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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1904
Page
2
Fragmentary verse discusses nameless memory and fleeting moments by the shore. Imagery centers on wind, waves, and a nameless figure, with elusive references to a wanderer and time passing. The text reads like poetic fragments from a damaged page.
Bennington, smitten with Lucy Alton, suspects engagement ended after she walks away. He learns Lucy’s lookalike cousin Mabel Carter, not Lucy, stood in for her in a tableaux vivants performance. Lucy reveals the ruse, and Bennington pleads forgiveness as the crowd cheers a reconciled claim to love.
A fragment notes Migs Carter arranging a dreaming room while Jack apologizes to Lucy. A circlet of plain gold serves as a ring and claimed identification in a Boston Globe item.
A Johannesburg wedding in Lyn-Wenburg sent the bride in a traveling gown on a caravan to Pilgrim's Rest. Flooded Ohrig stad river halted the journey for four days. A crossing attempt swept away two horses and a cart, with the passenger likely injured by a barbed-wire fence. Transport help later ferried the cart and team across.
The Washington Post recounts a dinner honoring Chevreul, the famed French chemist, on his 100th birthday. Benator Depew recalls Chevreul’s longevity linked to temperate living, steady finances, and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol, while a lively guest made toasts as the elderly host calmed merriment.
A visiting priest found a sick Irish immigrant husband seemingly well at first in his country home. He advised a garden rest, but a week later the man lay bedridden. The wife claimed the doctor had given up, and they had sold the clothes, fearing the garden’s escape had harmed him. The Philadelphia Press reports this tale.
A man narrates his plan to earn money while fearing a trap at the market. He recalls a moral lesson about honesty and virtue as he watches others mock him yet persists. The piece reflects on thrift, labor, and the path to financial stability.
The article recounts Highland Sabbatarian tales showing strict Sunday observance. A lady rises early to carry a canary to the cellar to keep it quiet. A young clergyman’s orthodoxy is questioned after seen at his window on the Lord’s Day handling his bair. Lord Playford recalls a nurse quieting a child with a whispered paraphrase.
A narrator recounts a visit to Antofagasta and Valparaiso, describing steep hills and barter with Americans over money, clashes with a blunt American consul, and the political and economic effects of foreign investment in Chile. The piece laments nitrate wealth, foreign control, and a native future dependent on external capital.
In the Oslo House term around 1823 Tom Corwin of Kentucky led a repeal push against the punishment of whipping for criminals. A Connecticut-born House member argued to keep corporal punishment, claiming it kept offenders from leaving. Corwin countered that many people move to Ohio from Connecticut, but he knew no such reason.
The piece notes gambling dominates Russian society with over 2,000,000 roubles spent annually on play cards. It states the Czaritza Maria charities monopolize card manufacture, generating about 1,700,000 roubles yearly in income while production costs are around 200,000 roubles. London Hits.
Mr. Albee postmaster of Alpine California declares four boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills brought the best results and recommends the remedy. The notice claims miraculous cures for rheumatism urinary troubles and kidney complaints, and notes a collector of Austrian soldiers in a museum.
Etiquette of turf notes cap and jacket becoming property of jockey after use with owners sometimes buying them back. A testimonial praises Piso’s Cure for throat and lung troubles from Water Expy, Indiana. Belgium now has four fishermen schools teaching weather charts nets and boat handling with about 250 pupils.
The article discusses ethnographic beliefs about kissing, noting that some primitive tribes such as the Lappa and Maoris use nose rubbing instead. It claims the average Japanese person knows nothing of kissing, and comments on Japan's rising role in future history.
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