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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1900
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR describes Ceing Allen's Poot-Tase advertised as the only cure for swollen burning and sweating feet. The ad urges purchase of Allen's powder through druggists and shoe dealers. Also mentions railway line work, a musical king of Sweden, and a town wedding with a home ceremony.
In a country hotel room, Joseph Fitzgerald pursues Alice Devine, a village belle, while Tom Prince loves her and confronts the city suitor. A tense encounter ends with a confrontation and Aunt Dinah stepping in as Alice’s protector. Fitzgerald departs by train to New York.
In France the number of tramps is far smaller than in the country but rising, prompting legislation. A proposed law stiffens penalties for professional beggars while directing able beggars to be sent to a house of labor until employment is found. Reports cite 35,000 annual trials and 406,000 refuges visited in 1899, with gendarmerie orders from 1895 to document unknown road travelers, listing 25,000 tramp names in 1898.
Down in Stone county Missouri near the Ozark mountains, Skinch Painter, a lifelong bachelor aged seventy, has lived without employment for decades. He believes the world owes four living to each person and has pursued a life of fishing boating and fiddling. He has never married seen his kin in years and claims lasting contentment and happiness.
Mrs Patat of View notes some firms offer higher wages to married young employees. A cynical bachelor calls it a strange fact and remarks some men derive pleasure from encouraging others into trouble.
A distorted Chicago News cartoon caption features Stibb asking about town health and Penn replying that half the population is in bed, with a bleeps censoring the punchline. The brief gag contrasts public health with local laziness in a street dialogue style.
A Kansas pastor on vacation left a twenty minute sermon on a cylinder for delivery. A deacon unveiled a phonograph on the pulpit and played a track including a hymn and modern sermons. The machine misfired with offbeat content, provoking alarm until it was revealed a joker son controlled the device.
An old advertisement extols Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a health booster curing constipation and purifying the blood. It boasts prominent reach across the United States, urges purchases from druggists, and warns against frauds while promising liver vigor and bowels restored. The piece also includes a Swanson’s Drops testimonial and a rail service note about a Rio Grande line schedule and in‑car dining.
Letters from Mrs Wa V Bell of Canton Ohio and Mrs A ToLe of Philadelphia describe severe menstrual and health issues including backache falling of the womb and dizziness. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier the writers report improved strength and vitality and urge others to try the remedy.
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