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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1902
Page
2
A reader sends a Manchester Dispatch photo of a double yoked egg served at breakfast. The shell reveals one complete egg inside another, a rare find alongside a note of faded romance about spring days and lost love. The item blends a curious food oddity with nostalgic verse about love and winter.
A fragment describes four toes with three bones each on most, with the fourth toe angled and the fifth and eleventh toes immobile or missing movement. It notes that except for the last, all toes are movable and X-rays show three distinct bones in all but the fifth and eleventh toes.
A historical note describes the tangon tree of Madagascar with scientific name tanghinla venemofera. It details the poisonous fruit used in ancient trials to prove innocence, citing brutal outcomes and political influence aiding escapes. Modern views deem the practice obsolete yet fear remains high, as seen when a French naturalist failed to obtain samples.
A historical note describes Paraguayan natives teaching handmade lace called nanduti woven from local spider web patterns. The craft, passed through generations, centers in town lanes where women children and many men work. The piece also mentions a girl with eleven toes and a family with a double foot deformity in Ljublin territory.
Mrs J J Morn, arriving in Seattle from Skagway en route to Southern California, keeps a golden washboard and soap bar as a relic of past hardship. In 1896 she earned money washing clothes to back her husband who went to the Klondike, later finding wealth on a Bonanza claim that made him rich.
James Bargera of Pittsburg has been jailed on complaint by Gaspar Scalfa. Around Sept 6 Bargera agreed to find Scalia a wife for 125 dollars. He introduced an Italian girl Santa Bonslitt to Scaife and they wed amid festivities. The bridegroom testified he paid 125 dollars. The next day Scalfa says Bargera persuaded the bride to run away. Since then he has not seen his wife. Scalia has had three prior wives abandon him in similar fashion.
An elderly Lancashire man nearing age hundred shows a self made coffin in his bedroom. He has slept in it for about fifteen years and crafted the coffin entirely with his own hands. He proudly shares the piece as his personal handiwork and reassurance to the writer.
A marksman at the Yarran rifle ranges Victoria aimed at 400 yards when magpies flew across his line. The bullet struck a magpie about 200 yards away and the marker recorded a bullseye for the shot.
A Moorish epistolary fragment from Budgett Meakin’s The Moors is cited. The imagined dinner invitation appeals to a master and calls for celestial imagery as the sun and stars illuminate a night of solitude. The passage imitates ornate literary style to dazzle readers.
A colossal wine vat claims to be the largest, built at the Italian-Swiss Agricultural Colony cooperative. The rock‑solid structure measures 84 by 44 by 25 feet, with a capacity just over half a million gallons, three times larger than any known vat.
A humorous dialogue features Mrs Bright and others discussing palmistry and a plaster impression of Madeline's hand. The exchange touches on love, faculty, and a joking heat related to temperature as an indicator of temperament.
Mrs Minnismith smiles as the baby utters goo goo and bah bah. Mr Minnismith agrees the milestone will make a fine yell for the factory football team, signaling pride and unity.
A father explains to his son that unswerving consistency is loyalty to one party. He then notes that when the opposite side shows the same steadfastness it becomes pigheaded obstinacy. The exchange frames political rigidity as virtue or vice depending on perspective.
The manager of the telephone office offers operators to send a message or booths for calling. The Indy declines dialing himself and instead wants to telephone a friend.
Lena and Cora banter about romance with playful bravado. The exchange contrasts Lena’s confident tease that Jack cannot win her, even if he wished, with Cora’s sharper line about his interest. The quotes imply flirtation and rivalries in a social setting.
A Suburban Chronicle notice announces Miss Bridget O Callahan and Bingore Backlots as engaged. The editor objects, noting Mr Backlot is married, while the reporter insists the announcement concerns a cook engagement, highlighting a comic miscommunication and local gossip.
A preacher nears his closing remarks when a skeptical congregation member interrupts with a terse Amen. The moment reflects quiet tension as the service progresses toward its conclusion.
Mrs Henpeque asks if a charity act marked their tenth wedding anniversary. Mr Henpeque recalls denying a clerk a raise after the clerk married, describing the incident as the act.
A short exchange shows lawyers discussing a jury for a case. Lawyer Skinner notes the jury is drawn and expresses confidence, while Lawyer Brief humorously questions the jury's intelligence, implying a light, bantering tone about courtroom selection.
Mrs Simpkins notes a new neighbor buys a handsome umbrella for her hall. Mr Simpkins complains she makes him enter via the kitchen and leave the umbrella on the sink.
A tense exchange unfolds as Hin Mean Retort accuses his partner of marriage for money. He calmly retorts that she must have looked at herself in the gin as a ploy, turning the quarrel toward self-inspection rather than anger.
In Boston a man jokes about a woman’s distinguished air. The exchange features a sad-faced young man remarking on her chill, quipping he would not call it liquid air. The light exchange captures period humor and social wit.
Hewitt says I promised my wife I would meet her in heaven while Jewett calls it mean to fool a woman. The exchange highlights tensions over marriage faithfulness and social norms.
A passerby asks how to identify a deaf and dumb beggar. The beggar reveals a notice he wears and the philanthropist offers help, thinking to give money if he knows the man truly needs it.
A pugilist dodges a powerful left hook and quips that the opponent does not know him. The opponent replies that while the name is familiar the face escapes them at the moment, in bantering exchange.
A fragment describes a tense confrontation that shifts toward a possible peaceful reconciliation as one man seeks a calm talk while the other hesitates before escalation begins.
Dorothy Milas remarks she copied a man’s style including collar jacket and stride. Mr Bilkins calls it an idiot act. Dorothy confirms the imitation was intentional and nearly perfect.
A speaker recounts an exciting incident noting she “completely lost my head” while another person replies with a sharp retort about personal care, implying she should spare herself the hand if careless.
A pair of speakers contrasts affection and trust with financial trust in relationships. The young man calls it solemn when a woman lends her affections to a man. The man with the pink necktie counters that it is less solemn when she withholds her wages from him.
Readable lines claim a tenant asserts no children may reside in the house and urgently orders a doctor for his wife while a janitor protests the title. No clear dates or organizations are provided. The fragment suggests a dispute over occupancy rules and medical need.
Two speakers debate the donkey as a symbol of stupidity. One asks how the donkey came to be used this way, the other notes a dead boy may have preceded their era.
A humorous exchange features a politician boasting he carries the state of Nimof in his pocket while a candidate questions the claim about a map piddler. The dialogue hints at clever political taunts and playful wordplay.
Margaret McKinley, niece of the late president and Abner McKinley, works as a clerk at the National Bank of Oklahoma City and has accrued a small fortune through real estate. She started by buying city lots at about 125 dollars each in a district that became a prime business area, with profits rumored to be substantial.
A jumble of quotes, products, and notices. It includes political quips about reform ballots, a run for a runaway, and old medical and household ads. It mentions a cannon display at Point Bonita, Allen’s foot powder, Laxative Quinine tablets, and a 1903 calendar from St. Paul with Bryson art.
Policemen claim the right to whistle and threaten arrest for offenders. Readers are reminded of an unrelated advertising blurb about ores and metal. The piece also notes the mining journal status, the Rocky Mountain development interest, and Bristow from Kansas during the Grand Army encampment with corn, apples, pears, and potatoes presented.
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