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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1909
Page
2
A collage from SILVER MESSENGER notes gradual seasonal warmth, aviation musings, and agricultural tips, while critiquing wartime policy and social trends. It mentions Mara lean, a West Coast agricultural college, a luxury liner garden fad, and reflections on marriages, finances, and literary wit.
Advice on courtship and suitability for marriage from a 19th century voice. It urges knowing a potential wife for at least a year to judge temperament, emphasizes amiability, and comically extols buttermilk as life prolonging. It blends dietary tips with social guidance, noting the ease of impression during early acquaintance.
The text quotes BR. HAUSEMANN of Berlin asserting four orders of geniuses are dulled by drugs, narcotics, and drink. It argues refined stimulants like morning air, sunlight, mountain walks, and great thoughts surpass alcohol. It cites Prof. James and Baron Russell as authorities predicting future refinement beyond tea and coffee by 2000 A. D.
The piece argues Indian women are respected as mothers and individuals while noting naming conventions mark titles like Mrs and their equal spiritual status with husbands. It contends modern progress respects ancient customs without discarding them.
A narrator, Gabrielle, and companions drift through a sunlit holiday mystery at a cottage by the shore. Rumors of vanished loves, hidden identities, and a dangerous husband swirl as a candlelit supper ends with a sailboat vanishing into twilight and a concealed murder within the cellar.
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