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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1906
Page
2
A survey of rising wealth and its heirs, health investments for children, and the social function of educated elites. Notes on Washington society, the stock of expenditures, and a light jab at fashioning public life. A russo reform joke closes the piece with a sly nod to political latitude.
A prominent lawyer argues women are responsible for 80 percent of divorces and implies the figure should be raised to 100 percent. He states that if women did not accept marriage proposals there would be no divorces.
On a mountain hospital veranda Miss Carleton grows lonely while longing for letters from the anonymous “Man in the Valley.” Dr. Herbert watches, the two share doubts about love, fate, and the truth of the letters, until a fortune shifts lives and reveals a final truth. The doctor confesses he authored the letters to save her, and she reveals a rival, a man on the mountain top.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes a passenger with a heavy watch chain ordering coffee and a sandwich at the Healing House near the railway station. The counterman jokes that only body snatchers or poor relations of the deceased ever come there, probing the passenger for identity.
In Utica a young man collapsed and died in a restaurant moments after placing his order. If he had collapsed after receiving the check the event might have seemed clearer. the incident leaves many questions about the cause and timing of death.
Mrs Vanderbilt basks in pride as she displays a rare thimble tied to Queen Elisabeth. The item, described as an excellent needlework memento, reflects high society interest and ceremonial value in the period.
A historic notice describes sky banners over Chicago streets used for outdoor events and theater ads. It details constructing a large five foot kite with wooden frame and cloth, capable of carrying 3x12 foot banners, and notes police order to remove a dummy performance when streets clogged.
An aging craft of ship carpenters fades as steel ships dominate Lake Michigan commerce. Once a robust fleet of lumber craft supported Chicago’s harbor and river trade, now only a few patching jobs remain. The old adze and plane era yields to modern steel and mechanized work.
The Salt River project in Arizona is building what is claimed as the world’s highest dam. By 1908 Roosevelt town is expected to be 172 feet underwater as the power head is utilized for electric generation. A temporary power plant, cement mill, plant, and saw mill are completed, with telephones linking headworks and dam sites 18 to 30 miles away.
Mr Leay, an English consul at Vera Cruz, notes few British houses of importance in the gas sector. The Society of British Gas Industries reports 1,260 gas companies and local authorities serving 4,400,000 consumers in Great Britain. London companies within ten miles of the city serve 45,000 consumers.
The Retailers' Journal of Chicago urges consumers to consider community prosperity. It argues saving money by shopping distant stores drains local wealth, threatens land values, and boosts centralized wealth. It cites 1905 small-town spending of $80,000,000 with two Chicago firms and warns profits may rise further.
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