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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1910
Page
6
A wandering foreign visitor at St James Budget prompts humor about British sailors. A Brent family portrait goes missing amid moving efforts, spurring six year old William to offer a reward for Grandfather Brent’s return. He later reports spotting the painting advertised on a shop window for sale.
A fragment from The Youth's Companion cites a writer of biographies praised for artful craft yet faulted for moral fails. The remark likens the tone to a New Hampshire parson at a parishioner’s funeral, urging charitable humility about the deceased’s conduct.
A newly married pair tied to the Installment Plan face rising costs as their budget proves fragile. The wife buys a $4500 house with $400 furniture on credit, while the husband audits every expense, ends beaten by the contracts, and contemplates a healthier financial future after a brutal repayment reality. The tale invites caution about debt, consumer temptation, and the lure of affordable installments.
Sattd Seales Cornelius V Collins, a noted criminologist and New York prisons superintendent, recounts colorful anecdotes. The evening mixes caricatured criminals, social quips, and light verse, with letters about diet, manners, and everyday scrapes.
A Glenwood reader, Mrs. G. W. Duyn, recounts long illness including weakness and pain cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad urges women with female ailments to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham and notes a thirty year standard for displacements, tumors, inflammation, and irregularities.
In Piedmont county a long dead trio of old Virginia figures is sketched. Ben Rice kept the town Inn Hymen Levy ran a store and was a daily visitor at the inn. Hen Welch, famed for profanity and gambling, died after a game of football led to pneumonia. As Ben faded Hymen quipped that the Lord should take him first, a sharp closing barb in a stagey local obituary style.
A humorous exchange about a boy declaring his mother the world and heaven to him, followed by a quip on expensive presents. The anecdote contrasts tender affection with the critique that gift value can mislead, ending with a feisty line about a house and lot as a wedding gift joke.
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