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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1902
Page
2
Fragmented humor from the Silver Messenger includes satire on public figures, aviation, politics, and society. It mocks presidents, millionaires, and cultural trends while weaving absurdities about circuses, fashion, and literature. The piece blends puns, misprints, and social commentary in a breezy, late era newspaper style.
Fontella, daughter of the governor, loves matador Jose Narvesto who seeks to wed against her father’s will. At the Plaza de Toros, the deadly bull Devileto clashes with Narvesto, breaking his sword and testing courage as Fontella plots to win her father's consent by triumph or tragedy.
In a dramatic bullring scene Fontella offers her hand to Jose Narvezzo after he kills the fiercest bull, provoking official anger yet securing his consent to marriage. Two months later Narvezzo leaves the ring and marries Fontella, proving the old adage that a will finds a way.
A review based on the Naval Annual covers 1892 to 1902 showing Russia Germany and the United States now own as many battleships as France did a decade ago, Japan's navy growing and linked with Britain, Britain and Japan totaling forty seven first class armor clads, France pushing armored cruisers to thirteen, Britain with twenty nine first class battleships to France and Russia combined at seventeen, and the assessment that no coalition could topple British sea power if the United States stays out.
A lyrical scene opens at dawn on the prairie fields with unbroken landscapes and dew. The speaker contemplates nature’s calm, God’s witness, and the earth’s turmoil yielding to peace as fields, orchards, and wind move softly under a sky brightening to witness a hopeful, tranquil morning.
The Independent praises how talent and environment shape success. It argues modest gifts, sustained effort, and disciplined use of inheritance determine achievement more than blessed origins. It cites log cabin boys outrunning palace heirs and plodders surpassing geniuses.
In England 1837 Thomas Laveland sued Miss Caroline Newton after she bit his nose when he attempted an unwanted kiss. The defendant was acquitted and the judge stated that a woman may bite a man’s nose if pressed to kiss against her will.
The text portrays unnamed builders and sentries of worlds, the humble yet daring bakers of progress who serve a wider unknown. They claim to stand for truth beyond names or dawns, to fight for love of the unknown even unto death, while seeking guidance from a higher will.
Local builder P H Spader found a copper sixpence of Great Britain dated 1797 hidden in a crevice of the De Lancey mansion on Hentocote Hill near Mamaroneck New York The coin likely belonged to a De Lancey family member and dates from the late 18th century The hill is famed as a former home of Bishop DeLancey and later Archbishop Bayley drawing relic hunters to the site
Miss Julia Lincoln of Montclair, a guest at Mountain View Farm near Wurtsborough New York, awoke to a rattlesnake two feet from her in her room. She struck it with an alpine stock, it fought back, she escaped and the snake was later killed by the hired man. The room faced a sloping roof where poles rested, leading to the belief the reptile climbed up.
Viennese musician Kuhmay er has invented the Strelchklavier a keyboard based instrument resembling a piano played by pedals. Each key links to a bow that sweeps strings like a violin allowing rapid runs shakes and staccati with dynamic gradation from soft to loud. The device reportedly blends violin viola cellos and bass tones and owes the idea to Gounod.
A seaman on the Rhone, sailing from Dakar to Bordeaux, climbed an iron mast on Tuesday evening and was swarmed by bees. He fell into the water after severe stings and sustained injuries. The mast was lowered and smoke used to exterminate the hive.
The Nivaagaard brick plant in Denmark, regarded as the world’s oldest, celebrated its second centenary after starting in 1701 to produce brick and terra cotta for a royal caste. Records show 350 million bricks in 200 years, with about half made in the last 25 years.
Ira Russell and Misa Helton Plumb were trolling at Hopkins Point on the St. Lawrence river when a large sturgeon leapt into their light craft. The heavy fish caused the boat to list and nearly capsize as Russell attempted to fend it off.
The skiff sprang a hole and filled rapidly. Tory and Mine Plumb bailed with a shoe while Mr. Russell paddled toward shore. They reached shallow water before the craft sank as a four foot six inch sturgeon weighing forty four pounds was noted.
From Lewistown Pennsylvania a man named Frank McNitt, while asleep, rose from his bed and walked to a window. He stepped out and fell 36 feet to the ground, yet the next morning only shallow hip and elbow dents were found. His brother witnessed the exit and return, noting the man awoke uninjured and resumed sleep. He recalls nothing of the event.
The Austrian steamer Zora from Alexandretta in northern Syria left in July with licorice and general goods. Capt Calagrgvich commanded the ship, which was consigned to J Ruzeili who insisted on a crew of Turkish women. The crew are described as strong sailors, skilled from infancy, with the claim that the Turkish Amazons excel in seamanship and are easily mistaken for men. Also noted is early history of motorized carts with Isaac de Rivaz’s 1804 experiments in Sion and Vevey, patent by the French government, and the claim that de Rivaz conceived the idea nearly a century earlier.
A 35 year old Black man was struck by a Vineville street car and had a leg severed. He had been drinking and lay on the hilltop blocking the track with one leg on the rail. The motorman stopped the car shortly after passing him. He did not seem to be hurt by the incident. Atlanta Journal.
Laborers digging a deep trench in Saxony near Frankenhauser uncovered human bones in aryloum soil. Skull fragments appeared unusually large with three individuals estimated at seven feet six inches. Professor Glensberg deemed the remains 2,600 years old.
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