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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1903
Page
7
A humorous, caustic sketch satirizes babies as unruly, then turns to women as social figures. It jokes that mothers love their children, while small boys cause chaos and women are both fashionable and talkative. The piece ends with quips about billiards and courtship.
A scrambled, fragmented excerpt offers rural superstitions and social quips about insults, venomous snakes, chicken coops, moonshine, and misfortune. It weaves crude advice on handling offenses, weather and crops, and suggests relocation when neighbors prosper, all amid garbled, old-time dialect.
Case details a Grocer and grain dealer Mr E Boles reporting kidney and bladder distress since the Civil War. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid relief and a four year cure, and notes a nationwide free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Trade ad and a Nebraska railroad workforce figure follow.
A fragmented survey of sleeping customs abroad cites English featherbeds yielding to hygienic mattresses while Japanese beds rest on matting floors, Norwegians favor mock thrones, and Indians weave colorful hammocks. It also touches on various cautions about sleep, diet, and rest, then extols St Jacobs Oil and Hamburg Breast Tea for bronchial issues and ends with a note on reindeer endurance pulling loads for long hours.
A visitor recounts an amusing Prohibition era episode in Maine as he brings gin makings and finds only lime substitutes at a small town store. The tale blends era humor with the quirks of dry law times and local commerce.
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