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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1905
Page
2
A jumble of witty notes and stray lines from a Silver Messenger page parades curious items. Quips about New Orleans mosquitoes, bold claims by Harry Lehr, jokes on Yankees booze, and tongue in cheek barbs about fashion, war, and society pepper the fragmented column.
Photographs of Baron Komura depict him wearing a pet hat with a frock scent, a look that scholars say excludes him from high diplomacy and demotes him to the ranks of mere rustlers.
A fragment notes the poke bonnet as a hallmarked early Victorian fashion and mentions an ostrich feather trailing over each ear as another favored head-dress of the period.
A damaged OCR fragment presents a verse style portrait with lines about a dusty window ledge, a box of earth, and a child’s wonder. The text mentions a tower, a summer scene, sorrow, and a wandering gleam, attributed to Henry Van Dyke.
In 1905, Miss Peters, a plain bookkeeper living in a crowded boarding house, resolves to become popular by imitating prettier roommates. She adopts a garish makeover, endures teasing, succumbs to a cigarette, and collapses in tears, begging God for rescue after losing self respect and friends.
A Homing Club pigeon named Silver Queen showed extraordinary endurance by flying 1700 miles from Denver to South Pittsburg in 30 days. After release on August 7, 1900, uploads from South Dakota indicated the bird endured severe storms and returned to its owner in Pittsburg by September 6.
The London Chronicle notes wigs predate civilization serving as fearsome battle add-ons and courtly symbols. The French Revolution toppled wig culture as prices rose to 30 to 40 guineas for official wear before 1800. Clergy and judges later abandoned them, though the Speaker of the House and lawyers once kept the dignified headgear.
A description of Mesembryanthemum plants that imitate stones on rocky ground in South Africa. One form resembles brownish gray weathered stone with green edging and small yellow flowers briefly, while another looks like quartz pebbles amid the stones. The text notes two leaves about duck-egg eye size and a barry-like substrate.
A New York Letter in the Philadelphia Press reports a tale of a corporate officer pressed by a fellow director to reveal the price of keeping his post. The price starts with modest living and strict propriety, escalating to soberness and public-spirited conduct to shield the corporation from public judgment.
An early medical piece explains how inhalation expands the chest and diaphragm during respiration. It warns that misused breaths leave parts of the lungs idle, enabling germs from pneumonia and tuberculosis to lodge there and potentially trigger inflammation or consumption.
A well known novelist, famed for avoidance of work, wears a January 30 date on his forehead as a prank. He explains he marks himself with iodine to deter going out while he concentrates on tasks, a scheme described by a lawyer narrator who witnessed the scene.
A London Punch excerpt recalls a curious encounter in a nursery where the author discovers the children resemble her own. She notes delight at the charming youngsters, toys and chocolates as potential gifts, and briefly mentions spotting her husband in a hallway. She plans to return when busier and mentions a bridge club.
Fragmented verse recalling youth and aging with lines about life and time. References to spring, striving, and a fading vigor, mixed with odd phrases and names, creating a reflective, dreamlike meditation on growing old and remembered passions.
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