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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1910
Page
8
George Hamlin, a Brooklyn letter carrier, learns his wife has given birth to a boy. He envisions a virtuous, highly educated son who will become a successful business man. The doctor then reveals there are three boys in the family, shocking the proud father.
A novel stamp canceling device using suction to feed letters into a rotating perforated wheel is tested at Chicago, promising 125000 letters per hour compared with 40000 to 50000 now. If successful it could replace many existing machines handling about 800000 letters daily.
Feamsyivesian Plunges Over Pr wise with Hores and Saved by Tres, Councilman Hiram W. Kistler, formerly mayor of Stroudsburg Pa., had a thrilling experience after a mountain accident. His horse and buggy tumbled down Hip me's gap, but a rope and teamwork saved him. He narrowly escaped with a white hair momentary fear and an $5,000 accident policy as hope. The tale ends with his safe extraction and a dramatic escape from peril.
The season’s crowning event at Newport was the harvest festival dance hosted by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. A dinner for 112 at Rose Clift preceded a motorized procession to Crossways, where mock pumpkins lit the gate and a peasant themed party unfolded with Dutch, French, and Hungarian costumes and a comical procession ending with Herman Delricha wrestling a calf.
Bedford Indiana residents hear of a cave exploration by Will Russell son of the police chief and two companions Orin Beisco and Nester Stevenson. They found a bottle with a note dated December 1896 claiming a man named Jake Olden died in the cave. The note and bottle raise a possible missing person mystery as efforts to descend the precipice continue with a search planned for the coming week.
Henry Sturkey announces forfeiture of six Idaho placer mining claims in Stanley Basin Custer county for nonpayment of required labor. Each claim must receive one fourth of total expenditures by a co owner within ninety days. otherwise the claimant’s interest passes to Sturkey. First published June 4, 1910.
Joseph Rodgers chair of Challis Board of Trustees announces sale by bid at the County Court House door on January 20 1910 from 10 am to 4 pm. Lots and blocks across Challis Idaho with appraised values around 65.00 per lot, all within original townsite. No bid below appraised value, buyer pays conveyance costs.
The notice adjoins a summons seeking dissolution of the bond of matrimony between Pialovici and the defendant on grounds of desertion. It requires the defendant to appear and answer within twenty days if served in district or forty days if served elsewhere, and warns that failure to appear will lead to relief demanded in the complaint. Clerk C. M. Wender son, Challis Idaho attorney Brown, publication dated December 24, 1900.
Notice records proof of water application for Big Creek in Idaho under Permit 1695 with Knight Ditch, irrigation and domestic use, priority date 1905, location SE of Sec 40, T13N R93E, source Big Creek. Also advertises timber sale in Challis National Forest near Darling Creek, six miles from Challis, with bids due Jan 2, 1910, species Douglas Fir and Lodgepole Pine, price minimums and bid rules.
An American couple, Mr. and Mrs. George Baldwin of Chicago, recount a royal greeting in the Stockholm palace. King Oscar I bowed to Mrs Baldwin as he accompanied them through the royal chambers before departing for a drive. The report highlights courtesy from the Swedish monarch and notes Baldwin’s prominent Chicago social ties.
Aliab Bummons seeks the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District County of Custer Idaho to compel Mandhe Newman to appear and answer the complaint filed by John F. Newman. The notice instructs the defendant to respond to the suit. The document references a state greeting and non action proceeding.
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