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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1901
Page
3
In 1874 the region suffered Turko-Russian tensions and forest destruction, followed by mass selling of remaining lands for fortifications. The piece notes earlier conflicts, selling prices, and the impact on local settlements and fortifications, alongside scattered ads and brief notices.
The Ottawa discovery of the stone marking the assassinated Thomas D'Arcy McGee recalls the gifted Irishman and a pivotal Dominion crime. McGee, poet editor historian and statesman, helped shape Canadian confederation and drafted the union plan while born in Ireland in 1825 and educated in Boston Dublin and Montreal.
A memorial stone recalling D Arcy McGee, veteran colonial minister and irish advocate, notes his assassination on April 7 1864. The piece highlights his roles as secretary for agriculture and emigration and president of the executive council, his unpopularity with Fenian factions, and a later tribute stanza lamenting his loss.
The Central Pacific railroad aims to cross Salt Lake City via a 107 mile route crossing Great Salt Lake. The lake spans thirty two miles at the crossing, requiring trestle work along nearly all of it except a two mile rocky promontory. The proposed view from the new route is described as novel and picturesque.
Edward Dempsey a thirteen year old boy hailing from Philadelphia has endured thirteen accidents year after year yet walks from danger. Saturday he collided with a trolley car on Chestnut Street fracturing his skull but doctors expect recovery. His father Patrick Dempsey once a carman and coachman is now a hotel worker on Eleventh Street.
A fragmented telegraphic column discusses failed silk production in Virginia from colonial times including mulberry tree efforts near Williamsburg, shipments to London and Charles I, and eventual abandonment. It shifts to notes on American pen manufacture, noting four companies, steel origins from Sheffield, and extensive hand finishing processes.
Wild snakes are bought by buyers in Klamath Falls Oregon with a ready Minnesota market. Children collect snakes like wildflowers and boys stash them as pets. Prices run 25 cents per pound for a dark colored species about three feet long. Reptile supply is so high tens could be shipped daily. Snakes used for medicinal purposes and superior products are manufactured from local finds.
A naive Pennsylvania minister asks a Philadelphia professor for a name of a “spent-easy” to improve orate skills. The professor gently explains that such places are unlicensed, a euphemistic reframe for illicit speaking venues.
The Weekly Panorama details a baggagemaster Edward Mouvehill who saved an elderly songbird aboard a New York steamer, earning a kiss from Mme Schumann-Heink and triggering debate over proper reward. It questions if cash would better suit this act and notes private card offers and museum attendance figures, plus a 1902 possible American trip by Prince and Princess of Denmark.
A 13 year old girl from Malla zon Il was jailed by local constables for allegedly stealing eggs near her home. The case drew sharp criticism of the county officials and the justice of the peace, who released the child to Judge Tuley after custody, highlighting a need for parental care over imprisonment.
The Countess of Strafford, American by birth, remains popular and may reenter society once Queen Victoria’s mourning ends. Her first husband was Colgate of New York, and she married the Earl of Strafford in 1398. If there had been a male heir, she would have inherited Wortham Castle and the St James London house, but the estate passed to his brother, Rev. Francis EK. The countess visited her mother Samuel Smith at Laurel House, Lakewood, New Jersey, last summer and has one daughter from her first marriage.
Over fifty thousand horses are disabled in New York City by a disease veterinarians call the grip. Symptoms mirror human grip with sudden attacks, weakness, and collapse, and the death rate runs about eighty percent. Losses hit horse owners as animals cannot walk during the week or two the illness lasts.
A fragmented item from the Salt Lake area cites rail notices and timetable details for the Santa Fe line. It references Milwaukee routes, August schedules, and mentions general agents and local offices in Salt Lake City.
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