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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1900
Page
3
Fragmentary text describes a burglary case and police action with mentions of a suspect, officers, and a court context. Details are garbled, but the narrative suggests an arrest scene and involvement of a "gentleman in blue" with the offender faced by a judge.
Fragmentary text notes Weymss Reid and early milestones in his professional life. Mentions a factory, production or manufactory, and references to colleagues or contemporaries. Details are unclear but indicate a biographical outline of an individual named Reid and associates in the arts or industry.
Stories recount Longfellow’s kindness to children through poems and journals as friends recall. James T. Ploids once brought five children to visit his home. another encounter shows Longfellow giving a girl leaves from his hedge and bright words. Professor Sig Mont recalls a Christmas day when a girl asked to see him and was invited in to meet the poet and see his home trinkets.
The Philadelphia Record notes a fad of tattooing babies and elders to identify them amid fears of abductions. It warns such markings disfigure the body, could spread among the moneyed class, and may lead to future marks and costly removal by skilled operators.
A bygone tale recalls Mr. Alder a Scotch indigo trader who amassed fortune and engaged in smuggling like a big French glove racket. Gloves packed in right and left hand bales were split across ships. a seizure led to an auction where buyers found the entire lot consisted of one hand.
H B Ford, once of Company B Idaho volunteers, returned from the Philippines with a noted combat record. In Spokane he was identified as a convict by Sheriff Tucker of Yakima County, who said Ford had previously tried to shoot him under the alias Feamster. Ford’s ten year penitentiary sentence was suspended indefinitely by the Superior court after his story led to the end of the case.
In a late summer tale from Boston, Horatio Bigelow, 22, heir to a copper fortune, marries Mary Alice Reece, 21, a Boston mechanic’s daughter, after a church wedding in Roxbury. The union, opposed by Bigelow’s Protestant family, sends shock through relatives. the couple sails on a honeymoon to New York and Japan with a generous credit.
Doctor Charles Smirth, born in Illinois and once practicing in New York, marries a woman decades his junior. The elderly groom, aged 123, claims a long medical career and a remarkable life history as part of the union.
J B Edwards finds an early daguerreotype of Wild Bill Hickok in Abilene recalling his height, hair, and impressive manner. The frontier marshal faced duels, including the Tutt watch duel, and earned fame for marksmanship and poker. He was killed in Deadwood, his grave later marked by a monument.
An account of Wild Bill Hickok shows a sinewy, fearless frontier figure who manipulated a quorum, clashed with officials, and impressed a shop girl with bold courtship. The narrative also recounts his later legend as a gambler and town enforcer roaming mining camps after leaving town.
A British humorist Alexander Stewart has compiled a book titled Mr Miges Opinions. The jokes include a shot at self respect and a Scot versus Englishman exchange, noting an honest but mean engineer and a free living man. The source cites the New York World.
Col. Andrew C P Haggard relates a Newfoundland sighting beside Terra Nova river where a white headed eagle swooped on a lobster. The eagle seized the lobster by the neck, a struggle ensued, then both fell into the pool and swam apart as the lobster kept brandishing its great claw.
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