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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1911
Page
7
A sardonic monologue voices anger at plutocrats who crush the poor. The speaker laments losing an easy nine dollar weekly commission from catching speeders as wealthier folk fly cars and cheat the common man out of livelihood.
John F. Williams of Dorchester Boston reports scalp trouble with dandruff and hair loss. After trying various lotions he used Cuticura Soap twice weekly and Cuticura Ointment, noting thick hair growth and resolution of itching and scales. He credits three cakes of soap and one and a half boxes of ointment. July 28 1910.
The Cleveland Leader reports a panhandler begged for a postage stamp outside an opera house lobby. Manager Gus Hartz seized the envelope and threw it through the box-office window, ordering stamps to be mailed. The panhandler whispered that the man’s wife would not be involved.
A newspaper invited readers to name the most beautiful thing in the world. First prize went to the line The eyes of my mother. The second prize praised the dream of the impossible. A witty entry claimed the beauty is watching a man carry his mother in law across a dangerous river without dropping her.
A Utah based faith has spread across the Pacific coast with Mormon settlements in Nevada. The article profiles a Nevada family living in a rock cave dwelling with a brush shed, describing the patriarch, three wives, older sons, and a content, simple life despite their primitive surroundings.
A 16 year old boy named Carl Rubno crawled into a six by eighteen inch storage box under a Pullman car in El Paso and rode 938 miles to Kansas City. Locked in for 29 hours with only water, he survived until train staff freed him at Union depot. He said he planned to ride for fifty miles to find work on a ranch and slept part of the time.
Mrs Green leaves Hoboken flat after May 1 move to Waldorf with Col Edward H Green. Once predicted to curb expenses she embraced high life and has already spent days at the Waldorf with her son, signaling a public shift in lifestyle.
A series of short humorous vignettes sketching marital misreads and miscommunications. Eddy Sidener faces his wife's cool verdict on a public speech about industrial economy and missed opportunities, followed by a quip about a little girl and a comic misspelling tale from Fielding and Denbigh lineage.
A quirky sequence of quotations and repartee features a late man with a dyed beard declaring vegetarianism after biting an apple worm, a train boy selling fruit, and a sidelong exchange with a stranger. The fragment mixes classical figures and witty mishaps in a playful, if fragmented, vignette.
A garbled dialogue snippet centers on love and marriage judgments, misdirected inquiries about Wall Street plans, and a puzzled line about a railroad accident. The readable bits mention a man named Figg and a collision involving Smith, with uncertainty over recovery and the rail road.
Twiegs expresses unusual suspicion while claiming a chafing dish possesses extraordinary capabilities. The remark hints at a quirky case or odd incident drawing scrutiny. No further context provided.
Dialogue captures a dispute over unpaid bills as one party accuses the other of frivolous spending on an automobile. The rebuttal hints at the deeper cause: the debtor believes the car purchase explains the financial strain. The exchange reflects tensions over money and responsibility.
The speaker discusses a Europe summer vacation plan. They mention packing suitcases and boarding a train for a two week trip with a resort stay near the western area. The tone is casual and anticipatory about travel.
The genial humorist and orator Ben Nathan returns from America and extols California. A friend asks about its disadvantages. Nathan replies it is an ideal place for any man who will work.
Uncle Hiram watches a touring car speed by up the boulevard leaving a blue smoke trail and jokes that the city folks are smoking humorous cigars in a rough town setting.
A western editor questions what became of the old-fashioned mother who washed out her boy's mouth with soap for swearing, joking that she might be improving her game of bridge as she ages.
A quotation contrasts Sherman’s famed war definition with future U S troop deployment near the Mexican border. The exchange suggests unexpectedly intimate military duties evolving from historic battlefield ideas to contemporary border actions.
The victim remarks the burglar searched everywhere but did not disturb him as a light sleeper. The detective comments that the man is married, noting the respondent’s status.
Slangy fragments suggest a discussion of traits and kinship. A speaker calls someone a chip off the old block, while another remark notes sharpness that a mother might perceive as a splinterlike likeness. Interpreting era and tone requires caution as text is incomplete.
A vintage advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as uniquely effective for women's ailments. It cites massive testimonial letters from diverse communities, claims to save many from surgery, and notes the product is herb based and harmless. The ad includes a testimonial from Mrs Wentland of Coloma Wisconsin praising recovery.
A garbled collage of ad copy and quips mentions Spohn Distemper Cure with claimed veterinary guarantees and prices, a nurse caring for a horse’s paddock, and jokes about society and Venice. The clipping also cites eye salves, a Brooklyn mail order, a Bridge of Sighs joke, and aphorisms, all in a fragmented news-ads style.
A reader asks how to cure constipation and Dr Caldwell is cited as a specialist. The ad promotes simple methods for family health and urges trying a free sample.
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