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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1909
Page
3
In Baltimore Maryland a woman testifies that four years of illness and nervousness disappeared after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts cures for menstrual issues fibroid tumors and related pains and urges readers to trust Mrs Pinkham for guidance.
A rambling collage of jokes and anecdotes spans police wit in Boston, butterfly hunting by English tourists, and comic misfires in daily life. It threads in humorous tales from a hospital interne and a barber shop banter about jokes and editors, ending with light notes on marriage and storytelling.
Six year old Johnnie quietly sits in a corner with hands over his ribs after a sermon on Eve. He fears he is going to have a wife, shocking his family. The incident reflects a child's literal interpretation of religious talks and social gatherings.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote shows a garrison dentist quipping about hammer and pincers as tools for chloroforming nervous soldiers. In a separate scene, two library patrons discuss a so‑called remarkable book, noting there is nothing remarkable about it.
A shortBrooklyn clipping records a playful exchange between Nabby Marie and Wiley about milk freshness in a household scene. Wiley jokes that the fault lies with the milk not being fresh, implying a humorous domestic moment.
A colored man confessed to stealing clothes from a young white woman. The judge estimated values at 80 for the dress suit, 10 for the silk hat, with the man asked to speak and given a chance for leniency. Also included are an advertisement for Doan's Kidney Pills citing Mrs Graves's lifelong kidney trouble and recovery.
A new feature ponders man's solitude and futility against eternal silence. The big scarfed man replies humorously that rising for the owl car and waiting for another ride still feels the same.
A Berkshire Courier item notes a property owner allowed an employee to post a sign banning lofting and swimming on the grounds to curb nuisance by local boys. The sign reads in part No Lofting or Swimmig on Theas Growns Order by It Catched Law WI be Forced.
An article touts a ten day test substituting Postum for coffee to prove coffee causes illness. A patient recounts chronic stomach trouble and headaches improving on Postum, returning to coffee triggers sickness, then returning to Postum restores health. The piece cites The Road to Wellville and a booklet.
A collage of overheard dialogue and magazine bits spans jokes about heaven and hades, misquoted phrases, and a dinner remark by Mme Helene Vincente. It notes tuberculosis laymen, a theater actor’s contradictions, and scattered aphorisms, concluding with a stray historical proverb about inner and outer battles.
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