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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1909
Page
2
A scattered collection of quirky notes and observations from the Silver Messenger, touching on inventions, political quips, social trends, and distant news. Topics include smokeless cigars, suffrage debates, expenses on tires, political personalities, and European and American affairs with a humorous, magazine-like tone. Notable items mention Harvard, Lackawanna stock, and wireless news from Alaska.
A writer argues public schools overemphasize mental drills and rote learning. They urge manual training, practical skills, and individualized study to reveal each child’s strengths, reduce delinquency, and produce better citizens, while criticizing overreliance on spelling, typewriters, and clerical tracks.
Bishop Hartzell declares Africa's long-awaited day has arrived as exploration, science, and diplomacy unfold the continent’s potential. He argues missionaries will bring Christ to Africa, shaping a new era of protection, opportunity, and global awakening for its peoples.
An essay argues culture and education do not guarantee virtue. It contends refinement can mask vice among elites, linking great evils to ignorance and degraded thinking. It critiques ethical theories for justifying self interest and upholds a misread version of the golden rule.
Tolstoy admits his aristocratic birth shaped errors and instincts, notes his struggle to become peasant in conduct and ideas, and acknowledges his patronizing role in peasant dealings. He reflects on remaining a benevolent patriarch while seeking genuine humanity.
A sprawling tale follows Edward Anstruther and his Corsican ally as they pursue Marina and Enid, kidnapped in Italy and entangled with Corsican bandits. Barnes seeks his wife amid peril on sea and land, while a web of betrayals and loyalties unfolds across villas, hermitages, and mountain passes.
Edwin rides through La Castagniccia and Castagnicela forests on a Corsican road, noting chestnut groves feeding Paoli’s army and cyclamen scents. In Pietra a landlord hints at unrest with Lucca rebels and Cipriano Danetla’s estates near Cervione, as Edwin strains to learn more about the new landowner’s whereabouts.
In a sunlit Tuscan coast scene Eewin Anstruther locates a cliff top watch tower with Genovese beacons, a nearby Corsican farmhouse, and a winding chasm bridge. A mysterious white hand signals from the tower as events unfold toward a tense rescue amid threats and a looming confrontation with a Pinkerton detective.
A woman who works alone choreographs a simple entertaining plan by uniting her winter ingredients into three hot dishes. She serves salad dessert and coffee, while the three hot dishes come from the kitchen at the serving table. The piece notes her fear and trepidation related to a Pittsburgh incident and a cautious waiting maid who fears what the morning meals might contain.
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