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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1901
Page
2
A Silver Messenger column recounts Ontario’s large mosquito swarms and a minister in Hyde County avoiding them. It also tells of Charles Ball of Alma Michigan surviving a morphine overdose and a Kansas pair fleeing to Iowa to dodge cousin marriage bans, prompting calls for interstate treaty negotiations to harmonize laws.
The Engineering and Mining Journal notes the United States treasury holds about 510 million in gold, the largest stock worldwide. Of this, 44 million is cash assets, 160 million is in the redemption fund against greenbacks, and 296 million is deposited as gold certificates in circulation.
A Colorado Springs commemoration features a Zebulon Pike statue in military dress atop Cheyenne Mountain. Exhibits include Benjamin Franklin postal papers, a Sunday mall transport report, and a 120 day world-travel portal card. Chicago plans a cooperative department store with five hundred thousand dollars capital while illicit coin making profits alarm authorities. A Marietta man discovers uranic poisoning in his well after a neighbor shoots a cat.
President Roosevelt attends Sunday service at the German Reformed Church on Fifteenth and O streets Northwest Washington with Rev Dr J M Behick as pastor. The small brick church houses a regular congregation of 21. The sermon title spoke of Christ dwelling in hearts by faith and the fullness of God.
The article surveys a vegetarian Russian soldier diet with limited meat, rye bread, and qvas beverages, plus the morale impact of singing and primitive games. It notes 1901 peace footing totals for infantry, cavalry, artillery, Cossacks, and overall force size, then shifts to the rising popularity of Japanese maids among New York society women, praising cleanliness, hairdressing, and domestic secrets, concluding with General Heywood's long US Marine Commission and Admiral Dewey nearby.
The essay argues that American presidents should be honored with a national memorial in Washington rather than a single burial site. It favors a grand arch or similar tribute in the capital, preserving burial places in Canton Springfield or Cleveland while ensuring a lasting, collective tribute to the presidency and its leaders.
Edmund G. Ross once helpedsave Andrew Johnson from impeachment and later became governor of New Mexico. Now 75, he gardens fruit and alfalfa near Albuquerque and runs a small printing office. His career spanned Topeka journalism, cavalry service, and shifting political loyalties from Republican to Democrat.
A collection of reflections contrasts plain living with wealth, citing a German philosopher on nourishment and mental vigor. It warns that luxury dulls the mind while independence fuels growth, then shifts to notes on Orange county applejack production and a Danish royal customs at Roskilde Cathedral with historic burials and tall towers.
In Castelacre Norfolk England villagers revive old custom of blessing crops. Parishioners procession to church led by the bishop and choir. They parade the village then visit corn fields where a service is held hymns sung and a blessing pronounced by the vicar.
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