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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1907
Page
2
Fashion notes highlight small touches that define ensembles including belts hats gloves and shoes. Elaborate veils boas and fur accents shape outfits while chiffon and tulle finishes enhance evening gowns. Accessories like rosettes ribbons and buckles offer quick, stylish finishing options.
A pattern description shows how to make a shirt waist cover that slips over a regulation hanger. Use 44 by 22 inches silk or cotton, folded to form a box, with a three part top and white collar. Attach with wide beading, ribbon, and a bow, and finish in blue wash twill with matching ribbon.
A fashion note discusses furs chosen to harmonize with gowns, urging color harmony over exact matches. Women in grayish blue gowns pair blue fox sets while others in golden brown wear lynx in lighter shades, illustrating how coordinated fur and dress create stylish ensembles.
The article describes elegant methods for trimming evening gowns using artificial flowers and foliage. It favors black net over white or pale chiffons, with chiffon roses, ribbon roses, and jet velvet accents. It suggests matching flowers in chiffon, using trailing loops, backings with ribbons, and parade of passementerie for refined decoration.
A Western senator recalls his four year old son admiring a magazine showing portraits of the president and the senator. The boy asks who the other man is and the father explains it is the President, noting a future east coast pride. A separate joke notes a man hit by a car with no harm done.
A brief verse exchange from the Philadelphia Press jokes about falling in love and writers chasing meter. The quip highlights a poet rushing to fit rhyme and rhythm as a lighthearted cartoonish dialogue.
A damaged clipping recounts a cautionary tale of deceit and remorse. A mischiefful boy disables a gas meter, prompting a string of improvised schemes. The cunning exploiter promises rewards, then faces a stern buyer returning the thermometer and demanding restitution.
The exchange questions whether valuable presents should be given to a girl not yet engaged, with a response about propriety and social expectations. The brief dialog touches on decorum and romantic norms in everyday life.
A brief quotation highlights a humorous exchange about gender roles and the woman as provider. The line plays on the notion of bread and dough as domestic economics, featuring a boss and a worker in a witty back and forth.
A garbled collage of quotes from Houston Post and Cleveland Leader jokes, mixing fashion language with punchlines. The snippet includes lines about blonde versus brunette styling, a rent scheme, a dance stance, a comic exchange, and a couplet about amateurish work, all from disparate papers.
A York County preacher long dosing himself with a fiery stomach remedy shared one dose with a Boston drummer. The drummer, also troubled by indigestion, asked to try the remedy and, after recovery, asked the preacher if he preached hell fire. The preacher replied that he did, and the drummer remarked he was the first to carry samples of it.
In a clipped exchange Mrs. Brown criticizes Mrs. Peck as horrid and spiteful, while Mr. Brown counters with a calm rebuke, noting there is no need to imitate. The brief dialogue captures a domestic dispute over gossip and behavior.
The scene features Mr Beaton and Miss Twinkle discussing a ghost that hasn’t walked in three weeks. Puck comments the shade suffers frost bite not locomotor ataxia, maintaining a light satirical tone.
An unusual remark notes Howell-1t felt hungry and Powell-So was L. The narrator recalls the meal, mentioning it cost as much as the tip to the waiter, Judge.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls a birthday party where a child was heartbroken after another guest won the prize in the cake contest. The lighthearted exchange frames the moment as a bittersweet memory from a family gathering.
A humorous courtroom exchange features Johnnie pressuring Grandpa to croak for a joke about inheritance. Grandpa questions the need, and a judge comments on the playful taunt reflecting family dynamics during a probate moment.
A Prairie Farmer illustration shows a permanent cattle feeding rack with cornerposts driven into the ground and a wide bottom. A reader notes steady use in the same lot and prefers fixed racks over movable ones for year round feeding.
The article explains how feeding hay and dry grain before or at milking stirs dust in the air, introducing bacteria into milk. Dry corn stover, brushing, and damp cloth wiping impact bacteria levels. wiping udders reduces contamination, while brushing and stripping have varying effects on next milking bacteria.
The letter critiques farmers in a cheese factory who vote to discontinue payment for milk based on butterfat tests. It notes some patrons, convinced by tests that their herds were poor, favored returning to payment by weight. Majority pressure led enlightened neighbors to subsidize deficits, harming good stock, with many such factories buying milk by hundredweight and located away from top dairy areas.
The article explains how to keep cows clean by adjusting stable features. Proper door length and platform height prevent dirt, with droppings falling beyond the cow’s area. Tailoring tying arrangements to each cow’s length helps maintain cleanliness throughout winter.
Dairy notes advise that feed quality matters as much as quantity for farm animals. Over salting butter wastes money. avoid covering milk with animal heat to prevent souring and fetid odors. Typical dairy herds hold three to four cows. roots and silage both valuable for fattening lambs with roots slightly favored.
Prof. C D Smith of Michigan Agricultural College urges larger herds, better care and food, utmost cleanliness, and the application of practical business methods to boost dairy industry efficiency.
Seville correspondent examines a German patented wood preservation method using liquid sulphur that solidifies in wood pores. It claims improved durability over evaporative treatments, with fusible sulphur at 115 degrees enabling complete pore filling and resistance to water acids and alkaline solutions when combined with wood’s mechanical strength.
The irrigation canal across Sosa and Ribabona in Spain uses a 3600 foot siphon to carry water over hill ranges, bypassing tunneling costs. Despite initial skepticism from engineers, the system works, with sluice gates opened by the king. The canal now provides water and sustains 247000 acres of land.
The canal and ditches fail to impress but the great siphon stands out as a major engineering feat. Two 8500 ft long tubes, 12 ft 5 in diameter, carry 7700 gallons per second built of concrete around wooden forms with steel lining and earth cover. Two thousand workers labored for months to run river water uphill.
Manganese bronze has practically driven aluminum bronze from the market. The disparity in quantities used is large, not due to superiority but cost. Manganese bronze contains nearly half zinc and can be cast more easily, making it cheaper.
The carpenter, premier among Chinese craftsmen, leads in skilled workmanship. Though often tied to traditional tools and methods, he delivers results with efficiency that surpasses many foreign trained engineers and machinists.
The report notes a continued decline in Ecuador rainfall from 1878 to the present, with no exact statistics available. Observers report a drop of around 30 percent over the period, though figures are uncertain and debated.
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