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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1902
Page
6
A collage of humorous notes cites how sensible folks wear masks, a safeifying machine and erupting volcanoes promised. jokes about car sickness, salary gaps, Julius Caesar casting, and Borax uses. It jokes about Denver bakers striking for lunch, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Hill, Indiana gunfire over a song, and fashion in Boston. Dust from Mont Pelee reaches Chicago. Yaqui life, college football, and a new bite of satire on American life.
Fragmented verse reflects on suffering and passion, urging steadfast conscience and unhurried virtue. It counselled perseverance, warns against heedless crowds, and asks if fortune favors the thoughtful who endure. Public figures and archaic phrasing appear amid mistranscribed lines.
In a swift tale by W B Hennessy a clever con man named Tressor partners with Penard to counterfeit a Paris lottery drawing. They swap identities, rig the stroke, and though the plan seems to succeed, a later report reveals the mix up, linking the unlucky mayor, a forged ticket, and a shocking public outcome.
Capt Amundsen, a Norwegian sea captain, announces a 1903 expedition to locate the magnetic north pole. He will convert the Gjoa to motor power, carry seven crew, and start from a Norwegian Arctic base, using sledges to reach Ross's 1831 benchmark site.
King Edward has long shown a keen interest in fires and firemen. In New York a parade by 6000 uniformed firemen lit Madison Square with torches as he cried this is for me in jubilation. He usually learned of major fires in London, attending incognito.
A monument unveiling near Stillman Valley Ogle County Illinois commemorates the May 14 1832 Battle of Stillman Valley during the Black Hawk War. Frank E Stevens read a historical sketch as John J Bristol Atta Peoria County survivor unveiled the memorial with speeches by John E Bristol Lawrence Y Sherman and James P Wilson. The ceremony honored fallen captains and soldiers including Capt John G Adams David Krups Zadock Mendinall Isaac Perkins James Doty James Milton Cyrus M Childs Joseph B Farris Bird W Ellis John Walters Gideon Munson and Joseph Draper. The narrative recounts the desperate hand to hand fighting after Capt Adams rallied a small group atop a hill near the creek and the struggle to cover the retreat until many were killed and mutilated beyond recognition. Survivors staggered back to Dixon arriving from three in the morning to daylight and the next day the army buried the dead including Capt Abraham Lincoln and his company.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes bartenders dismiss the idea of new summer beverages with the Florodora Fizz as a counterfeit gin fizz. The piece mocks novelty drinks while recounting a frontier skirmish where Major Stillman’s troops pursue Black Hawk’s warriors, retreating after a sharp engagement near Old Man’s Creek.
The new French premier M. Combes stands five feet three inches tall yet is praised as a formidable statesman in mental scope. A physician by training, he also worked as a schoolmaster and is a leading authority on French educational affairs. His scholarly work covers Virgil, Kant, St Augustine, and St Simon theories.
Alfred Austin English poet laureate is 67. Educated at Stonyhurst and St Mary’s Oscott he took a London degree. He was called to the bar in 1861, published The Season a Satire, began a literary career and has since produced many verse works novels and reviews. In 1896 he became poet laureate and published England’s Darling The Conversion of Winckelmann and a miscellaneous volume of verse.
Newport society buzzes as three royal families plan a seaside visit within a month. Grand Duke Boris of Russia, crown prince of Siam, and Prince Chem of China may arrive together after the coronation, traveling via San Francisco and England.
Queen Wilhelmina, when healthy, insists on knowing the contents of every document she signs. When in doubt she summons an expert to explain the matter, following the example of Queen Victoria who routinely signed about 200 documents daily.
The Boston directory records 1,653 grocers and 650 provision dealers in the city, totaling 2,203, while lawyers number 2,188, reflecting a crowded urban professional scene.
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