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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1904
Page
3
A garbled OCR style excerpt presents fragmented lines about relationships and appearance. It references an athletic spouse, fishing and hunting metaphors, fashion questions, and commentary on health, dress, and propriety. The text contains scattered phrases and unclear context, yielding a disjointed historical personal notice.
Foreman Bob Howard recalls a Montana tale of Paul McCormick paying $1,200 for whisky after a failed cattle deal. Billy Carter bets a swim across the Big Horn to prove he can cross both ways, wins, then negotiates a prize transfer. Carter secretly carves out cattle across the river, testing McCormick's discipline and rivals' patience on Fort Custer’s frontier.
A western tale recounts McCormick losing over a thousand dollars due to rustled cattle and a missing brand tag. The Duck Bar outfit shipped cattle to Kansas City while a few head remained miscounted, and McCormick only learned of the scheme after a carload of three year olds appeared, bought by him earlier for a bottle of whisky last July. The narrative preserves frontier tricks and wary humor as old comrades reunite.
The United States dominates global copper output with 1.11 billion pounds produced last year, 714 million of which were mined domestically. The surge reflects rising demand from electrical development, with Spain, Portugal, and Mexico trailing behind.
C W Crawford of Indianapolis explains a new wire grass twine made from Minnesota Wisconsin grown grass. It promises to ease Manila twine shortages during harvest, being equal or superior to Manila and easing supply woes for binders and farmers.
Willie Moran, twelve, despising books, faced Judge Murasky at juvenile court. After a long talk with him and his mother, a truant officer would visit each morning to escort Willie to school, a plan Willie greeted with derision from friends outside the courthouse.
Discussion condemns tenement housing in the city, detailing crowded rooms with nine to fourteen people per space and no partitions, painting a grim picture of daily life in basement and cellar conditions. The text emphasizes lack of privacy and decency in overcrowded living quarters.
A fragmentary recollection speaks of danger and a search for a welcoming door in a distant unknown place. The text references laying the heart at a door and the presence of a king’s welcome, with stray words suggesting a phone connection in New York.
A Moorish inspired doorway conversion turns an unused passage into a decorative and practical feature. A top shelf for poetry, an arch with shallow shelves, a central cupboard, and a hidden door behind Japanese paper create a bookcase and storage unit suitable for two-door rooms, finished in stain or enamel.
An Englishwoman in Serbia notes a peculiar habit of extensive cold water drinking. She recounts a doctor’s remark that the Serb’s water intake appears natural and cleansing, leaving little room for alcohol and a lack of noticeable drunkenness among villagers.
A playful exchange features Johnny and Percy with humorous exclamations. Johnny tries his own necktie during a light mishap, prompting surprised remarks about the improvised feat and the unexpected outcome.
An old London paper notes women in high circles quietly promoting products. Advertisements promise fashion items or discreet deals for those who steer new customers, with shops offering free dresses or commissions for successful referrals. The piece highlights widespread female touting across wine, soap, and money lending firms.
Bernard Martin, a woodsman on Walcott mountain in Southington Connecticut, trapped a wildcat from his fox trap. He found the animal with one leg caught and plans to train the captive.
A well known man showed friends a new electric clock on his mantel promising it could be hypnotised to ring any hour. He pressed a bedpost button and the clock rang 9 20 with musical dots and dashes. The device, an expensive ornament, targets night wakeful sleepers by signaling the hour so they can sleep again without lighting a candle.
An eight month old kitten in Bedford Massachusetts entertains by playing ping pong alone and performing doglike tricks. Tiger mimics a rabbit to beg for meat and dances on hind legs for seconds. He investigates boxes drawers and suitcases, climbs a Christmas tree to snack on popcorn, and sometimes acts as the entire team in games, tossing and chasing a ball then napping in a punch bowl.
City chemist Kirchmaier and coroner concluded W. Rader died from nitrobenzole poisoning, an ingredient in shoe polish he used. The coroner noted shoe odor and reddened flesh at the ankles. Nitrobenzole is extremely deadly, with forty eight recorded poisonings and only one recovery.
A story recounted by the New York Times describes an Arkansas Negro defendant in a robbery case who claimed he could not be at the crime scene because it was berry time and he was in the woods. He said he ran from a bar he met there until he ended up in a lake, drowning.
King Victor Emmanuel inspected recently uncovered vases in the Forum under the Domitian statue foundation. Notables ex Mayor Seth Low and Prof White attended as scholars note the find could push back Roman pottery dating. Five terra cotta pieces include three Bucehern wares, reshaping age estimates of ancient pottery.
A massive floating dock left Wallsend in September and reached Durban recently after a perilous voyage. Tow by two Dutch tugs, one rope broke in bad weather, and a sister tug battled to assist. The dock drifted eighty miles before capture. Natal government tugs aided return. Dutch tugs covered about 8,000 miles and consumed 24,000 tons of coal in the ordeal.
The State and Navy Departments received further reports about one of Menelik the Ethiopian ruler's bodyguards. Commissioner Robert visited Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia and brought photographs showing his reception. One photograph is reproduced here in the New York Sun.
The article recalls ancient Korea's paper industry known as grass paper or oil-logged leaves used as window panes. Once shipped in vast quantities to China, the trade faded as Koreans grew indolent, drying up a once thriving craft that yielded a transparent, durable surface rivaling glass.
A Chambers Journal note credits John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees with creating the first efficient lucifer match in 1827, sold at a shilling per box with a sandpaper strip for striking. The box bore royal arms and the word Congreve, commemorating the war rocket inventor, and a tin box is kept in a London museum.
The oldest tree is said to be at Anuradhapura in Ceylon planted near a Buddhist shrine in 245 B C. It is claimed to be 2148 years old. Legend says a branch miraculously sprouted from the sacred tree under which Gautama became Buddha.
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