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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1906
Page
2
A collage of miscellaneous items from Silver Messenger cites Lon Dillon, a London poet, Adml. Sighee, and Castallane, plus quips on wages, politics, theater, and science. It quibbles about divorces, check-writing artists, and airship plans, finishing with a jab at Edward VII and labor hours.
A French inventor named Travela Rap idy unveils a gliding boat using submerged planes and aluminum frame. The twenty by ten foot craft, powered by a twelve horsepower auto engine, carries two, starts submerged and then rises to skim the surface at about twenty five miles per hour with easy steering and stopping capability.
Pat MacDonald of Concord and Jack Driscoll had long clashed over a boundary hedge. One Sunday MacDonald cut off the portion of Driscoll's coat lying over the fence, then took it inside. Later the two men became friends again.
Berlin police uncovered a remarkable case of disguise as Mrs Simpson, a laborer posing as a man to work aboard ships in several countries. After living as a sailor and woodworker, she faced a fine for false pretenses and was ordered to wear skirts again, vowing to start anew in America.
An exhibition once held in the Big Tun of Heidelberg featured cabinet paintings arranged in limited space at the hangers’ display area. Music on select nights accompanied the show as attendees enjoyed the art and the cheerful footed merriment.
A new upscale Chicago apartment house, described as a building de luxe, is forthcoming. The elevator will be large enough to carry the largest automobile and each floor will include a garage with space to store five or more motor vehicles.
At Columbia University Mrs. Maria H. Williamson donated 160000 to establish a new professorship, a move linked to the university's abolition of football. The report notes the gift was made in response to that policy change.
The article surveys Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb beneath the Invalides in Paris. It describes the dramatic blue light, gold and silver decorations, and the powerful central red granite bier. It notes the burial’s political and historical resonance, the absence of an inscription, and nearby artifacts such as the emperor’s cocked hat and dressing gown.
The narrator shares anecdotes from Alaska to Cartagena and Corsica describing unusual markets and foods. Capt Hopkinson discusses a Fairbanks market trading frozen meats, while Cartagena's market features melting goods under heat. Corsica memory recalls Ajaccio goat stands with famed battle monuments.
The Rev. diocese rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in Boston has compiled letters of Father Vend, the martyr who died in China, into a book titled A Modern Martyr. Proceeds from the volume will be devoted to the Society he represents.
A fragment of verse by James E. Kinsella from the Chicago Registry Division chases the Siren of the Meeting of the Waters. It sings of bugles, archangels, mermaids, and chivalric legends amid Irish landscapes of Glendalough Killarney and the Vale of Avoca. The poem praises music that consoles grief and lures sailors toward doom and dreamlike shores.
William S. Smith a California labor organizer awoke on a June night in a New South Wales room six months after boarding the owl train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. He described waking to December and foreign surroundings. Union men in Sydney verified his identity and arranged his return aboard the Siberia. His first LA letter stated his wife had died.
An elderly professor renowned for rectitude and diet observance loses his glasses on a campus dawn. He and a passing freshman search the grass as the student quips that the sighted professor has already found most of the slanses.
A man recounts a bizarre dispute over measles damages. A nursemaid contracted measles after joining a city family with two children. The mother moved the children to Jersey, then the nursemaid fell ill, left, and now seeks damages. The landlady claims loss of a boarder and asks for compensation. The tale mocks hopes for justice.
A young man returning from London asked W T Stead how to become a journalist. Stead advised doing work that is needed at the moment and earning pay. He warned that talent alone does not guarantee payment and that editors seek copy that helps sell papers.
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