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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1901
Page
2
A mix of historically styled snippets includes a released prisoner from Brooklyn facing post sentence life changes and remarried ex-spouses, a brief prompt about epidemics for children, a syndicate in Brazil seeking gold bearing lands, praise for the Union Pacific westward travel time and service, and Harvard's summer tuition for 1,483 Cuban teachers.
Special excursion rates offered via the Denver and Rio Grande to Grand Junction and Denver with continuous through service to Chicago. Daily express dining car and sleeping cars, luxurious and safe modern railroading. Get tickets and route details from the agency. The China relief drive noted with many workers and gunfire reports increasing.
Historic railway ad describes three daily trains each direction on the Union Pacific main line with fast travel to Omaha Kansas City Chicago. It promotes Pullman cars dining buffets and library car service, highlighting scenic highlights like Devils Gate Green River and Castle Gate regions and claiming rapid, comfortable travel from Utah Idaho Montana to Colorado and beyond.
A dramatic chronicle of Leung Sing a Canton native who rose to power in Vienna and Canton then built a lavish life in the United States. His enemies political intrigue and a Vienna duel ruined him though he later shone at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition before ending in poverty and death in Philadelphia Potter’s Field.
Ernst Andree, brother of the missing Arctic explorer S A Andrée, believes his brother may still be alive and expected to hear from him by summer or autumn. He details the balloon expedition plans from Norway in 1897 and argues the craft could drift to Hudson Bay, suggesting rescue by arctic currents is possible despite the lack of word since the note dated July 13, 1887.
At the coroner’s inquest in Gratetown Pa a fellow Italian testified about Jack Omvetti who was killed on a railroad bridge by a train. Omvetti allegedly told him he was sent by a clandestine society to flee with a labor leader whose name is unknown. He supposedly walked in front of the train to avoid Punishment from the same group.
A Kansas doctor once dug up an old man's body for medical study. The heart was rolled in a newspaper and hidden. A worker named Smith mistook it for a calf heart, stole and ate it, uncovering poison prepared from ulcers. Authorities fear poisoning risk.
Long retrospective on Senator George Graham West, his oratorical prowess and influence among 19th century peers. Anecdotes depict his people connection, religious tolerance, and memorable encounters with journalists, voters, and fellow lawmakers as a fading generation of giants like Conkling and Voorhees recedes from public life.
A devotional cadence urges patience with slow brethren and imperfect others. It emphasizes balancing calm, deliberate action with energy, bearing infirmities, praying for inner grace, and seeking victory in the world’s crisis, noting resolutions alone fail without divine help.
Alfred Montgomery, long serving member of the English Board of Latersal Revenue, recalls a series of scandalous and comic incidents from meetings and daily duties. He jokes about officers undressing in heat, licensing carriage tolls, and fining beggars as well as a runaway carriage incident.
An excursion to Denver arranged by Miss Bessie Shirley will run June 14 over the Rio Grande Western Railway. The pedal train will stop at Glenwood Springs and pass scenic canyons such as Royal Gorge Manitou and Leadville. Tickets are $20 and valid sixty days with info from Miss Hessty L. Shirley and DF Walker, Salt Lake City.
A jumble of quotes extols agitation as essential to civilization and justice, citing Washington Post praise and claims that agitation reveals error or justifies right. The text veers to ad copy about shoes, nostrums, and a postal boot advertisement, then notes the death of A.M. Anthony in Kansas.
Public sentiment in England urges the government to take a native interest amid Chinese developments. The article references Soongh com J W O'Raime and a Micoompong Mins location with dated context around January 100.
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