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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1897
Page
4
The Challis paper notes Hanna leading in most Ohio counties with a 4,880 vote margin in his own county. It quotes Representative Cummings of New York and Senator Carter of Montana voicing support for postal savings banks and urging enactment of a prudent law.
The issue discusses Rev B H Roberts disavowing dangerous doctrines, announces the first accurate printing of The Lost Chord by Sir Arthur Sullivan for The Ladies Home Journal, and laments violence at a church meeting. It recalls the Weiser Baptist church’s historic role and condemns hobos and crime, including a fatal shooting in DeLamar and a Kentucky judge’s outspoken mercy toward a starving mother.
In Challis Idaho the north side of Main Street features a hotel noted for well supplied tables with top market fare and commodities. Travelers are offered commodious sample brooms and the listing promotes the hotel as unsurpassed in Custer county.
A fragment indicates shipments marked Care B. H. C. Stage Co. via Black Foot will have prompt shipment processing. The wording suggests a delivery instruction tied to a stage company and a location named Black Foot.
Diage s t ny and seven kinds and classes of horse shoeing up to No 4 shoes done for two dollars per head. All other work in proportion. Every piece of work guaranteed to give satisfaction or no charge. Call W E Hanna proprietor Challis Idaho.
The Postmaster General issued an order barring John Wedder burn & Co., the National Recorder and the National Recorder Publishing Co., Washington from the use of the mails.
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