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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1904
Page
5
A fragmentary poem reflects on memory love and happiness through rural images and childhood scenes. It voices nostalgia for a past romance and the enduring value of affection, ending with a personal vow of lasting contentment as long as love endures.
Tom Harding accepts a perilous mission to cut a jam on the Sable river above Curtin, hoping to save the Curtis Lumber mills and secure insurance. Maggie Harding recalls harsh words as Tom risks his life on a massive pine trunk, falls, and is rescued by river surge, leaving him maimed but alive and determined to rebuild with his wife and child.
Dr. W G Frost president of Beren college in Kentucky spoke at the Chautauqua assembly in Buffalo NY on mountain feuds. He blamed lack of restraint and noted Appalachian mountaineers are descendants of colonials not poor whites. He argued most killings are whisky or anger related not feuds and urged education as a cure. He contrasted Breathitt county as a political outbreak and hoped the death of Marcum would curb political assassinations. The Congo Free State is cited with area 800000 square miles and population estimates between 20 900 900 and 10 000 000.
A traveler reflects on life for workers in England Germany and France. He notes England offers relatively better hours and wages than the Continent, but calls the English people deteriorating and cites a government inquiry into physical decline. He criticizes widespread beer consumption by English women and militarism in Germany amid public discontent.
The New York Sun notes that among hundreds of maids from diverse backgrounds only Italian girls are absent from domestic service pools. Italians, though numerous and trained, often marry and thus do not pursue servant work, while Italian men fill other labor roles.
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