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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1900
Page
5
Poem fragment reflecting nostalgia for youthful joy and nature. Narrator recalls blue skies, golden days, and truth by streams, then laments trading that joy for worldly gain. Attributed to Nixon Waterman, in L. A. W. Bull collection.
The account recounts a 1876 cattle stampede near Comanche Springs driven by Wilson brothers and 23 cowboys with 15,000 head. A violent thunderstorm, a rainbow, and a perilous chase led to a staged milling maneuver in a wash called Stampede Gulley, saving most of the herd though 2,700 cattle were lost and later memorialized by the name.
Col liper quotes a New York Sun tale of a man who, despite success and sanity, once resolved to end his life at sea. He delayed jumping because he lacked a mackintosh. He later survived, but decades later, a heavy rain without a coat led to pneumonia and his death at 97, suggesting fate and clothing shared the same cause.
In Rochester, a man nicknamed Tom attempted to vote by folding his ballot and slipping it through a booth crack. It slid into a pile of farm tools before election inspectors recovered it and directed him to cast a proper ballot in the box.
A Tennessee river encounter near Shannon's creek reveals Harry William Balaam Freeman, a deaf blind mulatto boy with one arm who can quote any Bible verse. Raised after being shunned as a freak, he learned scripture from a raised letter Bible given by a wandering missionary and now hopes to teach other blind children. A plan for a collection to aid his studies is forming among friends.
Salmon fishing has been poor on the Spey this season due to whisky refuse from nearby distilleries. Anglers say the refuse poisons or repels the fish, while distillers claim the salmon crave it and grow fat. Either way the fish stop touching the flies.
Geneva weather at the Swiss Exposition stretched six months with rain on all but 35 days resulting in a $150,000 deficit that the city covered.
A note on Japanese sake, or rice wine, described as among the oldest alcoholic drinks, with an origin in Japan dating back over two thousand years.
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