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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1906
Page
2
A dated Silver Messenger column from Bhallie Idaho blends wry quips on money fame and politics. It riffs on conscience funds in Philadelphia and private issues like elastic currency and social ambition. It lampoons politicians artists and social norms with scattered, tongue in cheek observations.
John R. Billington Storrett reports on Cappadocia's volcanic cones and troglodyte dwellings in Asia Minor. The article details pumice formations, lava caps, multi story cave houses used as dovecotes, architectural doorways, and underground storage while noting regional variation, origins, and historical references from Pliny to Leo Diaconus.
On a Mississippi steamboat a crowd swarms as a coin toss drops to the lower deck. Passengers laugh and shout while a mob of negros fights for coins, a comic, chaotic scene likened to stock market frenzy by Harper’s Magazine. A separate vignette describes a snowy street scene where a man notes a wife struck by snowballs while her husband scolds the bystanders.
In a nature writing excerpt from Thomas Edward, a flock of terns rescue a wounded comrade after a gunshot. The birds carry the disabled tern from water to shore, screaming as they work, then convey him to a rock for safety, illustrating affection among wild animals.
The article surveys affordable castles and chateaux in France and Spain. It notes the decline of noble estates as people move to cities, describes properties near Villandry and other Loire sites, and cites prices from 18 000 to 28 000 dollars. It highlights Louis XIV era architecture, parks, lakes, and vineyards as features of several castles still on the market.
A farmer and his wife debunk a west coast gold mine scheme promising $100,000,000 in ore and $100 par shares to 1,000 buyers. They warn the stock bait leads to solicitations for a church steeple donation, urging readers to avoid such scams and rely on steady faith.
Miss Maria Wilda shares a quirky tale of Beleek glaze myths involving powdered fish scales and J Hart Brewer. A King Alfonso story follows with an eight hour day demand and a streetside automobile mix up. Some mothers save slipper soles and spoil their children.
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