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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1904
Page
6
A collage of eccentric notes and vignettes recounts oddball items: a Boston doughnut joke amid war flour contraband chatter, wary musings on oysters, autos, and a broken race record. It mentions Russians, a Tunisian baby, Mrs Hats, and Captain Spender Clay, plus Ernesto Bondi, the yacht America, and a minister recovering his horse in church.
A survey of dueling traditions and notable incidents in history contrasts romanticized bravado with fatal outcomes. It recounts Crockett’s brush with a famed swordsman, Swedes on a rail line duel, O Connell’s son’s test, sea and air duels, and a Boston harbor near Fourth of July rescue after a deadly underwater clash.
A penniless American, Tom Mosher, stranded in a South American city after a long bad-luck journey, defends himself when a local officer attacks him over a handkerchief incident. A mob, police, and a brave American woman, Miss Dale, confront the crowd. The US consul arranges safe release after a tense standoff and Mosher faces a nominal fine.
Fragmentary OCR text mentioning Tom Mosher and Boston Globe style, unclear context, partial phrases about mining and civil matters, no coherent event or outcome derivable.
Dr Bergervser of Nivada treats a fet of trainidg reptiles at Denled Lake. Snakes assist by hooking tails to pull bags ashore while the doctor fishes. The expert notes a frog on the bank and warns bites before fishing. The doctor is both a fisherman and a truthful fist, readers will see through the strange tale.
A Boston poet Longfellow is recalled in a Washington Post fragment describing a dinner with a distinguished Englishman and a Catholic family. The guest, arriving with a letter, contemplates the Friday feast, smiling at the host and noting he would not refuse the course.
A Nashville Banner excerpt recalls a Civil War night in Martinsburg West Virginia where a Black woman is challenged at a pass during smallpox fears. She asserts they have smallpox and passes, and the exchange ends with her passing without ceremony.
Aged William Russell, eighty four, once reported the Crimean and Civil Wars for the London Times. In a recent interview he contrasts past freedom of movement with modern restrictions on war correspondents, noting how times have changed.
A physician, Dr C D Vermillion, was summoned ten miles out to a patient. He returned to find Dr Anderson of Beverly leaving his house. Anderson urged him to enter, and Vermillion discovered a fine Tex-pound baby, a quirky tale from the Minneapulis Kaw Messenger.
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