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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
7
Three women kneel before a fair-haired child and offer their wishes. One pours love on many lives but bears love’s toll and heavy burdens. Another recalls an empty heart from a rich life and whispers tenderness toward the child. The third, aged by care and loneliness, invokes God’s will as guidance for the child.
On the Turnpike tale unfolds of toll gate keeper Tinsley whose daughter Nettie elopes with Will Dexter, prompting a dramatic chase. Judge Dexter and a sorrel colt figure amid tense pursuit as Tinsley arms himself to confront the family crisis.
A chaotic horseback confrontation erupts near a judge's buggy. Tinsley and Dexter clash with fists and weapons. a horse is wounded, a pistol fires, a girl screams, and the judge contemplates reconciliation after a tense standoff.
A fragmentary poem echoes summer’s end as a scythe sighs through green fields. It blends memories of youth with haunting calls, asking what dreams and perfumes defined a past spring. The voice links mortality, memory, and a ghostly youth, voiced in antique cadence.
A tramp seeks food at the Burns mansion. The Chinese servant offers fish as a meal and promises relief from hunger on Friday in this 19th century New York Times vignette.
Consul J C Freeman reports from Copenhagen that a new steamship design is being developed. Captain Fr C Ishoy, holding patents in major countries, proposes a hull with a submerged screw, a flatter hull form reducing draft, and a claimed twenty percent coal savings. The inventor predicts higher speed with the same fuel and greater steadiness and seaworthiness.
An unclear quoted exchange records someone describing Miss Rushmore. The speaker recalls last evening and notes an impression beyond beauty, mentioning crossing Fifth Avenue in front of a tonneau car, but the fragmentary text limits full meaning.
The article notes cricket gains in the New York area and New Jersey suburbs with clubs like Manhattan led by veterans Sam Ford, W. Byron Wharton, and Henry Chadwick. It also profiles Direct Hal the top new pacer with a 2:06 1/2 mark, and Joseph Peabody of Boston as the oldest New York Yacht Club member. American jockeys dominate Russian turf with multiple wins and elite performances by Sloan, Krapp, Piggott, Mitchell, and others.
Major Taylor and Frank Kramer battle for supremacy among top wheelmen this season. Kramer holds the early edge as Taylor, a late arriver, drives to erase the deficit with strong teamwork at Manhattan Beach. Eddie Bald struggles to reclaim his sprint as he sits among the also rans.
George Gardner of San Francisco defeated Jack Root of Chicago in Salt Lake City after seventeen rounds in a fierce light heavyweight clash. The fight, touted as among the division’s best, saw Root injure his left hand in the second round, yet press accounts call it a gripping, even battle with Root landing hard shots while hampered by the injury.
Crescens clocked 2 02 in a fast mile at the Indiana State Fair grounds track in Indianapolis. The trotter shaved a quarter of a second from the old world mark once held by Nancy Hanks in 1802, with split times noted by quarters.
Former Lafayette star H. Yost, famed for never losing as a coach, has been re-engaged by the University of Michigan. He previously led Stanford Nebraska and Michigan to undefeated records and had a rule against staying beyond a year with any team.
The piece notes Bob Fitzsimmons never fought longer than fourteen rounds and his power as a heavyweight stands out since no American rival matched his quicklasting knockout potential. It contrasts with others like Jeffries and Corbett who engaged in longer bouts. Also, Toronto's Argonaut Rowing Club challenges the Vespers of Philadelphia to a race in Philadelphia between September 15 and 20.
At the Limited Gun club grounds in Indianapolis Pheillis of Cincinnati and Sconce of Siddall TH both achieved a world record in the sparrow shoot each making 9 kills out of 100. The report warns against jeering at anyone's religious belief.
Dear Madam President I suffered months with troubles to women which broke my health and life I was nearly insane in pain Milwaukee doctors could not help My attention was called to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The first bottle cured me after the second I am now well a year later Sincerely yours from Milwaukee This testimonial shows the product's perceived efficacy for women's diseases
Terrifying reports reach Rome of a slow landslide at Corniglio in Val di Parma. Hillside creep threatens to erase the countryside as houses fall, streets crack, and trees are torn from roots. Residents watch with terror as the graveyard and village crumble.
In a house debate Mr Wyndham chief secretary for Ireland called T W Russell a political desperado. Russell retorted that Wyndham long ago sums his soul to the landlords who now foreclose their len.
Governor General Wood reports vast inland areas of Cuba have never been prospected or known. He notes that despite Spanish occupancy for centuries, substantial regions and many treasures remain uncharted and largely undiscovered.
Ras Makonnen faced a reporter in Paris who asked which nation his countrymen favored. The general, with a grave gaze, asked if the interviewer’s mother was alive and added that she should teach better discretion.
The 30000 dollars in bills tied to bribery tied to Senator Clark's Montana legislature election remain in state archives. The recipient never claimed it, the bribe givers have not demanded return, and no avenue exists to appropriate it as public funds. Musical composer praised by European critics is celebrated in Rome and Saint Petersburg and now a Vienna sensation.
Fire leaves no ash on diamonds as the flame is external, burning away without residue. A tale about a book lover warning a friend not to read his books ends with the friend shown a stocked shelf and a warning that every book borrowed left a mark or debt in those volumes.
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