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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1905
Page
7
A jumble of vintage lines includes street cleaning cost figures and a patent remedy pitch, plus musings on proverbs from French writers and old age psychology. The readable portions touch on Allen's Foot-Ease, a Baltimore American reference, and remarks about aging as a second childhood.
Advert reads Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a safe, alcohol-free remedy from native remedies, claimed to restore stomach strength, relieve bloating, headaches, and other ailments, and offer lasting cures beyond temporary stimulation. It urges readers to mail for medical adviser and pamphlets, and touts the product as a century-tested, reliable tonic.
The article recounts Aaron Burr’s decline linked to the Richmond Hill mortgage due in July 1804. It notes Burr’s sale of Richmond Hill to Antor for 160000 to avert ruin, Astor’s later acquisitions, and Burr’s social isolation. It then shifts to a scientific note on flamingoes, their American presence, size, breeding colors, chick development, and plumage maturation.
Henry De Varigny reviews a Paris Temps piece by Brissemoret and Ambard on an infallible death indicator. The method uses a hypodermic syringe and Nimax paper to detect liver changes from alkaline to acid after death, potentially locating time of death within hours.
A bill collector calls at a house and is told the father is out. A boy on the steps hides the truth by alerting the collector, saying father is out when approached from one direction and then blurts the reality when asked again upon the other approach. The youngster vows to catch him if he returns.
The burglars and forgers of St. Petersburg are noted as the world’s best educated criminals. Their obstestvo society meets across the capital, takes subscriptions and has a paid secretary. No newspaper is published but a spravetschnoe bureau supplies members with crime updates, police actions, and comrade whereabouts. Agents on the German frontier smuggle criminals out of the country.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet recalls a domestic dispute where a wife used a flatiron to smooth trouble, leaving a visible sear behind a man’s car. The line underscores a dramatic domestic moment cited in the paper.
A Philadelphia style feature touts Peruna Medicine Company tonic use by John W. Glenister a Providence athlete and long distance swimmer praised for its spring benefits. The letter cites improved digestion sleep and circulation and urges athletes to rely on Peruna to maintain fitness during the season amid catarrhal risk and spring mood dips. The piece links Peruna to recovery and athletic readiness in New York and Columbus Ohio trade contexts.
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