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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1906
Page
2
A curiously mixed column from Elainlis Idaho reflecting on current events. It mentions European uprisings, New York barber shops, Russian ads, Korea, Japan, and U S mint profits. Notable lines joke about Maxine Hitlett, St Hetty Green, and Prince Louis. Observations touch on actors, warships, and a Philippines schoolboy stabbing, with satirical asides on fasting morality and packing husbands in trunks.
A Trenton man reportedly left his entire $100,000 fortune to his twenty fourth child. The other twenty three children contest the will, each retaining a lawyer at about 15 cents per act, as details remain unsettled and legal action looms.
A valuable relic, the first communion cup used by Avon Massachusetts Baptist Society, dating to 1786, is now in the custody of Deacon W Elmer Crane. The pewter cup holds about half a pint, with two original cups recorded but the second’s current location unknown. The society formed in 1784 and first used the cup on the first Sunday in March 1785.
The cup was early held by Deacon Charles Packard who later gave it to Marcus M. Porter, then living in Avon and a Baptist deacon in Stoughton. Porter, now resident of Stoughton, presented the cup to the society during its 126th anniversary celebration.
An old sport called arrow throwing persists from the days of archery. In Yorkshire St 14 fairs feature it with three-foot straight arrows and a string loop for launch. Skilled throwers can reach about 150 yards. mastering the string release makes it captivating beyond hammer or whip throwing. A movement aims to add it to college games for its blend of dexterity and strength.
Le Monde Moderne notes Chantilly and Maisons-Lamie have Anglicized amid racing activity. English sportsmen, horse trainers, and jockeys fill streets, with a grand stable labeled BOX-HALL and a bar named English Tavern. An English Protestant Episcopal church serves the community.
An old note describes ancient funerary practice where tear vases were placed in urns with ashes to hold the tears of relatives. The practice showcases ritual grief and memory in classic Rome.
An 1872 Mentone cave find yields a near complete skeleton of a tall man with an 80 degree facial angle. Associated with cave-lion and cave-bear remains, his bones lie with tools and animal remnants. perforated tee pieces suggest a chaplet. The discovery, alongside the Dutchman's skull from Engl, marks the oldest human remana known, supporting prehistoric brain power.
Last Sunday evening Prank Chin Guey was baptized in the First Baptist church of Portland Maine. It marks the first time a Chinaman has been baptized in the state. The church has a Sunday school class containing fourteen Chinamen.
Frank Hoskins hunted near the Farmington River in Connecticut and killed a handsome eagle measuring six feet from tip to tip of its outstretched wings.
In a railway era tale Anodyne Charlie calms quarreling friends on a train and later disarms a tense dining room scene. He reflects on impulse and self control, earning a reputation as a soothing force who helps others manage temper and avoid rash actions.
A dark courtroom scene unfolds as Guildo faces trial for a murder connected to a woman and child. The judge, jury, and witnesses expose fear, revenge, and fragile truth amid the tense atmosphere of a Wyoming or Colorado frontier town.
In Keene Minnesota George Poor once called Plug, a skilled shoe cutter at C B Lancaster’s factory, unfairly given low paying work. He feigned unconsciousness after a surprise test, then joked with the foreman asking not to spring such stunts again. A second note recalls Western hospitality on a Frisco train.
A narrative recalls a precocious youth who vows to seek fame on the stage, aided by a devoted mother and early successes in comedies. It recounts pennies saved by Edward Terry and hardships endured by performers, including a London era hard up phase and a man pawning undergarments for a Christmas meal.
Patrons of the Amherst Sunderland street railroad in Massachusetts devise a method to dodge receiving four pennies in change from a ten cent fare. They hand the conductor a dime and a penny, or a penny with a quarter for larger payments, to avoid being overloaded with pennies.
Charles T Worthley who lives alone in Winchendon Massachusetts not a lover of visitors has posted a large bone on his cabin with the inscription this bone belonged to the last man caught tooling round here.
A Krasnotarsk tale tells of Sergei Palkin who courted an unseen beloved through letters. He travels to meet her only to find she died and a letter reveals she deceived him about her appearance. She confesses she loved him as his bride in spirit, dying happy in her ruse, a dramatic end in Montreal Herald’s recounted fashion.
A popular Parisian umbrella unfolds to reveal a hidden vanity inside. The round knob top opens to display many toilet aids, including a tiny mirror on the upper side. A powder compartment sits in the lower knob, and the handle lifts to reveal space for orange sticks and nail files.
An engineer notes how native grasses strengthen railway embankments across India Central Asia Brazil and other regions. Grasses seed sown at home for embankments provide tough lasting cover, stabilizing earthworks and contributing to miles of wholesome greens studded with daisies and buttercups.
It took fourteen months to drill a hole 5 560 feet deep at Doornloot South Africa with three eight hour shifts daily. At 5 000 feet nearly a mile the rods took three and a half to four hours to raise from the hole and almost as long to lower them after the drill point was set.
New glass shades for electric wall lights imitate grapes with greenish-white Niagara and Jamestown varieties. Each grape is hollow with a frosted bloom, wired in clusters and set among Verdi bronze leaves.
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