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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1904
Page
2
A jumbled column from Challis Idaho compiling wry items and stray notes. It mocks officials, promotes spring poets, and jokes about radium prices, apples as cures, and a roof marriage while lampooning media and public figures. It includes absurd snippets on wars, theater, and college life with playful satire throughout.
Captain Ivkov of the Manchurian army has been shot for revealing to the Japanese and the Rus army Organ announces simply that he has been "excluded from ser vice." Exclusive Russian officers object to associating with spler.
A travel overview compares the Mediterranean voyage with Caribbean stays, highlighting Genoa, Mentone, Nice, Monte Carlo, Gibraltar, Algiers, and Cairo as key stops. It notes the Riviera’s fashion season, Moorish landmarks, alpine scenery, and famed resorts, while mentioning Pompeii, Capri, Malta, and the Nile as optional excursions.
A long feature discusses the spade’s critical role in defense, entrenchments, bombproofs, and camouflage in modern warfare. It traces lessons from Russo Turkish and Plevna, notes spade use by Turks, and explains how earthworks, ditch defenses, cheval de frise, bombproofs, and fougass mines shape battlefield resilience, with broader notes on entrenchment and shelter trenches.
Henry M. Davis of Superior recalls a tale about Gabe Bouck handwriting a note to a legislator from Oshkosh urging the bill’s kill. The sender’s name was clear, but the body unreadable at first. After days and help from ex-printers, Bouck’s wish to kill the measure was revealed.
In a colorful tale, Representative Clayton of Alabama recalls starting in his district and walking the wrong way until he meets a Black driver named Rastus with a mule. The driver jokes about distance and cost, suggesting a lift might be needed as Clayton contemplates the journey ahead.
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