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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
5
A fragmented notice names state offices and local officials for Custer County. Individuals include Jens Neal J Sharp Register, Hodgman Revelv, Finnell, Chamberlain, John Johnson Auditor and Recorder Geo. E Keyes Treasurer, and Miss Alice Felkner Commissioner. Names appear with titles and districts as part of a county administration roster.
A New York Sun correspondent describes bears fattening on acorns and spruce gum before hibernation, then raiding orchards for ripe apples this year. Hunters drive the bears from Black Cap mountain while schoolchildren shield a wounded bear and nurse it in a barn. The tale shifts to Turkish dining etiquette as guests share from main dishes with large spoons and polite feeding actions.
A New York Sun account recalls two shoe polishers using a two chair hand organ to supply rag time music as they buff and brush a customer. The performers’ synchronized steps and flipping brushes create a lively street performance that ends with the narrator leaving, stepping to the sidewalk in rhythm with the organ and a passing wagon.
The Scottish American notes progress among the Negro population in New York City and nearby areas. Many now hold respectable positions, live beyond former Harlem boundaries, and join groups such as Sons of Virginia and Sons of the Old North State. About 15 Negro physicians hold diplomas from prestigious schools.
Edmund Gosse calls the Trinity Milton manuscript the most precious English literary document. It preserves Milton’s own handwriting for years of creative effort, showing the mind’s movement, hesitations, and stylistic choices in the act of creation. Only some sonnets are clearly copied by others.
A Zetetic and period voice describes Arizona cattle and beef methods with humor and a revolver vendor quote. The piece also lists items accompanying Queen Victoria when abroad, including bedding, chair, tableware, horses, donkey chair, a wheelchair, and framed photographs.
A Sacramento man buys mallard jacks with gold nuggets found, netting $2.60 from a $1.50 stake. Reports of Denmark supplying English butter, Russia eggs shipped to England, and Russian ore totals. Austrian telegraph speech by Mr. Lecker, lasting from 10 PM Thursday to 11 AM Friday, mentions wine, coffee, water, and no physical strain on exit. Van Nerve town claims a mighty beard growth, reaching 11 feet when stretched, with a nine foot-plus beard noted in other accounts.
The excerpt surveys early American and colonial monetary practices, noting Jo Mailison as a supposed, though unclear, progenitor of a “Father of the Constitution” title by misattribution. It traces copper token coinage in Granby, mentions a Point Comfort origin tale, Boston’s 1650s mint with John Null, and 12d 6d 3d coinage. It also touches 1864 naval events, Peter Stuyvesant, the Duke of York, and Dutch colonial demography.
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