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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
2
A collage of humorous sketches and brief jokes from the era's pages. Snappy lines on marriage, manners, and mischief mingle with trivial anecdotes and quips about fashion, family life, and public morality. Notable snippets reference a singer’s charm, a foolish lover, and the era’s social foibles.
A jumble of comic snippets from Chicago Daily News and Judge lampshade wordplay. Fragments feature exchanges about diamonds and a summer country trip, plus misheard lines and orthography quips.
Old time needle book projects explain making perforated card embroidery kits using silk ribbon and simple stitches. No. 3 folds into a four panel screen with needle packets, hinges, loops, and ribbon bow accents. Small needlebooks use layered card flannel leaves and stitched edges for securely holding needles.
The article surveys fashionable coats and cloaks from cape models to short mandarin coats, noting kimono sleeves and Chinese and Japanese influences. It describes fabrics, embroidery, and coordinated colors, plus a suggestion to add a central opening photo for cabinet or carte de visite portraits.
Paris fashion notes feature purpllice effects with a draped blue voile bodice and one piece sleeve. A silk anointed voile skirt with overskirt points, stitched with fine silk sontache braid, outlines a refined spring silhouette. A Met lace bodice with draped golle, blue embroidered braid, pale blue silk vest, white lace yoke, and apricot velvet cords highlight couture elegance for summer social events. Delft chiffon over satin, pale pink roses, pale blue hems, and silver tissue trims complete the ensemble.
The vogue favors garnishing a lace blouse with dress fabrics especially silk and satin though sheer fabrics limit versatile wear to three piece suits. Girdle and belt details repeat gown material. Doucety offers an ecru mull trim with Roumanian embroidery on fronts shoulders cuffs and belt with a bejeweled buckle.
A historic promotion touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a leading remedy for female complaints. It claims cures for irregularities, weakness, indigestion, and nervous symptoms, and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts to women seeking help.
A Hudson Wisconsin resident laments Senator Spooner's possible resignation praising his legal mind. The piece recalls Spooner's court prowess and a courtroom tale about motive and harm, followed by a humorous Civil War era anecdote and other eclectic notes.
A rich man commissions a portrait and praises its natural likeness. The fashionable artist agrees, noting the sitter’s relaxed gesture with a hand in his pocket as a neat touch. The story ends with the receipt, implying the bill matched the illustration’s stylish ease.
A quip about a lawyer choosing law over the army. The client notes the high fees would leave little of the enemy, prompting a wheezy exchange on profession and battle.
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