p. 492 | Dime Novels by Union Signal

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 31.

Dime Novels.

By Union Signal

MOTHERS, look out for the dime novels. No poison more insidious could be introduced into your homes. Keep the mind's health as carefully protected as you do the body's, and the State Reform School will not open its doors to close them for years upon one of your darlings. A mother's boy in Montreal, only fourteen years old, was recently detected in a three hundred dollar forgery. He and two companions were about starting for New York, and had thirty dime novels in their possession. A boy in the Thaddeus Stevens' Public School at Philadelphia, when reprimanded by his teacher, drew his revolver and threatened to shoot her. This led to a search of the pupils, when seven revolvers were captured from boys about ten years old. About one hundred and twenty dime novels were discovered to be the property of the youthful scape-graces.