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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1910
Page
6
An assorted New York Weekly style column weaves humor and domestic scenes through snippets on courting, fashion, and family life. A father complains of modern youth while a mother bemoans clothes and propriety, interlaced with wry lines about weddings, wealth, and everyday chores.
The readable portion recalls affectionate remarks about a person named De Muir and a playful scene involving a brother or father figure. The garbled text suggests a casual family moment captured in a dated, poetic style.
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a mix of requests and assurances about home buying, auto purchase, fortunes, and personal remedies. The overheard exchanges touch on love, wealth, occupation, and health claims, with scattered remarks on a liver cure and a curious reference to a missing partner’s plans.
A fragment recounts a humorous tale about a hen returning to a test and turning its fate rosier. The speaker wonders where to buy such fowls while noting the mischievous complexion and the playful exchange.
Dialogue shows a parishioner expressing concern about safety as the Deacon reassures him. The Deacon states he always leaves his pocketbook at home to avoid temptation and safeguard others.
At the poultry show the banner announces a 110.04 hen as winner. A 5000 rooster prize sets off caustic quips about egos and fame. A dialogue follows on a book, mind, and disbelief. A daughter laments her father’s reaction to her accounts, while a brother notes his dad’s habit of kicking when paying the bill.
The excerpt notes room for both net and women in society. It states men have their work to do and women theirs, claiming the woman’s work is to provide for the inner man while the man provides for the outer woman.
A brief, fragmented passage discusses sausage and the idea that the dog is man’s best friend, presenting casual dialogue between Walter and an unnamed interlocutor. The tone mimics a conversational aside with a humorous aside about agreement and beliefs.
Fragmented text discusses Bram's Mission and a narrator Jiratne in a hazy aviation topic. Mentions accidents and a missionary role. Includes disjointed dialogue about course of action and a cannibal reference with unclear context.
Winged millinery dominates the season with feathered hats featuring bird wing shapes. Large wings accented by grebe breasts or feather cabochons, velvet drapes, and puffed crowns decorate hats. Owl head accents appear rarely. overall style centers on wing poise and wearer suitability.
In spotted Swiss muslin a dainty dress features an upper skirt with a slight front point and a gathered lower section joined by insertion with narrow depth trim. Back and front tuck groups and inserted strips create texture, trimmed sleeves, and a lace neck frill. White Tagal straw hat has a puffed muslin crown, ribbon trim, and a rose. Materials list includes 8 yards muslin 87 inches wide and 6% yards insertion.
Use faded bows sashes and hat trims by ripping stitches cleaning spots pressing wrinkles and dyeing them with silk dye. Select ribbon of similar color to create plaited frills for a winter coat and also use dyed ribbons as linings facings or patchwork quill. Do not dye permanent silk items as dye can rot the silk. Wash ribbons carefully and keep the best pieces.
A simple rose pillow is prepared by drying fresh petals on a dry day away from sun, mixing in a small amount of orms root and attar of roses, then placing the mix in pink glazed cambric covers. The outer cover is white linen embroidered with roses.
The article describes craft techniques for decorative buttons on linen frocks using button molds with star-shaped coronation braid designs. It also covers rosette trims from bias velvet strips, lace hat bands with forget me nots and blue ribbon folds, and small stiff velvet bows across draperies and sleeves, warning against a patchy look.
A vintage eighties inspired Indian blue and white summer skirt features a plain gored foundation with a three bed hem. A deep embroidery flounce sits knee high with ruching, pannier style outer drape, and center front detailing flanked by widened side lengths revealing the flounce and upper skirt. Yellow hues appear as a dominant but subtle accent among flowered patterns.
A soft crepe de chine wrap in white or pale colors offers slight summer protection. It uses double-width crepe on a circular pattern with a dolman back, falling below the hips. Fronts have long points nearly touching the gown, edged with silver fringe and tassels, neck rever ripples.
The article notes that the prettiest bathing caps this season are twisted turban designs with gay printed English hints and that matching slippers elevate the look. It suggests sewing slippers herself is easy and that turban or mob cap styles suit the fashionable ensemble.
In Boston Atheneum’s vestibule a seated plaster copy of the first bronze statue made in America portrays Nathaniel Bowditch. Ball Hughes sculpted the 1847 piece, later cast in bronze and placed at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Bowditch, born in Salem and dying in Boston 1838, rose from hardship to global renown as navigator, mathematician, and scientist.
The Woodbury, N. I. area reports a swarm of rambunctious bees that stung Mrs Carlton Meadrickson during a protecting routine. The incident follows a similar event last year when Hew drickson faced a bee attack while tending beans, leading him to hand bean picking to his wife.
The queen has become an honorary member of the Reyal Brie wh Catuural Society of Artista, reflecting recognition by a cultural group for her patronage of the arts.
In this article from New York the emergence of early labor saving devices is traced from sewing machines to plows. It covers Elias Howe’s 1846 patent and notes ancient origins of the plow, including Egyptian and Palestine prototypes, with references to Jefferson and Webster influences and a cut showing a half century old chain stitch sewing machine. The piece highlights the shift from primitive to modern machines and the broad spread of invention in the past.
An odd incident in Wildwood New Jersey saw Howard L srvtck ler, manager of Maker Bros Wildwood Crest office, bitten by something in the surf. Investigating the foot, he found a set of false teeth embedded, likely shed by a passerby who sneezed while in the ocean. The teeth were later returned to their owner.
The note urges remembering every person with care after an injury. It emphasizes acts of kindness and inclusive consideration, suggesting people should be thoughtful and patient in supporting those affected.
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