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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
6
A mixed feature piece discusses current fashions emphasizing black and white effects in gowns, new sleeve styles, and decorative touches. It includes a short anecdote about a college girl on a New York train and notes on health, teeth care, and the importance of small daily purchases shaping household budgets.
The passage details veal pot roast with forcemeat and a brown sauce, with instructions to brown and simmer until tender and to serve with stewed peas. It mentions a Grace Church San Francisco cross of electric lights, funded by Mrs William H Crocker, visible across the bay and city, with perpetual maintenance endowment.
Do not place a mistress in an uncomfortable room or ignore her need for time to mend clothes and have outings. The piece notes respect and consideration, adds a quirky nursery tale about measuring a baby with a wood ruler, and ends with veal recipe tips including Veal Scallop and Veal Ragout with step by step instructions.
The dialogue shifts through opinions on artists and portrait craft. Artman condemns crayon work as abominable and prefers oil. Speckman retorts that oil was used before. The exchange questions who qualifies as a real artist and notes Speckman as a crafty broker in his line.
A statesman questions if mockery of his speech proves its authenticity. He concedes potential annoyance but argues that no work of art is real until someone parodies or satirizes it, highlighting tension between confidence and scrutiny.
A Geograph article notes St Helena as a volcanic island with many extinct craters and rugged caves and hills. It mentions named pinnacles including Late Wife the Man and the Horse the Assen Kars and Holdfast Tom.
A Philadelphia stenographer who has just inherited $50,000 is described as very plain by source comments. The remark questions whether she can handle new wealth, reflecting social tone of interest in sudden fortune and public perception from the era.
A fragment reads with playful dialect about a frog in the throat and a character named Larry Ye hay and Denny Ye. The tone suggests humorous regional wording and an unfinished line.
U S Senator from Mississippi W V Sullivan writes to Dr Hartman of Oxford endorsing Peruna as an effective cure for catarrh. He reports relief from incipient catarrh symptoms and health improvement after trial, stating it is the best remedy he has tried. The Peruna Company advertises the nostrum as a universal cure with no substitutes and offers a free book on catarrh.
A mix of civil war survivor estimates and pensions, plus travel brag about Union Pacific and Great Overland Route. An Allen's foot ease ad appears with a price and refund. Memorial services in Byron Illinois were disrupted by a severe electrical storm wrecking a soldiers' monument.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad offers special excursion rates on the Scenic Route of the World between Grand Junction and Denver. Two lines of railway, four daily fast express trains, elegant dining cars, and through Pullman and ordinary sleeping cars to Chicago at no extra cost.
Weary women everywhere praise Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound in ads saying it cures many ailments. The notice invites readers to write for Mrs Pinkham’s advice at Lynn Massachusetts, noting no charge and claiming to have restored a million women to health.
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