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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1906
Page
2
A column of eclectic commentary notes rising glass prices, radium speculation, fashion wear, and jokes about poets, politicians, and pirates. It highlights Castro, Dewey, Geronimo, Twain, and a New Jersey ruling that a beer bill is not a marital obligation, with humorous asides on culture and current events.
A Vermonter senator once bail bonded with an old boss hog. During a country court session the judge, amused by the improvised security, adjourned abruptly as the old hog collapsed in the square. The incident illustrates dire need for a new form of ball bond.
Two medical students from San Francisso sought a West Berkeley tanning company president to prepare human skin for sale. They carried two skin scraps from a dissecting room and planned to make slippers from the skin. The scheme was refused, but rumors say other embryo physicians pressed tanners and that skin articles have moved from California across the nation.
A five by three inch slip bearing a scribbled will by J B Armstrong, dated December 26 1901 and witnessed by probate judge Glenn, is admitted to probate for Mrs Margaret Armstrong of Waurika Oklahoma Territory. The note promises the home stead and equal shares for the children and a bet repayment. The document, once deemed valueless by lawyers, is now valued at $5 000. The husband died January 7 in Waurika.
A fragmented note describes Nasal Music in Tahiti where the indigenous peoples of the Society Islands reportedly play the flute using the nose rather than the mouth, suggesting a unique regional musical practice.
A one year old child, Uttle Nettle Fox, died from diphtheria and a pet fox kept as its companion, in Clarence Douglass’s Red Lion home. After the child fell ill, the fox mourned, and two days after the child’s death the fox also died, according to York correspondence in the Philadelphia Record.
Fragmentary report notes Fremonts flag unfurled on the Rockies in 1841 and kept in a bank vault at Red ding California. The banner made by Mrs Fremont before his western exploration features a large eagle and twenty stars in embroidered design, differing from the standard U S flag.
The Castle of Chillon near Lake Leman drew Byron’s fame for a prisoner tale, but the actual prisoner Bonnivard faced a complex fate. The article notes the castle’s age, its role as a state prison, and restoration as a national museum, with Bonnivard’s liberation by Swiss patriots in 1538 and his subsequent Geneva life.
The Whiteway Tolstoi colony in Gloucestershire is a dozen families living on sixteen acres to practice self sufficiency and labor only with their own hands. They welcome settlers who work an acre each but forbid real ownership while remaining law abiding neighbors amid local opposition from landowners and clergy.
Mrs Brown proposes small changes for 1906 and asks her husband to quit swearing for her sake. He resists, insisting on keeping the habit. She demands control of the weekly pin money, threatening consequences if not given.
The Hon. Larkin D. Mason of Tamworth New Hampshire a probate judge and notable political figure is described. Hinson returned from Civil War service with a companion and the family shared the visit. A Meredith doctor treated Mason and warned to report back in a few days noting the illness persisted despite internal and external remedies and could endure.
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