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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1906
Page
6
A concise scroll of oddities, names, and jokes from various topics. It mixes social notes about education, fashion, and advertising with snatches about politics, theater, and travel, featuring tangential remarks on figures like Lipton and Loubet and light satire on modern manners.
Read about easy winter bulb growing with hyacinths in small pots for continuous bloom, plus fashion notes on a half yard square pillow and elaborate tailored gowns with empire coats and rich color palettes. Also covered are plum and fur hat trends and a recipe for English crumpets with buttered rings.
Long fitted coats look stylish but their full skirts hinder walking and add weight. Eton models with short sleeves help in cold but need heavy furs at the arms for comfort. Tailored half length coats with matching skirts dominate travel and shopping outfits, seen in smart restaurants during lunch hours.
One gown in mauve chiffon features intricate silver bullion embroidery. Most women prefer variety over a single showy gown, opting for frequent changes to display multiple outfits. A touch of bullion, silver, or gold tracing on sheer chiffons remains artistic and accessible, with subtle use of precious metals.
Rich description celebrates blue broadcloth with harmonious colors and metallic trims. Embroidery dominates, supplemented by velvet accents. The noted ensemble features a wide circular shirt cut over the hips with deep detailing and decorative trims.
A steel-blue Sicilienne with a silver tracery pattern presents a modish yet practical tailor-made look. The coat is heavily plaited at the shoulders with fullness tucked into a black satin girdle, fronts open to reveal a blouse, white bow, and cravat. The leg-of-mutton sleeve widens at the shoulder and narrows below the elbow. the skirt continues the design.
A theme of lavish, season defining fashion notes how yards of new fabrics are used to create gowns. Sheer materials and chiffons dominate, with trims adopting the same delicate, soft quality to ensure a successful overall look.
Unique little capes for wear on semi warm evenings are described as vague in style. Made from cloth or silk in light shades with satin cloth or velvet trims. Featuring a collar and two gold buttons and an invisible hook and eye closure.
Chorus girls voice anger as Marie Cahill and husband push a ban on tights short skirts and low necklines on the Great White Way. Front-row concerns arise about box office impact and preserving stage figures amid reform talk.
Letter from Mr George Howlett of Beacons Bot tom Beacons Botom to a Radnage man cites a suit measured by Vernon Stevens as worn for forty seven years. The suit allegedly endured sun days and other times with no stitching giving way, according to the London Daily Mail account.
A man who loves sweet corn adopted a method to prolong the season. He pulled up corn stalks before frost, piled them, and protected them with coverings. The coverings kept the corn from wilting and the ground aided the effort.
A New York Sun report describes a downtown poultry supplies dealer window scene where a tiger striped cat coexists peacefully with a brood of fluffy yellow chicks. The display divides with wire netting. small chicks climb the cat while larger chickens outside watch, illustrating surprising fear and calm.
A Dorsetshire organist playing a voluntary in a Wesleyan chapel is startled by a discordant sound. He discovers a big cat leaping from the instrument, then fleeing through a window. The incident ends as officials take note of the bizarre disturbance.
Josepha Eder of Fourstenhut German Bohemia has just turned 118, the oldest person in Europe. She reads without glasses, works as a nurse for a local family, walks miles daily, and appears far younger than her age. Despite lifelong poverty she has never worn shoes and has never needed a doctor, drawing visitors to Furstenhut to see the famed resident.
A Southwest Harbor man playing violin at twilight drew a skunk to his veranda who danced a jig to the tune. When the music stopped he reached for a gun, but the skunk bowed and hurried away, leaving the musician unharmed.
Henry Whiteman of Reynolds Bridge Connecticut reports his valuable dog, a Newfoundland, missing. The loyal companion joined him on night watch and carried its own lunch in a pall, never failing to return home with the pall for eight years.
Wasps have taken possession of the Odd Fellows hall at Central village Conn. Thousands of the Insecta cluster on the meeting mettine in the hall. The article notes the hall is theirs for the moment and describes the unusual intrusion.
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