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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
2
An East End family endures a two year old's protest at dinner over no milk. Parents try water, but the child’s insistence escalates into a noisy scene as an older sibling jokes about bribing the infant with milk money.
In a church service a gentleman lit a box of wax matches in his pocket and tried to extinguish them while neighbors aided him. The minister, short sighted, failed to grasp the cause and attempted polite cover up as some worshipers struggled to keep faces straight and the hymn was interrupted.
A column discusses home medicine chests with essential items and modest costs, then shifts to a giant solid silver tray for an oriental potentate. It surveys plague transmission via fleas, rats, and historical notes, then a humorous quote about a risky jacket and a Shanghai speed limit measure for motorists.
The narrator recounts visiting Morgan the caretaker at the resort village who said he was wounded while cleaning a gun and asked for wires to Mr. Pickering. Morgan, a Woodsman and hunter, is tied to Pickering who owns a house at the colony’s far end. The pair exchange chatter and part at the gate.
The narrator discovers a concealed trap door in the estate floor leading to a tunnel under the park and school wall. He finds a hidden crypt beneath St. Agatha's chapel where Olivia Armstrong plays the organ, sparking a tense yet intimate exchange as she hints at rules and secrecy surrounding their meetings.
Charles Von Loehnen of 210 A St Colix Wash suffers thirty years of kidney pain backache and rheumatism with daily struggles and frequent urination. Dean's Kidney Pills relieved most symptoms and gave him freedom from trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Bronx widow sought and received permission to exhume her late husband Henry Brown buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York. A photographer and undertaker dug up the three weeks deceased, obtaining profile and full-face shots for a memorial photograph.
Mrs Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green England writes that from three months to fifteen years her son Owen suffered severe eczema. After regimental doctors deemed it hopeless and hospitals failed, six months ago Cuticura Remedies cured him completely.
A short notice notes rising trends at Annapolis as more midshipmen marry before graduation and more request permission to wed after leaving service. It cites humorist weight comparisons from Home Magazine, listing Dunne, Twain, Ade, Jerome, Jacobs, and O Henry in playful contrast.
Folkloric verse fragment shows a foolish youth pursuing a Diack car and its dog. A mistress declares scolding and punishment, while a playful, misquoted alert hints at moral reprimand within a chaotic scene.
Disjointed text fragments describe a reported crime, a discussion of a rape accusation, a woman named Mrs. Hardy, mentions of a prize-winning Holstein valued at $500, and references to automobiles and a postoffice scheme. The garbled dialogue blends with stray phrases, giving no clear narrative or verifiable facts.
A letter from A Williams of Gardin Maine praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after doctors deemed an operation necessary. Mrs Alvina Sperling of 154 Cleybourne Ave Chicago also reports relief from a tumor and inflammation without surgery. The ad touts the remedy as a standard cure for female troubles and invites sick women to seek advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
Fragmentary text from an old page mentions a vague incident with unclear subject and missing names. The readable bits suggest a local event but lack concrete details, dates, or places to identify participants or outcome.
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