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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1902
Page
7
A man recounts how a half bottle of Jacobs Oil eased years of rheumatic pain after trying doctors and various remedies. He claims complete cure within days, plans to give the remaining bottle to a friend with a lame back, and urges belief in the product.
An advertisement argues for Garfield Headache Powders claiming quick, effective headache relief. It notes recruiting reasons using showy boy uniforms to attract “Mary Ann” and mentions General Buller’s stance on uniforms. The copy markets the product as harmless and widely valued.
The Bergen area near Alkmaar in Noord Holland province marks the site of a noted 1799 clash between Russian and French forces aided by Dutch. A monument honoring the Russian soldiers who died there was recently unveiled.
Philadelphia marked its 200th anniversary on October 25 in observes noting that in 1701 the town had about 1,500 houses and over 6,000 inhabitants. The city’s layout was a parallelogram between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
Fragmented excerpts describe musk ox skins sold for robes at prices from $50 to $5, claim nostrums like Wizard Ol for aging stiffness, Kaisers palaces and nurse counts, and a note on Rhone River power powering Geneva. The text reads as a collage of era advertisements and curiosities with mentions of Pasmro cures and Cadiz bull ring experiments.
A hypochondriac man fixates on illness and death sparking fear. He spurns quack ads and hoards ph.yalex drugs while haunting doctors. His weight obsession and odd cures drain his fortune until a bright thought offers a grim conclusion.
A Milwaukee Sentinel item recounts a man who saw a Chinese lantern outside a third story window of a run down tenement house. He learns from a nearby policeman that the lantern signals a rent rag where neighbors chip in to raise rent money for a tenant down on luck.
A writer argues bagpipe music should stay in its proper place while noting its resilience amid criticism. The piece cites a Chicago jury ruling on the instrument, its rise in British and Indian regiments, and ends with a humorous Madchester Courier story about a laird and a piper whose pipes need whisky to relax.
An engineer’s son uses tin seed canisters fired from old cannons to scatter tree and plant seeds on a bare rocky crag near Blair Castle. Seeds lodge in cracks, germinate, and over years grow into graceful trees and climbing plants, turning a gray ledge into a verdant estate feature. A catapult could also spread seed for lower heights.
A late night scene around 10 o'clock on Wells street near Fourth is described as the Rent Rag incident. The brief report notes the location and time but provides few additional details.
The Pekinese spaniels are described as rare and cherished, with the only known U S example owned by a New York banker’s daughter who brought it from London. The piece recounts a royal lineage, imports by Lord John Hay, and the breed’s connection to Pekin court life and early royal ownership. It notes small pups carried by court ladies and a tradition linking to King Charles spaniels.
In a heated discussion the term amerind is dismissed as a fabricated label by anthropologists while injun is praised as the plain spoken, enduring American term for indigenous peoples. A reviewer condemns the book The North Americans of Yesterday for using amerinds and urges adoption of injun instead.
An observer laments the stubborn mischief of inanimate objects in daily life. A cigar light fails on a breezy electric car ride despite multiple matches, a blazing match passes to a stranger, and common mishaps like buttered bread landing buttered side up are noted as perverse.
Walter B. Stevens, long time Washington correspondent for the Globe-Democrat, once wrote a column by street corner observation. He penned a brief essay titled The Passing of the Hod Carrier after watching a building site and a steam powered mortar tender.
The Chicago News notes American women seek exercise to preserve charm but warn against excess that could dull beauty and grace. It highlights the Neiss sisters, led by Hermine, as proof athleticism can yield strength without sacrificing femininity. They credit health to steady routines, balanced meals, and occasional red wine, rejecting fear.
Gentleman's Magazine recounts Guizot born 1787 amid revolution mutterings. His Protestant father was jailed and executed after a dramatic exchange with a gendarme. Young François, then six, remembered prison visits and “house of justice” memories. The piece speculates a Valparaiso to Rio de la Plata railway may finish in five to six years. His left hand is said to bear the place of honor.
A miscellany of quirky lines cites a Maine road sighting with a corn patch and a profane sign, Tolstoy quips, Max O Re ll on journalism, gardening tales from Canterbury, Mississippi alcohol tax notes, a floating cobbler on Penobscot Bay, and a police push to slim fat officials. The piece blends humorous asides with regional notes and quirky anecdotes across authors and locales.
A garbled page mixes an almanac snippet on phases of the Moor and age related height shifts for boys and girls, a medical patent cure notice for catarrh, a Massachusetts Tech anecdote about a professor and a joke about brain size, plus a note on Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children and a trivia claim about northern head sizes. Names include Hesteller, Frank J Cheney, Hall, Pritchett, and Mother Gray.
The account notes Japanese smoking habits with small metal bowls and bamboo stems. Tobacco is cut very fine, light blonde in appearance, of good quality. Smokers take a single pipeful at a time, inhaling briefly through the nostrils.
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