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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1909
Page
3
A party scene unfolds with Mrs Alden and Mrs Hardy as guests. A senator observes Miss Mitford, an authoress, and a mysterious spirit-like vision hovering above the room. The dialogue riffs on beauty, age, and the lure of imagination as Miss Mitford moves to join the president.
The Kennebec Journal notes a surge in partridges this year in Maine woods. An eastern guide credits a repealed hedgehog bounty law four years ago for boosting partridge eggs by reducing hedgehog predation, allowing partridge eggs to survive as hedgehogs declined.
A garbled travel themed page quip cites Chicago Record-Herald on how travel broadens. It recalls a joke about ma's trip to Massachusetts leaving her with little to wear and fashion hips. Puck humor mocks Miss Bond's baker grandfather with a pun about being poor.
A collage of humorous clippings from public satire and letters about the Public Eye. Snippets discuss preachers, politicians, fashion queries, and tongue in cheek quips from Chicago Daily News and Washington Star. The piece blends jokes on vice presidential talk, slim sermons, and playful exchanges among readers.
A wife reports Mr. Chacer has a compound fracture after noon. The husband explains the injury but jokes that he is broke, and Miss Doughbag, learning the fact, ends her engagement with him.
The insurance man with literary ambitions on the magazine staff is dissatisfied as a subordinate author. He questions why, noting his past as an underwriter.
In a quick dialogue Myrtle questions the score as Evelyn reports eight to four. Myrtle insists she hasn’t seen more than three men carried off the field. The Baltimore American cites Mrs Clymer as a model housewife, praising how her diaper, tea, and reception duties keep her household in print.
A terse exchange from a New York Herald piece features Emily and Ida arguing over weather and living in a shaft apartment. The Small One asks about the apple’s size and duration of fear, while The Big One promises a treat if tears stop.
A New York Times excerpt recalls Booker T. Washington at a Tuskegee conference where Lucy Nelson of Dadeville recounts how she swapped a puppy for a pie, bred pigs, and built a home and land. She proudly says she owns her house, while Washington urges Black men to pursue practical gains.
A comic domestic scene centers on two women at a bus fare dispute. The patient conductor waits as the two women argue over paying fares, one insisting on paying first then insisting again, while the other biases the outcome with a penny bluff. After conferring, both fares are paid, prompting commentary on stingy behavior from their husbands.
The Cofon league of Philadelphia recalls veteran shipbuilder Charles H. Cramp recounting a curious incident about a skilled caulker named Brown. After years at Cramp shipyards he moved to the navy yard and refused pay for days not worked, saying he would not rob the government when work was slack.
A concise explanation of the kettle singing sounds. Bubbles form at the bottom as water heats, rising and bursting higher as temperature increases. When boiling, hundreds burst at the surface in quick succession, creating the singing.
Exchange remarks that tenacity aids progress yet urges admitting mistakes fast. Example given: placing the lit cigar end in the mouth as a prompt to acknowledge error. The dialogue highlights practical honesty in problem solving.
A man with a broken nose jokes about luck and misfortune, recalling two past encounters in Boston and New York. In one, a woman thanks a man for informing her untied shoe, then sends $20,000. in the other, a similar act leads to a bald-headed chase and a broken umbrella. He laments his looks and notes the stark contrast with a friend who found fortune in the shoe trade.
Retired magician Harry Kellar laments that stage magic has declined as younger magicians neglect study and practice. He contrasts this with an encounter where a tailor measures a fat man and notes little change in overall size, aside from chest height.
A gray-headed man questions why women rarely lose an arm. He notes many men suffer limb loss in wars and industry, yet women seem immune. He argues women work in mills and face accidents, so there should be similar risks.
The text argues that style reflects inherited tendencies a person cannot fully know, expressing through words via a sensitive constitution. It likens writing to a stylus revealing inner forces, with a metal rod like vigor or an insect wing’s whimsy guiding expression, moved by inherited pulses.
The dialogue hints at a risky midnight air ride with a chorus girl and a son of a millionaire. The exchange suggests possible social consequences if such a liaison goes wrong, highlighting class tension and hoped-for secrecy.
A Sunday school scene recalls King Solomon’s famous judgment as a teacher asks what he did when two women claimed the infant. The child Yeasum answers with a halting, localistic misquote about “be made twine of IL,” reflecting a hometown voice and humorous misunderstanding.
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