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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1900
Page
7
This fragment discusses domestic practices and ideals from a mid-century guide. It covers bedroom care, cleanliness, and order to promote health, with instructions on bedding, furniture care, and clothing hygiene. It also includes moral guidance on marriage and womanhood, emphasizing simplicity, virtue, and social roles alongside practical advice on timing marriage and companion selection.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a discussion of alliances and probabilities with a reference to a woman near half a century old having nineteen chances in a thousand. Vague descriptions of ears and temperament appear, suggesting a literary or observational snippet from a bygone era.
A fashion note describes silk petticoats cut into a princess dress form with decal corsage, matching to eliminate bulk. It critiques cloth trends, lists color shades such as struensee, biush grey, emob, gendarme, marchand, and notes dressing gowns edged in white silk with pale gold straps. It highlights pink tipped ears as beauty detail, citing Mrs Kendall.
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt outlines simple skin care mixtures using glycerine rose water borax and powdered borax for chapped areas. It lists nightly toilet cream ingredients Lanoline cocoa butter glycerine Foss water elder flower water with instructions to melt blend and apply after wetting skin.
An excerpt mixes old time cooking directions with a dramatic mining scene. Recipes describe meat sausage shapes boiled in cloth and fowl stock moulds with ham slices. Narration shifts to Ledra, mining workers, and a terrifying snake head scene near a mine clearing as a monstrous creature emerges in vivid peril.
George Grel don recounts a bizarre South American mine tale where a Kalon bird lures victims to a venomous kragi serpent. Soltram and Ledra perish and are saved by a gunshot to the beast, with Ledra and Bringham surviving as they abandon the mine for a return journey through Venezuela.
In Pole City Missouri a double tragedy unfolds as a bartender Gra McArdle dies from a forehead wound after a quarrel with George Wells a Black miner from Scammon is seized by a mob taken from jail and hanged to a telephone pole. Wells admits he aided the assault but denies the fatal public safety act. Separate notes mention a telegraph operator Harry Lohman at Galway Pa losing a hand in a musket accident and a loss of about ten thousand dollars yearly due to unidentified loose money in mail handling.
Johanna Gursky, a Crystal Falls Michigan girl, was found by a sheriff near Atkinson after seventeen days in the woods. She survived on wintergreen berries and was brought home in the early morning. The tale ends with a lesson about facing troubles directly.
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