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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1902
Page
6
A historical note explains how fear of surprise underlies panic in battle. It cites ancient Greek examples where disciplined troops dispersed without attack, blaming the god Pan as a motive for their fright, giving rise to the expression panic terror per Mirror.
The New York Press notes that antiseptic slates are popular with careful mothers for children. Made of light-weight papier-mache, they resist spitting on the slate and use a simple cotton mantle for erasing.
The two cities of Manchester in the Tan and Beaton in the United States show nearly equal populations. Birmingham and Baltimore are likewise very close in size, illustrating how population figures align across distinct urban areas.
A Wisconsin paper clips correspondence praising western Canada for fertile soil and low prices. It notes government agents across the U.S. and Canada, urging settlers to move to Saskatchewan areas like Saskatoon. The letter cites crop reports, immigration officers, and a wave of families prepared to leave for lands in the prairie provinces.
Henry J. Chevker of San Francisco displays a collection of 100 stamps valued at 20,000 dollars. The rare item is a 20-cent stamp issued in 1845 by the St. Louis post office, predating regular U S stamps.
Horatio MeKay, famed trans-Atlantic captain of the Leena, has retired from active duty. He announces extensive travels, having crossed a vast maritime distance and erased the Green Shothines in a remarkable career.
A juvenile tale opens with Jack Frost playfully chasing a brook and getting lost, then shifts to Alphonse Daudet’s early poverty and defiant persistence. Daudet endures taunts at school, vows to work twice as hard, and later becomes famous writing a story about those hardships titled Little What’s-His-Name.
A miscellany of verse on the changing seasons speaks of spring birds and blossoms, summer green, autumn leaves, and winter snow. The text then shifts to a humorous account of playing The Dumb Instruments at table, with players assuming imaginary roles and rotating drums and horns. It ends with notes on travels of icebergs from polar regions, their long journeys, dangers to ships, and occasional reach to Cape of Good Hope.
A British government study flags a Gigantic Tunnel era project to connect Ireland and Scotland with a 51 3 mile route from Stranraer to Belfast. The plan calls for 34 1 2 miles of tunnel with 25 miles under the sea, depth up to 480 feet, and electric trains averaging sixty to seventy miles per hour pending 50 million dollars in funding.
A sequence of wordplay teasers asks about counting, hidden counts, and paradoxes. It starts with blind Tam guiding others, a milestone, and people pray yet hide when the answer arrives. A rain clue, a four legged feathered thing, and a table like leg riddles follow. A wolves’ pack riddle ends with one remaining.
An elderly French woman earned the title of the most remarkable kleptomaniac on record for stealing pipes. Police found that she had accumulated about 2,000 pipes in her lodgings. The pipes included 39 well colored specimens and many moerachiums.
On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation a mixed Indian Mexican owner named Pablo guards a herd of 180 buffalo as a symbol of old freedom. He refuses to sell a single specimen, housing them on a vast range near Flathead Lake while amassing cattle and land across his possessions.
A novelist laments editors and publishers who reject darker fairy tale plots for children. He notes cherished tales by Hans Christian Andersen Oscar Wilde and others balance death fear and hardship with imagination.
The article outlines Germanys mobilized forces totaling 3 036 000 trained men including 2 310 000 infantry 151 000 cavalry and 168 000 other formations. It notes the Kaisers control over appointments fortresses and sieges and that every German is liable for service with no substitutions.
In a La Grange letter, Miss Ewing denies any engagement to a Montana man or others. She and her father plan a trip to the Pacific coast for an exhibit season. She notes many proposals, but will marry only a man she can truly look up to, given her height of eight and a half feet.
The Hamilton Telegram notes Canada’s divided electorate with many labeled votes. It claims Grits and Tories court the German vote as M P P Nelson Monteith proposes a demonstration in honor of Prince Henry. The piece mentions French, Orange, Catholic, and Prohibitionist groups as other yet unrepresented factions.
Thunder Mountain Idaho is described as a large mineral region with rich gold deposits. Reports note ledges 100 to 80 feet long with values from seven to four thousand dollars per ton. Miners have already recovered placer gold and supply routes from five Idaho and Montana points are outlined.
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