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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1902
Page
6
A chaotic collage of social gossip and scattered notes touches on politicians, business figures like Carnegie and Hetty Green, cultural snatches, and distant calamities. It references Mary Maclane, Sol Smith Russell, and various European cities while musing on gambling, divorce cases, and oddities in society.
German villages keep night watchmen who carry a long lance and a whistle to announce the hours. A Posnan area tale recounts a watchman who blamed tooth loss for not whistling, prompting a council to send him to Breslau for artificial teeth. He returns with new teeth yet learns to soak them overnight per doctor’s orders.
A New York Prose piece depicts a woman who exalts a man as her ideal at a grand ball. She revels in his tenderness yet later discovers his rowdy, dissolute behavior as she overhears his coarse jokes. Her dream collapses and she repeats to herself, My ideal, My ideal.
The New York Evening Post notes that Britain's Boer War cost is near double the Napoleonic wars. It records debt rises from 1792 to 1815 totaling about £623 million, with annual averages around £25-30 million, and notes higher modern loan costs and supplies expenses. It concludes with a remark on uncharitable thoughts tarnishing charitable actions.
Ignatius Sullivan, Hartford’s newly elected labor mayor, faces two years of work and worry. Speaker Simon Ford notes Sullivan’s nerves will be tested as he confronts challenges ahead, recalling a hotel explosion incident and praising a Hartford man whose nerve amid danger outmatched the mayor’s.
A 400 by 22 by 10 foot tank to be built in University of Michigan’s new engineering building will be the world’s only rivaled tank apart from a Sea land design. It will support model boat studies and propeller research, aiding marine and hydraulic work in the department. The project highlights the era’s focus on large scale testing facilities.
A Chinese gardener Ah Luk was shot in Jackson Street theater. Police captured two binders with powder burns on one. they were jailed for murder but released when alibis by the murdered man’s brothers contradicted witnesses. Later the brothers were jailed for killing a man freed by the testimony. The wounded man swore the brothers had no part. The report concludes that racial bias and unreliable testimony harmed justice, from New Orleans Time-Democrat.
The article reviews Moresnet as a neutral tiny territory near Aix-la-Chapelle, governed jointly though not by any single state since Vienna Congress boundaries. It notes its lasting neutral status, sparse map mention, and occasional historical anecdotes including a local preacher’s sermon and a child’s humorous misunderstanding of its biblical reference.
During a superintendent visit in Mahanoy City public schools a teacher tested pupils on geography and physiology. A six year old girl answered that the human body is ninety percent water and the rest, land, prompting amused interest as the lesson continued.
A mosaic of poem lines about a snowy Sleepy Hollow scene and a long biographical sketch of Gen. James W. Latta, PA military career from 1861 to 1868, battles at Fredericksburg through Petersburg, then civil service, plus anecdotes on Col. Dan McCook and a pension case, ending with a Gettysburg monument note.
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