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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1904
Page
6
Military coats with gold buttons, plaited skirts, and novel collars headline an article on season styles. It notes fabric needs, May Manton coat patterns, and mailed pattern offers. Mourning jewelry, jet buckles, hats, and lace sashes follow London fog influence and refined gold embellishments.
An illustrated pattern explains a shirt waist with a yoke collar and drooping ring, featuring a narrow front V, white mercerized venting fabric, and a fitted foundation. It notes optional plain back version, adjustable sleeves with deep cuffs, and material yardage for sizes 12, 14, and 16 years. Pattern 46274 targets young enslaved youths in specified sizes.
A fragment from Home Chat discusses lace fashion and jewelry accents. It notes delightful noose ties for fur coats, some pre made as bows and others for self arrangement. It comments on winter wear and the look of face colors as seasonally appropriate.
A description showcases table linens in grasa linen with embroidered white borders in a Chinese design. Centerpieces and dollies arrange in groups from one dozen to three dozen, featuring drawn work and a mosaic effect. The Irish embroidered motifs appear dainty and refined, with fruit and flower outlines in white.
A detailed fashion pattern description for a child's tucked frock with yoke and bertha options, including fabric choices, sizes for 1, 2, and 4 years, and instructions for a circular bertha, sleeve tucks, and accompanying collar and cuff cases. The text notes suitability for playwear and decorative trimming.
Girdles in suede and satin feature many buckles on sides, back, and front connected by tiny chains. Some belts use jeweled buttons instead of buckles. Leather belts in tan, green, and red attract buyers, with wide whipantle belts and hand painted kid belts also favored.
Delicate white laces may be cleaned by laying them smoothly on white paper and covering with magnesia. Place another paper over this and press between the leaves of a book for several days. Brush out the magnesia with a brush to improve the lace.
Readers can obtain the May Manton pattern shown in the illustration by using the Lu coupon with blanks filled and mailed with 10 cents, the pattern will be sent promptly by Barrison & Co located at 6 Plymouth Place Cue cage.
A compact pocket instrument is described for measuring flat surfaces and distances from one eighth of an inch to twenty five feet with inner and outer dials. It suits machinists to gauge surface speed on a lathe and can be read in metric. Henry Kahn of New York City is named as owner. The piece ends with a thought experiment on the immensity of London and evacuation times.
Norway debates an electromagnetic gun by Prof. Birkeland using current as propellant. Shell saturates with magnets, coils wind sequentially to pull it forward as it travels the barrel, preventing overheating. The article also notes a compact ladder design with hinged steel sections and a rope pulley escape cage, plus a Plainfield, New Jersey incident about William Hubartt.
Mall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Marketed as a nonquack remedy prescribed by a physician, it combines two ingredients for a claimed powerful effect. Sold by druggists, Toledo Ohio, with accompanying relief statements and a suggested use of Catarrh Pills.
A walnut shell Bible, the tiniest on record, is described in the Harleian manuscripts. Peter Bales, an English clerk, notes the shell held as many leaves as a large Bible. The author lived in Elizabeth I's era and in 1575 offered the Lord's Prayer, Creed, Ten Commandments, two Latin prayers, his name, motto, and date on paper the size of a fingernail, set in a gold ring with crystal, legible only with a magnifying glass.
A damaged suit hearing features a witness recounting daily visits to a shop and exchange of lies, revealing a severed acquaintance. The witness claims a former friendship ended after a disclosure of a brother who could jump forty feet and stay aloft for twenty seconds. A second item discusses ongoing scientific dieting and the dream of quantified nutrition at lunch counters.
An Oregon man credits coffee as the cause of long stomach trouble and credits Postum with his recovery after years of illness. He recalls a near death in December 1902, switched to Postum, and quickly improved, noting no more headaches or heart sickness. He offers to verify his standing with local banks and merchants and endorses the product’s safety, urging a ten day Postum trial.
A lawyer outlines a proposed ideal state of marriage based on a fixed allowance for a wife tied to a husband’s income. He argues for level heads before marriage to reduce divorce court work and urges vows come with duties to keep the wife’s life financially free of care. Silent Japanese Soldiers Fight Noiselessly And Remain Untouched By Deafening Battlefield Noise.
Estherville resident Mr George J Barber declares Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his long running kidney disease, once treated by Chicago doctors and Estherville physicians with no success, praising the medicine as the best in the world. The ad-like piece weaves testimonials with assorted seeds and agricultural ads.
An OCR fragment references medicines such as Cold Bromo Quinine Tablets and quotes a London diplomat’s misunderstanding of English phrases. It also includes scattered lines from poetry and prose mentioning Leave not thy soul, the unfoughten. The text is a jumble of advertisements and literary excerpts with unclear context.
H B McArver, inspector for Trans-Continental Co in Portland Oregon, reports using Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney trouble. He credits them with removing months of symptoms and notes no recurrence since. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Fox ter Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Washington Times reports a missionary marriage aboard a ship where Rev A W Pitzer wed thirty one converts in 1882. The event set a pace but fell short of a record held by another missionary on Apemana Island. All couples, once heathens, took Christian vows amid hurried ceremony due to storm and ship constraints.
Readable fragments discuss county nicknames for English residents and a Lombardy Agricultural Society plan to test farm machines in Milan. It notes Cream Separator claims and a US dream separator catalog, while another piece critiques American attitudes toward taxes and tax dodging.
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