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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1904
Page
2
A long list of humorous and curious items from the era touches on a Cleveland man wagering a quart of whisky, misfired quotes, and scattered notes about heroes, Tibet, moths, camphor price drops, and talking fish. It also mentions Yale professors, New York speech, and a Connecticut tramp who found reason after a blow, ending with a Nevada note about men seeking wives in Silver City.
A long sought document reveals the first map using America to designate the Western Hemisphere. Martin Waldseemüller, a St Die geographer, wrote the book advocating the name America after Amerigo Vespucci. Missing map copies traced to Waldseemüller and his work.
A tablet honoring Commodore Paul Jones was unveiled at a school on Friday afternoon April 15. The ceremony was organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution with Miss Marion Brazier aiding. Dorothy Bates, daughter of the governor, pulled the cord to unveil the tablet as Lieut. Gov. Guild represented the state in the governor's absence.
In the sixteenth century European iron workers produced keys that were richly ornamented in relief. Forty eight key designs display embossed figures, coats of arms, grotesque seated males supporting a ducal coronet. One particularly ornate key fills the space with arabesques ending in cupids and river gods. A standing Victory figure and paired human figures support the stem.
A German scholar, Joseph Fischer of Feldrich, discovered the 1607 Waldseemuller world map in a Gothic folio volume at Wolfegg Castle. The map, photographed for public facsimiles, shows America labeled across the continent with V shaped South America and crude West Indies depictions. The volume also contains valuable keys and a famed Strozzi key once owned by Henri II of France, sold recently for $6,000.
The piece notes five leading Russian universities besides three provincial ones in St. Petersburg Moscow Kiel Warsaw and Kharkov with about 15 000 students in total Russia's population is 126 million giving roughly one student per 8 000 people. In contrast American classes hold about one student per 11 people.
The article describes how Spain’s crown granted clave maestra master keys to ministers and favorites to access royal palaces. During Charles I’s reign gilt master keys symbolized access to all palace rooms, with large oblong handles worn on the right side by ribbon. Lost keys forced the owner to cover locks changes costing over 10,000 Spanish dollars, and dummy keys were also given as badges to officials and favored nobles without posts.
A charity worker discusses an incident on the New York East Side involving a doctor prescribing a hot bath for a sick child. While she spoke with the physician, the mother called to a neighbor for a washtub to bathe the baby, highlighting tenement hardship and community aid.
Sir Hiram Maxim unveils a large umbrella shaped flying machine attached to a merry go round. Passengers ride in fish shaped cars suspended from the umbrella ends and enjoy a simulated air voyage at high speed. The device aims to show potential in air travel and will appear at Earl's Court and Crystal Palace exhibitions.
A British Medical Journal letter discusses remarkable grafting feats from pasteur to modern surgeons. It notes finger reattachment after a pig bite, skin grafting from various sources, nerve and bone grafts, and the potential for future organ trading, emphasizing healing powers and growing techniques.
A poem by Holman Day in Pearson's recounts Jim Brawn's homedward journey from harsh travels to a tearful reunion with his family. He confronts lies told in letters, faces his guilt at the hearth, and seeks forgiveness through prayer, ultimately resolving to strive for honesty and virtue in life.
A Chicago Journal piece urges readers not to seem discouraged when facing adversity. The author counsels overgrasping with the other hand, projecting confidence to others and oneself, and persisting despite fear or doubt to achieve social or artistic success. The world may pity or forget, but grip must be kept.
Between North and South Canadians a six mile railroad and wagon road has seen forty two deaths. Seven negroes twenty whites and thirteen Indians were killed by gunshot, by accident, or other causes. Only seven deaths were caused by officers. Kansas City Journal reports a grim tally of violence along the route with no accidental hunting noted.
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