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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1909
Page
3
A Century Magazine excerpt outlines two competing family ideologies rooted in Roman and Germanic origins. One favors male headship and legal marriage as a patriarchal union, while the other imagines a democratic family with equal partners. It notes women’s growing education and pursuit of autonomy, foreshadowing tensions in marriage expectations during social evolution.
A short, moralistic piece questions why people kick when plans fail and argues kicking signals dissatisfaction. It compares personal behavior to partnerships, urges self-control, and warns that persistent fault-finding harms character and attracts less favorable company. It includes brief notes on beehive and sparrow conflicts and boarding-house manners as social analogies.
A farm diary recounts a boyish obsession with dynamite to pull stumps. The Old Man buys a box of pills and fuses, uses them on a stump, and a hog and then a mule trigger a chaotic explosion that blows apart most of the barn yard. The mule survives but the barn is wrecked and the farm humbles its daredevil schemes.
A New York Post opinion piece questions whether prolonged rural residence helps or harms women's development. It contrasts country and city influences on health, self-reliance, loneliness, and cultural opportunities, noting many Western women abroad in out door life gain less broad outlook than city women. It cites Olive Schreiner as an exception and predicts time will reveal trends.
A description of 1960s professional foot racing noting the Redskin Deerfoot as a crowd drawing figure at reservations. It recalls Deerfoot’s pace, a paid runner troupe, and parallels to modern managers who controlled results like Shrubb and Lang. The piece argues such control harmed the sport's popularity.
A concise reflection on dialogue from Puck notes that a skilled conversationalist grasps the subject so deeply he avoids uttering all there is to say about it. The remark implies restraint and depth in talking.
A ragbag of garbled verse about first meetings and entwined fates sits beside short notices on Kipling echoes in American life. Domestic blurbs celebrate enlistees, kitchen staff hires, a ribbon seller turned fiction writer, and a whimsical wedding prank with an airship honeymoon gag.
A quirky column notes a rain soaked passer buying an umbrella and a nervous newly ordained Philadelphia minister who loses his sermon notes and improvises from the Bible. Other fragments mock stereotypes, a mother recalls a bedtime interruption with a child and a plea for sticking to humble remedies.
A mother confronts her daughter who is reading Congreve plays and threatens to burn the book unless she destroys it. The mother also warns that she will cancel invitations for a box party to see The Little Daughters of the Great White Way.
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