Show congressional library honors old dime novel philadelphia the dime novel has leaped from its obscurity of 50 years ago to a place of honor in the congressional gress lonal library at washington thousands of collectors are eager to pay high prices for genuine diamond dick thrillers of the SOs and la in philadelphia a happy hours brotherhood composed of GO CO members has been organized to promote interest in dime novel collecting robert IL II 11 smeltzer vice president of the brotherhood believes dime novels not only are harmless but actually have done considerable good my grandmother and aunts considered e r ed dime novels trash so I 1 read t them h em in secret back in the haymow 1 I cant for the life of me see what was wrong with mith them unless it was the fact that they were so frequently concerned with death and fighting the good man always triumphed however and justice always prevailed there are things more objectionable in most modern magazines |