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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1902
Page
2
A wry collection of comments and quips touching poetry, politics, and society from a Silver Messenger page. It lampoons Earl Greyish topics and public figures, mentions Tennyson, Rockefeller, Captain Coghlan, Kaiser Wilhelm, and Beethovenish-esque lines, with jests about golf versus ping pong, price rises, and spring fever. The piece reads as a playful, paneled miscellany.
The article explains a bicycle loop demonstration where centrifugal force keeps rider and bike from falling as they pass the top of a loop. It details required starting height, velocity, and the pressures on the track from the rider's weight, noting safety depends on the rider's nerve and control.
A Southern France mayor offered 100 francs to every couple under 24 married during his term to curb blight provocation. The policy drew many rewards and cost the town hundreds of dollars, reflecting a bold civic attempt to boost matrimony.
A bearded man recalls Senator Thurman of Ohio as not abstinent while recounting a tale of a drink moment with his wife. A separate note praises Dr. William Zebina Ripley of New York receiving the Prix Bertillon for his work The Races of Europe.
The text lists observations from various eras and figures, noting discoveries cited by Washington at Valley Forge, naval battles in the Chesapeake Shenandoah theater, and literary mentions. It weaves mis-spellings and fragments about Columbus, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Dickens, and Hebrew works. It also includes language on cognate words, affection, and society leadership phrasing.
A woman examined in a New York bankruptcy court said her livery business failed because patrons in a fashionable neighborhood did not pay. She reported a loss of 75000 dollars and blamed the unpaid accounts for the collapse of her enterprise.
An elderly New York couple visits a circus backstage and meets elephant trainer O'Brien and the star elephants Johnnie and Dollie Julian. They encounter Miss Julian, the world’s only female somersault bareback rider, and observe the circus’s daily life, language quirks, and a candid glimpse into animal and performer characters.
A couple visits a circus and discovers the performers are content, ambitious workers, not the tragic image they expected. The wife, moved by conversations with a rider and a guardian, contrasts the happy professionals with their own prior judgments, noting the joy in equestrian artistry and a child’s pride in a new trick.
A curious historical relic from Laurens in South Carolina, Andrew Johnson’s goose used during his apprentice years is described. The tale recounts Johnson leaving Laurens for Greenville after a rejected marriage proposal to Sallie Hance, his tools kept in the shop, and the gown later passing through Marian Simmons to Mrs Shirley B Whatley. The piece ends with a wry remark on gout and self-indulgence.
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