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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1905
Page
3
A fashion feature notes crepe de chine gowns appear in morning wear and formal dresses with varied tones and embellishments. It discusses corset covers and undergarments, plus accessories like turquoise earrings echoing Victorian cues. It also offers quirky home tips and care hints for garments and house items.
A stylish fur coat features a vegas of caracal with ermine color highlights. The garment is shaped to the figure with fronts rolled back and faced in ermine revealing a V neck caracal vest. Sleeves are loose at the pit and gathered into a drooping puff with a chinchilla turban and a red clover shading trefle detail.
Cool weather fashion item describes a long cloth gown with a round yoke and embroidered frills. Described as adaptable to wash flannel or cotton, featuring a turnover collar, gathered wire sleeves, and a fitted yoke with a full silhouette. Material estimates given for medium size and various widths.
Combine half cup rice with rich milk in a double boiler until soft and absorbed. Sweeten and flavor with vanilla, ginger juice, and lemon juice. Plate with stewed pear centers filled with chopped ginger and orange juice, mold the rice, arrange pears around, and garnish with ginger and whipped cream.
Mutfs Change Shop Motifs are a key item in the fashionable girl’s winter outfit with old-timey charm. The lineup includes flat couch shapes, the larger round pillow, and the granny mut now called Victorien. A novelty combines a handbag and mutt with a jeweled peek, while other designs feature a lone tree within the imaginative style.
Dolman shapers, knee length, promise to be popular for afternoon wear with elegant gowns. Many are crafted from broadcloth, wide enough to be made without seams.
A dull red shade called Ruy Blas dominates a fashion note. Cuffs may use velvet while the collar differs. Skirts lengthen under the vogue rule. Trottol skirts rest three to five inches above ground. Fringed Venise medallions and new crepe de chine fabrics with gold spots appear. Evening wear favors delicate monotone tints and meticulous craftsmanship.
A fragmented catalog-like note discusses a throat and shoulders fashion effect described as transparent. It mentions a firm niche in the emart dreanet, a dressier result, and comparison to a more moderate yoke Westen.
The article catalogs lace types and designs from coarse to fine, including Russian guipures and Italian Miet laces. It notes modern reproductions of convent laces in demand, alongside machine-made nets and the boules de Nège. The emphasis is on pairing these laces with crepe de chine gowns for a refined, fashionable look.
Women who favor cretonne draperies for boudoirs and dressing tables are advised to use a beveled glass top cut to fit the dressing table. The glass protects the fabric and elevates the piece with a dainty appearance. When large roses appear in the pattern, the glass highlights color and beauty.
The article praises long loose coats in broad-tail velours as becoming and fashionable. It highlights imitation lamb markings, Irish cicochet trim mings, and roomy, ill-fitted sleeve designs. It notes oversized sleeves and a shawl paint back as key features of the season's vogue.
Slice and trim the kidneys removing hard centers and fat. Mix four tablespoons of butter with one teaspoon mustard a pinch paprika or cayenne a little salt and half a teaspoon lemon juice. Melt without heating coat each slice roll in cracker dust broil eight minutes. Drizzle deviled sauce on top before serving.
A fashion note describes a loose, ample long coat for young children with wide sleeves. Dark red cloth satin with corticelli silk, applique trimming, carved buttons, and a detachable shield. It covers fronts and back, with collar finish and gathered sleeves. Material estimates for size 2 years specify yardage across widths.
At the St Regis on Fifth Avenue guests pay $125 daily for rooms and the hotel’s air. Chief Engineer Jurgensen explains the air is filtered, cooled, humidified, and circulated through extensive systems to remove dust and microbes, with about a barrel of dust filtered daily from nearly a hundred million cubic feet of air.
The article describes smart velvet suits with velvet and metal buttons in ivory and porcelain, and mentions china painting sets at affordable prices. It notes opera wraps in motre antique velvete with a rush, sheer supple fabrics, rich trimmings, and sheer shawl styles in delicate orchid mauve primrose, diamond green, all edged with real lace and chiffon pleats.
Representative Dresser of Bradford Pennsylvania a large oil supply manufacturer let his son run parts of the business since entering politics. A visitor seeking relief from a $600 debt asked for help and Dresser advised letting the other fellow do the worrying, revealing the debt was owed to his son.
James Brown Potter recalls a dining mishap in Oxford where a guest of honor, an old thoughtful Bishop, forgot he was dining out. He whispered to his wife that they must pronounce the cook another failure, highlighting a painful memory of absent-mindedness.
A Burllogt woman describes years of pain and weakness from rheumatism and neuralgia. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People she improves steadily and gains back full household ability. She shares how one box aided a man on crutches and a neighbor also found relief. The ad extols Pink Pills as a cure for rheumatism and related ailments. A note on New Granada ink plant ends the column.
Reading fragment suggests claims of a treatment named Ball's Ceurmh Cure offering swift results. The text mentions Anette and a Dr Cheney address at 38 Take Maite Faull Flim, hinting at a medical hoax or dubious remedy marketed to readers.
A fable tells of a fly biting a bald man who, in attempting to crush it, struck his own head with a heavy blow. The fly jeers that he sought revenge for the sting of anger with death, asking what he will do to himself who added insult to injury.
A fragment references Schilling's Best tea and cooking directions amid a controversial note on poverty among Chinese workers. It contrasts three meals for the better classes with a pauper’s daily 10 cent sustenance, implying harsh conditions.
A new rule requires all theater posters in Oldham England to be submitted to a censorship appointed by the local watch committee before being posted. The move aims to regulate displays and ensure conformity with local standards.
A fragment reflecting on tea’s aroma as a defining word for a dead man and criticizing Russia’s agriculture. It claims Russian wheat yield is only about one fifth of English soil’s yield, illustrating neglect in Rusats.
Text notes a tea sale route from Alaska to Mexico with a public auction failing to attract bids for two old fashioned wooden cloth mills at Stonehouse Gloucestershire England. The draft mentions growers, money, and a large workforce receiving notice amid declining cloth industry activity.
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