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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1903
Page
2
A quirky, fragmentary listing of magic props and experiments. It catalogues tricks such as The Magic Pill Box The String Trick and The Magic Penknife with stepwise audience guidance. Also included are humorous vignettes about prompts bears and tricks, plus moral seeding quotes and a travel game.
The article recalls Andrew Carnegie's admiration for Tom Morris the golf legend. Carnegie visited St Andrews alongside nobles, praised Morris as the greatest golfer, and offered a card calling him king of golfdom. Also noted are William McAdoo’s legal career and a Carlyle quote urging workers toward noble effort.
The London Lady's Pictorial mocks a proposed anti kissing law in America. It questions the idea of passports or certificates to prove disease free status and imagines lovers unable to kiss without paperwork. The piece satirizes transatlantic views and the notion of regulated affection.
A grand man fond of shellfish inherits a large estate and wealth. He spends the legacy extravagantly attempting to acclimatize lobsters in a river on his estate. The joke ends as he realizes the water is not salt and his funds are gone. Mr. H. Barry in Ivan at Home notes the misused fortune.
A Lee Massachusetts man declared incurable by doctors recovered after using Grape-Nuts. He suffered nervous diseases and rheumatism, gained 40 pounds, and says he is now as well as anyone. The testimonial appears with Postum Co. attribution and notes a recipe book in each package.
A historic note describes microscopes normally unifying 11,000 times being enhanced to 16,000 diameters by immersing the lens in vaseline oil. The technique implies a leap in magnification via refractive media.
A brief quirky query from the Atchison Globe asks whether one should warm a fathen with feet all night or instead try the effort in a nut of a water jug, reflecting playful local whimsy of the era.
A New York mother Mrs Helena Rath recalls years of toil and illness after caring for six children. Her baby Charlie suffered severe eczema like sores. relief came after using Cuticura remedies promoted as a universal cure for skin diseases.
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