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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1905
Page
7
A lengthy discussion on the meat packing industry references government inquiry into methods, charges, and fairness. It notes no concrete criminal charges yet, cites economic impacts from packing firms on farmers and stockyards, and mentions historical context including Garfield and Lincoln related events.
A fragmented ad style passage extols earth as free and urges thoroughness in work. It references a nervous Dutch imtene, refund policies, and claims about extractive matters and digestives value. Mentions C. F. Warren and East Lake City in a promotional, miscellany tone.
A fragment reports a seven year old named Apola of Lille linked to a curious claim of four power and a potential pawn, with a neighbor’s new offering cited. The passage notes a clerk’s refusal at a pawnshop and the child leaving an icy garden scene in torn clothes.
The provided OCR fragment reads as garbled prose with scattered phrases about duty, sleep, sterner souls, and a unit. It lacks coherent events, names, dates, or places, making it impossible to extract a concrete news item or identify distinct entities.
Harry Daggett discovers falsified ledgers pointing to Jack Stayton’s embezzlement, while Mildred Stayton confronts a choice between her husband’s trust and Daggett’s unspoken love. Daggett confesses to save Mildred’s marriage, faces five years, and resolves to protect the couple.
Slayton, after a year of living death, is found dead in a cheap hotel with a revolver in his hand and an empty chamber. A note on the floor hints at guilt as Daggett mutters a clipped remark about a woman’s first love not always the best, in a tense, morally charged scene.
A Russian engineering proposal aims to elevate the shallow Azov Sea by damming its outlet to the Black Sea and filling it with river waters. A two mile long dam and a large ocean capable lock would allow large steamers to reach ports on the Azov shore, with artificial shores needed where natural ones are low. The plan is described as a major undertaking under consideration by the government.
A Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune excerpt warns humans face extinction, supplanted by intellectual birds. The piece muses on humanity fading, while birds become our successors, even as people adapt and learn like birds, with playful references to names and chatter among birds.
The New York Globe calls the trackless trolley a cross between electric railway and automobile. It draws power from overhead wires and travels on ordinary roads. Advantages include no rail or roadbed costs and potential reach to remote hamlets. Dresden to Klotsche reportedly hosts trolley omnibuses. Construction cost with poles and wires was about $13,500, roughly one sixth the cost of standard electric rail.
Senator Depew recounts a humorous Kansas City encounter as a woman pursues Colonial Dames entry and struggles to select a coat of arms. She notes multiple families possess different arms for the same ancestor, complicating her stationery design. The anecdote appears in The Sunday Magazine.
W W Rockhill, newly appointed American minister to China, argues China’s population is likely not much over 250 million rather than 450 million. He cites the 1741 census of 143 million as more trustworthy, noting famines and wars would curb growth. He adds many regions could support larger populations.
A man earning a moderate salary wonders why people pay fortunes for a single jug or pottery piece. The item shown is valued at 19950 dollars and hailed as a high point of potter’s art from its historical period. World collections hold many prime pieces, with the Rothschilds among long-time custodians, though such rarities are rarely affordable or suit modern tastes.
Charles Welle of Santa Barbara California, 60, faced a year of near death as expert surgeons removed a large portion of flesh from a vital area. He watched, recited the Nicene Creed in Latin, refused painkilling drugs to stay fully aware, and endured the procedure with no shock. Surgeons reported a cautious recovery despite the operation's danger and rarity.
A natural ecclesiastical emblem formed from nine pearls was found along the West Australian coast. Seven pearls make the upright and two form the cross bar, yielding a Latin cross shape. Prize valued at least $50,000, named the Great Southern Cross pearl.
William Soule of South Livermore Maine shipped apples to England via Liverpool commission merchants. Mrs Lillian Bassett left a note in a barrel asking for the price paid. The barrel sold for 2.48 dollars. Soule received 68 cents per barrel, leaving transportation companies and English dealers with the remaining share.
A Scottish writer argues the moon never possessed volcanoes because it never reached volcanic heat. He claims lunar features resembling volcanoes are meteor dents from impacts in the moon’s past, not volcanic activity.
A Washington special to the Kansas City Star reports that a crow named Jack learned to imitate human speech after years of training by Prof Wood. The bird spoke after being scalded in desperation and could mimic calls over the telephone. Wood believes the crow died of old age, rejecting centenarian myths.
A pine forest in Eliot Maine shows two young pines growing side by side and fused at roughly seven feet above ground. Harold Goodwin a Dover high school student photographed the scene, noting the united trunk formed by two branches grown together.
A trolley mail car near the post office was temporarily converted into a barber shop early yesterday. A colored employee skilled in barbering trimmed a conductor’s hair and beard on the car, with pedestrians watching as the barber used a whisk and then the car returned to mail service.
A tragic sea disaster unfolds as the Grimeby trawler Satyrion goes missing with eleven hands. Ten weeks prior the ship sailed for Icelandic fishing grounds, then a notice arrives for chief engineer John Rutten urging him not to voyage due to an uncle’s death leaving him a post at £8,000.
A dog owned by John Smedick fell forty five feet into a quarry in Portland Conn. It landed in water, softened the fall, and a man rescued it from the ladder. The dog escaped serious harm aside from losing three teeth.
Clark Standiford, a former prominent grocer, plans extensive rhubarb cultivation at a ranch near Chino Milla in Butte County. Five tons of roots have been shipped to form the base of the enterprise, with Marysville correspondence in the Sarramesta Bee.
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