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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1901
Page
5
Mrs C Howell of Shoshone is listed with Agnes Lane as secretary for a local organizational notice. The fragment indicates a formal role, likely a meeting or administrative detail in a community group.
A seller announces a fine line of Buckingham and Hecht boots and shoes now available in Custer County at reasonable prices, highlighting quality and value for customers seeking footwear.
Howell Bros proprietors advertise a direct route to Bayhorse Clayton Bonanza Custer Stanley Basin Seafoam and Shee Mountain carrying U.S. mail passengers and express with P Spalding as agent in Challis
A chance church meeting leads Marcus Aurelius and Marion to a secluded dinner in a grand town room. They bask in oriental service and playful chatter about brain currents and fate while dodging a looming audience of wary onlookers. The couple weighs an announced engagement to ward off social scrutiny, as their playful dialogue veers between flirtation and fate.
George Hamlin, a mail carrier, learns his wife has given birth to three boys in quick succession. The doctor confirms each birth, prompting astonishment and a firm belief in wishes. Mrs Hamlin and family are said to be doing well as the father reflects on his unusual abundance.
A novel stamp canceling machine is being tested in Chicago as a potential replacement for current equipment. An inventor claims it can process up to 125000 letters per hour, vastly exceeding the existing capacity of 4000 to 50000 per hour. The device feeds letters by suction via a perforated wheel and air pumps, carrying them under the stamping die for cancellation.
Stroudsburg official councilman Hiram W. Rieler narrates a near fatal accident when a horse and buggy plunged down Hipple's Gap. He credits accident insurance and a rope-assisted recovery as the horse and carriage narrowly escaped disaster. Also notes Mexico's Diaz reelection remarks and a robbery with $2,000 stolen in New Orten Mills.
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