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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1902
Page
5
A humorous verse recounts an "objecting brother" at a marriage, who objects to the bride and groom, mocks the preacher, and faces the crowd. The reflection ends with the chant I object from the speaker, highlighting meddling and comic resistance in a rural ceremony.
A humorous reminiscence recalls Harper class of 46 and college pranks. a sprightly elder recalls runs, skeleton stunts, honey raids, mortar boards thefts, and quick escapes from professors. a witty barbed quip about a rector’s living nets the curate a high prize.
The Chicago Tribune notes that in terms of maturity a ten year old horse has the sense of a map of zero. The piece suggests both should have gained good horse sense by that age.
Wu Ting Fang the Chinese minister resents Washington society treating his female companions as official visitors. The ten young women will live in seclusion as house guests with Mme. Wu, except for street outings. Disappointment grows among Washington’s singles who hoped for a new social season.
Michigan Oil and Improvement company prospectors locate beds of lime asphalt near Rapid River at Little Bay de Noquette Delta County. Prof F Rosehaupt of Milwaukee analyzes sample and reports 49 parts lubricating oil to 60 parts asphaltum, valuing the product at 26 per hundredweight. Company officers are C Eschwelin president Henry Barkhausen vice president and C C Phelps secretary treasurer. Stock sold before the discovery.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports Germany and Russia near uniting to form an international congress aimed at suppressing anarchists. An official invitation, in verse, is to be issued by year’s end, with McKinley’s assassination only lightly referenced in the call. The move is linked to European protests since the Buffalo tragedy and reportedly tied to the Kaiser and Tsar.
A story from Susquehanna Pennsylvania recounts Charles Bloodgood giving an engagement ring to Miss Eliza Turnbull in 1650, throwing it into the Susquehanna river after a quarrel. Later reconciliation led to marriage in Ohio. A ring later found in a pickerel catch near Unadilla and linked to Bloodgood.
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