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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
3
Report notes a claim that pienkin is a better fan rubber for automobile tires. The text references a certain fitness in use by motorists who take the whole street and crave more performance from their tires.
The Newfoundland coast once practiced shipwreck salvage with a 60 percent share for the salvager. Unwritten rules prompted temptation to keep more, while punishments grew harsher for pilfered items like champagne, mo d, and cabin stores. The text notes disappearing wines, rare china, and silverware in poor fishermen cottages as temptations from the era.
Hall's Catarrh Cure price 75c appears in a brief catalog entry. A Swedish railway tale tells of a felt hat blown from a tourist’s head roaming across Sweden and Norway, passing through Upsala, Trondheim, Christiania, Gothenburg, Malmo, Zealand, Finland, and Germany, claimed as a monument to northern honesty. The piece includes a Horace Greeley anecdote about editorial room humor and a Horton Kansas Headlight quip about a dog named Blacksmith and a bumbling owner.
German scientific circles focus on Amundsen expedition to the magnetic north pole. The small vessel In which Prof. Amundsen Willgall sails Green, a forty six ton craft, touted for its compact size to maneuver icebergs and currents near the pole.
Two friends discuss Jenkins illness with contrasting views on his condition. One says he hopes Jenkins pulls through his siege of sickness, while the other notes he is volatile yet in good condition. A maid’s remark to his wife reveals Jenkins is suffering from ammonia.
Mothers urged to feed babies carefully in hot weather with easily digested Grape Nuts. A mother shares her two year old's summer illness relief after using Grape Nuts, noting improved bowels and strength. Postum Co. promotes the pre digested starch claim and hints at a $7,500 cooks contest extension offer.
In a small Nice harbor cafe, the Fisher is feared and debated as a mysterious soul hunter. A shadowy sailing boat draws near, then leaves, as Antoine the inn keeper suddenly dies, leaving the men to ponder the Fisher’s true purpose and the port’s ominous fate.
Rich in Beauty. The Baron George Augustes de Pocke seeks a bride in New York and selects a Lexington Avenue dressmaker's daughter. The baron favors originality and travels beyond Newport for a bride, with beauty and a rare voice as her dowry, in a vivid society note from New York World. Also satire on health fads warns against food and drink abuses, urging extreme purity of air and abstention.
A New York lottery piece notes a tradition claiming prosperity favors the west side and downtown corner spots, arguing that side of street and corner placement dictate which eateries thrive versus fail, with a vivid, cautious tone about such beliefs.
A fragmented letter from Nashville Tennessee recounts medical distress including ovarian inflammation and backache. The writer thanks a provider or remedy described as We Compound and notes suffering among female friends in need of care.
Eccentric ad style asserts a coupon can deliver relief for kidney bladder and urinary issues. Vague claims mention cures and doubt among rivals, with garbled phrases and unclear branding.
Farmers in Lafayette county Missouri grow pipe cob corn claiming similar grain yields to other varieties and extra revenue from the cobs. General Agent AT SF Ry 411 Dooly Block Salt Lake City UT.
An Malian authority finds eggs fed on certain food show varied nutrition. The eggs reveal iron in digestive form and exert a tonic effect on eaters, illustrating that eggs differ in dietic value based on feed.
A “never failing remedy” for nervous headache is described by a scientific authority. The method involves walking backward at a very slow pace with the ball of the foot touching first, then the heel. A narrow room aids the process as the reflex action is said to ease pain from nervousness.
A peculiar Oregon case arises from a town incorporated twice and possibly not legally incorporated. A senate bill and a house bill incorporating Adams in Umatilla County were sent to the governor and signed, though a boundary discrepancy means the later bill does not fully encircle the town.
Narrowest street in the world lies in Great Yarmouth England named Kitty Witches measuring Golyefty five inches wide residents can lean from windows to greet neighbors across the street with a handshake across the gap
An authenticated manuscript essay by novelist Charles Lever shows Sir Frederick Heider, former speaker of the Australian Commonwealth House of Representatives, began as a South Australian schoolmaster. The document, unearthed from a student in Germany, has been presented to the Royal Irish Academy.
An old advertisement extols Coticura Soap and Cathura Resolvent as cures for torture disfiguring skin humours, hair loss, and scalp afflictions. It claims quick relief, soothing sleep, and infallible results from a hot bath followed by medicines, touting toilet benefits and universal usage from infancy to old age.
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