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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1899
Page
6
A Silver Messenger Opinion piece critiques human vanity and public morals, weighs pensions for Civil War and Spanish American War widows, and questions the impact of women entering employment on society and business in Challis Idaho. It argues for measured change as society evolves.
The article cites a newly discovered tarry acid with metal forming properties useful to jewelers, enabling molding without heat and resisting tinily against iron. It also discusses abandoned ships, urging collective action by government or shipowners to clear derelicts from oceans, and reflects on the impact of brevity in naming places like Puerto Rico and Porto Rico.
A prose poem celebrates fallen soldiers with reverent imagery of battle, valor, and the peace of God. It honors comrades who perished under fire, their vigil fires kept, and their memory proclaimed by red stripes and a wreath on their graves.
A Melbourne era reminiscence recalls the 186? Sabine Pass action led by Richard Dowling. Forty men defended a mud fort against ten thousand Federal troops, sinking gunboats and transports, prompting a surrender by a dugout envoy. The piece extols Dowling’s thinning force and questions why such feats are rarely told.
In Paris the death of the Diy de Bassouo drew curious anecdotes about his early life told to students of history. The duke was five years older than Mr. Gladstone and recalled Waterloo. A recollection of his childhood on Jose pans One recollection, vouched by London Truth, sheds light on Napoleon's character. The emperor often visited the Duchesse de Basen.
An anecdote recalls Napoleon barging into a drawing room, demanding a child’s name, then seizing a foot under a table to pull out the future Duke de Bagno, illustrating a harsh private side. The tale contrasts Napoleonic code wisdom with a ruthless temper, echoing Washington’s reputed better fame by contrast.
An Anaconda Standard report describes Private H B Redmond of Company C, First Colorado volunteers, who reportedly ceased stuttering after a Mauser bullet wound near Manila. The former worst stutterer in the Eighth Army Corps allegedly recovered quickly, leaving hospital with only a small scar and now speaks freely.
A long journey of a battle hardened spider inside Major Lawrie’s helmet ends in London alive after Atbara and Omdurman fights. The spider, fed by incident, multiplies in the helmet’s interior during the voyage home as the major expects a dead creature. Meanwhile Colonel Funston orders ceasefire and then “Commence firing” to avenge a colonel’s horse under fire in Caloocan.
Luke suspects Baynes is related to Anne Dodson and plots to uncover the truth at Redaount Barrier Range station. Robert Luke mails a bold message from the store, then stalks Baynes’ hut at night, overhears a woman, and devises a risky plan to expose a possible brother of Dodson while tensions rise among station hands and a dramatic confrontation looms.
Mr Hall instructs Baynes to visit Sullivan's public house to bring back supplies for the run. Drays arrive from town, 40 items short, and extra horses will be sent to meet them. Tuilocka worn out and unlikely to move for three days. expectation that men may drink there despite the delay.
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