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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1902
Page
7
A New York Times letter from an American soldier in the Philippines describes Moro fortifications on Mindanao. It details trench and barricade designs, noting retreat-focused layouts and a special entrenching custom among the lake tribes allied with Moro forces.
A field report describes American troops near the lakes east of Malabang facing Moro resistance. It details barricades, trenches, and bamboo trap devices intended to maim or stop marching soldiers. The account contrasts Moro ingenuity with previous Cuban warfare experiences and notes the perilous path to the lakes amid hostile local fortifications.
The report describes trench layouts beside roads with angled stone barricades and bamboo spines at barricades. It notes retreat plans from point d to c to f while under enemy fire and warns of thorny undergrowth and wirelike jungle barriers delaying columns. Artillery supported operations.
The passage notes Moro builders turning hill sandstone into a pliable barricade material able to stop shells. They reportedly extract a Minelike cement from mountains to erect masonry and weave bamboo into cross pieces, creating effective fortifications alongside Filipinos. The description highlights resourceful trench construction using bamboo and local stone.
The nephew of Sir Richard Temple inherits a ring with a minute musical box. A former French monarchist prisoner kept solace in its tune, but the box silenced at his scaffold. A jeweler removes a blood clot obstructing the mechanism and the music returns.
The rector of a parish near Kettering England the church warden and the parish council chairman were placed in public stocks for about an hour reviving a QE era custom. Parish residents are exempt from market tolls and jury service once in twenty years when subjected to this penalty.
An overview traces how national landscapes differ and how France led in landscape painting, with Impressionism arising there and influencing Germany, England, and beyond. It notes luminism replacing early Impressionism, German realism, and the spread of Swiss and Nordic landscape schools shaping regional styles.
A young husband and wife in a hotel are the subject of gossip as their domestic frictions unfold during a dinner with friends. The Martinique catastrophe is lightly debated in conversation. The husband wittily remarks life there would hardly possess the charm of novelty.
Dr Henry Van Dyke at the Waldorf Astoria recounts a South clergy tale about an old colored mammy who, after reforming many faults, resolves she will meet the Lord without losing her breath to smoke the last black pipe. The anecdote, told in a period voice, highlights themes of reform and faith.
Payne, leader of the house, greeted in a hotel lobby by Representative Lessler and his year old son. Lessler directs the child to say hello to Payne. The child mispronounces, asking “How do you con men, Jayne?” drawing laughter from onlookers.
A man recounts an incident where a chauffeur failed to heed warnings and struck his bicycle, sending both him and the bike into a ditch. The crowd questions the term chauffeurs use, provoking a sharp retort about the speaker’s choice of label.
A feature on Concord Massachusetts celebrates its 267 year history and the river town charm. It tours historic sites from Emerson and Hawthorne to the North bridge battle site, Hosmer house, and local landmarks while noting the town’s evolution from a remote outpost to a modern community. The piece mentions the 1830s Bartlett residence, the Minute Man statue, and the Old North bridge, alongside the new Concord reform school and the evolving U.S. seal design.
Before Waterloo two inns at the village bore the Gray Jackass sign. After Napoleon's defeat the innkeeper renamed to the Duke of Wellington. A rival renamed the other inn Gray Jackass and won business, leading to the inscription dispute over which is the original.
No Admirer of Social Forma, Ex-Gov Pattison mocks social ritual, calling it an American Subduct. He recounts a reply from a friend invited to a reception, the brief note reading Yours received I will be there. And quite enough, too, says the ex-governor.
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