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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1905
Page
7
Elephants at the station yard caused chaos by breaking loose from their stables. They seized large quantities of fruit dispatched for workers, devouring peaches apricots and straw fries with their trunks and guards struggling to halt the feast before corraling them back to their stables.
An eclectic clipping discusses tea indulgence and a sweeping view of fatigue and productivity. It cites an ad from A Nobiling & Company and promotes Pino's Cure for throat and fungus ailments. A letter from Enpatey in Van Buren Indiana, dated February 10, 1900, notes curiosity about a turtle farm amid Sarasota Florida coastal ideas.
A reader quotes two women discussing the ease of friendship and their lack of surgical experience. A woman remarks enviously that neither of the two has undergone a surgical operation, while a grocer touts Moneyback and talks of money and talk.
The article describes how the largest raindrops reach about one fifth of an inch in diameter. It explains a method using flour to form dough pellets from rain drops and compares them with pellets from known samples, noting experimentation details and a promotional message for travel and rail service.
Norway enacts a forest law prohibiting tree felling unless three saplings are planted in replacement. The rule aims to boost reforestation and curb deforestation by tying cutting to planting obligations.
The Inspector of the disinfection office in Turin Italy unveiled a new germ destroying method for dwellings. A 1 percent nal water solution cleans floors and kills diphtheria and typhus bacilli within one minute.
A domestic precaution pamphlet urges sleep apart for anyone with catarrh and to keep towels and soap separate. It bans shared breath and kissing, noting many ignore measures as colds sweep through households despite warnings.
A writer recalls Daniel Webster in a Boston Phoenix bank case where the orator appeared semidreamy with nearly closed eyes. Webster's demeanor and striking presence provoke reflections on his genius as observers note judges watching him and a captivated audience in a crowded hall.
A fragment from a New Orleans Times-Democrat piece depicts a playful kitchen tableau. A narrator dressed by a chef’s badge, speaking in a jocular tone, parries mishaps with jokes about French cooking and romance as a couple navigates culinary misadventure and affectionate banter.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt the sultan berates his vizier for failing to block a bomb as he taunts him with a hefty fine of twenty purses and thirty lashes. The exchange highlights the vizier's admission of poor anticipation and the sultan's stern humor.
A Maine anecdote from Bonny Eagle features Tom Nason asking for 75 cents to buy rum for July Fourth. The farmer Uncle John counters with wit, asking how the celebration could be kept on a pint, prompting a sharp retort about the method, not the quantity.
Edwin Stevens decides to pursue vaudeville. In a first round, Manager Meyer, founder of a well known circuit, questions his line and demands action. Stevens answers I am a comedian. The manager retorts Vell, make me laugh.
The governor reports Moribund St Helena as a colonial outpost with a cable station and a garrison. Only three British warships called in last year, and despite proximity to the West African canal and the island’s favorable climate, it is not used as a naval sanitarium.
The writer argues that a good soldier earns fair pay and benefits, including clothing, medical care, libraries, post exchanges, and recreational facilities. Industrious men can save, learn trades, and rise from private to corporal, with pathways toward promotion. The piece notes how merit and conduct drive advancement, contrasting past and present motives for enlistment.
A humorous slice of life details Fritz Himmoelsberg who overdrew his bank account by 4.63 and calmly promises to retrieve funds with a check. Bank collector William Jones visits the butcher shop as the scene unfolds with light German charm and a whistled tune.
A northern Ireland elder famed for perpetual grumbling is depicted in a humorous tale. On the way to a meeting a neighbor recalls a dream where they tour heaven and Jamie remains silent, breaking a crown and implying unsatisfied contentment would not suffice.
A visitor at West cemetery in Lichfield notes two inscriptions: Mary, wife of Dr. John Buel, died November 4, 176%, aged 94, with 13 children and 410 descendants. and Mrs. Rachel Woodruff, daughter of Norman and Lois Barber, died May 24, 1835, aged about 22. The account references Hartford Courant correspondence.
A medical journal ad suggests insomnia sufferers recite a chain of words to tire the mind. By concentrating on each word as it leads to the next, sleep comes after mentally running through the list, a method claimed to outdo counting sheep.
