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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1905
Page
6
A chaotic jumble of social quips and skits notes in the Silver Messenger column from Challis Idaho. It lampoons fashion cost, military leaders, politics, and everyday habits with humor and satire. The piece references Oyama, Servia gun talk, sugar consumption, and the tobacco trust, among others, in brisk, punchy vignettes.
The text presents a jumble of celestial imagery referencing Orion and star motifs. It appears as a garbled fragment, lacking a clear event, date, or named entities beyond general constellations and the night sky. No coherent incident or report is conveyed.
In Hemley 1905 a rumor of a prize fight near Oldham's Woods sparks Bowly and Captain Crabbe into action as guardians of law and order. The Captain secretly attends, witnesses a brutal bout, and ultimately foils the plan, returning home to report the ruse and his own need for relief.
That afternoon the captain walked the street with Chat iant feeling a hin of ten pounds won by been know gage of a form when he met Mr Bow ly. Mr Bowly’s usually benign countenance was ruined as if some pleasant circumstance had happened to him. I regret that we were misinformed as to the place where the fight was to be held it occurred somewhere to the north. All was a great pity the captain noted if he couldn't go with the constable this morning. I couldn't go either and I regret this mis carriage of justice.
The Prussian diet committee on canals reports a bill for major works including Rhine to Weer and Lippe canalization, Dortmund Ems upgrades, and connections to Hanover with reservoirs. Costs total about 34.6 million marks, roughly 79.6 million dollars, covering Berlin to Stettin deep waterway and Oder Wartha improvements.
Two centuries ago a man shipping cargo to the Mediterranean sought to reduce risk by inviting a friend to share interest. They drafted a contract with guarantors, founding underwriting at Lloyds coffee house in London. The idea spread as more patrons joined, expanding risk sharing. This humble start became the great European maritime agency still bearing the coffee house name.
With the death of Mr. Boutwell passes the last of the seven governors of Massachusetts who were born in 1818. The others were William Claflin born Milford March 6 John Albion Andrew born Windham Me May 31 Henry Joseph Gardner born Dorchester June 14 Alexander Hamilton Rice born Newton Aug 20 Thomas Talbot born Cambridge N Y Sept 7 and Benjamin Franklin Butler born Deerfield N H Nov . As Mr. Boutwell was born in January it will be seen that only February April July October and December of 1818 failed to give birth to a Massachusetts governor.
A fragmented OCR reads a poem fragment titled Thrias by Dorothea Browne. It questions love and longing, describing a maid and a rose with thorn, and the sting of passing affection. The text is garbled, but preserves imagery of affection, guardian, bloom, and a lone speaker referencing a May scene and wild brine.
Daniel Murray, longtime assistant in the diary of Congress, is preparing a historical review of the exploits of negroes and persons of mixed race in literature and other fields. In a recent interview he cites Browning and Hamilton as examples and mentions Russia’s celebrated Doctor Poushkin as quadroon.
A daring woman leaps through a vacant space in an automobile as a massive runway framework towers above. The apparatus resembles a buffalo hump with a high four story support, a curved half moon runway fifty feet in the air, and a steel tubing structure weighing tons. The moment of the dip signals a perilous stunt atop the precarious apparatus.
Spectators watch as a car rises on a wire to an elevated platform then ascends for a dramatic loop. The auto remains upright for most of the course before a 45 foot gap flips it upside down and it flies across the chasm before landing and righting itself and speeding earthward.
In South Wales audiences show appreciation by hymn singing after the performance. Henry Irving, appearing at Swansea, was surprised by the curtain call hymn Lead Kindly Light. At the close, he was deeply touched by God Be With You Till We Meet Again sung reverently.
Louis Hugon, a seventeen year old pickpocket, attempted to steal a purse in Place d Italie. His hand was caught in a new mole trap the woman had bought. Bystanders seized him and the police sent him to the Hospital de la Pitie where doctors amputated his finger.
Norman Libby of Bridgian Missouri recently climbed Mt Waxhineton and descended to the base on skis without mishap, the first known successful ascent and descent of the route.
A salmon caught in Ireland bears all spots arranged as a shamrock and is displayed in England. The unusual fish attracts interest for its distinctive pattern and provenance.
An obscure historical account describes a peculiar fishing method in Harity County Wyoming. Men employ a lassoing style drive with hoses and holes to trap fish, kneeling along the pond and pulling lines as the drive repeats. The scene ends with exhausted workers and a chaotic yard of activity.
Aged inmates at Maryland State Penitentiary include 82 year old Charles Barton serving a sentence tied to a Simon Tatherne case. The article also notes Joseph Worthington and others connected to theft and ill health, with references to age and confinement. Separately a romance developed from the Boer War era as Wentworth, an Anglophone youth, sought fortune in South Africa then America, marrying Miss Bailand after a long courtship begun during wartime.
Workmen removing a disused form from a well discover a large man trap described as a terrifying warning to trespassers. The device, once set to spring at sunset, is noted as an old example now seen mainly as a curiosity.
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