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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1898
Page
3
A Detroit woman, mother of ten, recounts her daughter's illness and recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She claims the pills strengthened her daughter's health, praised the medicine highly, and urges every mother to keep them for daughters entering womanhood.
Stop and Moment Read and Review Then Write Us For Prices. We are Headquarters for Agricultural Implements, magenta and Vehicles, including Fish Bros, Farm, Freight and Spring Wagons. Cuttering wagons and Concord Bugges are specially built for Idaho trade. Canton Sulky and Hand Plows, Canton steel lever and wood frame harrows, Superior grain drills, Jewel center cut disc harrows and feeders, McCormick harvesting machinery best on earth, steel hay rakes, hardware, nails, Jewel stoves and ovens, kitchen ware, barb-wire, harness, saddles, whips, and harness hardware. Our harnesses are guaranteed to be best California Oak Stock. We have the most complete stock of Paints and Oils in this country. Wagon hardwood, iron and steel. Grass and field seeds and other lines too numerous to mention. Our goods and prices are always satisfactory. A trouble for us to answer inquiries for anything in our line.
Frank Prank chases quick wealth by answering a phony office job ad and deposits a security with a fraudster. He and a friend, lured by promises of high pay, are swindled and exposed by Inspector Marshall. Three years later Prank works honestly, recognizing shortcuts can lead to prison.
A quip from a 19th century column echoes a rough desire to “plank down in a lump all de cash I expect to earn.” The speaker muses on life’s balance and asks what to do with riches, joking that it would simply buy two beers. The tone is humorous and sagacious, reflecting period storytelling and streetwise humor.
A collection of oddities and curiosities about eggs ducks and beards. It notes Danish influence on English batter importation, large egg shipments from St Petersburg and Russia, a long Austrian reform speech by Mr Lecker, and Vanderess bearded man whose 11 foot beard dominated his height and attire.
The text recounts James Madison as Father of the Constitution, notes private copper tokens issued in Granby in 1737, and traces colonial minting and place name changes. It describes Point Comfort Virginia, the 1607 mint concept, Boston's 1652 mint under John Hull, and Stuyvesant's surrender with New Amsterdam becoming New York, then showing New York City’s small population at surrender.
An elegant survey of recent dress trends notes sleeves with close fit and decorative puffs, basque skirts, and battlement point seams. Velvet bats, Persian lamb trim, and feathered aigrettes highlight headpieces while colors shift toward somber, sublime tones in imported fabrics. Americans increasingly finish furs here after buying abroad.
A Philadelphia maker recalls a 1514 treatise on promoting spider silk culture once aimed to replace textiles. The piece surveys British peerage origins, noting the Beres, Beitish Tes, Campbells, and Grosvenor lineages dating from 1083 to 166, and mentions three Bristol clothiers named Blanket from Edward III’s era.
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