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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1905
Page
2
A jumble of snatches on culture, war talk, sports, romance, and social quirks. It mentions France and Germany, Vassar graduates, Admiral Togo, fashion, and hotels in New York, with scattered humorous asides about life and modern trends.
An article fragment describes a home made drawing frame using a mesh panel to split a scene into forty eight squares for copying with a sliding rod and tripod. It also recounts games with a “duck” rock, a bear that might talk, a Kentucky gander, and a humorous fish tale.
A boomerang style hoop race is described where players throw a hoop forward, then stand still as it reverses course and rolls back. Skillful handling, downward twists, backward movement, and penalties for misthrows are outlined as the course progresses.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate argues that duties to God precede duties to man and that love is essential to resolving conflicts including racial tensions. It asserts affection for the Negro as vital, warning that without love or a proper view of God one cannot truly serve others, and cites a slaveholder’s plea for closeness as a cure for dying.
Massachusetts minister J O Peck known in the Methodist Episcopal Church defends courtesy with a campus umbrella gesture at Newbury Seminary. An ensuing quip about walking distance leads to a ten foot pole routine to attend chapel together, illustrating strict coed rules.
In a Paris letter, Thomas Jefferson argued a Panama canal would be easier than French canals, starting with a small cist that tropical currents would widen. He claimed such a canal would enable round-the-world navigation within a 24-latitude zone, stabilize Gulf currents, and alter US coast conditions and fisheries through Gulf Stream changes.
Old Jean Davidson ran a small whisky shop and bribed a false test by tampering with the liquor to pass a royal seal check. Burns the excise man detected the deceit but the dawn sample proved the sample right, leaving Burns puzzled and Jean bragging that he outsmarted the Wee tester.
Marshall P. Wilder recounted a railroad trip in St Louis describing heat dust and a boy leaning from a car window. The tale ends with a hurled ride through a Serpentine stretch and a joking near miss at a tunnel as the boy shouts I believe we miss the hole.
Fragmentary verse reflecting on patience and youth, urging endurance and faith. The speaker questions waning ambition and time, inviting the reader to endure trials, awaiting hearts awakening, love, and guidance through life’s wilderness. The text preserves historic style and emotional cadence despite broken phrasing.
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