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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1905
Page
8
The scene paints central France as a lush backdrop for love and loss, where youth is scarce as many men serve in the army and women migrate to Paris. Amid rustling fields and a river, villagers crown the virtuous Rossere in early June, bestowing a dowry and arranging a rustic wedding.
A Historic Chicago Journa item details M. West of Minneapolis describing Chinese firecracker manufacture using hand rolling, clay tamping, and fuses, with rice paper and a wooden weight machine. It also notes gypsies on the sea near Burma weaving a nomadic life aboard covered boats, fishing by day and roaming at night.
A Washington Star tale follows a sharp tongued saleswoman venting about women shoppers. The piece describes one customer with companions, playing up fashion talk, attitudes, and a request for a shirtwaist pattern with tails.
In Whitechapel and East London streets linnet singing is a popular pastime and betting sport. The article describes a secretive match in a pub back room where bookmakers and owners fix rules for pleasant and rough songs, with ten shillings at stake and a bustling subculture of keepers and singers.
A fragment notes a social gathering offering instrumental and vocal music with Alice to sing and Beat rice to recite a new poem followed by supper at nine, dated from Tit-Bits and Yonkers Statesman chatter about Mrs Bacon Styles and Mr Bacon describing a new house with a cologne scent.
James Stacey, a traveling husky worker, toured South Dakota farms during harvest. He accepted a gate scheme, then earned liberal wages from George Blodgin and the eldest daughter in marriage. A misread entanglement led to a comic firm of engagement when a second daughter rode up in a buggy. Stacey admitted defeat as the scene closed.
Director Roberts of the mint estimates U S production of gold and silver for 1904 with a drop in 1903 to 7 131 500 dollars in gold and 9 486 000 fine ounces of silver The largest gains came from California where dredge operations boosted output by about 3 000 000 dollars and more silver than any year since the 1860s Other states show notable gains including Colorado Alaska Montana Utah and Idaho The total gold mined amounted to 8 904 956 ounces while the silver value reached 33 615 928 dollars making the combined value 114 239 138 dollars
New Haven police arrested a man calling himself Charles B Fleming for intoxication. Two men posed as Keeley Institute doctors from West Haven offered to care for him and take him to New York. A private physician later claimed Fleming’s wealth and status, but Keeley staff confirmed the impersonation and Fleming was released.
Fairfax county records show George Washington owned 60 000 acres at age 27. In 1780 the family slaughtered 150 hogs. In 1787 his father sowed 680 acres in grass 400 in oats 700 in wheat and 700 in other grains. He owned 140 horses 112 cows 500 sheep and 250 enslaved people.
Russians did not dictate peace terms at Toklo as Gen Kuropatkin asserted, yet terms were effectively imposed.
Public notice dated 1906 in Idaho announces completion proof for Navarro Creek water diversion under permit 10M held by Elian E. Davidson of Mackay Custer Idaho. Completion set for December 28 1906 irrigating plans and water rights details described with location and land references.
Notice for publication regarding a land claim by Ellen Murphy II for the southeast and east quarters of section 21 in township 15 north, in Custer County Idaho. The witness list includes Frank A. Reed Benjamin Borjeson John F Short and Michael McGovern. Proof to be made before United States Commissioner Johnston at Challis Idaho on December 20, 1905. First publication November 21, 1905.
Co owner ALICE C MORLER of Seattle Washington notifies Emanuel Bell George B Baldwin and heirs of James Dauskin that labor and improvements have been expended on the Birdie K lodesite in Sheep Mountain Mining District Challis County Idaho to hold the claim under the Revised Statutes. If the co owners do not contribute within ninety days of service or publication, their interest will become the subscriber's property. First published March nineteenth 1905.
Charles Plummer co-owner of the Lode Stone Fraction quartz mining claim in Loon Creek District Idaho states labor and improvements of 100.00 for 1904 with 33.33 due from Nick Dorsey or heirs. If unpaid within 90 days after publication the claim will be forfeited to the subscriber under federal law. Loon Creek Idaho March 4 1905 First publication March 14 1905.
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