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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1900
Page
3
An excerpt from James Grant recounts Dick Rodney's perilous escape from a perilous mutiny aboard a ship. The narrator describes feuding crew, a Cuban foe, a near-death prior, and the voyage toward Tenerife with dramatic nautical scenes and a mutiny trial looming.
In a Spanish court a trial unfolds with oaths over sword blades. Antonio is found guilty and sentenced to die by the gazotte. The Andal of the Lascare is released. Benito Ojedo and eight others receive ten years in chains. A crowd gathers in the Plaza for Antonio’s execution by the barotte. To be continued.
An 1888 letter Thackeray wrote to his wife expresses joy in two years marriage with no unhappy days. He blesses God for happiness and hope for the future, praising love as greater than fortune or sickness and praying against temptation. He compares happiness to a painting seen from afar and near.
A Siamese report notes elephants and nurses cooperatively minding children. Elephants tolerate the infants with care, never harming the small creatures and, if danger appears, scooping the child in their trunk and carrying them to safety on their broad backs.
A Collier’s Weekly recounts Lawton’s offhand Civil War tale of a soldier almost killed by a lone bullet. The commander described the incident where a ground burst sent a helmet flying and the man leapt like a rabbit, highlighting the bullet’s near miss and the sergeant’s grave undertone.
An 1860s excerpt recalls a dramatic moment at Worth during the Franco Prussian clash when Prussian cuirassiers faced French lines. A headless officer, seated upright and urging his men after a cannon ball severed his head, turned a near rout into a steadfast defense before the regiment finally held.
A humorous veteran recounts soldiers across eras turning to games while at leisure. Waterloo Highlanders play checkers on kilts with free cartridges. Civil War Yankees fish with a line of makeshift rise and hook. Crimean troops sing. Nelson bans cards but discovers a sugar lump gambling scheme.
A Lawton aide corrects a tale that General Lawton attributed the dying speech of Buckey O Neil to the San Juan battle. The officer says O Neil joked that he made a bold claim about bullets and laughed in response, clarifying the misattribution.
The article surveys historic rallying cries from battles and leaders. It cites Ivry and St Bartholomew, Naseby and Sir John Atley, Balaklava and the Light Brigade, Nelson at the Nile, Boyne refugees, Pavia, Napoleon before the Mamelukes, and Perry after Lake Erie, noting their enduring resonance and vivid rhetoric.
The story recalls General Lawton and Major Webb by the roadside after El Caney. A loud loud talking corporal with a dog and extra ammunition keeps spirits high. The major asks why the dog is carried and the corporal replies the dog is tired, sparking laughter.
A London Daily Mall note praises entrenching tools over swords in modern warfare. It cites Austrian German French and Russian company equipment and a tactic of deep ditches with tree branches to impri son charging foes. The piece ends with a quip about drinking men.
The National Review argues Martians, though sharing features with Earth life, would differ due to Mars thinner air and weaker gravity. Lower surface gravity could let humans jump far, lift heavy weights, and move swiftly, suggesting Martian life may be adapted to a lighter, more agile form rather than Earthlike humans.
In a Maine village a church dynamo failed during a Methodist prayer meeting. Darkness prompted quiet, then two young men crept to discuss leaving with a bottle of Scotch and a girl, before the lights returned and the hymn resumed, the pair retreating in embarrassment.
Naturalist Sir John Murray imagines a distant era when extreme cold and geological change erase oceans into rock. Dewar style temperatures lock the world, shrinking seas into solid rock while a shallow 40 foot deep squid sea sweeps the planet, and night as we know it ends.
A Boston Courier item notes a scene where a suitor buys a solitaire adornment to prove his intentions for an engagement. The recipient replies that the speech has the true ring, reflecting a playful exchange on betrothal significance.
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