walk in shoes and moves on all fours. Her origins and duration in a wild state remain unknown.
A report chronicles Gustavo Roselli, famed Italian swindler, who used stolen funds to fund crippled homes and hospitals in Rome and other cities. Despite his crimes, crowds cheered his sentencing, and after fifteen years in prison he was pardoned. In Maryland, Senator Gorman faced theft by household staff who aimed to furnish a house for an accomplice. the senator chose not to prosecute and moved out.
A letter from Louis E. Johnson, son of Reverdy Johnson, praises Peruna for catarrh relief. The ad touts radical cure, urges readers to request Dr. Hartman’s book, and provides contact to The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co in Columbus Ohio.
The distinguished London minister Rev. Wilson Carlile begins using moving pictures in church services and causes all attendees to receive a cup of coffee as they depart, mingling religion with new entertainment.
A Harpers editor explains that four of five manuscripts are rejected and only rarely is a first offer accepted within a year, addressing anxiety among would be contributors. The piece contrasts with debates on Britain’s colonial representation proposals and their potential impact on the colonial system and American history.
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