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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1904
Page
6
A weary lecturer traveling to a town lecture was misled by a bell boy and served whisky in his hotel room by mistake. A local abstinence society committee, unaware of the mix up, asserts he ordered the drink, while the guest insists he asked for a whisk broom.
Yorktown Ark March 7 Dodd's Kidney Pills praised as a kidney disease remedy. Dr Leland Williamson cites cases including Mr Hobert Weeks, a farmer with malaria and kidney issues, who reportedly recovered after six weeks of treatment and gained weight. The ad-style piece promotes the pills as a universal kidney-specific cure.
A fragment from a 1920s periodical notes Japanese immunity to heart disease and nervous prostration, linking it to equanimity and cheerful ease. An advertisement touts Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for bunions and foot comfort, priced 25 cents, with mail order sample offer. Also mentions glass-bottom boats and steam launches at Catalina Island, California.
A compact, period style note discusses money described as dirty or filthy lucre while recalling the fox and grapes fable. It also mentions Putnam Faceless Dyes in a surreal line about stains, hands, and kettle colors. The fragment blends satire and product reference with unclear context.
A historical overview traces chess origins across India Persia and Arabia, noting earlier depictions and influences. It cites pyramid wall paintings from Sakkara dated to King Teta's era and suggests chess may date back as far as 3300 BC, highlighting archaeological and philological debates.
The excerpt explains that an electric spark requires high electromotive force to jump between liquid surfaces, making lightning strikes on water surfaces extremely uncommon.
Loose sacques and kimonos for infants shown in white cashmere with lace trim and pale blue flannel with French knots. Patterns include size 2 years with yardage for various widths, plus a suede belt and embossed decor items like a large Grecian border leather table mat.
The article describes the growing boy blouse knickerbocker suit, pattern 4655, for ages 4 6 8 and 10. It highlights the blouse and knickerbockers, materials like blue serge, and elastic waist details. It notes washable fabrics for warm weather and light wool for cooler days, with sizing and fabric yardage for 8 years.
The article notes that umbrella and parasol handles have become elaborate and costly with new sets. A lightweight green tapestry case with a sprawling pink rose pattern was recommended, lined with chamois skin to protect the items during travel.
Fashion notes dismiss narrow patent leather belts as outdated while praising broad soft leather belts as stylish, though costly. The column critiques the slim look and highlights the rising popularity of wide belts, noting their expense and required tailoring.
A miscellaneous home remedy column suggests cooling compresses dipped in Fitchen Alcohol to ease ailments. It also offers tips on light head wraps, muslin cloths as ideal for compresses, and a walnut celery chicken salad variation. Additional notes include enamelware cleaning with emery cloth and cream wrapped in cloth for a cheese preparation with parsley garnish.
Waste gone, Lovee, velted back coats are fashionable for walking suits. Drooping shoulders are imperative. Tiny rubbes trim, reviving old fashion. Long coats passing by spring. Loose and comfortable dress prevails. Ruffles from 1830 return to trim skirts. Gaugings and smockings reappear. High girdle appears on tall gown coats. Leather novelties shift to illuminated leather and mumminated table mats and spreads.
The article details a sectional tucked skirt in foulard amethyst with black and white figures, adaptable to cotton linen silk and wool. It explains three straight lower-edge sections, upper plain front with side back tucks, optional belt tucks, and fullness via gathers. includes material yardages and pattern sizes for waists 22 to 30 inches.
A carpet strip glued to wool removes mud from boots without injuring leather and beats brushes. Place hot fruit in a glass dish set on a wet cloth to prevent cracking. Boil corks for bottling pickles or ketchup and press them tightly while hot to ensure a tight seal when cold.
A May Manton pattern No. 4617 offers linen etamine waist designs with embroidered bands. Describes a yoked front, V back, puff sleeves, box plait edge, and trimming options. Materials listed include yardage for 44 inch wide fabric and small hand finishing details.
Me Makre brakes with enthusiasm remarks about a wife’s youth and aging appearance, noting how time alters faces and asking for a match as his cigar goes out, quoted from the Chicago Tribune.
An old advertisement touts new oat varieties and farm seeds claiming enormous yields and big profits. It mentions Mich and Me test results, offers seeds like Sulzer’s Beardless Taray and Ear Host Canes, and invites readers to request a catalog from John A. Balzer Seed Co. in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
In Copenhagen an apartment house has been opened containing twenty five suites of four rooms each. There is only one kitchen and meals are kept up by the dumb waltern. The coat of a cuite, with meals and care of the rooms, is about $225 a person a year To Cures Cold in one day, Take Laxative Bromo Quining Tablets, AD druggists refund mousy if it fails core Se.
European readers increasingly value American stationery as Austria exports much paper but good letter paper remains scarce. Austrian pens, penade and erasers are noted as inferior products.
A British periodical recounts a lively aquarium scene in Brighton. A hermit crab snags a herring, another claims a share, sparking a chase that draws up to twenty crabs into a fierce melee. One crab drags the damaged herring behind a rock and feeds quietly while the battle rages.
Russian fisherman Si mon Strabrovsky of Odessa navigated solo a small sailing boat from Odessa across the Black Sea to Constan tinople and back. He put in at Constanza and Salina on the return voyage, saying stars were enough without a compass. He received £200 for the feat.
A newspaper woman resting at a Colorado ranch recounts how a simple diet of Grape-Nuts and cream rebuilt her strength after overwork. She credits the food with quick nourishment and lasting health, urging brain workers not to overlook Grape-Nuts. The testimonial endorses Postum Co. and promotes The Road to Wellville booklet.
A historical note extols Western Canada as a rich farming region west of Ontario with black clay loam soil and a climate of cold winters and warm summers. It cites low but steady rainfall about 17 inches, soil warmth boosting early grain ripening, and letters from farmers near Moose Jaw praising land value increases and profitable farming, supported by Interior Department agents offering rates and information.
Yonkers New York will host the nation’s youngest city council with an average age under 28. The group’s members range from 21 to 40, chaired by Mayor John E. Annus, the recently elected chief magistrate.
An old newspaper notice extols Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass and Bromus inermis as top per manent hay producers. It also touts Victoria rape and Spelt for cattle feed, and invites John A Sulter of La Crosse Wisconsin to obtain farm seed samples.
A collage of historical attributions about a maxim urging timely kindness appears alongside unrelated ads for Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders and a voyage note about starfish collection. The items mix quotations attributed to various nobles, a patent medicine testimonial, and ships harvesting starfish at great depths for science.
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