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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1904
Page
2
A collage of clipped quotes and stray topics mentions matri mony, old texts, Paris and London markets, airships, railroads earnings, royal gossip, and a Georgia judge’s car crash sentence. It notes King Edward’s birthday and a Mexican vice president at a San Francisco fight, with Idaho at the end.
Premier Maura plans to suspend proceedings and seek a vote of confidence after a riot in the Spantah chamber of deputies. The piece notes chaotic scenes and criticizes the Lying Inkstanda while mentioning unrelated reflections on Christmas gifts and poetry.
The New York press notes a fashionable church pew sold for 1550 dollars, about two percent of the stock exchange's latest price for a single seat. The remark contrasts church seating value with market trading costs.
A survey of cases holds insurance policy provisions not voided by misrepresentation unless intent to deceive exists. It covers accidental death, broker commissions, and breach of telegram delivery, with rulings on hotel liability for guests, railroad use of land, and municipal negligence in public health actions. Strong entities include Continental Fire Insurance Company, Whitaker, Croes, Hulbert, and Twyman versus Frantfort.
An ancient cemetery of a Forgotten tribe was uncovered near Ascoll Castel Trozino on the Apennines pass. Warriors lay eastward with horn combs round shields iron swords daggers spears and decorated belts. Frauen graves include gold hair pins earrings rings and beads. offerings include crosses necklaces vitrified cups and pottery.
The Meeker Review recounts Tug Wilson near Meeker wrestling a cinnamon bear on a ranch. He roped the bear after it threatened the group, sustained a bite and a damaged boot prior to releasing the animal and tending his injuries.
A Pennsylvania legislature anecdote recalls Hon John and Roche of Scranton during Pattison's era. Two young lawyers sparred over an appropriation bill with long orations. A Philadelphia member quips that if born on the same day it must have been a windy day, provoking laughter and a remembered story of oratorical restraint.
A Shoe Retailer describes the Black Forest method where farmers deliver hides to tanners who store them two years before shoemakers harvest the leather. The craftsman visits homes to measure Katrina and Johann and makes shoes for the whole family, a process taking about a month per household.
The Department of Agriculture imported five woolless sheep for use in the extreme southern stalls. The heavy wool burden in hot dry districts affects mintton quality. The bureau of animal industry notes the sheep are hardy easy keepers and were brought from the Harbadoes where they proved promising.
Mira Ere Sharnes presents thirteen rules for a man to gain and keep his wife’s love based on stage experience. The list covers consideration, shared interests, generosity, respect, avoidance of nagging, and continual effort, emphasizing that keeping love requires ongoing attention and partnership.
A librarian quips that famed writers depended on odd habits to write. Fenimore Cooper allegedly chewed gum drops to focus, Chateaubriand dictated barefoot, Gluck wrote outdoors, Bossuet wrapped a hot cloth, and others dressed or dined oddly while composing. The bratten notes such tales show genius often relied on peculiar comforts.
Fragmentary verse quotes a warning from Charles Dibdin about fidelity and honor. The lines exhort a friend Tom to remain steadfast to wife and friend, lest misfortune and windless ruin mark his character and betrayals bring sorrow. The excerpt reflects moralizing couplets on virtue and loyalty amid hardship.
Mrs Wonder wonders about anteclection figures in a paper. Mr Wonder explains that a guesser lumps fears and is right or wrong at once, while a forecaster arranges figures on a statistic table and seems almost certainly right.
Fred and Joe discuss Elderieigh's three proposals in the pant atx Weekes. Fred cites about $50,000, while Joe warns of desperate chances if the proposal is stopped and wonders if Miss Elderieigh has money or influence.
A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Lonion Chronicle reports the experiences of a Ruselan named Vollalt. He describes posing in Chinese dress to spy for Japan after a battle near Wotingkow. He recounts bribery offers, a near capture, and a skirmish where he killed two guards and escaped, later earning promotion and a living horse.
A Harper’s Magazine excerpt portrays Liechtenstein as a tiny alpine principality between Tyrol and the Rhine with about sixty one square miles and under ten thousand people. Once independent for centuries, it sent eighty soldiers to aid Austria in a Prussia war, but mountains and bad roads kept them from impacting the outcome. now the prince largely bears state costs, issues his own stamps, and governs from a modest capital Vader, using Vienna’s lines for broader reach.
A fragmentary poem or sermon-like piece envisions a era of glory and reform with calls to banish crooked politicians and colonize around a new order. It mentions marriage reform, divorce, and women marching with faction makers, asserting an imminent moral transformation led by figures like James Barton Adamax.
A Hindoo English sample from a speech in an Indian court is related to Prof. Francis A. March of Lafayette College, noted for his humor and linguistic prominence. The amusing excerpt shows a widow’s attorney using flamboyant phrases and misrendered English to illustrate linguistic distortion.
Sydney Brooks recalls Morley’s blunt admission to a workingmen’s meeting that he had paid workers, drawing thunderous cheers for candor. He opposed an eight hour day, faced Labour party pressure, yet won decisive support after later elections. Morley earned the nickname foil for steadfast principle and reformist courage.
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