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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1906
Page
2
A jumble of quotes and jokes from Silver Messenger items satirizes politics, royalty, technology, and society. It references Kitchener, Carnegie, Alfonso, the Kaiser, Panama, and New Jersey railways, weaving anecdotal, ironic remarks about modern life and global events.
A rustic exchange revolves around a coat left on a wagon and cows askew as dialogue partners Li and Jim discuss an imminent marriage. The lovers decide soon and phrase a hopeful plan for tomorrow, closing with a brief good night exchange.
Liz and Jim Gardner confront love and danger as a hush of oil wealth rises in West Virginia. A brass rebel uniform button from Liz’s father becomes a talisman guiding Liz’s vigil as Jim departs for oil work, while an explosion and upheaval reshape their fragile plans and future.
The piece argues half a million Cuban children lack schooling while only 180000 can be accommodated. It calls on northern mothers to see migrant faces and urges public action and subscriptions, naming foundations like Rockefeller and Carnegie as possible benefactors to end the island’s literacy crisis.
A veteran thief recalls a midnight moment when a ticking clock in a quiet house abruptly stopped, freezing him with fear as he clutched a watch. He explains the stillness felt like death and that the sudden silence prompted his swift exit, noting some people are startled by a clock stopping as by a gunshot.
A printer in a Philadelphia morning paper took a night off to play poker, won $15, and paid in cartwheels. He hid dollars under every stair step to deter his wife from pocketing coins, but during spring cleaning she stripped the carpet revealing the plan as he descended for breakfast.
Julian Ralph recalls asking everyday Londoners about royalty. The plain people praised the old queen as a saint and the prince as a hardworking, patient man undeserving abuse. Reactions to the present queen centered on her perceived perfection and the strain of her marriage.
Seventy year old fragment recounts Miss Patsy Colerain of Bardstown and a century old grandfather clock. In 1864 a bloody tragedy, linked to her suitor Reuben Morehead, changed her life forever. The piece paints a quiet farmhouse, a moon faced clock, and a romance doomed by fate.
A Civil War tale recalls Patsy Colerain sheltering lover Reuben Morehead from Sue Mundy guerrillas in the old Colerain residence. They hid in a clock until gunfire and pursuit revealed his death and left Patsy a brain fever wreck, with the clock still in place today.
Congressman Beidler of Ohio ordered a steak and told the waiter to make it well done. The waiter suggested a rare cook for speed, saying you won’t have to wait long. Beidler seemed angry but the waiter’s remark appeared sincere and his tip remained unchanged.
A post office official N Chew second deputy auditor in Washington is noted for mainly signing his name during daily shift hours. Report claims his appointment owes much to a misread star emblem and a five letter word. claim attributes suggest influence tied to a vague astrological connotation.
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