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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1907
Page
2
A compilation of jokes and light quips from Chicago journals and sister papers. It includes a fable on genius and missteps in social situations, a tale of a mean teacher and prankish exchanges, a London tale with apologies, and a few rural and street corner gags.
A ragged collage of overheard lines, jokes, and conversational snippets. It includes remarks about a London cafe, a holiday in Italy, and a stray exchange about fines for trusts. Miscellaneous quips touch on horses, confidence, bargains, and fashion asides, with several scrambled dialogues and street scenes.
A correspondent describes wax rendering using a press with burlap sacks and a cleated rack. The process includes lining the press, soaking sacks in boiling sap, placing sacks in the press, folding the material, inserting a follower, and turning the screw to squeeze out wax.
The passage outlines folding a burlap sack to control overhang, lifting the top to cool, emptying slum gum, refilling, and returning the sack. It also describes boiling a comb on a fourhole stove with sides removed, using a large tub and two buckets of water, proceeding until nearly full, with water and free wax flowing from the press and leaving only slumgum to press.
An examination of poultry nutrition argues that mere percentages of lime or phosphates in feed are insufficient without the animal’s ability to assimilate them. Dalton notes inorganic matter alone cannot nourish animals, who rely on organic elements activated by sun and plant life. The piece discusses bone meal and green bone as rich phosphate and lime sources, noting their digestion, and urges poultrymen to include green bone in winter rations for hens, pullets, and cockerels.
The New York Life Insurance Company formed by policyholders under the Armstrong laws has begun reorganizing with a board led by Darwin P. Kingsley. Prominent officers include Thomas A. Buckner, Wm. E. Ingersoll in Europe, Rufus W. Weeks as chief actuary, and other longtime company veterans. Policyholders seek reassurance as the life-insurance upheaval of recent years has spurred surrender offers elsewhere, though New York Life still holds over two billion dollars in outstanding business out of two billion on its books at investigation time.
A traveling man recalls a humorous misadventure as John Smith, a common name, encounters identity chaos at a Norfolk exposition. He faces mistaken rooms and telegrams, sparking a running gag about the Smith surname and travel friction. The piece blends comic anecdotes with hotel and telegraph mixups.
A collage of historical vignettes covers genuine chivalry, mosquito tides in New Jersey, and moral anecdotes. It includes a tale of a noble act amid social flirtation, notes on a draining project boosting property values, and a humorous classroom miscue about returning good for evil.
Promotional tale touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for nervous breakdowns and related symptoms. Individual anecdotes claim relief from pallor, headaches, insomnia, and fatigue after taking the tonic, with pricing listed as 3.50 for a box of pills mailed by the Dr Williams Medicine Company.
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