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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1897
Page
4
The Challis paper recalls bygone cash values and views a Chicago Record pamphlet on a proposed Postal Savings Bank. It highlights small deposits, government guarantees, tax exemption, and protections for depositors including married women and minors. The piece notes gradual western adoption and broad support.
A returned office seeker and friend quip over a failed trip to Washington. The joke centers on not getting pie and the loss of dough, using light humor to reflect political disillusionment.
Poem reflecting on sorrow and hope as a speaker moves from darkness to light. The verses speak of sleep, release, and a journey from confinement to freedom, ending with a luminous dawn and a blessed light. Dated September 10, 1807 at London.
A critique portrays national bankers as cold oppressive figures blocking enterprise. The speaker calls for a patriotic financial view while condemning bankers as lifeless and gloom inducing. The piece uses hyperbolic imagery likening bankers to winter in Chilcoot Pass with storms in Egypt and a skating devil.
Champ Clark praised William Jennings Bryan after a Sedalia reception saying Bryan would have beaten any prizefighter if trained. He lauded Bryan’s health and temper, noted his extensive speaking record, and cited one perceived misstep when Bryan spoke of entering the enemies country, which Republicans allegedly twisted.
The Fraser river season yielded about 1,500,000 sockeye salmon with peak July 21 to August 5. Prices averaged 22 to 35 cents, but buyers paid as low as 8 cents due to oversupply. Over 5000 men worked, two thirds Japanese, many hump-back salmon were discarded on mud flats.
A gilded goddess of Liberty statue sits on the Warrensburg Missouri courthouse dome. The right hand holds a gold hued ball, but silver colors were secretly decided by the Silverites to paint the sphere silver. The note mentions four dollars.
An article cites William George Jordan describing how modern slaughterhouses convert nearly all animal parts into usable products. Blood, hides, bones, marrow, fat, and even waste become sugar refinements, paper, buttons, glue, bone meal, oil, sausage casings, and fertilizer, reducing waste to a few breaths.
Chief Joseph, famed Nez Perce war chieftain, may attend the Intermountain Fair in Boise with Captain McConvillie, Indian school superintendent at Fort Lapwai, arranging the visit. McConvillie will show a celebrated collection of Indian curiosities shown at the World's Fair. A new gold stampede is planned near New Whatcom, Wash.
Washington dispatch reports Representative James Gunn of Idaho returns from a ten day New York trip having organized the New York and Western Mining and Development Company with a $1,000,000 capital to buy operate and dispose of Idaho mines He departs on the 19th for Chicago to address the Homeseekers convention on Idaho mining and agricultural resources before returning home.
Residents of Hog Hollow Idaho recount a string of disasters including a 10 year old girl with a badly broken arm after a runaway wagon, a father killed by lightning, a drowning, and a young girl killed within a year. They blame an evil spirit.
An Ohio election is scheduled to occur this month. Voters will decide on contests and measures as listed in the official notices issued by local authorities. Campaigns and polling locations are detailed in campaign materials and city election offices.
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