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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1900
Page
7
A fragmentary, literary piece discusses marriage, affection, gender roles, and domestic life with dated rhetorical flourishes. It cites Carlyle and argues about women, virtue, patience, and the idealized purity of a wife, contrasting masculine authority with domestic virtue.
A disjointed excerpt describes irritated nerves and a calm sick room. It mentions avoiding machinery and not discussing disease or food. The fragment hints at recovering in a controlled environment and emphasizes rigid quiet and tact to aid healing.
Text describes decorative pocket handkerchiefs with monograms and embroidered corners in colored linen thread, plus white kerchiefs with simple lace or monogram work. It notes current styles including lace cloths, velvet accents, and scarf trends, plus a scented sachet trend and a suggested perfume blend using cloves nutmeg tonka beans and orris root.
The guide advises rinsing gilded china in warm water then cold, letting it drain dry, and occasionally brushing with whiting and soft leather. Store dessert and tea plates and saucers in a dry china cupboard with paper between items to prevent scratches, noting dampness harms glaze and finish.
The article notes that excessive alogne is vulgar among refined people, while a pleasant clean scent and faint perfume linger as a part of a woman's toilette. It describes sachet bags sewn into bodices, around clothes hooks, and into corsets, with widespread use among women.
A fragment lists mouse prevention ideas using mousehold mints walnut foliage and sponges cleaning with salt water. It suggests freezing or cooling glassware, dyeing wool with salt solution, and soaking sponges in a salt water mix to restore them.
Instructions for making tapioca pudding with fruit and a muffin batter using tapioca soaked overnight then simmered with fruit and sugar, plus a potato and egg fatato pudding baked hot. The article blends multiple vintage recipes and serving suggestions with notes on texture and timing.
A woman shows a large batch of visiting cards she received from the Town Talk Printing Company. The exchange lists names of prominent city figures. The daughter confirms they were sent and asks about the names printed on the cards.
In a domestic scene Clarice learns how her ancestor wrote letters long ago. Mamma narrates the old practice from pen nibs and sand shakers to blue paper, folded envelopes, sealing wax, and post office stamps, as Clarice copies the ritual to mail a letter to California and imagine a bygone life.
A Kentucky farmer's cat wandered in and became fond of his daughter Lizzie. When a three foot venomous snake threatened Lizzie in the garden, the cat sprang, biting the snake's neck in a fierce fight. The farmer intervened and killed the snake. Since then the cat receives extra milk and looks proudly at Lizzie, as if aware of her heroism.
The bread-fruit tree of Ceylon yields fruit baked like bread. In Barbura, South America, a tree bleeds milk to feed children. An African interior tree makes excellent butter and resembles an oak. Park praised batter from milk. Candies come from stall berries near Table Bay. The vegetable tallow tree grows in Sumatra, Algeria, and China. Chusan yields oil and tallow from fruit gathered in late autumn. Sapindus trees provide soap berry, and sapindus grows in north Africa.
A four-year-old girl talks to a damaged doll whose arm is missing revealing sawdust inside. She reassures the toy and references its 2004 era, recalling a past instruction to chew food carefully, though misquoting the level of “chew.”
A four year old boy named Harry sobbed after seeing four funerals pass his house. He cried out that he wished to die and fretted that heaven would be full and there would be no room for him.
Coroner Braxton Hicks and 18 jurors ponder ownership of 17 ingots of silver and related items found in the Thames near Westminster Bridge on June 8. Inspectors traced ingots from arches and a second site, plus six silver plated knives from a Putney burglary. No owner claimed the ingots. coroner seized them for the queen, treasury to receive value less 20 percent to police antiquarian fund.
The Regina hotel in Dawson offers a two story, 20 room setup with meals priced oddly. five oysters for $2, two small codfish cakes for 110, porterhouse steak $3.50, mutton chop $2.50, two boiled eggs $2, coffee 25 cents, cream 25 cents, bread 5 cents extra, all canned produce, home lettuce at $2, omelets from granulated eggs, dining room seats 60, no wine list but beer $1.25 per pin, rooms from $4 daily. Owner described as a lively Yankee named Smith not in Dawson for health.
England holds possessions on all five continents covering 13 million square miles with 420 million subjects. In 27 years territory grew by 2.864 million square miles and population rose by 126 million. Since 1871 the United Kingdom's population rose from 32 to 40 million.
A reader recalls a tall young man seen with Miss Dashing, noting the pairing seemed churchly in origin and suggesting he appears suited for the clergy life.
A concise report notes that eloquent presenters do not guarantee audience praise as crowd reactions and after-event reception reveal mixed responses to varied speakers and topics.
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