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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1903
Page
6
A collage of lighthearted quips and social observations from the Silver Messenger column. It touches on manners, a Siamese elephant for sale, Balkan news, Dutch unions, radium prices, and a vice in society, concluding with a New York congressman’s lunch and Idaho reference. Highlights include Mina Rogers, a Siamese elephant, and General Uribe disguise speculation.
A Philadelphia North American piece reveals a nearly fifty year old secret society of wealthy men funding the Merchants Fund. Incorporated in 1854 to aid indigent and aging merchants, the fund has paid out 300000 in its first year and 10200 last year to forty three beneficiaries, now housing over 400000 in its invested assets. The article notes the irony of benevolence aimed at former plutocrats and highlights ongoing solicitations for donations to sustain aid for future distressed merchants.
Over sixty years searchers have learned that stars resemble the sun in size and nature, with many larger and smaller examples. Variable stars flicker, some explode and dissolve into thin air, while unseen dark stars affect light and motion, allowing size and position to be inferred without ever being seen.
In New Hartford Connecticut a large cotton duck mill complex was ordered closed last August and September. About 41 000 of 2 800 residents left the town as nearly 100 houses were boarded up and rents offered free to remaining workers. Payrolls of the mills had been 175 000 annually and with that income gone the town’s economy collapsed. Churches, schools, real estate, and local merchants suffered while workers aged out of new jobs. The mill machinery was shipped to Alabama as the town fell into decline and the trust’s power seemed to crush the community.
Robson recalls running away from Baltimore, drifting to Washington, and briefly serving as a Senate page with Dan Webster as a mentor. Webster told him he was cut out for acting after a chance encounter, and Robson followed the stage path, continuing his acting career.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts enjoys trolley trips and dime novels among his personal pastimes as reported by the newspaper.
Rod Platt persuades Uncle Nate to let him ride along and faces peril as he overhears a night train robbery in progress. He escapes detection behind a rock, helps avert the heist on No. 127, and later reappears at the station safe, seeing a tearless, grateful girl.
In a Philadelphia Ledger excerpt, Rod asks about Uncle Nate as a crowd surrounds ailing Rickett. A husky voice falters, then a firefighter vows to bring Rickett back, while Nathan Bellows proclaims hope. Bess kisses the recovering man, insisting she never let him go.
The article traces earrings as humanitys oldest ornament with roots in Genesis 1732 B C and finds echoes in the Troas Schumann the Etruri Castellani and Anglo Saxon England. It notes early use as amulets for protection then praises modern revival among select society and Italian New York wearers.
The piece contrasts warm old-fashioned fire with steam heat and winter cold, praising the light and comfort of the fire. It shifts to a humorous anecdote from Atlanta Constitution about a Harvard Law professor’s memory during class, followed by a quip about a student and secretary.
A fragment recalls Macaulay placing sons in a relative’s Hammermith academy, noting reasons Richard Elwell gave for not admitting Thomas Babington. It also mentions Senator Platt reading a gilt-edged Bible while Parliament figures Quay and Penn links are discussed.
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