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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1905
Page
7
Plymouth attorney Squire Latham recalls a night when a burglar awakened him and his household. A rough intruder unlocked a back door and forced entry as the resident shouted a warning that the door slides, not pulls, in a tense moment in the Boston Herald report.
A fragment from the Greenville Ree ot describes a moneyback tea scheme and a horse trade note pasted in an office window. The readable lines reveal a casual exchange about preferring a yellow pony to a horse and a song for the price. The text reflects a humorous, informal workplace bulletin with unclear authorship.
A fragment reflects on risk and trust in a grocer, a rider’s money, and a horse. It compares training binders to fear, noting a horse’s startled reactions to noises. It likens human initiation fears to a horse’s blindness and suggests animals share simple fright.
A Barstow wedding featured gold nuggets from a mine given to guests as keepsakes. The bridegroom bestowed the nuggets, a gesture tied to the couple’s vows and local mining lore.
An advertising fragment from Schilling & Company of San Francisco urges buying tea by the ounce and hints at knowledge and publication. It references Constantin Mounter, a Belgian sculptor admired for illustrating coal miners at Charleroi and Mons, highlighting the miners' physique and sorrows and joys.
The text laments intolerance and social pieties in earlier eras. It notes Frank Putnam's remark in National Magazine about shedding cruel practices and hoping future generations gain sense to honor benefactors. It reads as a reflective snippet on social progress and restraint.
A playful verse reflects extravagance and contentment amid poverty. The narrator imagines a millionaire's wife and a $50,000 necklace, noting happiness despite hardship and cherishing simple joys in Atlanta.
A collage of wardrobe notes and culinary tips including a linen party gown with a surplice blouse and embroidered yoke, a pale green bridesmaid frock, and textures for English silks and Gibson Girl shirts. Sweet potato bake, a new chocolate cake, and various voile fabrics with dotted or scaled embroidery are described alongside fashion notes on wrapping jackets, redingotes, and summer costume ideas.
A seam of fashion tips highlights linen trims, Valenciennes lace, open-work shoes, shaded stockings, patent leather toe pieces in mauve and white, and silk bodice skirt ensembles. It details wide stocks with high backs, decorative ribbon work on waistcoats and fronts, and new belt designs using flowered ribbon and kid bindings.
A historical note explains a do it yourself cement mix using one quarter ounce of gum mastic one ounce of pulverized gum shellac one ounce of sulfuric ether and one quarter pint of alcohol. The mixture dissolves to create a ready cement for use in crafts and repairs.
Barco advises milk stored in a shallow pan stays sweeter longer, while deep pitchers hasten spoilage. For laundry, hang stockings by the toes, night gowns by the shoulders, and skirts from the hem to dry properly. A mucilage shout is advised if present, though unclear in this fragment.
A Victorian style study describes a self contained cosy corner for a home reader or smoker. It includes a wood frame couch red burlap walls green burlap and decorative red leather grille. The feature covers dimensions materials and wall treatments plus a table novelty lemon squeezer and a pickle jar fork with a clever cover holder.
A collection of kitchen guidance on poultry dressings with stale bread crumb bases, oysters, and seasonings, plus chestnut stuffing method using boiled chestnuts, cream, and butter. Includes a humorous aside about milliners and an exchange from a play about royal embarrassment.
Miss E B Midendorf of Quincy Illinois credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength after a prolonged typhoid bout. She notes slow recovery with other tonics and rapid improvement after using about half a box, concluding she no longer needs medicine. The piece also cites the pills as a remedy for debility and anemia.
Mrs Minnie Drew of Roxbury Massachusetts describes severe hand cracks and pain from water and heat, unable to work. After using Caticura Soap and Caticura Ointment her hands are fully well, she expresses gratitude.
The speaker rejects Schilling s Best as superior to others and challenges the assertion. A remark about women unable to fit into small shoes is framed as support for sensible footwear.
A regional grocer voices a plan to expand from coffee to tea, proposing steps to cultivate tea farms, sourcing strategies, and market development concepts to turn the locale into a tea producing and consuming area.
A local society note reports a girl rebuffing a suitor who sought only one kiss. The brief item reflects dating customs and social attitudes of the era, highlighting cautious romance and polite refusals in community circles.
The readable fragments mention tea as comforting and tasteful. A stray warning about a grocer veering money and an advisory to avoid provoking an easygoing man. The text lacks clear events, people, or places to anchor a fuller summary.
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