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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1904
Page
7
A New York Tribune item recalls a railway collision where a victim lay near death until a doctor noted a lifeless eye. The injured man murmured that the glass eye was his, revealing the misread prognosis. Other notes cite cable density, a St Louis animal circus, and a British leadership critique.
A fragmented note from Forethought Note Book Whtary offers advice on useful life lessons from ages fifteen to twenty three. It covers comfortable children's clothing, quieting children in church by removing them from services, letting a child choose suitable food, and teaching kindness between siblings. It ends with a moral prompt about handling a stranger who asks to hold a baby and vanishes.
Mr Stoggleby recalls a tale of Jackson Ripleton who avoided blowing air to play cornet. He built a compressed air tank to feed the mouthpiece, operated by foot valve, and played until the tank blew up injuring him. After recovery he became active and no longer lazy, a unique transformation case.
A letter to Colonel Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, War Department, notes that few Philippine words entered English from American occupation. Captain Taylor, Spanish scholar, reports that Tagalog and tribal languages rarely influence American English, while Spanish terms from earlier conquests largely suffice.
A bachelor flat in the city hosts a unique card room where poker hands replace wall prints. Royal flushes and other big hands are posted on the ceiling as decor, with dust-clearing air pumped under the cards to keep the display pristine.
Fragmentary lines describe a haunted place with lanterns and a still. The speaker mentions Fowler haunted lands, a longing for comfort, and bid to endure the night with a homey yet eerie tone. The piece evokes a rural, ghostly mood through scattered imagery.
An old ad claims Dosa’s Kidney Pills cured a man’s back and kidney illness in 1896 and offers a free trial by Foster Milburn Co. Also notes a Pennsylvania building protection plan to guard the Liberty Bell at the world’s fair by allowing quick removal from the building.
Abbe Hue recounts that even after passing as Chinese, dogs detected him by scent due to an pervasive musky odor in Chinese imports, while a Japanese doctor notes Occidentals also carry an odor disliked by Asians. The article recalls a long dead volcanic lake atop Volcano de Agua Guatemala, fed by neither springs nor rivers, whose collapse created a deadly ravine centuries ago.
A Missouri woman recounts years of stomach agony until she tried Postum in place of coffee. After a week, coffee caused withdrawal symptoms again, confirming coffee as the cause. Since switching to Postum, she and her husband report improved health and energy. The ad promotes a ten day Postum trial and the book The Road to Wellville.
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