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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1904
Page
7
M Cartledge of Leon, Georgia, reports relief from long menstrual absence and dizziness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the medicine restored energy, improved health, and made her feel like a better student and a healthier person overall.
A fragmented report notes Empire Muswer and Core clashing in an event at a seaside venue. Names and exact outcomes remain unclear amid garbled OCR, but the piece signals a notable confrontation and venue setting with strong entities referenced.
The article notes birds lack smell and swallow food whole, making them easy targets for poisons. It reports that crows and ravens consume poisoned meat, chickens ingest toxic tabubrum seeds, and even small birds may die after eating poisonous seeds, with wild birds often found dying in gardens after apparent good health.
A cast of inscriptions from Herod's Temple in Jerusalem join the University of Pennsylvania Museum collection. The gate warning reads in Greek and Latin that no foreigners may enter the temple precinct, with a fatal penalty for transgression.
Delos Hutchins, a Union veteran from Sonoma Michigan, describes years of rheumatic pain from service in the Louisiana swamps. After trying Dodd's Kidney Pills, he reports partial relief from two boxes and complete relief after using more, claiming the pills cured his rheumatism and restored his health.
The passage surveys slave making in ants noting varied dynamics. It cites Huber 1810 on a slave reliant on feeding from masters and contrasts with a British species that enslaves yet remains independent, taking pupae from host nests and raising the resulting ants as workers in the conqueror nest.
An 1880s note reviews Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children sold by apothecaries, claiming feverish relief and worm destruction, with free sample offers from A Olmsted. It also discusses two English women who left writing to pursue beauty work and hair restorer sales, met with mixed critique yet public sympathy.
A long suffering customer jokes with his wife after confessing to passing a counterfeit 50 cent piece to a restaurant cashier. He admits planning the act for a long time and notes the restaurant’s dubious alterations to foods and drinks. The tale ends with the line that his act, though illegal, felt like poetic justice.
A clever woman uses charm and a dash of mischief to secure a seat on a Sixth Avenue surface car. She drops her handkerchief near a young man, he returns it, and she seizes the moment to slip into his seat while he blushes. Her polite thanks masked a strategic win.
Fragmentary religious verse recounts moving from darkness to light through faith and divine guidance. It contrasts sorrow and sin with hope, awaiting awakening and the presence of God as watchers long for dawn.
A woman laments losing her bright yellow garter, the mascot Janet wore at her wedding. She believes the garter’s loss ends her luck and her chances of marriage, recounting dances, clubs, and many suitors she met while wearing it.
A Missouri congressman recalls a fall campaign speech interrupted by a heckler. The speaker vows to quiet disruptions with a tale about a braying ass facing a Syrian army, while the audience member reassures him the crowd won’t stampede.
An old advertisement claims catarrh of the kidneys underlies most kidney disease. It touts Peruna as a remedy that removes the renal catarrh, with testimonials and an offer for free medical advice from Dr. Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus.
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