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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1905
Page
2
A compact column of questions, jokes, and mini-notices covers fashion, finance, travel, and society. It notes Greece’s finance minister, Panama’s revolution, a New York necklace story, a Vienna to New York tempo of humor, and odd local vignettes. Prominent names cited include D'Annunzio, Wagner, Prince of Wales, Tolstoy, Vanderbilt, and Belmont.
A nostalgic poem recounts a girl and farm children tending animals in a rural pasture. It contrasts delightful scenes of kittens, puppies, lambs, and a wooden horse with the care given by a loving child and Noah’s modern caretaking. The piece, from Sunday Magazine, evokes memory and affection for farm life.
A New York Medical Journal analysis cites annual U.S. TB deaths exceeding 150,000 with an estimated cost of 240 million dollars per year in lost life value. If half preventable, potential savings reach 120 million, plus intangible losses of up to 100,000 lives. State and city figures highlight dire economic and social impacts.
Two New York girls duel for the same young man testing affection with rival notes. He initially seeks his umbrella, but one note falsely claims illness while the other promises a visit. Fred ends up calling on the second girl after the umbrella reveal, resolving the wager.
A reader cites a tale republished from the London Times about a couple at Brighton who received a forged invitation to a royal Pavilion gathering. They attended as guests of fashion, were admitted to the saloon, and the host proclaimed himself indebted to the clever forger for the amusing society and awkward, yet polite, disruption.
At a Democratic district convention in Ocean City a crowd marveled as a sunburned girl waded into the surf and seized a four foot dog shark by the tail. The crowd learned the animal was not dangerous after the capture.
A collage of fables and child’s play notes, from a tribal legend of Little Bravo to a recipe for a Pumpkin Fountain and a game of Rooster and Hens, ending with a Northern myth of Little Bravo’s spirit journey and a brief sports trivia on toboggan records in Europe.
A fragment describes the game Take Care with flour and a coin in a bowl, where players remove portions and the coin falls to determine a forfeit. It also notes substitutions like a cardhouse and a homemade hoop game with a flag, showing playful pastimes and household toy ideas.
The article notes the bobolink migrates between Cuba and the South American coast in a single night along a rare route. It contrasts this with hawks that winter in Patagonia and Alaska. The piece highlights the bird’s long, remarkable journey and calls it the bobolink route in a Saturday Evening Post excerpt.
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