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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
3
Annie Catron of 927 Main St Cincinnati Ohio writes that Peruna cured her long standing catarrh of the head and stomach upset within a month and improved her general health. She notes prior remedies failed and recommends Peruna tablets and Man a lin laxative, asking for the Free Peruna Almanac for 1908.
A Derbyshire doctor resigns from a Midland golf club with a letter stating he will not play golf again. The club secretary replies with a brisk verse about removing his name and his wife from the rolls, tightening the social snub in a wry exchange.
A woman and her husband quit coffee after illness from it. Postum eased headaches, cleared complexion, and improved kidneys. She and others changed to Postum, promoted by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with the slogan There is a Reason.
An anecdote recalls General Robert E. Lee pausing beside a Chambersburg street, saluting a girl waving a federal flag. He told her to wave on and show respect to all, while the troops shifted, illustrating restraint and kindness amid war’s tension.
In a streetcar scene three men discuss aphorisms and epigrams with witty asides. A stranger wearing a red card labeled Epigrams Within triggers alarm as banter turns to surreal jokes about euphemistics and pulchritude before the stranger departs.
An East Coast partnership of two young men established a cattle ranch in Idaho. After profit grew, the elder brother left for a month, during which head stockman McIntyre suffered an internal injury from a bucking horse. A telegram from the cast requested medical advice and wage payments from the accident date.
The Earl of Kingston exposes a thief aided by a butler in his town house. The servant reports no policemen on the premises. The master incredulously asks if with cooks and maids in his employ there is no policeman in the kitchen and orders the prisoner released.
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt shows Tommy Keating and Megfough debating talcam powder use on fleas at St. Francis. Jim recommends external application while Tommy recalls choking from the can.
L Wood a prominent Fentress Norfolk Co Va merchant suffered months of back and kidney pain with irregular urine. After medical treatment failed he used Deans Kidney Pills. Within a box he endured four days of intense pain and passed a stone measuring about one half by five sixteenths inches. He reports no kidney trouble since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
An Ohio school visit ends with a local school committee chairman urging children to pursue education by contrasting wages. He points to railway workers earning modest pay versus higher earners like engineers and superintendents, concluding education is the key to advancement. In a separate vignette, Dick seeks experience over romance, confessing he wants the learning experience rather than the girl.
Fragmentary ad copy touts a cure for deafness and catarrh by Chesey & Co offering free samples and home remedies. It references Eustachian tube blockages and claims one hundred dollars for cures, with doctor endorsements and panacea-style language.
A fragmentary exchange reflects on character and generosity, contrasting Mushley and Crabbe in tender actions toward beggars. The text also advertises Castoria and Brown's Bronchial Troches, with abrupt asides on resilience and achievement, ending with a proverb on borrowed plumes.
A collage of political jokes about Senator Taylor and Representative Hughes fades into old time medical and horse tonics advertisements. The piece includes a child eczema testimony praising Cuticura remedies, then Sloan’s veterinary ads and a playful child’s speech about a pig.
A light hearted jocular line from a column or hoax piece asking about marriages and scarcity of men. The quip frames a playful reflection on family life and affection across generations.
A Cape Breton maid questions a white marble ancestor statue on Mrs. Blair’s grounds. The owner defends the figure citing life work and principles while the maid suggests the dead belong in their grave. An ad for a medical cure appears in the text.
A fragmentary report notes Prudence eloping with her father's chauffeur amid a tangled scene of words. Other stray lines reference patience, truth, and an old Marcus Antoninus quote, with a brief boast about Nevada's potential in precious metals.
An advertisement extols a wholesome home, urging use of genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. as a trusted laxative, approved by physicians and the Well-Informed of the World, sold by leading druggists.
A downtown office displays a self written wall schedule listing 10 reserved for book agents and sellers, 10-11 for Insurance agents, 11-12 for long story chores, 1-2 solicitors for church and charitable institutes, 3-6 miscellaneous social visitors. The note adds We transact our own business at night. Also mentions Peruna Almanac promoting the 1908 edition and a Sterne quote on beauty and virtue.
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