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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1911
Page
6
A description of New York City quarantine procedures led by Dr. Doty, detailing shipboard health checks, temperature screening, and steam disinfection methods to prevent cholera and yellow fever. The piece notes the role of the health guard in screening travelers and the use of high heat steam and formaldehyde for decontamination.
A readable sewing notice describes a small girl’s dress in a blue Hebt shade. The full bodice features a square yoke with brown green or blue silk embroidery, matching waist band and cuffs, and a gathered skirt with two tucks near the hem. Fastens at back with a buck. Material required three yards thirty four inches wide.
A simple blue and white striped cotton dress with bound taple, narrow embroidered belt, and a high collar is described. The outfit includes a full bodied design hidden by an old fashioned muslin collar, plaited fronts, a white hat with an empire crown, tulips, foulards, and a Governor collar accent on the bodice.
This note describes crafting floor coverings from tattins and er at yards vxtrs to make light rugs that can be cut to desired length, neatly edged by pil ing out straw from doorways, and tied threads. They protect floors as well as heavier rugs and are easy to clean.
New motor bonnets feature wide and narrow platted frills on a stiffened gauze foundation. Frills of black and white ribbon are arranged around the middle with a black velvet band. Green and stone gray offer practical summer tones.
Guidance on washing hair ribbons from a historic period manual. It suggests soap and honey mix, gentle scrubbing on a board, rinsing in clean water, air drying over cloth, then ironing under pressure to avoid creases. White ribbons stay bright if washed in warm water and rinsed in three waters.
A writer argues against dyeing hair, praising natural gray as graceful and dignified. Hair should suit the face, not fashion, with age bringing beauty through snowy locks that soften features and reflect time and sorrow.
The Drygoods Economist notes blue serge dresses are staple merchandise with strong demand for general wear. This season they will be favored, featuring bright timmings and white trims. Blue and white combinations are popular in Paris, with manufacturers expecting healthy trade based on early orders.
A Parisian novelty, the frill jabot in muslin features a twelve inch platted strip gathered at the center with a muslin tie pinned to the lace collar, creating a semi circle fan shape. A similar lower edged marquisette jabot uses Valencieries lace and dung lace with color hints.
A wartime caricature in The Tattler features a quarrel over a soldier named Murphy. The sergeant accuses deception, the corporal defends him, and the dispute ends with Murphy sent to the guard room for alleged deceiving.
Miss Etta Narber of Spring Lake Michigan credits Cuthura Remedies with curing four years of eczema on her hands after using the Complete set for three days. The notice promotes Cut cura Soap and Ointment with free samples and a 82 page book by Cut cura. Red Cross Christmas Seals become national agent for TB study group with 60 million seals ordered and commissions for local agents.
In a tender scene, Teddy returns home to find his ailing mother resting in bed with Aunt Alicia nearby. He attempts to ask if she has seen his baseball bat using nods and shakes, as his mother smiles softly at his hopeful question, conveying love and care despite illness.
A Boston woman credits Grape-Nuts with easing severe headaches caused by spine injury and chronic constipation. She says regular breakfasts and meals improved sleep and health, claiming she is in better condition at 63 than at 40 and endorses the product.
A humorous tale from The Coming Nation describes a shy suitor failing to confess love as a gas lamp dims. The girl misreads his stammering plea and, after a parting kiss, learns he meant I am in love not a dub. Also included is Al Ryan of Lockport receiving a Christmas gift of a $100 check from an uncle who asks for $4 for shoes in the small anecdote.
Fragmentary OCR shows a boastful note about Tommy Murphy as a great horseman with many Big race wins and a claim for Spohn's Distemper Cure as the best remedy for distemper and coughs. The text includes vague farm horse references and an address fragment in Goshen.
In a witty exchange Manny the village banker and Phiney the philosopher joke about life in ancient Rome. They improvise on how young Romans passed time and mock their town, delivering a light anecdote of rural dialogue.
The fragmentary dialogue mentions camphor degrading a bathing suit, crude references to a Pure Food Law, and a caution about smoke in the house. Names like TJ, Hamlin, and Wied OF appear in a jumbled, antiquated context with no clear narrative.
A Chicago reader cites trouble obtaining Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and urges women to demand the product as a trusted remedy for female health issues. The ad touts thirty years of use and claims many women have been restored to health by the compound.
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