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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1901
Page
6
The piece notes amber combs and tortoise shell hairpins as enduring fashions, with jeweled beads and sterling silver accents. Barrettes and jewel encrusted pins, often in pairs, shape back hairstyles to tame stray hair, while delicate miniate branches with leaves and berries display fine craftsmanship.
A fragment describes a white louisine dress with blue and black spots for a girl aged 16 or 11, featuring a plaited bodice and skirt, a tabiler of night blue noggling, and a désole neckline edged with lace. A doctor scene mentions a baby and a girl saying she is a lad, with a remark on an actor’s jealousy.
The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo features a broad display of women’s manufactures. The Board of Women Managers will set up two booths in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building to show wares and accept orders. Strong focus on rugs, jewelry settings, decorative goods, and other artisan products from women.
In some Russian regions peasants sleep to fend off hunger, literacy drops to 39 percent from 66 in 1881, and baskets and basketball emerge as entertainment despite hardship.
Utica youth Chester Arthur Lyle, 17, arrested on charges of using the United States mails for blackmail. He wrote five threatening letters to families tied to ex Mayor Doolittle and the Baker brothers, demanding money and threatening violence if demands were unmet. Pinkerton detectives traced the handwriting. Lyle confessed and faces possible ten year terms per letter, underscoring federal penalties for mail schemes.
A historical note outlines Andorra as the oldest republic and smallest nation high in the Pyrenees. It notes Charlemagne’s charter 1100 years ago, a six-councilman government, a locked chest with eight locks, and the custom of men taking their wives’ surnames upon marriage.
A Peruvian tribe known as the first white people of that race is described as nomadic, wandering in small bands across vast plains. They show little effort to improve their condition, and ongoing wars with neighboring tribes, plus energy decline, threaten extinction from the current decline in numbers.
A doctor recalls a 12 year old whose arm could not straighten after rheumatic fever. He suspected self deception until an old aunt suggested a charm. A staged cure with a red flint stone, a pretend confidence boost, and a swift elbow snap convinced the boy he was cured. The incident shows imagination can curb mind domanation.
A Ledger Monthly piece extols nightly foot baths as a gateway for eliminating impurities and improving complexion. It prescribes 106 to 110 degree water, soda for odor, and firm rubbing, then cooling before removal. Also recalls soldiers ID tags and a Rio census showing 650000 residents in crowded tenement housing.
Miss Rose Cullen of Butte writes Peruna restored her nerves and health after overwork during school. Mrs G W Heard of Texas praises Peruna for backache fatigue and child Ruby’s rosy health. W A Mitchell of Martin Georgia recounts wife’s recovery from severe weight loss and indigestion after Peruna treatment and family recovery. Dr Hartman offers free advice if needed.
In the Hunsruck near the Rhine a Roman temple is uncovered within a walled enclosure 220 by 200 feet. The temple sits at the center and measures 60 by 60 feet. It yields abundant terra cotta offerings including about a hundred complete goddess figurines and small bronze figures of Mars Jupiter and Mercury. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Hanks 44 Chinese scholar Sir Walter Hillier has been named acting first secretary of the British legation at Pekin. He is a seasoned Chinese scholar who spent most of his life in the Far East. His father was British consul at Bangkok and Sir Walter was born in Hong Kong. He learned Chinese and English together.
Dispatches from London note rapid Boer force fatigue due to cold and hunger. Malt Caterrh Care touted internally as a throat remedy priced at 75a. Pine's Care praised by a Cincinnati reader as best for throat and lung. The Russian loan issue price is 9034 with subscriptions opening.
A collision between two Canton steamers on the West River caused sixty passengers to drown. Rescuers struggle to recover bodies as authorities investigate the disaster and assess damages.
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