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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1907
Page
2
A stock dealer buying horses in Colorado visits a ranch to learn Old Gill Sands business methods. A rancher answers that Old Bill Sands would not go straight for a nickel but would edge around for it, implying cautious bargaining behavior.
A testimonial describes debility symptoms from fatigue to insomnia and lists Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure. It attributes improved blood, nerves, and organ function to the pills and notes the product is sold by mail order in a mid 19th or early 20th century commerce style.
Step by step craft guide explains using white photographer paste to cover cardboard frames with cretonne. Begin with a cotton wad backing, cut fabric larger than the frame, stretch and paste tight, cut slits for smooth wrapping, and weight down overnight to prevent warping.
Craft a clever pin cushion from a plain white baby sock by stuffing bran inside and sewing the top tight. Add a ribbon bow in the sock color, a toe bow optional, and optional safety pins beads needles to complete the cushion before gifting.
A plan for uniting library shelves and a table top into one piece of furniture. A simple square foundation supports four-sided shelves with a top of circular or oval shape. Top layers are joined by screws from below and edges can bevel for a lighter look. Foot feet are suggested as four wood balls fixed with screws through the lowest shelf.
A concise description outlines foundation prep including excavating to the cellar depth, trenching around the edge 18 inches wide and six inches deep, and constructing 12 inch thick wall forms. It notes two by four braces against studs and methods to use bank soil as part of the form, with figures illustrating typical layouts.
Houston foreman C C Perry converts a worn S P railroad air brake cylinder into an air vise. A three way cock foot lever controls air to grip jaws, then release. Useful for heavy repetitive work, though unsafe for small tasks.
A fragment describes building an Aeolian harp with a pine box, specific dimensions for top, sides, ends, and supports for strings, plus suggests harmonic tuning and four soundboard holes. The text then shifts to a note about The World's Chocolate and a claim that most chocolate is made in Switzerland with Germany a close second.
A small pincushion can be made from two linen squares with a half inch hem around all sides and a hemat stitching above it. Between the squares a flat cushion is clipped and held by a No 1 ribbon, tied with bows at the corners. One cover may feature floral embroidery or a monogram with a wreath of blossoms.
Machines shape law science ethics arts and state guiding progress. Two generations have walked the highway of steam while inventions like the Bessemer converter sewing machine and typewriter transform labor into skilled creation. The Reader Magazine suggests machines educate people teaching truth and precision and aligning universal laws with human needs.
Divers were deployed to salvage Winchester cathedral after a water main burst during foundation repairs. The flood threatened collapse, but they stopped the torrent and preserved the historic structure.
The Lancashire cotton spinners formed a commission of experts to inspect world cotton growing lands. Their report concludes the United States remains the main supply source, with Egypt and India underperforming. The southern states are seen as leading this key industry for years to come.
A reflective column argues that deceit carries a heavy price yet society tolerates it as a harsh reality. It weighs ethical costs, social norms, and personal consequences in a measured, period voice.
An English beekeeper visiting the suburbs notes grass color is too green, claiming it spoils the effect. The host asks what’s wrong, and the visitor says the grass is too grown, hurting the appearance. A Hoxton Record note accompanies others on natural history and spelling reform in France.
Proportionate fares from Utah and Idaho to Missouri river and Chicago with return trips. Dates of sale November 20 and December 18, 1906, return validity sixty days. Literature available from agent C. P. Warren, A T & S F Ry, 411 Dooly Elk, Salt Lake City Utah.
The story recounts Dean Swift inaugurating midweek prayer reading at Loracor. On the first Wednesday only his clerk Roger attended, prompting Swift to begin with a humorous line about the Scriptures moving Roger and proceeding to the end of the service.
A growing trend shows people monogramming stationery with a facsimile of their signature. The initials are used in the monogram, stamped across the left corner of the fourth page with the address balance to the right.
A Paris jeweler has bought a large stock of stones found in mines on the czar's private property. Each year stones from these mines are offered by tender, in the same manner as forest lands and mines of the czar are sometimes sold by the imperial cabinet.
Dispatches report a ghost in the Potchefstroom district Transvaal has taken possession of a farm. It moves furniture, slaps and pinches adults and visitors, and startles animals, but it never harms the children.
A New York Mail quip notes H G Wells called poker slow yet implies he has never watched a player behind a pat full on aces as another draws two cards, illustrating a sharper, quicker edge in real play.
A visitor finds Mrs Mitt busy at the Hitt family home in Mount Morvin Li. She cradles a child, rocks a baby, knits, and folds a newspaper on a chair back while remarks on a good record for pitbh a woman are noted. The piece ends with a Sidney Smith quote about perfection and a noted garden scene.
In a brief road test, the mighty Juggernaut car faced a 90 horsepower automobile. The encounter ended quickly as Juggernaut retreated to an antiquated garage in defeat and embarrassment.
John Prizer of Boyersville Pa, a saloon keeper, nipped his thumb by an oyster while drowning the shellfish in soup. Surgeons treated his thumb, which was rendered unusable. Also notes a barrel organ in Tobbing England church dating from the thirteenth century with three barrels and 36 tunes.
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