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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1900
Page
3
A churn of patent cures and foot powders appears amid a mixed regional news slice. Claims include Hall's Catarrh Cure with price notes, Allen's Foot Ease powder advertised for new shoes, and teething products. Also noted: Panama Canal era tension with Colombian government warning consuls as revolutionary ships cruise coast.
A Kentucky legend from Sulphur Creek near Healand tells of Salala a Delaware girl and her lover whose romance ends in tragedy. The tale, preserved by Daniel Boone descendants, places two lovers atop the Bradley Falls before the river takes them both, their bodies buried side by side in an Indian village.
Checotah, heir to a Delaware chieftain, pursued a deer down a canyon near Sulphur Creek. He slipped on narrow rocks near the falls, fell to the gorge, and died from injuries. His betrothed Sala mourns as the tribe grieves the loss of their young leader.
A cavalry detachment from Ft Grant Aziz pursues a band of Indians who shot mining man J D Mack. Mack was wounded near Piney Canon outside the Apache reservation and reached Miss Rhoda Riggs ranch. Riggs rode to Ft Grant to summon troops, then led cowboys and soldiers along the trail, assuming command to pursue the assailants.
A traveling party of fifteen from McCullough County, Texas, including two families named Queen and Wilson, faced disaster at the junction of the Middle Concho River and Kiowe Creek in Iron County. Eight members, seven from the Queen family, drowned in the accident.
Jennie Hurwitz a young Bridgeport Connecticut girl became insane during the week from excessive dancing and is now confined in an asylum. During the winter she danced night after night at receptions and balls and was very popular. Physicians hope that she may recover.
A fragment describes Polynesian fishing with wooden pubheoks and native gear on Nano Mags in the Ellice group, noting moonless nights, tried techniques, and exotic fish. It also cites a Topeka edition article comparing Prohibitory Policy metrics in Topeka and Leavenworth, Kansas, detailing fines, churches, joints, and school expenditures.
In a plea for sanitary walls the text urges coating interiors with a cement like Alabastine to disinfect and ease future repainting. It compares wall health to decay, then shifts to a moral vignette about good deeds enduring beyond death, praising Bishop Gilbert Hiren’s hopeful message.
A series of women from Aptos and Wisconsin report relief from menstrual pain cramps dizziness and nervous symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. Letters dated 1899 describe regular cycles pain relief and overall improved health, praising the remedies as beneficial for troubled young women.
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