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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1904
Page
6
A collection of witticisms and short observations touching Russia and Japan, weather, emigration, advertising, Napoleon, wheat prices, Canada, New Year's, verse by Alfred Austin, marriage, and social foibles. Quips about readers, clergymen, and public figures anchor the miscellany with playful commentary.
A first-person account from Mount Morgans in Western Australia describes a new town rising in a vast desert when water and rail are scarce yet a thriving community forms. It notes population at about 1,000, ongoing growth, multiple churches, hotels, bands, and a planned railway, with vivid observations on prices, agriculture limits, aboriginal encounters, and frontier optimism.
The Metropolitan Museum in Central Park displays the bronze Greco-Etruscan two horse chariot known as the biga. Dating to the sixth century B C E, the relic came to New York through Jacob Rogers’s endowment and the museum’s leadership. It stands as a treasure and a focus for future archeological study attracting European scholars.
Charles E Libby of Scarboro Maine regained his reason after five months of wandering in a demented condition. A wood pile fell on his head causing a severe head wound and a brain clot formed from a fall five months earlier but has since passed away and he is now again in possession of his mental faculties.
New York Herald describes an inventor applying bicycle motive principles to a screw propeller. The device purportedly powers through water with the body turning with the sprocket and chain mechanism. Metal arms extend beneath to keep the operator upright in perpendicular position.
A volatile poem fragment contrasts a melancholy man craving sun with a resilient snowflake that remains indifferent to fate. The other item reports a Russian cruiser Aurora seeking permission to execute a sailor in Spozia, Italy, and, after denial, allegedly keel hauled him at sea in brutal conditions.
The Plymouth egg collecting station reported the best receipts among the three government fish hatcheries on the New England coast. Collectors earned more there than at the other hatcheries combined, highlighting its superior output.
A florid man visits a busy businessman named Keppler to discuss a matter about Tom Dempsey and a wedding, implying a possible financial or personal matter. The caller leaves after the businessman hastily ends the talk, removing a sign from the bill file and discarding it.
Poem fragment recalling a bygone era of silver mines and the dream of wealth. The piece contrasts abandoned mining roads and relics with eternal nature and a call to virtue, framing wealth as infinite and spiritual rather than material.
In a New York World column, Mr. G B Whitson recalls a young promoter who boasted of riches and tried to cash unbacked checks. The grocer ends up cashing a check marked N G meaning No Gold, prompting the promoter to pay fifty dollars to cover the deficiency. Pleasant weather and good morning.
Reverend Robert MacArthur recounted John Eliot's selfless giving from a fifty pound salary. He described how a secretary secretly tied Eliot's money in a handkerchief to test prudence, but Eliot gave the whole sum to a poor woman, prompting the ushers to pass the basket and the congregation to dig deep.
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