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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1903
Page
2
A history of display advertising in urban storefronts, featuring illustrators and demonstrators who transform window setups into performances. Notably Miss Virginia Pope is highlighted as a top demonstrator who markets bird foods and other products while touring the country.
A dreamer and a man of action fall for the same woman. The dreamer plans verses to win her, while the action man bets on cornering the stock market. Verse printing and a magazine stunt lead to wealth for one, marriage to another, and a lifetime of unhappiness for the man she married. Smart Sot.
Miss Ethel Folsom daughter of Geo Winthrop Folsom of New York wealthy Lenox cottager will establish a hospital for convalescents. She has leased a large hilltop house near Lenox and will convert it into a home from May to November for discharged patients from New York hospitals.
The report notes a man winning five million dollars on San Francisco races. Gates questions public interest in racing as a gentlemanly relaxation, saying if the colonel won six billion the episode would warrant chronicle, the other a trivial matter.
A youthful aspirant visited a newspaper editor to arrange monthly story contributions. When asked what he wrote, he replied he preferred suspenseful tales like The Lady of the Tiger, signaling ambition and a taste for dramatic fiction.
A club treasurer reflects on a scene where women bring mutilated currency to dogs in a playful debate about acceptability. He questions why women would fund dogs when men enjoy the joke, suggesting silver dollars as a more fitting token for canine mischief.
Mrs. Fremont Older has used Dennis Kearney once famous as a San Francisco sand lot orator in a new novel. The book centers on anti Chinese agitation in California and presents Kearney in a vivid pen portrait alongside Dimonell Hindayubter as part of a dramatized narrative.
A humorous column recounts anecdotes about family life, neighbors, and social events. A wife’s changing hair, a child’s quips about Abraham Lincoln, a niece’s musicale, and dinner conversations with old friends are relayed with light irony. A Pittsburgh Dispatch note calls a young man a new Napoleon of finance for a profitable deal.
An American visits an old English church, offers to replace a leaking roof at his expense, and after completion admits a hidden profit from silver in the lead. The rector is told the lead’s silver had long been unrecognized, yielding a tangible gain from charitable work.
A Pittsburg Gazette tale set during the England America boundary dispute in the Pacific Northwest. Captain Pickett later General George Pickett hears a courier and rides off after a teddy moment, leaving an empty glass. The returned exchange has a comic twist with a servant asking who threw the teddy down his throat during a ceremonial salute.
Representatives Brownlow and Gibson, the only Tennessee Republicans in Congress, joke about civil service exams. Brownlow notes his district produced qualified passers while Gibson laments his district failed to pass a single candidate. Brownlow quips that if any man in Gibson’s district could pass a civil service exam, Gibson wouldn’t be in Congress.
The brother of a Turkish Legation secretary in Washington visited New York. Met by countrymen pro-America, he noted the city’s vast construction projects and excavations. Asked what he thought of New York, he replied it will be a very nice place when it is finished.
A southern Congress member in a Washington hotel keeps an old colored man as personal attendant who, by servitude, gains authority over his employer. During a whisky offer to guests, the servant interjects a quip about breaking up a cold. The piece also includes a reflection from Stevenson's “My Neighbor and Myself” stressing balance between self-improvement and neighborly duty.
A French woman recounts her visit to Count Tolstoi. He is described as sheltered by his wife who feeds him for health, while noting that geniuses need common people to challenge them. The anecdote highlights the tension between genius and practical counsel.
Professor A. J. Totten, ex military instructor at Yale, argues that Friday and the number thirteen bring no bad luck to America. He cites thirteen letters in Pluribus Unum and thirteen thirteenths on the great seal, and notes that a baker’s dozen equals thirteen. He also recalls the thirteenth tribe, Manasseh, as part of the national symbolism.
Senator Wark of New Brunswick, a long time member of the Canadian parliament, is nearing his hundredth year and has served as a legislator for over sixty years, maintaining annual attendance at legislative duties.
A Swedish company has purchased the Rjukan Falls in Telemarken Norway to harness its power for industrial purposes. Ohia is described as one of the world’s largest waterfalls and plans for development are under way. The firm previously sought falls in Sweden, but the government reserved them for public uses.
Veteran Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois testifies that Doans Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble and back pain after a course of treatment at Cunningham Bros. drug store in Champalma now promoting a free trial by Foxter Milburn Co. Buffalo NY with price 60 cents per box and medical advice available.
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