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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1904
Page
6
The article describes dwarf cherry trees ten inches high as valued by Japanese taste for precision and age. It notes that true perfection requires centuries of growth and careful adherence to canonical forms, with many dwarfs sold cheaply due to imperfect development.
Advice on avoiding lightning during storm season. Recommends staying away from outdoors under trees, sheds, carts, bridges, and near tall houses. indoors stay clear of chimneys and metal moldings. avoid water and seek shelter in a carpeted room or thick hearth. Warns against basements and bed shelters during a strike.
William H. Crane and Willie Sweatnam met after years and exchanged memories in a quiet earnest exchange. Sweatnam bristled at a remark about youth while Crane recalled a toga event in 1872 and a trip to Indianapolis in 1864 to see a husky boy pounding a drum amid whispers of fame.
Ancient belief held zebras as masterless, but modern trials at London zoological gardens show zebra training possible. If tamed, these hardy animals could address regional herd management, though Rhodesia and other Africa regions report zebra resilience against local diseases and predators.
Vicat Lieutenant Rudolph, sniper of the Fourteenth Cavalry, noted as perhaps the youngest commissioned officer in the U S army. Ernest D Peek, first lieutenant with the corps of engineers, Wisconsin native, 6 feet 4½ inches tall, West Point star graduate nicknamed Pike's Peak, directed early road construction and supervised the rebuilding of a military road later known as Peek's Pike.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a person named Aves synpeaching iain and a WA opening lin petidethy, with phrases about earth greeting and an unusual line of text. The readable content is limited and unclear, offering no coherent event or identifiable subjects.
A London Tit Bits note recounts a humorous scene where singers pledge to wash their hands in innocency amid singing lines about washing. The piece then shifts to plans to beautify England’s "Black Country" by planting trees on piles of furnace refuse and coal waste.
A Barton North Dakota family touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as protection against illness. W A Moffet says they prevent sickness by taking pills at first signs. his brother previously diagnosed with diabetes reportedly survived multiple winters and springs, credited to the remedy.
In Ram's Horn, a tale shows Wing a Chinese bell porter hired by the Andersons in California. He can carry a card and present it, but rejects callers with a blunt, humorous correction after a test visit, leaving hosts baffled by his literalness.
A woman in St Leonards England died recently of self medical treatment. A witness at the inquest said the deceased had habitually taken several compounds and pills before bed, including nine compound rhubarb pills, mixtures, and various tonics. The hearing explored self-administered remedies as the cause.
A mother recounts a perilous poisoning scare in which a child drank carbolic acid and survived after medical care. She credits Grape-Nut food with rapid recovery and notes the child’s improved appetite and rosy cheeks. She cites doctors Eddy and Gale and invites readers to contact them or Postum Co for more information.
A long letter dated Feb 8 1904 from Kitna Kort, once a prosperous farmer, describes homestead life near Edmonton and Lake St. Anne. He details claims 1/2 mile south of Edmonton, crops of potatoes and barley, hay meadows yielding hundreds of tons, range grass for cattle, weather and Chinook winds, a 20 by 26 foot house with cellar, harvesting timber and shingles, abundant wild fruit, berries and huckleberries, plentiful game and fish, and transport routes through St. Albert and Edmonton toward Calgary and Edmonton Failroad. For more info, contact a Canadian Government Agent listed in the paper.
A fragment notes the lion as possessing the third strongest force in the animal world. It contrasts with the first and second strongest blows by a whale's tail and a giraffe's kick, respectively, in a compact statement on animal strength.
A jumble of ads and notices includes a $100 reward offer and a strange claim about a cure, alongside a discussion of charitable living in Jerusalem. Dr. Selah Merrill explains why many Jews in Palestine rely on charity, noting the burden on Jerusalem’s Jewish population.
A fragmentary account recounts a college story where a youth fakes a ghost to convert an infidel companion. The distasteful prank fails as the frightened companion fires a pistol at the immobile figure, believing it to be a ghost, and Brown dies after his mind yields to fear. The tale, woven with other rural minstrel lines, contrasts romance and tragedy across several brief scenes.
The unwritten laws of society place great importance on not losing temper especially during games. Bridge and croquet breed temperamental outbursts that ruin lifelong friendships and deals. Public displays of anger disturb guests and contradict the outward calm essential to good society.
A homeless couple faces eviction on the first moving day as a husband and wife share a bleak moment. The piece notes a New Explosion Motor for Boats, a French invention now made in England, enabling boat propulsion by steering the propeller angle with no rudder. A twelve horsepower propulsor reportedly powered a launch towing a canal barge.
Mr. Hamilton notes Korea's emperor faces serious financial strain from widespread counterfeiting. In Chemulpo counterfeit money ranges from government nickels to first class and medium fakes, with some only passing as real after dark, reflecting alarming currency degradation.
The Plume torpedo plant Anvtrian has produced a slender missile twenty three feet long that can be discharged accurately to a range of three thousand eight hundred yards.
Prank D. Overbaugh, a cattle buyer from Catskill New York, reports years of pain from Bright's Disease and kidney issues, says Dean's Kidney Pills cured him completely. A free trial is available by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with a 50 cent price per box at all dealers.
A 1903 German newspaper item recites a gentle irony from H. Spengler urging would be trespassers to spare the garden. The note asks that keys be requested at night, readers leave some fruit, and refrain from damaging trees or beds, ending with thanks for prior interest.
A Chicago Record Herald note describes a child’s fascination with a Maddens Angora cat boasting a “splendid pedigree.” The White feline impresses Little Marjory, who longs to see a creature with such exceptional lineage and returns home thrilled by the sight.
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