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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1905
Page
2
A collage of eccentric notes and quips about finance, theatre, gossip, and global affairs. It mentions Champagne sold for $500 a quart in Colombian money, a Dutch treasury deficit, a rumor about King Alfonso's engagement, Rockefeller’s digestion wish, and vaudeville plans for Kid McCoy. The piece blends humor, sensational labels, and fleeting social observations with various misprints and curious remarks.
A law soon to take effect in parts of Russia permits natives to discuss politics. If they discuss fervently or noisily, the blessing of the law will be deeply disguised, as thousands of our people do, making its impact unclear.
A fashion brief surveys stiffened foundation skirts to control outward sway, interlinings in feather-weight haircloth, Dutch supper spreads with a spiced cheese paste, and a winter dressing-gown with full sleeves and lace frills. It also highlights brown palettes for fabrics, hat styles with puffed crowns, gingerbread recipe, and a new silk waist blouse with soutache trim and ruffles.
Gay checked and striped flannels in rainbow colors dominate autumn waistwear. A white flannel with wide tartan stripes stands out, sent to a guest at a northern resort. Features include hand tucked front, Wright red plaid in front, tucked full sleeves with tartan cuffs, red De rearl buttons, and black patent leather belts.
The head of the sills list for carriage cloaks is a practical stylish design in almond green. Thin cloaks will be popular for evening wear for women using trolley cars to reach theaters or functions. The collar and cuffs feature oriental gold embroidery with shoulder fullness in several rows of whirrings.
The piece catalogs winter fashion trends with color themes baud reversing. It highlights empire style coats with fronts cut like evening waistcoats, circular skirts in plaids, reimagined postilions, silk and cloth coats, oval pearl buckles, and white belts. It notes blooming boas of green leaves with pink camellias, black crepe mourning hats trimmed with white crepe, and sensible bloomers for girls matching stockings and bonnets, avoiding knickerbocker-like cuts.
The article discusses autumn fashion trends favoring pale tones from ecru to biscuit, wine to cream, with fawn and pale red for relief. It notes light blues greens and heliotrope shades suit fashionable women, and asserts lighter colors tend to be more becoming. White will be worn this fall for receptions and calling.
A description notes a glamorous visiting gown in princess style, featuring mulberry silk chiffon velvet. The plain skirt supports a dotted silk yoke lighter than the velvet, with a wide bordered plaited band. Sleeves puff to the elbow and finish in mousquetaire fashion.
Instructions describe pickling plums using wine plums five pounds sugar one quart vinegar and one ounce stick cinnamon. Prick plums with a large needle pour boiling syrup over them let stand until cold then heat syrup and repeat over four days. Final note mentions Mitch day bail together for twenty minutes before kneading in Jara.
A description details a red cloth school skirt with a wide bottom band and an empire jacket with four buttons and attached basque. It notes Brown remains fashionably favored with many new shades, offering numerous tones to suit all.
Advice column notes various kitchen hacks from salt in alcohol for stains to lard in Indian meat dishes. It describes ironing aids with asbestos, a sugar crust for sponge cake, and carpet care with turpentine. Table decor shifts to sparse centerpieces, crystal silver stands, and two half circle centerpieces, plus autumn headgear favoring ready to wear millinery with late straw use.
Recipes for Apple filling a cake layer spread and a lunch biscuit dough. A kitchen shower described as bridal gifts for the up to date kitchen and laundry. Also a Girl's Suit of blue cloth with trimmed bell skirt and lace chemisette details.
A tea gown on view features flowered net in pale pink tones with faint green leaves on white net over pale pink silk lining. Trimmed with deep lace, the garment presents a rich, refined description as shown.
A girl recounts two bitter quarrels between husbands and wives. In the first, a wife leaves after tears, passes a butcher shop, and jokes about meals while the husband sits reading. In the second, a wife fakes suicide by pond and note, but the husband discovers and discards the letter, muttering about the foolish woman.
Paul Morton cited a Marylander who crowded a car with bundles as a cautionary example of railroad hog behavior. The conductor settled the dispute by declaring the bundles belonged to a gentleman in the smoking car and required the owner to identify them at the main office tomorrow.
The piece argues cheerful temperance sustains health and vigor, citing Lord Palmerston as a model of equanimity amid toil. It notes that calmness, listening, and forbearance prevent worry and self torment, linking lifelong productivity to constancy and enjoyment in creative effort across figures like Homer, Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci.
A fragment describes a Japanese theater with dawn starts and a long duration. Actors enter along a narrow platform above the pit using a boarded footway. They perform near the lobby, avoiding wings, with boxes and paper doors and a cattle pen like pit. A family adjoins a central compartment for the day, settling in with cushions and trays, shifting seats by purse and proximity to stage.
A fragmented verse piece extols a perfect boy who excels in jumping and running and embodies brave, true, noble traits. It praises athletic prowess and moral fiber as central to manhood, contrasting old ideals with contemporary performance.
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