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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1906
Page
2
A collage of remarks and vignettes touching on Edison Morgan and Wall Street jargon, a New England gallery of references, and quips about education in Russia politics and pop culture. It surveys public figures, finance, satire, and social mores with dated tone and scattered newsy asides.
Millinery in New York shows strong demand for felt hats and soft textures, with miroir velvet favored for rich autumn and winter designs. Gold and silver ribbons, feather-faced cloth, gilt grenadine, and tasselled trims feature in the latest models. Side tilting hats, abundant hatpins, and plumes gathered at the back define current style, while tall women are called out for certain hat wear. Men’s styles influence women’s tailoring with cutaway and frock coats shaping autumn silhouettes, and short coats for children in fur cloth and rippled plush offering varied, stylish options.
A princess ensemble described with a light and dark brown striped fabric. The bolero features dark brown velvet cuffs and revers, combining contrasting textures for a refined, coordinated look.
A woolen suit modeled on a man's frock coat appears in soft gray blends this year. The three quarters length coat features tailored fit, double breast, covered buttons, collar and revers, with coat sleeves and a gored skirt. A semi-tailored variant uses a long coat with a shallow yoke and belt, paired with embroidered velvet vest and velvet turnbacks.
Eyelet embroidery remains a craze with versatile wear for any season. The current favored model suits both afternoon gowns and winter dresses, featuring a plaited silk mull skirt and a waist with basque frills. The simple yet elegant design shifts to more expensive versions, originally meant for street wear, now adapted in black for Harper's Bazar.
A fragment notes slippers once worn by Mrs Loritlird Spencer formerly Miss Mary Bands before her Newport marriage. The item is linked to her origin and wedding context.
Practical tips and household notes cover a range of care topics from enamel cleaning to cooking methods. Advice includes venturing down folding techniques, lamp filling measures, and preserving garlands. A fashion column rails against the pompadour's decline while offering nursery decor ideas and tapestry borders for portières.
Parboil turkey in water then stuff with twenty four oysters bread crumbs salt and pepper and butter. Sew in bag or towel and boil two hours. Sauce uses oyster liquor butter salt and pepper thickened with flour and oysters, then served.
The article describes two fall suit designs for young ladies in green and brown cloth. The green suit features a deep flounce skirt with velvet trim, embroidered collar on the velvet belt and waist, and matching balero and epaulet sleeves with green velvet girdle. The brown suit shows plaited skirt details, a one piece yoke jacket with velvet trim and rope fronts, and velvet button accents on the plaits and collar. The vest is described in light coloring.
Visiting Ottawa residents at the Topeka State Fair encounter culture clash in a capital hotel. A deaf old man, unable to read the menu, grows irate after staff insist on orders and he tears up a waiter’s ticket, shouting he wants food not tracts. Local flavor and humor amid a dining misunderstanding.
Richard Bell's new book recounts dried solan geese once eaten in Scotland to whet appetite. A South American boa tames easily and sleeps with its keeper, while a python joins nightly bed routines but wanders if feet not found. A 1885 caterpillar plague led to sheep drain trenches filling with carcasses, blocking water.
A crusty old bachelor is upset when a newsboy, wrongly jailed for ten cents, seeks revenge years later. During a rainstorm the boy sabotages a crossing plank, sending the man into a ducking and taunting that he is even with the judge who sent him up. The tale, from New Orleans.
In the sixties Joe Wilcox from Sutton haggled with a Millbury grocer over egg value. After being told an egg is an eye in the store he hunted bantam eggs across three towns. Presenting a basket of eggs again, he buys goods equal to the egg price, proving the grocer’s rule costlyly literal.
A travel sketch describes the Sahara as a varied landscape of sand and clay with oases, mirages, and heat that chills yet dries. It notes distant palm lines and the Sid Okba oasis approaching, while camels sense water as they near relief from the harsh journey.
A fragment asserts men gain balance from hobbies and leisure. Without recreation they become bores to themselves and burdens to families, prone to idle chatter, fault finding, and petty bullyhood.
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