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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1901
Page
5
A Chicago market profile highlights Roseboom the broom corn king with a fortune estimated around two million dollars from broom corn trade and market speculation. The article then surveys leather uses from fish skins and marine hides, noting variety, processing, and practical applications across cultures and industries.
A biographical sketch profiles musician Misa Ethel Harraden known as Mrs Frank Glover, noting her early start at age seven and success with songs and operetta His Last Chance. It also highlights Ida Conquest, a rising American actress and performer with Frohman companies, praised for beauty, stage presence, and knack for bird imitations.
The Kiel canal administration reports 25 816 vessels passed from April 1 1828 to March 21 1899, including 11 005 steamers and 14 811 sailing ships, with total tonnage about 3 117 840 and receipts near 400 000 dollars. Germany accounts for 87 percent of vessels and 68 percent of tonnage. England 9 percent. Denmark and Sweden about 6.9 and 5.7 percent. The year shows a 26 percent rise in receipts and 9 percent drop in expenses, with a forecast that eventual revenue may cover maintenance costs despite the canal's strategic rather than profit purpose.
Miss Lillian Green, once Miss Green, travels from Dawson to San Francisco with her mother and sister after a Yukon voyage that nearly wrecked. She weds James L. Hall, Klondike miner and camp owner, who gives $50,000 wedding gift and plans Paris vacation funds of $10,000. Hall’s Eldorado creek claim has yielded over a million in nuggets and expects more this year.
Ida Conquest to take leading lady role in Drew's company next season, marking the separation from Isabel Irving and signaling a starring venture for the talented comedienne. Frohman praises her education, intelligence, and steady rise from small roles to a top comic position on the American stage.
Misa Louise Truax, a 17 year old great great grandniece of Ethan Allen, has captivated New York society with her whistling. A flattering offer has been made for her to go to London to whistle for fashionable Mayfair, highlighting her emerging fame.
Marie Burroughs stars in Battle of the Strong to open the season under Daniel V. Arthur. The Isle of Jersey setting has drawn praise from Victor Huse and Gilbert Parker, and the role of Guida is tailored to Burroughs as she returns to the stage.
Alice Nielsen plans a California and southern winter tour for next season while her opera company remains unperformed in California. The company influences church life in Vineyard Haven Massachusetts with Albert Mc Guckin as choirmaster and Eugene Cowles singing the offertory. Harry B. Smith leaves Weber and Feilds to join Klaw and Erlanger, completing the book for Foxy Quiller, a comic opera described as truly comic.
Minneapolis Times reports Charles H. Sawyer and Andrew Anderson securing letters patent for a serpentine boat claimed to reach eighty miles per hour. James Gresham of Brooklyn plans the first build for a syndicate led by W. J. Arkell, aiming to cross the Atlantic in under three days using a double-hulled, rotating outer shell design.
The oldest books, translated from Egyptian sources, reveal a vast record once sealed behind a dense wall. Translation breakthroughs allow access to writings cut on stone bricks papyrus cloth and reeds. Scholars now study the ancient corpus anew across materials and sites.
Melbourne traveler Mrs Ellis Rowan recounts a sensational Australian tale of a forest tree called the cannibal tree or devil's tree. She describes a towering pineapple like plant whose drooping fronds hide spear like growths that trap and devour a man while legends say the natives worshipped it to avert wrath.
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