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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1905
Page
6
A miscellany from the Bilver Messenger notes students and fashion, mentions Tiflis drift, new shoe makers, and social scenes. It cites Harvard football, a Yap cable station, Newark politics, and New Jersey humor. Also flags Yale president Hailey, a Newport society thread, and Idaho context.
Dreasy Tallor-Mades presents light weight blue henrietta fabric garments featuring a smart plaited back jacket with velvet ribbon trim and a voluminous skirt. Brilliant colors in emerald amethyst and other tones appear in gowns with Japanese embroidery. Winter shirt waists show plain and embroidered collars with varied necklines and ties. Castor oil used to dull shoe sheen. lemon salt method for copper kettles.
Hand embroidery has grown with the season, boosting elegance on plain fabrics like blue silk by sprays of stitches. Brides often economize on trousseaus, using homemade embroidery or assistants to save costs. Monograms, ivory charms, and fleur de lis motifs on fans and lace offer Parisian flair revived from fifty to seventy years ago.
The reign of the full skirt continues with Paris fabric sketches showing heavy fall gowns. Sleeves shrink slightly while skirts grow extremely full. Designers innovate with box plait shirring, piling on fabric as they introduced the first oversized skirts. The industry faces rising dry goods costs as fall outfits require more material.
Hair and bow shapes narrow the look while girdles and beaded collars trend. Purple gloves and morning data fancies appear with chrysanthemums for autumn brides. Empire raincoats, tan ballroom shoes, and a new dog collar bead necklace surface. The fruit cake recipe uses sugar lard molasses currants and warm water with no butter or egg.
An elegant white Panama coat suit drew attention at society circles. The loose box coat featured a pointed vest, American beauty red velvet accents on shoulders and sleeves, and a plain walking-length skirt.
A design in Alice blue radium silk presents an afternoon gown with a plaited skirt, yoke and girdle creating a princess silhouette. The bodice opens over white mousseline and Valenciennes lace, with a deep collar and puff sleeves edged by a plaited ruff. Cut steel buttons and a large black velvet bow trim the dress.
A fashion note suggests lining for evening coats using elaborate Japanese silks and colored pongees. Strong shades and colored laces could render summer dust coats suitable for evening wear, offering warmth and lower costs for theater attendance.
A report details Lizzie Bourne of a Portland party dying near the summit of Mount Washington after a strenuous ascent amid a gale. The narrative links her death to fatigue and exposure during a planned overnight ascent with Henry A. Jones, his wife, George W. Bourne's family, and Elizabeth Bourne. A stone marker at the site and a monument mark the tragedy, with the group forced to shelter on ledges as the storm raged and twilight fell. The piece closes with a brief birth notice from Syracuse Herald, announcing the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. (name omitted).
A teacher orders a boy to stand behind a door for talking too much. The rector and bishop enter to find Jamie hidden, in the altogether, startling the room. The boy proclaims I can dress myself and the bishop embraces him softly as mortified adults recover order.
In favorable conditions high in the Sierra Nevada mountains wind- driven snow forms moving banners. Circling wind on light snow creates thick dark tops and long airborne sheets that ripple a mile or more. The spectacle, once seen by naturalists or indigenous observers, is rare and remarkable.
Capt. Daniel Ells an Englishman who served in the Confederate navy carries a Bible that saved Kia Tite a man whose heart held the book during a close encounter a bullet lodged in the Bible near his chest the account recalls a dramatic moment from the Civil War era
The ancient Egyptian method, long thought complex, is revealed as simple castor oil injection. M Berthelot of the Louvre confirms the seventy days’ incubation was merely a conduit for commercial castor oil. Researchers previously pursued elaborate formulas but overlooked the straightforward oil approach.
Burmah natives hold rubles change color as they ripen in the earth from cologreas to yellow to green to orange and finally red. The red ruby is believed to bestow strong influence on the wearer for good or ill, with money luck thought to flow to the wearer, though bad luck may follow misfortune.
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