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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1903
Page
8
The Messenger reports General Alger aligned with sugar insurgents as reciprocity for manufacturers becomes Republican policy. The piece critiques administrative anti trust tactics and warns readers with an ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, 25 cents, sold by J. P. Spaulding.
The record notes Mrs. Carrie Nation obtaining an English assent from a British admirer. Perry Heath is quoted asserting that Mormons control the Utah legislature and will send a saint to the Senate, predicting a rare bird in that chamber.
The peculiar cough indicating croup is well known to mothers of croupy children. Do not waste time on experiments with untried remedies. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as directed and all symptoms will quickly disappear. For sale by J. P. Spalding.
The piece sketches political tension over naval spending and presidential aims, notes a Fergus Falls Minn resident injuring a shoulder and finding relief with a local sales pitch for Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and reports on a New York fireman’s suicide after a prank. It also references Sen Hoar on a bill, Colombian diplomacy danger, and Sen Borrows voting on a Cuban treaty under Beet Sugar Trust influence.
Judge Goodwin urges Utah lawmakers to broaden horizons and align with sister states. He traces American liberty from colonial roots to a government by the people, stressing merit over birth and guarding religious freedom against state encroachment.
In Custer County Idaho Probate Court the estate of B F Happ, deceased, seeks sale of all personal and real property. An order to sell will be granted if parties appear January 9 at 10 o’clock in Challis Court House. Publication authorized four weeks in The Sivan Messenger in Wald County. Probate Judge Finnell dated December 18 1902.
A narrator describes a fanciful scheme by the Columbia Petrifaction Company of Clarion County to profit from a limestone spring. They plan to petrify people and animals to create statues, even selling pauper-derived forms for grand sculpture, and imagine houses built from ossified organs. A suited man considers buying shares, but the tale ends with the narrator’s debtor friend never returning after a loan.
A compact Y.Press opinion fragment notes money drives effort and gendered labor attitudes. It contrasts desire for hair color with aging aesthetics and pokes fun at male mechanical know-how, framing social quirks in a humorous, observational tone.
An elderly veteran recalls leaving Georgetown University in 1861 to join the Civil War. He narrates his father’s Michigan regiment, his time at Camp Georboro Point, and how a hospital visit near Lincoln’s era shaped his view of Washington. He laments not finishing college but honors Washington’s resilience.
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