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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1905
Page
2
A garbled column mocks politics, poetry, war, and social quirks with references to Taggart, Nye, Oyama, and a Boston critic. It notes Myra Kelly’s marriage, Chicago dog counts, and a New York life-insurance push while deriding boycotts, misprints, and public taste across American journalism.
A distorted OCR fragment references Ethel Ly Prehle in Bunset Magazine with a garbled poem about wind, mountains, seas, and travelers. It mentions Pulley and Frentina in unclear context and includes stray phrases about joy and land.
Emogene waits at a dusty station for a wedding that may be missed while fate threads a renewed bond with Robert Halladay. He confronts her, learns Sarah Ashton has eloped, and begs to marry. a sudden message reveals the bride is now Sarah Smith, and Emogene must decide.
A fragment notes a wedding ceremony held in a hotel parlor by the old minister. The event coincided with a delayed train passing the platform as two hearts were united in happiness and satisfaction.
A Star editor, a part owner and late to press, rambling through con viviality, fumbles with copy. In a rush he filches a New York Times editorial and prints it as his own leading piece, then returns to the saloon as the paper goes to press.
A coerced collage of quotations and anecdotes discusses ivory scarcity driving up billiard ball prices and the invention of nearly indistinguishable substitutes. An old player notes balls made of celluloid and bone now approach ivory in feel while prices rose from eight to sixteen dollars per ball. The text shifts to a wartime vignette about language barriers and a dying soldier, ending with a stray New Orleans Times reference.
More than 22,000 tons of copper have been exported to China from the United States this year, drawing inquiry. Two explanations arise with one suggesting a new Chinese coinage reform and the other claiming copper smelting leaves gold residues. Vast quantities of copper disappear in China for various reasons.
Rev. Davi H. Buel named new president of Georgetown University. He is son of Col. David A. Buel, U.S. A. A Yale graduate of 1883, he has taught classics at Holy Cross College, classsics and higher mathematics at St. Francis Xavier, physics at St. John's, and physics and mechanics at Georgetown University.
In June the editor heard someone prowling the coop and fired quinine pills, wounding an intruder who crawled away. The tale hints at local fear and a remark about a single resident not yet plagued by the ague, reflecting village tensions.
Amid debate over a 30000 fund to erect a monumental shaft for Edgar Allan Poe Baltimoreans rally for a site protection stance while noting related endowments for the Washington hospital room where Poe died. The piece traces Poe’s grave at Westminster and mentions grave sites of Sidney Lanier and John Wilkes Booth, plus local commentary from descendants and civic groups.
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