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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1903
Page
2
Wry clippings span money, politics, science and society from a Silver Messenger page. References include Bishop Potter’s wife, large fortunes, lobster farming, a flea trap inventor, Amalgamated wireless schemes, denials of Maybrick release, a thermometer swallowing Ithaca man, Turkish policy, stock watering debates, and Morgan’s Havana gambles. Names like Said Pasha, Harper, and Potters appear amid scattered anecdotes and wry observations.
Instructions for washing delicate fabrics at home with borax and soap jelly, plus cautions on color mixing and drying. Then notes on theater bodices and current hair fashions, praising elaborate coiffures and girdles with butterfly appliques and rhinestone buckles as the vogue in Marie Tours fashion commentary.
End owns the neck. Hair in a big loose knot gains fashion approval with nets and jeweled touches. Cameos return, long gloves feature lace insertion, and strawberries appear in embroidery. Strawberries, dotted silks, and violet toques dominate spring fashion notes with violets, gardenias, and camellias shaping hats. Also mentioned are snake jewelry, gun metal sleeve links, and scent hints for storage.
Popular Science outlines a household distiller using waste steam to produce distilled water, plus aluminum as a conductor in long distance power transmission. It notes a Snoqualmie to Seattle line, 12 000 horsepower, and aluminum alloys enabling 150 foot spans.
A Denver woman attending a Buffalo theater performance vowed to invent a remedy after her hat pin failed and her hat dropped. She created a nickel folding hook that works like a closet hook, is compact and ornamental, and can be hidden when not in use.
A collection of brief science items notes on Korobow's process fixing iron filings on glass, paraffin coating, and white painting for sharp curves. Silk cocoons colored by leaves, Meunier reports a volcanic form near Place de Republique, Crookes on spiritual matter limits, leather from sulfuric acid and feather-book bindings costs, while atom theory faces electron-based challenges.
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