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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
3
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment recounts a streetcar incident in which a Boxton girl, traveling with a muff containing a single article, confronts a young man who inappropriately touches her. She warns she could have him arrested, asserts her calm Boston defiance, and plans to wait ten minutes before releasing her hand.
A reader describes a range of window and radiator care aids designed to reduce rattling. Items include bent spring inserts for window casings, radiator brushes for between boiler pipes, lamb’s wool dusters for wallpaper and floors, short handled wool swabs for frames and furniture, and washable gloves for detailing.
The column offers practical household tips such as using standing water to disinfect rooms, boosting coal fires with a tablespoon of oil, using pumpkin seeds to trap mice, rubbing windows with alcohol to stay clean, testing nutmegs by puncturing, stabilizing tall flower arrangements with pebbles, and cleaning mica in stoves with vinegar. It also covers repairing cracked furniture with beeswax, cleaning leather grease with egg white, and a Canadian plum pudding recipe with suet, bread crumbs, dried fruit, spices, and steamed cooking.
A historic cooking note describes making Molasses Drop Cake with molasses, brown sugar, lard, water, ginger, cloves, salt, soda, and flour, plus optional nut meats and raisins. It also explains carving ham by slicing from the center or thickest part to distribute fat and lean evenly for flavor and economy.
A misc article fragment features a boastful college son writing home about “distinguishing” himself by throwing a banner and a curmudgeonly father warning of paying for any broken windows. It also includes scattered ads and a medical testimonial for Sloan's ointment claiming fast nerve pain relief and misuse for other ailments.
Local chatter in Boston discusses Aunt Hester and Emerson High teasing about kissing games at a party. Dialogue labels the activity osculatory pastimes as a juvenile diversion and unworthy of notice.
A Massachusetts businessman describes an overworked Vermont farm wife who does all chores alone. He urges hiring help, but she hesitates, saying she might regain strength and feel better if she could rest a little. The vignette reflects rural labor burden and gender roles.
A doctor notes that families using Postum seemed healthier than coffee drinkers. After marriage, Postum became the couple’s sole pantry drink. coffee and tea were abandoned as digestion issues improved. The wife recalls the shift and cites the author’s prior coffee habit and subsequent relief.
A brief instructional note explains mending knit underwear by turning it inside out and whip stitching rents, then adding patches from old knit fabric. The patch is stitched over the worn area and the right side is darned with cotton or wool yarn for a neat, serviceable finish.
Joe Birdsall of Town objects to high rentals in Washington during the congressional season, likening his feeling to an Irish farmer in his district. The notice contains miscellaneous clipped items: tax and seed catalogs, a gum machine complaint at Cheraw station, and various quips about manners, horses, and remedies, with no cohesive single event beyond Birdsall’s protest.
A quip fills a page with proverbs about trades and caution against debt. A shoemaker is mocked as a lifelong dealer in his own “sole,” yet praised for loyalty to his last. The piece warns against borrowing as canker and death of an estate.
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