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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1910
Page
8
A frontier mining story follows Bill and Jim securing a claim named the Great Fisher Mine. A boomtown grows with a 20 stamp mill, saloons, and a mix of gamblers, saloon keepers, and a reforming parson. The narrative recalls social divisions, romance, and the rough justice of a rugged canyon town.
San Francisco bricklayer John Kirk seeks his missing uncle by tracing Kirks in Idaho. He aims for Beardsley Hot Springs near Challis on Salmon River, four miles east. Beardsley Springs is where John Kirk and family have lived, with Kirk a 65 year old Irish native who mined in Custer county decades ago.
Anita Owen, famed composer of Daisy, writes Sweet Red Roses for sale by Jer ome H. Remick Co. The song, inspired by roses and romance, is praised for simple melodic construction and lyrics. Written in early June, it features a chorus promising fragrance and fidelity from Sweet Red Roses.
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