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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1902
Page
6
A June coronation at Westminster Abbey drew about 6 000 attendees with only 3 000 seating capacity. The scene featured vast rank among peeresses and guests including Countess Orkney, Rosie Boote, and the Countess Nelson, amid limited visibility and intense heat on a hot day.
An eighth century manuscript Bible called the work of Ingobertus, bound in gold and inlaid with jewels, has been acquired by J Pierpont Morgan. The illuminated pages feature azure, vermilion and purple lettering, with motifs of flowers and religious symbols. The caligrapher Ingobertus, living in Rome, was noted as a painter and scholar tied to Saint Sernin and Tours.
Washington police chief Dick Sylvester, famed fisherman, returns from a short trip with a five pound base sent to the president. Roosevelt gratefully acknowledges the gift as Major Sylvester proudly displays the thanks note. Friends at the fishing ground mention a sine base. the boy narrator claims the major caught a mah.
Gon zalo De Quesada becomes the first Cuban minister to the United States, from a long revolutionary lineage. He served as Cuban republic agent in 1897 when no Cuban government existed, and previously built strong ties during the 1830s and his Washington stay.
Webster Davis plans to practice law in Missouri and then move to New York where he has reportedly received an offer in the legal field.
A collage of eye catching snippets on wind torn corn cobs in Texas and storm lore, buried pre dynastic graves in California, a dramatic description of the Stone Woman of Wingen in New South Wales, and a towering rock feature at Salisbury Crag.
Marvelous Memories surveys prodigious recall from Caesar to Brahmins and Mongols with notes on memory types. A Norwegian steamer Donald tells of monkeys hurling coconuts near Watling Islands, plus parrots and eruption tales. Ancient graves at Girga reveal a continuous burial record spanning thousands of years with well preserved remains in dry Upper Egypt.
The body of Julius Cohen, twelve, was recovered in an unusual manner after his drowning at Coney Island creek. A sailor advised using a bread loaf with quicksilver to locate the spot. the loaf floated, then sank, guiding divers to the child’s body beneath the loaf’s sinking point.
Braddock twelve year old David Allen threw a stone at a sparrow hitting bicycle rider Joseph Bukoval who fired back, his shot narrowly missing. The bullet pierced a window, struck Mrs Hlasing Cycoveski in the head, and she later found that a hairpin and a heavy pompadour rat absorbed the blow, reportedly saving her life.
An innocent baseball nearly caused a wreck on the Reading Railway Pottsville branch as boys played nearby. A ball rolled under the caboose wheels of an outbound accommodation train, derailing it. Passengers were frightened but unharmed and traffic was delayed about two hours.
Franklin township residents J. M. Wighton and L. B. Shannon report a dog in Pittsburg raising three half grown fox cubs after their mother fox was killed. The cubs, found blind at birth, were nurtured by the dog and now form an inseparable family.
A fragment of a vase from Nippur is hailed as the oldest writing, dating to about 4500 BCE. The inscription uses picture writing and mentions the judgment of the world and a man’s actions in every assembly and endeavor.
In a vivid reader anecdote from the New Orleans Times-Democrat a writer argues mosquitoes can learn and adapt. He describes a bare cistern as a breeding ground and recounts mosquitoes slipping through a non screened bar to bite him, claiming they are “being educated up to” human tactics.
A Philadelphia paper describes an exhibition of the nation’s oldest stove in Minneapolis Minnesota. The piece weighs 500 pounds, measures three feet by thirty two inches by one foot, with an arched freestanding base and a pebble finish. It bears the inscription Hereford Furnace Thomas Maybury Mfr 1767 and is praised beside the famed Virginian stove of 1770 once used by the House of Burgesses.
A writer muses on wandering versus traveling, arguing travel is modern and goal driven while ancient roamers sought adventure for its own sake. He extols the open road and stars, urging drift and simple camps under the sky. The piece ends with a traditional homecoming verse about the wanderer.
An amusing tale features Hannibal Hamlin and Senator Mallory with pages and a bald pate. Senator Stewart notes many bald heads in the Senate and recalls Hamlin humor about a Maine man, illustrating how a jest can linger in memory.
The Washington Post notes that Hamlin’s bid for the United States Senate was decided by a single vote. That lone vote was cast by a man described as bald, a detail highlighted in the report.
A correspondent rebuts claims that February never had a full moon, noting 1886 did have a full moon on the 18th while 1893 and 1866 did not. He argues the phenomenon recurs every twenty to thirty years and explains February’s 28 days in non leap years yield the lunar cycle. The NY Tribune is cited as the source of the erroneous statement.
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