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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1909
Page
3
On a steamer bound for Canada, Eliza and friends encounter a mysterious blue-berged man who publicly discards a chair overboard and later opens a bag onboard. A weary stranger, Juliet Graham, shares a stateroom with the narrator’s party, while Mr. Graham speaks of his wife and upcoming summer travels amid uneasy suspicions and flirtations.
Excerpts praise the poised mind linked to divine contact and calm, contrasting wealth with serene temperament. T. P. O'Connor receives a portrait in Leeds from the Irish League of Great Britain for 25 years as president. John Redmond and John Dillon offer tributes to O Connor as a steady guide for Irish people in Britain.
A compassionate man, driven by the world's pain, abandons his quiet life to lead a pilgrimage aimed at easing suffering. He earns praise as a savior, but returns to find his partner, the gardener who kept their plot, has died, and his creed of self sacrifice proves tragically costly.
Cumberland, Md to West Virginia woods tale of Richard Galt aged 52 found starving after weeks living on elm bark and tree sap. He survived on scraps, carved a shelter in a cave, and trembled at every sound while fearing his captors return.
A modern father urges his son to study the busy bee for virtue, but the boy counters that the bee is a goat: it hustles to gather honey in summer and sleeps through winter while freebooters in the hive profit. The Louis Post Dispatch notes the shift in copy books.
William Duffee a tele phone lineman in Chester Pennsylvania was attacked by a flock of sparrows nesting in a switchboard along the Chester pike The birds launched a defense pecking toward his eyes forcing him to cover his face with his arm while he pushed the birds away with pliers killing one sparrow The incident shows the birds’ bold intrusion into utility infrastructure.
Hie Arm in Snake's Cell, Allentown Pa H Reinhard, chief engineer of the State Homeopathic hospital, barely escaped a six foot black snake that lunged from brush near a boiler house. He grabbed the snake and struggled, winding it around his arm as he clutched a rope to pull himself to safety.
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