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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1903
Page
2
A cluttered column from the Silver Messenger blends social oddities and wit. It cites jokes about watermelon seeds, lawyers in Chicago, Spanish politics, magazine honesty, and curious puns on time, fashion, and morality, mixing regional quips with short gibes. It notes a Knoxville poisoning accusation and a mix of sensational lines about royalty, dental extractions, and a Boston heir to $2,000,000.
An odd note claims Vienna ladies enjoyed a male beauty show and preferred handsome men, asserting they praised masculine appeal while weighing around forty pounds. The fragment hints at social chatter about appearance and attraction without clear context or sources.
In Shrewsbury a ceremony commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Shrewsbury fought July 21, 1403 between Henry IV and Henry Percy Hotspur. The clash determined succession, with 10,600 slain, and the town highlights include Clive, Darwin birthplaces, the Battlefields Church, and nearby Ludlow Castle.
In Meissen Saxony a royal pottery works kept strict secrecy with guards sworn to silence. A foreman escaped to Vienna spreading the craft, while the boss decreed life imprisonment in Koenigrein for any divulging of the process and warned king and workers alike to secrecy. The tale recalls dramatic battle lines and political intrigue as Henry IV and Hotspur clash.
Andrew Carnegie narrates a story of American and Scottish temperaments. An American bicycler visits a lonely shore and sees a water-telescope searcher and a companion on the bank, who discuss weather while a man pipes and reads a paper. The American asks what the man is seeking and hears In return a quip about a brother-in-law.
Wealthy Cuban planter Henry Roso, noted for aiding Cuban revolutionaries, is confined in a New York asylum for the insane. His vast estate, once measured in millions, has dwindled to about fifty thousand dollars.
A dramatic passenger engine scene follows Sylvia as the ponderous locomotive fights a grade and curves at speed. Firemen fear losing control while the private car narrative reveals a ruthless railway president and a tense tale about an ill engineer and a distant family link.
A noisy crowd roars with applause as a husky veteran runner guides a crowd to Sylvia. The scene shifts to a tense moment as the general superintendent spots her father Stanford, struggles to hold emotion, then embraces his daughter. She cries and begs, calling him papa and asking to be called her dear little red head.
A ranch-born youth with sturdy build dances with a much heavier partner in a village near Rahway. After exertion he rests, while the woman notes the sticky floor and realizes she is wearing rubber overshoes, quoting the witty exchange in the New York Evening Post.
A seaman's return ticket dispute at a Southern seaport town leads to a tense exchange. A stylish young man insists he is a sailor and threatens a confrontation as the stationmaster intervenes, urging ticket issuance. The clerk demands identification, while the claimant uses sharp nautical insults before the stationmaster overrules the denial.
The article recounts a friend’s tale of poet Alfred Swinburne studying babies, smiling at a sleeping infant, then being told by a nurse that the wind causes smiles. He refused to write about a baby's dreams after the remark, per a Kansas City Journal anecdote.
Mrs. Newrich recalls gardener Old Henry who clung to superstition about curing whooping cough with a bear. He claimed the bear would help but was refused. The child recovered without the bear, despite his insistence and a brief scene over parsley planting.
The New York Times recounts Charles Frohman amused by a woman's naive wish for a thrilling play. A mother warns against demoralizing current productions while the girl insists the boy next door says it is a Buffalo Bit style tale full of fights and murders.
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