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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1907
Page
3
The piece argues for Peruna as a catarrh remedy and urges listing ingredients for medical examiners. It cites Dr Hartman promoting a large scale, pure drug formula. It asserts chronic catarrh is common, with many patients seeking relief from various doctors who fail to help.
Jim Hance, a known local storyteller near the Grand Canyon of Arizona, recounts how a misadventure on a canyon trail led to his wife’s death. He claims a personal copyright on regional tales and shares the grim anecdote with a Boston visitor, noting he shot his wife after she fell into the canyon and broke her leg.
The piece recounts Empress Jingu’s legendary 201 conquest of Korea while dressed as a man and notes Korea’s wealth tribute and Japan’s later religious and artistic influence. It also identifies Suiko as the first female ruler and mentions eight empresses governing Japan with varying wisdom.
Sir William Richmond, a Royal Academy member, argues smoke causes London’s springs and falls, pallor in residents, and even physical deficiencies. He claims sunlight is blocked by smoke, leaving poor girls toothless and London’s poor with retreating beaks and pale complexions due to lack of light.
A Swiss engineer unveils a folding iron ladder fire escape system contained in window frame units. On activation a winch pushes frames outward linking ladders to form a continuous shaft from top floor to ground. It operates in under a minute and remains unobtrusive when not in use. Public authorities have approved the design.
A public school teacher sought to show pupils the comparative and superlative forms. She used examples and prompted voluntary contributions. A clever student raised a line, then the class burst into a recess miscue, ending with the teacher’s puzzled response.
A humorous tale circulates of a fisherman asserting that bass and trout leap eight to ten feet over dams to continue upstream. Friends doubt the claim yet the man persists that a ten foot hurdle by a bass or trout is possible, even as the group laughs it off.
A portly older man in a light gray suit chats with a quiet boy on a park bench while a painter is noted for the bench. In Berns canton a milk region is linked with overindulgence and draft rejections, suggesting economic strain from milk as income and a lack of meat.
A Pittsburg millionaire was seen lingering near the pearly gates while a shade asks him to hurry. He says he is waiting for another man a grafter from San Francisco to go ahead, insisting he will seem innocent by comparison.
An ad extols Grape-Nuts as a breakfast cereal that is scientifically cooked to be easily digested. It claims wheat and oats prepared below boiling weaken the stomach and that Grape-Nuts provides nitrogenous and starchy portions ready for immediate use. The copy cites medical authority, notes palatable taste, and claims suitability for children, adults, and even nursing babies.
Mrs Clyde Purley of Bridge Street Belting Michigan describes chronic bladder inflammation and painful kidney secretions. After a five year struggle and failed medical opinions, she credits Deans Kidney Pills for rapid improvement within a week and lasting relief. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Five people fell into a newly dug grave during the burial of Michael Sereno a Westport merchant when a crosspiece was kicked from beneath the coffin causing it to descend feet first. The assistant urged descent tumbling onto the coffin as mourners crowded the edge. soil shifted and a pit held five as they were pulled clear before the burial resumed.
Miss Edith Hammer of Morrison Illinois reports that one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment cured her head eczema after a friend’s recommendation. Her sister also recovered, another sister valued Cuticura Resolvent and Pills as a tonic.
A country school arithmetic class yields a joke from Jake Boggs about two apples and a supposed remaining amount. The teacher reframes with a hypothetical, Jake retorts that only a big fool would have nothing left. The scene blends humor and local schooling tone.
In a village near Presburg a peasant woman who received 400 Kronen from her husband in America rushed to withdraw the sum after claiming Death warned her in a dream to have the money ready for him the next night. Gendarmes and locals learned Death was alive as the judge appeared in Jal-Pall Mall Gazette.
American interest in China since the Boxer rebellion has extended to Chinese Jews who settled at Kaifungtu during the Han dynasty. The Kaifungtu colony is noted by European travelers including Marco Polo and by Jesuit missionaries in 1600 and 1704. Alfred K. Glover writes that the Chinese Jews are now almost extinct, but their records and tablets are preserved.
A long abandoned brick lab in Middle town Connecticut, torn down Saturday, has served varied roles since its 18th century erection. It began as a gunhouse and was later used as a hospital, eating house, carpenter shop, icehouse, and electrical laboratory. The fragmentary text also mentions local references to Shakespeare and other unrelated phrases.
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