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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1903
Page
6
A fragmentary poem laments orphans and the world’s harshness while a Dallas News note discusses a wafer knife illusion. The piece blends moral sentiment with a staged magic trick describing how to appear to hide and reveal wafers on both sides as the knife is turned.
A boy named Hugh McGowan leaves Rasmu s City for work at a streetcar stables carrying mules. He rises from mule boy to car driver to police work and then to a position with a large company, amassing a vast fortune and solid reputation by example and perseverance. Spiders That Box the Compass offers holiday navigation tips based on tree and stump directions, moss growth, and stone staining patterns for finding south.
A Manila Justicia tourist recalls four Filipino boys tying small feathers to kite strings and crafting varied, high flying kites from leaves, newspaper, beetles, and other items. The observer notes their quiet behavior and remarkable kite artistry compared with home offerings. Also mentions a “Mysterious Wafers” trick involving wafers and a table knife, inviting a party member to test balance by lifting a wafer on the blade.
The piece argues against settling for second class status. It says a person can become a second class man by not striving for excellence, and such individuals are unwanted when higher quality is available. First class workers are preferred for meaningful work and better pay.
A simple water and paper experiment shows an inverted glass can hold water with a hand removed from the paper. Another described trick uses heated brown paper and a light body to make it jump, with the light object rising when the paper is released and even standing above a head.
Arthur W Barker of Marysville Kansas has finished his eleventh winter term and paid tuition by sweeping and lighting fires at Modern Normal College. He plays right tackle for the college football team. Fred of Boston and a Wheeling West Virginia friend run the Junior Roycrofters workshop making scroll sawn and pyrography furniture. They hold eight dollars in treasury, have an order for six dollars of work, and recently earned nine dollars from a table sale.
A description of two schoolyard games, Willy Nilly Wolf and Run-a-Mile. In Willy Nilly Wolf the wolf hides and players seek, shouting one spy and l spy willy oilly wolf, with the wolf chasing the winner who then becomes a wolf. Run-a-Mile involves a toucher hiding, discovery, and a home race with penalties sometimes imposed.
A London address cites differing estimates of Earth's age from Archibald Gethia. He suggests a minimum of 79 million to 180 million years based on stratified rocks. Dana offers 48 million years, while Alfred Bus well Wallage proposes 98,099,009 years.
A granite arch monument with Americans atop marks the Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase near Columbus Ohio The 12 foot arch rests on a boulder grave site for 2260 Confederate soldiers burial details include state origins and numbers and a flower tribute from southern and northern supporters honoring fallen foes
A Washington dispatch reports President Castro of Venezuela issued a July 5 proclamation in flowery language calling for support to crush anti Castro forces. He declares a campaign, transfusing faith and energy into war efforts and vows to harness events toward victory in the rebellion.
A garbled 1894 era medical promotion claims a remedy for kidney trouble found in a small box. It invites readers to mail their name and address on a coupon to receive the cure by post. The text is a fragmented historical advertising fragment with many misspellings and missing details.
A collage of aphorisms on faith luck and life plus ads extolling St. Jacobs Oil cures for pain and hiccough remedies. Notes on a 50 year claim of St Jacobs Oil and a brief snippet about the revival of Gaelic, with mentions of Baltimore LaCrosse Jarrow and London.
Bally Catardh Cure is taken internally at price 75. Henry M. Flagler, a Standard Oil magnate, is immensely popular with the Seminole Indians of Florida who ride free on his Florida East Coast railway. He owns vast property in the state including numerous splendid homes. His fortune is estimated at about $50,000,000.
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