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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1903
Page
2
A column of satirical notices and anecdotes on politics, impresarios, and public figures. Items range from Dr Parkhurst to Col Watterson and the Salvation Army, with jokes about cremation, clocks, parrots, marriages, and imperial powers. References include Armour, Carnegie, Ankeny, and a Turkish Bulgarians war.
Special Correspondence depicts how street vendors on Euston Road hawk cangs, feather dusters, laces, and baked potatoes to survive. Crossing sweepers, scrapers, and costermongers endure weather and danger while keeping alive the city’s bustling street economy. Caesar's death remark ends the fragment.
Fragmented verse by Frank L. Stanton notes hunger and desire beside a daisy while contrasting a dollar with bread. The lines imagine love pressed by economic need, with a moral about feeding the starving and minding the fold.
In a rural story, Joe, devoted to Nell, pursues a tender bond while Nell fights typhoid. He presents garden gifts, notably a great bouquet of goldenrod, hoping to win her heart as she tests his feelings and their future. Nell reveals she loves him but fears the change in their relationship.
In a tender scene Nell and Joe embrace after a moment of awkward dread over cabbage gifts. Joe’s speech loses pace until the moment turns warm with affection as he proclaims love and Nell humorously admits even a cabbage could not ruin their bond. The exchange ends with playful blessing of flowers.
Elisha Cretzer, a 18 water and flume tender at the Washoe smelter, devised a pillow dropping alarm to wake the deaf and mute. A clock in a cigar box triggers a mouse trap to release a pillow above the sleeper, ensuring punctuality at work and preventing missed days. The device, anchored above the bed, activates when the clock rings.
A nostalgic verse from the Atlanta Constitution recalls the warmth of a familiar fire. The speaker contrasts cozy memories with modern cold city life, celebrating crackling flames, bright sparks, and the comfort of a wild winter night.
A veteran undertaker recalls a drunken country man who wanted a coffin for his wife. The man boasted of his own measurements and demanded a five foot ten coffin, insisting the undertaker should know the size since he had already taken his measurements before arriving.
A humor piece recalls Dr Lorenz as charitably treating many for free. A poor girl dies. the mother explains they planned to call but chose a natural death instead. The joke circulates among colleagues, reflecting on his career and a punchline about the child’s fate.
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