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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1900
Page
3
A 19th century magazine excerpt discusses why some women are popular, noting a practiced courtesy of writing notes for engagements and condolences. It contrasts maternal kindness with overprotection, urging mothers to educate daughters in housekeeping and domestic economy, warning against treating daughters as perpetual children.
An article notes keeping milk and gelatine covered to prevent odors and germs, warns against refrigerating cheese cabbage fish or baked beans, and advises butter in a tightly closed jar. It then highlights Turkish slippers in white and silver, pink satin designs, and decorative bedroom slippers as gifts while reflecting on balance and well rounded life experiences.
A Paris gown features a pale drab satin base with a violet chenille plaid overlay on the blouse and tunic. The left bodice and skirt display a novel sable fur band slashed at intervals. A violet velvet ribbon runs through and knots into a bow at the top.
A reflection on women who devote themselves to a single goal risking spiritual loss, whether homemaking housekeeping child care business self cultivation or religion, highlighting the dangers of imbalance and the price to personal growth.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes this winter favors dainty dress footwear with light shades and gold and silver tones. Patent leather increases in use for men and women, featuring foregeing styles and ballroom versatility. Imitation tips appear on patent feather shoes, with perforations or stitching. calfskin remains common with imitations, and tan calfskin boots suit bad weather, though ornate perforations remain in fashion.
Advanced chafing dish suppers gain popularity this fall with many brides owning such sets. Easy recipes include Two Cups Cold Chicken and Qualale Chafing Dish featuring quails and butter, broth, port, and vinegar. Lobster to Nowhere combines lobster with sherry cream and egg yolk mayonnaise, finished with liquor.
Rightly Calters notes a remark about a woman's gown and a joking retort about her husband being stunned by the bill. The exchange highlights social humor in midcentury society.
The article describes French engineers boxing tree roots in wooden tanks during foundation work to protect shade and ornamental trees on exhibition grounds. After foundations set, trees are lowered back, boxing removed, and trees resume growth. It also covers apple market conditions, storage risks, and foreign competition, plus notes on swine score cards, Cyene hispida, and Japanese forage crops as related agricultural items.
A Canadian fruit growers meeting discussed cranberry cultivation. Experts emphasized deep, sanded beds, essential irrigation, and keeping land damp until May. A speaker growing Cherry Bell cited $300 net per acre last year and urged others to consider cranberry farming as a profitable venture.
A Nebraska Farmer contributor notes that the first alfalfa crop is best for horses due to woody stems they eat cleanly, leaves accumulating in the manger. Cows prefer leaves, so farmers separate feeds. second crops suit both animals, while the third is less favorable for horses but good for cows. First crop sells best for horse feed. inter crops aid young stock.
James Riley outlines strict measures for a cholera outbreak on a farm. Exposed pies should be confined in small sets, a pig with cholera kept in a separate pen, sprayed with chioto-naphtha diluted in water, and the pen floor lime-wiped. If a pig dies the carcass should be burned in the pen or moved to burn, ensuring all germs are killed en route.
A fragment from a past humor column blends jokes and short moral verse from the Chicago Times-Herald. It includes a tale of a truthful man who loses his job and social standing yet learns a lesson, followed by an angry wife and husband quarrel about a former suitor.
A brief quarrel or exchange shows an old man asking about schoolboys and a blunt reply denying a circus trip. The fragment hints at a casual roadside interaction with vague social context. Names, places, or dates are not provided in readable form.
A local speaker offers sympathy to Mr. Hayriz for a family tragedy misheard as hog losses. The exchange implies the wife’s death and a mistaken reference to livestock, with mentions of ten hogs and eight dead hogs in Hall township. The remark notes potential sale value of hogs at thirty dollars each.
An archaic Baltimore reminiscence recounts Finnigan facing mockery and a shove during a rural ride when Ot questions motives and a confrontation escalates to a clash. The fragment hints at personal conflict and social ridicule without clear legal action.
In a playful exchange, Better Lett Un notes a kiss and a cheek pat before a teasing question about shaving. The woman comments on the rough face, causing him to leave with a heavy feeling. A separate quip mocks a married singer forgetting her musical talent.
Prospective boarder asks if comforts of home are available. Mrs Hammons confirms home made food and an experienced physician are always on hand.
A grimy tramp begs for food but is dismissed by a gentleman who scolds him for not washing. The tramp retorts that washing would earn him nothing and asserts he won’t work for free. Noggeta.
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