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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1905
Page
6
The article discusses fur muffs in fashion, noting white fat muffs as more stylish than the rand variety. It describes short and long haired furs, round or pointed muff shapes, and carved or indented tops. Designers pair muffs with costumes using embroidery bands and dyed furs to match gowns. An Autumn Calling Costume is highlighted for good taste with folded rubs and embroidered bands.
A fashion feature on gowns and accessories detailing a loose negligee transformation with a large cape shaped face collar, lace, and velvet accents. It describes a quaint house gown from figured tamera with green velvet piping, and elaborate sleeves, bows, and ruchings as well as trends in black taffeta and velvet trimming. It notes lace embroidery methods and hat and plume shades in coque de roche tones.
The article describes Cipere Glace bags with heavy open laces worked over rings into opera glass shapes. White or color options feature ribbons through embroidered rings, ruching at the throat, and two sizes with silver or gold accents. Small bags show dainty ribbon rosettes and knotted handles with optional paulette spangles.
A note describes simple embroidery methods inspired by Old Lace enabling two women to create decorative pieces together. The technique emphasizes easy stitches and shared projects to promote collaborative craft work.
A fashion roundup notes plain wallpaper to enlarge rooms and practical sewing tweaks to extend stockings. It details plaited skirts with full shapes yet slim hips, the popularity of accordion and satin plaiting, black crepe de chine and velvet coats, and new fur pieces from white astrakhan to ornate stoles and shoulder draped garments with decorative clasps.
Pale gloves and white gowns dominate the fashion notes. Fluffy tailored white pieces stand out with white jet accents and elbow sleeves. Velvet flowers and a silk dress with a nit cocktail hair adornment complete the refined look.
Soften two quarters of gelatin in half a cup of raspberry juice. Dissolve over hot water add juice of half a lemon a cupful of raspberry juice and half a cup of sugar. Stir over low heat until it begins to set. Fold in one and a half cups of double cream beaten stiff. Pour into a mold. When cold cover with whipped cream froth.
Shading in colors appears in ostrich feather sets including muff and long round boa. The season offers heliotrope fading to lavender and brown feathers graded from rich dark to cream, creating charming effects.
Mix one egg with the white and yolk together not separated then add half a cup of flour and a quarter teaspoon of salt. Heat with a spoon until perfectly smooth. Then heat in a quarter cup of milk.
Nearly four centuries old the gident house in St Augustine is termed the oldest in America. Built of eaquina rock like the Ponce de Leon hotel and Alcazar, its exact year unknown but pre dates 1665. The structure remains fairly preserved with polished wood interiors and served Spanish officials and later the attorney general during English rule.
The magic mirror is a bronze disk six to eight inches wide with a silvered convex front and a patterned back. When sunlight reflects off the front, the back design appears as bright lines on a dark screen, explained by Ayrton and Perry as altering the convexity to create a flat area that concentrates light.
An English capitalist syndicate aims to expand a wood pulp based silk into the United States. Paraguay supplies much of the raw material and the vegetable silk, made from trees, is adaptable to local rooms. The woven threads are supercalendered to a silky finish resembling mercerized goods. For years it has been sold in piece lengths to upholstery trades for filling. The selling test for artificial silk cravats is eagerly awaited by local manufacturers.
The Bellows Falls Bird Club split into two groups to count birds in 1904. One side listed 89 varieties, the other 83. Six varieties seen by the losing side but not the winner brought the total named birds to 95.
In 1841 the firm Ennis and Kimball sent the first cotton shipment from Galveston to Boston aboard the schooner Brazos under Captain Hardy. The venture marked a new business departure and drew notable attention for anticipated benefits and growth.
Windsor castle art treasures discovered and rearranged by King Ka ward are valued at about 60 million dollars, making insurance difficult to obtain. The high valuation reflects the magnitude and significance of the royal collection.
Nat Cummings, rural delivery carrier at Lancaster New Hampshire, earns pride after missing his first trip in thirty four months since entering the Service on June 1 1902. The stretch ends with his single lapse last Wednesday marking a notable achievement.
Workmen restoring an old Perpignan wall in France uncovered a hidden mural behind a devil painting. Behind the hollow wall lay a hoard of tarnished gold coins, mostly Spanish and French, worth thousands of francs. The owner rewarded the workers and kept the wealth.
The Ram Island lodge Maine lighthouse is nearly finished and touted as the best of its class. An appropriation of 166000 funded a hewn stone tower with smooth marble like exterior and white enamel tiling. Interior features quartered oak and diamond shaped glass, with bronze lanterns costing 10000. The lamp cost 7000 shipped from Paris. Seven workers complete the interior as the third order light prepares to flash and aid Portland bound masters of ships.
Experiments at the Royal College of Science in Dublin show tuning fork vibrations ordering falling water jets. A free jet splits into drops of irregular size and spacing, but with the fork contact the drops regularize, each vibration casting off a drop. Continuous jets can form patterns resembling vibrating strings.
In Forlimpopoli near Bologna a memorial tablet will honor robber chief Passatore in the municipal theater where his most famous crime occurred. In September 1854 during a Rossini opera he and his gang robbed the audience of their valuables.
The article recalls the ancient palace of Alexander the Great as a monumental structure once standing on the Aulatie plain. It contrasts its durability with modern steel construction claims, noting Masalve remnants and local lore that a gateway and weeds mark what remains of the palace. Time will judge which claim holds.
The piece outlines cabdrivers in London with payments by yard and fees, noting daily rides and rider charges. It discusses proprietor earnings, yard fees, and seasonal variations, estimating hours worked and how fares are calculated by distance and time.
A history of potato flour noting Austria as a growing industry where flour replaces wheat in baking. It explains processing from potatoes into flour, starch extraction, drying, and uses in feed, distilleries, and religious observances such as Pesach. It mentions cheaper production and adoption by households and various sectors.
A fragmentary poem evokes a window scene of perfumed roses and moonlit longing. The speaker imagines a sensuous vigil with wine curtains and a dreamlike gaze, faintly recounted in a single, lyrical rhythm.
A garbled court scene shows a man arraigned with slurred speech and garbled exchanges. The judge questions the defendant as he mutters about fines and a possible chance to speak. The fragment hints at court costs and a tense, uncertain outcome.
A reader suggests securing liquor bottles with a corked sign for Christmas gifts. The design fits a whisky bottle and acts as a decoration while preventing key loss and tampering. It promotes saving by keeping preferred whiskies on hand for easy club use.
A readable fragment notes flowers sold by Vy & younst in a Violet Patch season. Two hundred twenty one and fifty cents' worth of jets were raised and later sold to a nearby florist. The transaction yielded a net $92.60 with additional transplanted blossoms mentioned.
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