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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1910
Page
2
Meandering Silver Messenger notes fluctuating prices, weather woes, and dining shifts as spring looms. It surveys living costs rising, advises meat choices, and reflects on magazines, philanthropy, and American investment strength. It mentions a Chicago portrait of wealth and a Canadian police inspector critiquing U.S. police marksmanship. It touches on cultural shifts toward love plays and trivia about Admiral Potter and naval cadets.
James F. Muirhead argues that absolute free speech is impractical in a world of imperfection. He urges balancing liberty with social conditions, audience, speaker motives, and potential harms, warning against government overreach and urging liberal interpretation for societal development.
The piece discusses de Vries Amsterdam theory that new species arise by sudden mutations rather than gradual natural selection. It cites giant dinosaurs as example of abrupt emergence and disappearance and argues mutation theory eliminates the need for long evolutionary times.
A Chicago South Side elevated train passenger recounts a woman tearing his face with a hat pin. He notes the weapon’s dangerous projection and urges protective shields to prevent injuries. He stresses the incident could have caused serious eye injury and calls hat pins a menace to life and limb.
A veterinary surgeon argues against abolishing public water troughs while noting they spread glanders among horses. He urges city authorities to require continuous water flow to reduce infection, warning that removing troughs deprives many working horses of a day’s water.
Dr. Britton D. Evans cites a Bridgetown tale about a halfwitted youth named Peter who always takes the cent over the nickel. Farmers amused by his logic recount the joke with a butchered market place scene and a quip about future chances.
A compact, period style item contrasts a domestic scene with Mrs Finletter and her husband over luncheon and terrapin a neighbor audience on porches. It then notes a Parisian politeness anecdote from a New Yorker account of a dentist office scene and a sympathetic attendant asking whom to announce to the doctor.
An opinion notes the recent organization of The Woman's Suffrage Study club in New York. It lists one object to urge men to attend church on Sundays instead of staying in bed and questions whether the venture starts under favorable auspices.
A fragment describes the first practical daily paper at the University of Missouri and a railroad wreck report delayed by excitement. Dean Williams telegraphs for news, receiving the reply that activity was too high and to wait. Included are quips about phrenology and a joke exchange.
A Baltimore Am er report recounts a mother telling Tommy and Jimmy White to stop fighting after a quarrel over comments about age. She defuses the scene by promising to take Tommy to a moving picture show once his father returns home.
Lady Shackleton wife of Lieutenant Shackleton the Antarctic explorer plans to accompany him on his next voyage in search of the south pole. Her decision follows the example of Commander Robert E Pearys wife who accompanied him part way to the north pole. She recently shared honors with her husband in Paris and London attending events hosted by Paris chamber of commerce and Prince Roland Bonaparte.
London militants attempt entry by disguising Jessie Kennedy as a telegraph messenger. At the Albert Hall meeting with Premier Asquith, the disguise nearly succeeds but fails to gain admission. A Brent building search exposes supporters, but the chief honors go elsewhere.
A woman in disguise attempted to gain entry at the door of the orchestra. A policeman on duty scrutinized her hands, face, and cap angle with suspicion and she was blocked from entering the sanctuary.
An injuried resident in a foggy tale confronts a pallid stranger at a home. The man warned of violence and later searches under a poker table for a glass eye. The stranger, impatient, asks about the sentiment and receives a harsh reply.
A composite digest of early 20th century magazine items recounts Percy Parkington declaring ambition and Misa Muriel Mugging rebuking him with witty interruptions, plus a Baltimore schoolteacher enforcing silence amid a classroom scene. An California wife explains coffee trouble and Postum as a sleep aid, describing insomnia, weight gains, and relief after switching.
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