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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1905
Page
3
A garbled column mixes jokes and vignettes from a small town, noting a Waukee man’s six year drink habit broken after a promise to his wife, but with dubious sourcing. It features quips about barbers, natural fools, and farming talk including Burbank’s vegetable feats and odd culinary humor.
A collage of quips and vignettes from a bygone newspaper page. Jokes about baseball scores, wedding notices, Pompeii, and political satire appear in brief captioned items. Names and locales mirror era style.
A humorous aside suggests a sick man cannot afford mud baths, then jokes that he should enter politics so the mud comes to him. The quip contrasts medical cure with political maneuvering, reflecting local political humor.
Dialogue fragment shows a humorous exchange about smoking and intelligence. Friend asserts cigarettes dull intellect. Cholly counters that his intellect remains strong, denying the claim. The line reflects a witty, colloquial interaction.
A quip from Bosh about a man who never sought anything but trouble and avoided disappointment. Josh asks how, and Bosh explains the man was never looking for anything but trouble, recounted in the Detroit Free Press.
A fragmented column mixes travel frustration with humorous quips and brief legal snippets. A restless traveler pines for a departure while a judge and defendants clash in a terse courtroom exchange. Other items include satirical lines about industry happiness and stage actors.
A brisk dialect piece contrasts optimism with caution as Polk claims success follows perseverance, while Knox and Kandor challenge the idea with skeptical remarks. The dialogue leans into practical humor about effort, prudence, and plain speech in a town setting.
A fragmented slice of dialect dialogue recalls a picnic exchange. A mother asks about the outing while a young man laments lacking someone to talk to after returning home. An anecdote touches on curiosities about menu items and a flirtatious remark from a waitress.
Portsmouth admiral Mead urges frankness in international relations at a Portsmouth dinner. He likens honest diplomacy to man to man talk, warns trickery breeds retaliation, and shares a fable about two linemen and a tavern to illustrate honest dealing and the cost of deceit.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee recalls at a private dinner a humorous Irish incident in Charlotte North Carolina. A diminutive Irishman with sly whiskers approaches, asks for a smoke, and quips he once drove a sutler’s wagon near Fort Totten, then concludes the speaker was not the man he thought.
A Maine official aboard a train tried bluffing a game warden with a tale of lobster eggs for Sebago Lake. He announced a grand title, then leapt from the moving predicament, leaving the warden puzzled as the train continued.
A writer praises deer jumping feats noting a hind leaping fifteen feet and a man high over a drain. It recalls the Hart's Leap commemorated by two stones twenty eight feet apart. The piece discusses deer senses, scent, and surprising deer blindness to a photographer within fifteen yards.
A well known man about town tells friends in a cafe how he used poker club absences to justify late returns. He weaves tales of murders and fires, each later confirmed by newspaper reports, concluding his wife cannot prove poker as his alibi.
Hunter recounts a crocodile hunting trip in India described with rapid gunfire. The first crocodile slept near shore and was killed with two shots in the mouth and neck, then another was shot above the shoulder as it fled. The wounded reptile surfaced, was hauled ashore, and finished with two more shots despite paralyzed legs.
After three years of kidney trouble and six doctors, J Landeman of South Bend found relief with Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports two boxes cured his kidneys and improved general health, and many others share similar results. The ad asserts Dodd's Kidney Pills can cure kidney trouble from its mildest to Bright's Disease.
An Arctic Alaska explorer reports Baxmo rituals with huge grotesque masks used at Easter to celebrate the sun and war return. Eskimos wear costumes and chant as they personate sun moon and animals, with heavy masks hung from roofs and revealing further human-faced masks beneath.
The text notes that a goat and its symptoms may appear in any body part or organ, with digestion commonly indicating its presence and more serious cases causing joint pain. It advises avoiding alcohol and tobacco and drinking Vichy water freely.
A Missouri woman shares her trial of choosing the right foods as fuel for the body. She suffered severe stomach troubles and weight loss until starting Grape-Nuts and Postum products. Digestive ease returned, heartburn faded, weight rose from 98 to 116 pounds, and strength improved significantly.
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