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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1900
Page
3
A collage of pasted excerpts and stray notes including a crude schoolboy letter with violent language, a Chicago Tribune quote about a curiosity of the era, Panama Canal musings, an advertisement for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, and a quip from Mrs. Talkmuch and Mr. Sarkasm noting Rev. Backwoods and a $400 yearly salary.
A judge confronts his daughter Lizzie and her concealed lover Hartley, the confidential clerk. Hartley reveals he is Herbert St Leon, the heir, who wooed and wed Lizzie after proving his worth beyond the clerk label. The judge must accept the unconventional match.
Tales recount raven stratagems to steal prey from hares and a dog, including luring a mother hare away before snatching the young one. A pair of ravens distract a dog to grab scraps, while a voiced cry of fair play leads a passerby to rescue a domesticated raven. Reported by Capt. Brown and cited in the Philadelphia Times.
A compact critique noting how women writers like Ouida and male authors such as Dickens Thackeray and Scott treat meals. It contrasts epicurean feasts with hearty dinners, mid day breakfasts of peaches and cake, vivid banquets, aspic jelly, and lavish courses shaping narrative scenes.
A fragment describes a dangerous improvised instrument kit named the Frak of the Mosquito. It lists six tiny surgical tools with a double barred spear and needle used to puncture, saw, and pump blood, detailing how these parts are employed if initial attempts fail.
A Brockton manufacturing city feature discusses shoemaking wages and plant schedules at J. Douglas and W. Douglas firms, noting weekly earnings around 154 dollars and brief factory closures. The piece shifts to Martinsburg disturbance in 1861, detailing Col. Sharp’s removal of Baltimore and Ohio engines and cars for Southern use, with numbers on engines moved and routes taken.
General Joseph Wheeler commander of cavalry near Santiago praises Peruna as an excellent tonic and ejective cure for catarrh. Senators McEnery Roach and Sullivan attest to its strength, vigor and appetite benefits. A free catarrh book is offered by The Peruna Drug Mfg Co of Columbus Ohio.
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