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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1906
Page
7
Travelers witness Benaras water rituals and temple carnivals, with crowds, beggars, and rites amid alleged filth and superstition. The Bo tree in Bodh Gaya and Delhi’s Durbar glow contrast with India’s enduring poverty and colonial presence, ending with a note on the Englishman governing and playing tennis in Los Angeles.
Floyd Hemingway nephew of former Senator James Z George travels to Chicago to buy goods for a Mississippi country mercantile. He once served as the senator’s secretary during a Sherman bill debate twelve years ago. The senator learned of the wedding with humor and urged a quick return home.
Miss Emma Newkirk of Santa Monica once won a New York beauty show first prize and now resides in the Northwest Territory. She has married a wealthy man and has been elected director of a large school district spanning hundreds of square miles under King Edward's dominions.
A downtown business man recounts a late night security scare. He stayed with an accountant and found employees had locked up, an extra key missing, and a potential second story entry. A sympathetic sergeant lent a brass padlock and ordered the door secured, with the key to be returned in the morning. The narrator wonders if police assume guilt until proven honest.
A Chicago American verse spoof imagines a reform minded microbe lamenting its failed push for cheaper ice lower coal bills and better housing While the reform zeal spreads it also fuels reactions in politics and society The microbe questions whether endless campaigns and social fixes truly help the poor and criticize hypocrisy in holy and reforming circles
Edwin Willman reports from the Chautauquan on Hongkong’s labor system where every Chinese person above seven sustains the empire through burdens carried to supply cliff dwellers and build great houses. He notes a government labor pact restricts passenger transport, while coolies, rikisha rummers, and ferry supply a bustling city atop steep hills with European influences. The Chinese city is clean, well built, and distinctive, yet unchangeable in customs, as English influence promotes sanitation.
A young inventor in the city sold his patent for a thousand dollars after an agent offered five thousand. While negotiating, he secretly improved the design making the original idea worth only about thirty cents by comparison. He is now working out the new plans.
A fragmentary reminiscence portrays Foran as a gentle, generous figure who never achieved worldly success yet touched hearts. He aided animals and friends, performed in secret, and left memories mingled with tears as life faded.
The article explains knockdown furniture featuring tables that assemble without nails or screws and disassemble to compact shipping size. It details metal forked plates on legs, kerhale slots, locking pins, crosspieces with end plates, lugs, and optional drawers, with grooves and cleats securing the top.
A student on a City bus loses a cap near One Hi and Twentieth street as the girl passenger’s skirts sweep it away. A shrill plea from a bystander begins a brief chase before the cap is recovered from the drapery. The incident echoes a moment from the New York World item Cheap Dentistry in Skowhegan. Doc Pooler is a well known Maine dentist referenced in the clipping.
A log driver asked if the tooth extraction would hurt. The doctor replied that if it didn’t, payment wasn’t required. After much pulling, the tooth came out and the driver claimed it hurt not at all, a line the doctor found laughable.
Bavaria supplies skeletons for medical schools and colleges, with most imported from Bavaria. Demand shifts with the country’s death rate, while some skeletons are obtained domestically. Trade remains active as autumn opens and institutions resume.
Woodrow of Mineral County West Virginia was convicted on his wife’s testimony for killing his infant in the mother’s arms. The state Supreme Court ruled a wife is not a competent witness against her husband, likely freeing him on appeal.
Humorous clippings show a judge easing a Fraulein’s awkward reply after a suggested dare and misheard questions. Interactions include Mr Borem, Mise Catting, and a comic exchange about Sunday visits and family chaos.
Lear remarks on a serpent's sharpness provoke a modern parent reply. A remark about paying $2,000 for a daughter's singing debut hints at financial strains. A scene titled Coming to Terms features banter between Hicks and Wicks about wifely patience and late club returns. The dialogue concludes with a note that soft soap acts as a soporific.
A fragmentary dialogue from Philadelphia humor columns contrasts wealth with social ease. A Chicago man imagines riches would grant him flawless meals, while neighbors remark on a wife’s apparent illness. A builder explains transforming a saloon into a grand hotel, hinting at social mobility and vanity.
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