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Show "Dime Novel Days." Marathon mad! When a mere child I read a story I think It was a dime novel about an Indian runner; probably prob-ably a 'ten-cent Beadle; among tho first of the ten-centers, and far more wholesome than the salacious ten-centers of the present day ot eroticism; The winning of the west was duo largely" to the dime novel. I never read one that did not tend to enlarge a boy's love of outdoor sport and clean adventure. There was nothing that could not be .read at .the family fireside." fire-side." Yet some one started a crusade against the dime novel, and after 20 years It was partly eradicated that Is,-it was forced to give way. to. the cheap tales of. city dens and dives. New York. Press. i : : |