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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1904
Page
7
A Somerville genealogist received a letter from a woman seeking help to trace her posterity and join the Colonial Dames. Another letter from a Western woman claimed descent from Sir Walter Raleigh and asked for a complete line of descent to be traced.
How to clean delicate laces with old cotton and soap. Soak bottle in warm water for an hour, then dip in clear water for tough stains. Eleanor R Parker notes wax figure removal. Mrs Maybrick’s wax is replaced by Whitaker Wright’s figure in London exhibit.
A Miss M Cartledge letter extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for menstrual illness and fatigue. It cites improvements in health within two weeks, enabling better study and work. The piece quotes other testimonials urging women to seek Pinkham's advice and use the product for female troubles.
A collage of scattered observations and notes from 1900 covering Hindu professions such as an eye cleaner and a house to house tale bearer, a beggar’s claim, electricity as magnetism, a tooth powder claim, social solitude, St Louis Exposition travel arrangements by F H Worsley, teacher interests, and Funafuti coral reefs.
The Metropolitan Magazine recounts an explorer's brutal torture by Tibetans and his return to a quiet life with his wife and son before he killed himself. The tale follows his drifting memory loss, sunken features, and a strangled identity after a harrowing Northward journey into the Himalayas.
Dan Daly recalls his youthful attempt to publish fiction in a Boston paper. The editor harshly criticized the piece and urged study of Hawthorne. Daly quips that a story would fill half a column, and jokes about payment rate of five dollars per column being acceptable if it pleased all.
A Portland man facing a rat problem at his summer cottage devised a weekly feeding plan in the cellar. The rat began visiting for food and, in return, refrained from further depredations, effectively yielding to the arrangement and a bounty that rewarded the rodent.
The Chicago News describes a convict settlement in the Zafarina Islands where prisoners are confined to the islands with night returns to prison unless granted leave. They rise at six, work little, and largely drink and sing at wineshops, each carrying a knife. Warders, called capatzares, are liquor sellers, and contraband trades flourish among the revelers and prisoners.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts a chaotic Christmas package mix up with stray letters and unclear names. It hints at a delayed delivery, a store pickup, and a person returning home with the package amid confusion.
Most of the centenarians who died in 1903 were women and nearly all were married. One London woman had not slept outside the city for sixty years, cited by the Laity Pictorial as proof of London’s purity and invigorating influence.
A testimonial from Dr Rachael J. Kemball of Buffalo praises Peruna as a cure for catarrh affecting any organ, including pelvic organs. She claims personal benefit and urges readers to consult Dr Hartman at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus for free advice. The ad emphasizes that many female ailments arise from catarrh and that traditional treatments often fail.
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