26 May 1903
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1903
Page
1
The New Challis House is a strict First-Class hotel with superior meals and accommodations in the county. Travelers using the stages can stop here as drivers board here. Meals served on time with board and lodging at reasonable rates. Tables always stocked with the best the market affords. Good accommodations for traveling men and the public.
A compact lodging notice from Mrs. M. Jose offering first class meals and rooms northwest of R N Hull & Co's store in Challis Idaho. Daily weekly or monthly rates advertised, with emphasis on fine large rooms good beds and market quality table at reasonable rates.
Bascom House promotes itself as the last stop before mountain passes from Mackay to the Salmon River Valleys. The proprietor E. W. Bascom promises to spare no effort to make the travelers home there the best and terms are described as reasonable.
A reflective essay argues nations mature with dignity, led by unselfish ideals. England and America exemplify restraint and duty, while Russia and imperial aims contrast. The United States should lead, protect weaker neighbors, and bear global burdens as a parent guiding growth toward lasting world progress.
List of guests arriving at the New Challis House for the week ending May 28 1908 includes J. M. Frazier Bayhorse Idaho Chas Waller Custer Ida 5 F Huot Stanley Ida Mrs J P F Short Ellis Ida Mrs W Hickey Ellis Ida S LeSwim Salt Lake Utah Geo Winsness Salt Lake Utah Frank Brown Salmon Ida Ho L Ayers Custer Ida Frank Waughter Robinson Idaho.
Notice dated June 1908 states that on Wednesday at 10 a m in Challix Idaho the time and place for proving the will of Ketella M Burton deceased and for bearing the application of Wennae Macbeth for letters testamentary. Ex-officio Clerk of Probate Court. First publication May 20 1908.
The next examination for teacher and graduate Certificate candidates will be held at Challix Idaho on May sixth or twenty. It states that as passed during the first session of the Legislature the school district will be held on the first Tuesday in September each year Marta Lena Ewenan School sine.
The piece condemns the secretary elect for curtailing officer expressions and criticizes administration moves to suppress postoffice scandal facts, arguing such actions erode confidence in the Postoffice Department. It notes Cuba travel news and predicts Pearl of the Antilles as a tourist Mecca and comments on Hanna and Foraker hindering Ohio Senatorial presidential ambitions.
The article notes that while most men must work for vacations, certain Washington officials are placed on indefinite leaves. It draws contrast between expected toil and abrupt time off, implying administrative shifts or policy changes affecting staff.
The city promises an inside-the-fairgrounds railroad linking the distant ends of the grounds. A days journey seems to cover the distance across the site, underscoring the need for a short transport loop.
John Brisbane Walker argues that future housekeepers in a later quarter century must be chemists and trained scientists. He warns that by then few men will be able to afford matrimony or housekeeping.
Frederick C. Ohm of the U S Geological Survey has succeeded in cutting from a piece of rock a sheet one thousandth of an inch thick. A close shave.
A sale of Poe's The Bells manuscript for 2100 dollars inspires a line in The Parisians where Bulger Lytton voices a siege era character lamenting poor Fido having eaten bones and wishing the dog could have lived to enjoy them.
The remark suggests President Roosevelt would face harsh, racist caricatures if he toured the South, implying a hostile environment with demeaning language about Black people and implying his “baby-kissing” tactics would be challenged by Southern audiences.
Snap shot photographers face difficulty with certain subjects when negatives are not retouched before printing. Proper retouching can enhance clarity and reduce blemishes, producing better final images for viewers.
The Republican members of the Senate Finance committee gathered in Hot Springs Virginia at government expense for a reunion and returned claiming they accomplished nothing.
Julius Harburger, a New York City official, stated that in the past three months there were more dispossess warrants in New York than in all of Ireland during a similar period. He noted over 1000 warrants issued in March alone, and proclaimed that great is republican prosperity.
Editors’ expressions during the Russian Manchurian sensation show how eager the boy with a big stick is to employ it, reflecting heightened tensions and public concern over the looming display of force.
In most neighborhoods deaths from colic or cholera morbus rise before medicine or a physician can be summoned. The text urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand and notes it has saved lives and relieved pain. Sold by J.P. Spalding.
Challis and surrounding locales report a busy week with school exams passing, officials traveling to attend court, doctors touring May Idaho, and mining developments at Singiser and Yellow Jacket. Memorial Day is slated, crops lag due to cold, and a Challis bakery venture forms from former Leaton hotel space.
A worn towel by the printing office door, once tainted by grime and abuse, is described as thicker, rougher, and harder with years of ink. It endures abuse from the comp, devil, tramp, foreman, and editor, until a windy morning when it finally falls to the floor and collapses.
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