In a satirical ad from Echo Ore News a household offers top wages and daily afternoons off, with Sundays free, for a cook. They hint at mortgaging the plant and buying an auto if funds allow, asking for daily notice each morning and promising a stamp return for inquiries.
The guinea first coined in Charles II’s reign along with the five and two guineas and half guineas, later nicknamed the guinea. Mint marks included a small elephant to honor and encourage the Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa for gold and silver imports.
A barber regulated his daughter's dowry by deducting fines from her fiancé based on his cutting customers with a razor. The plan forced the suitor to prove his skill, boosting his reputation and increasing shop clientele. When the engagement culminated, Figaro’s extra earnings exceeded the fines.
A reminiscence from Levenson Gower's Bygone Years recounts Don Jewet enjoying the society of Balliol women yet denying love and marriage when pressed. A young lady proposes marriage to him only to reveal she is pledged to another, and she had asked him to perform the ceremony.
Marmaduke comments in the Graphic on England praising scenery and women while criticizing climate cooking and customs. He claims climate damages constitution, cooking harms digestion, and customs ruin character, noting many English travelers prefer the Continent.
The 1853 letter from the U S government to the Japanese court sought friendship and trade. Drafted by Daniel Webster in 1851 and revised by Edward Everett, it was presented in English Dutch and Chinese in a rosewood coffer. Perry carried a pact to end seamen’s peril and invite mutual prosperity, though Japan showed caution.
A Kansas City Times item recounts a husband who boasted of his musical ear and mocked his wife for not carrying a tune. To test him, she asked him to check a piano after a tuner supposedly worked, and he claimed the tune was fixed though the tuner had not yet arrived.
A Chicagoan recalls John Hay’s tolerance for new ideas and jokes about vegetarians. Hay calmly listened to a Frisco vegetarian in London and finally declared with a punchy quip that traditions endure far beyond changing beliefs.
A fragment from a historical column recounts Archduke Joseph of Austro Hungary gifting a gold Florin earned in Plume after a French engineer from Crouzot toured his gardens at Buda Pesth. The anecdote notes the archduke’s blunt humor and a stranger’s mistaken access to grounds. Also mentions a Japanese poem fragment and a King British customs decision on hallmarks for imported watches. A court in London ruled that gold and silver watches are not plate and must bear hallmarks.
Experiments with carrier pigeons show a highly developed sense of direction. Despite not being near the summit of evolution, their ability to fly grants them speed and navigational power. In trials, pigeons traveled long distances quickly, with one bird covering seventeen miles in twenty minutes, and the rest following within hours.
A London Tit Bits item recounts an antitobacco lecturer delivering such a forceful talk that several listeners burned their cigars at home. They reportedly held one end in their mouths as a punitive gesture, a humorous quirk in the crowd.
Lawrence County awaits fresh evidence of a universal cure for kidney troubles announced as Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs L B Baggett credits the remedy with curing dropsy and restoring health, praising the pills as a tonic that purifies blood and revitalizes the body.
In Carlisle England during a recent parliamentary by election one candidate named Chance used the slogan Give Carlisle 2 Chance. Opponents urged Take the Chances Vote for Sanderson but voters chose Chance. A separate advertorial note promotes Cuticura remedies for a yellow crust on a baby’s head with a testimonial from Mrs John Boyce Pine Bush New York about Cure.
A bilingual parrot named Tommy joins the London Zoological Gardens. The bird, from southern India, speaks seventeen phrases in Indian dialect and English. Visitors are greeted with the question Wie ane yout as part of its extended repertoire.
A garbled quote from the Atlanta Constitution describes an old man and a speaker who delivered a piece in Greek and one in Latin, each receiving a piece of paper tied with a blue ribbon.
A Cadlin Moth parasitic colony, Cadlin Moth Parasite Destroye Cadlin Moth, released in Patjaro valley orchards, California, is attacking the orchardists' enemy in impressive fashion. A noted tea reference is also mentioned as a time o day metaphor.
Bantam chickens tame from Ban tam town in Java. In Brazil black Nean is as important a staple food as the potato in Europe.
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