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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1908
Page
7
A New York father plots a test of his daughter’s relationship with a poet by observing daily rides downtown and by noting imagined changes at the Pennsylvania station. He panelizes the mother and concludes the girl is hopelessly in love, fearing an engagement the very next day.
George B. Kofroth, a former Honey Brook hotel clerk, receives 70,000 dollars after Swiss immigrant Otto F. Kuenzler bequeathed his entire estate to him for kindness shown. Kuenzler, who died about a year ago in this country, left a will revealing a wealthy uncle's inheritance in St Gallen, Switzerland. After lengthy litigation, the rightful claimant's share was confirmed and deposited in a Lancaster bank.
The article describes a child friendly sculpture project using paper pulp as a clay substitute. Tear newsprint, soak in boiling water, then blend with flour and water paste. Mold into birds animals figures or dishes. When dry, color with watercolors.
A humorous clippings mix presents a young Philadelphia bride chatting with a butter dealer after her honeymoon ends. She asks for butter and quips about toast, while a misquoted line adds irony. The item mixes playful social wit with period-style humor about marriage and politics.
A collage of 1907 era clippings notes Mrs. H L Mutzabaugh of Duncannon crediting Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring health after spring kidney illness. Also features testimonials for Cuticura eczema treatment and various humorous anecdotes, plus a catalog of assorted notes and a Gladstone tome remark.
The piece humorously contrasts Dutch thrift with tea drinkers and nervous energy, features lines about grocer refunds for Schilling's Bent, a cord on a finger to remind of mail, and a wife forgetting to hand the letter, all tied to The Congregationalist's wit.
An article extols on the spot mixed machine ground paint as the true science, cites National Lead tests and free testers, then moves through anecdotes and quotes about lectures, O'Connell, nautical humor, and various ads and sayings, ending with social observations on love and marriage for money.
A college professor and his son meet an old farmer during a wet season. The professor remarks on abnormal precipitation, provoking slight embarrassment. The son explains in college vernacular that “we’ve been having a devil of a lot of rain.”
A stylishly dressed woman pays for a shirt at a Chinese laundry and quips about hats and etiquette. Dorothea’s father gazes into the future as a laughter filled exchange shifts the scene. The quotes include lines from Harper’s Weekly and a maxim byGeorge Meredith.
An End Missing describes an Irish sailor chosen to bowl in a long towline from the taffrail of a ship of war. After repeated heaves and strains his muscles, he mutters about a long day’s work and bad luck with the arm. He then jokes that someone has cut off the other end, provoking humor amid the labor.
A fragment from a Cornell Widow column notes jokes about women’s clothing as a mystery to men. The exchange echoes light social banter on gendered dress and eye contact.
The article extols Syrup of Figs or Elixir of Senna as valued remedies and argues California Fig Syrup Company's product is the best choice. It claims it sweetens and relieves internal discomfort naturally, with no after effects, and that its ingredients are physician approved and free of objectionable substances.
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