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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1900
Page
5
An advertisement notes a shop at 1271 Street A offering a wide range of notions ladies and gents furnishings and other goods too numerous to mention. The text emphasizes shoes and general merchandise available.
A lyrical meditation from N A Edgerton printed in Boston Budget. The speaker imagines linking with a loved one through natural images of sea, sun, bird, and violet. The verses express yearning, mutual gaze, and a vow to honor the beloved as day ends and dawn returns.
A fifty year old Chicago Times-Herald piece recounts Godfrey Warren a rich recluse driven by a mania that time moves too fast. He abandons smoking books and music, locks himself in an observatory like room, marks walls floors with a knife, and hands his life to a ticking clock until he destroys his body to silence time.
A Homiletic Review column catalogues famed writers and artists facing poverty and neglect. Names include Milton, Cervantes, Dryden, Chatterton, Spenser, and others, illustrating how genius and fame often coexisted with debt, illness, and hardship. The piece ends with a proverb about stirring soup cooling the dish and a Chicago Daily News aside.
A vintage guide links eyebrow proximity and direction to temperament. Nearer brows imply earnest nature and firm mind, while outward-tilted hairs signal irritability. downwardly drooping brows hint tenderness and melancholy, and straight, arched starts denote strong will and kindness.
A compilation of famous last sayings spans figures from Gilbert to Jackson. Quotes reflect devotion, deathbed resolve, and religious faith, illustrating how leaders and notable figures framed their final moments across sea, land, and battlefields.
An old note surveys stamps and mail handling from the United States to India and China. It notes a red postage due stamp now 100 centavos in Chili, railroads averaging eight cents per pound, and a split provisional two-cent stamp used as one cent. It mentions emergency one-cent stamp production, drying cases in Calcutta for gum issues, and Shanghai’s post office shutdown on October 1 as imperial stamps arrived.
Singers actors and public speakers enjoy better throats since electric light. Gannets from a Scottish island number 20 000 with one egg per year and four years to maturity, yet their population remains. In Edward III’s reign three English Blanket clothiers named Blanket popularized the woolen fabric still linked to peasants’ clothing.
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