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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1905
Page
2
A collage of quirky notes and opinions touching on Washington treaties, boxing comebacks, fashion quirks, and social observations. It jokes about Fitzsimmons, mosquitos in New Jersey, Dutch raids, and the man in the street, with sharp asides on professors, editors, and musicians.
Instructions describe crafting velvet chrysanthemum flowers with multiple petals, wire centers, and crinkled effects using satin ribbon and paste. Also included are blouse details in white flannel with stitched plaiting, button trims, and a V shaped neckline designed to conceal clavicles and create a decollete appearance.
Garment style advice notes velvet collars and cuffs on tailor made dresses with checks and soft tones. Describes summer fashion trends, gloves, and light fabrics. mentions rose colors and sheer blouses. Also includes a vintage recipe for Sweetmeat Pudding with orange and lemon zest and puff paste.
The notice warns velvet cleaning risks and advises sending to a cleaner. It outlines a home method using water and ammonia with careful brushing to avoid soaking, then using a hot iron with a damp cloth to lift flattened pile, applying barely any pressure on the repaired areas.
A decorative fabric from Japan, 4 yard width and $4 per eight yard roll, designed to cover walls. Made of Chinese grass with a glossy fine weave, resembling burlap. Backed with a rice paper coating for body and wall attachment, and resistant to bald prate.
An ideal suggestion for a dreary afternoon gown features pale gray colicine fabric. The skirt has a single box plait in front and back with side plaited panels over the hips. A sovel jacket opens at the shoulders with slender straps and tiny cutsteel buttons. A rich embroidered batiste blouse and four flounced sleeves complement the look. The pale gray Neapolitan turban with a black velvet band finishes the ensemble.
Instructions describe selecting medium beets, boiling until tender, peeling while hot, packing in glass jars with sugar and cold vinegar, sealing. Also notes apices may be added when served. Then a fashion tip suggests cutting a gown with a pointed neckline to conceal collar bones while offering a decollete look.
The article highlights voile as a popular fabric resembling chiffon, used in striped, waved, checked, dotted, and embroidered gowns often over white taffeta with color-coordinated girdles. It also notes soft ark resembling colienne and striped light weight taffetas, plus orange syrup recipe steps for making a citrus syrup.
Instructions on pudding bags using heavy jean fabric and avoiding washing raisins for sweet dishes. Glycerin added to fruit helps preserves stay firm. Rancid butter boiled with charcoal can be rescued for cooking. Silver should not be placed in woolen items.
A youthful bodice features a firmly fitting yoke over the shoulders for a neat neckline. long puff sleeves with tight cuffs, and options to replace with short puffs or a deep bertha. Fabrics suggested include Messinette dull blue Mousseline gray and crepe dela rose, with Egyptian tissue and silk mull as alternatives.
A coffee colored pongee outfit suited for an outing features a full skirt with three or four deep tuck folds at the foot, navy blue embroidered dots, and extensive English eyelet work. Large blue wash sili holes are richly embroidered, worn over a deep blue ank petticoat that lets color show through, with a waistmass of tucks and navy embroidery.
The passage describes mauve and black velvet gowns featuring draped busts, trimmed sleeves, and elaborate belts. Details include velvet corsets, puffed sleeves, and frilled collars with lace, plus box-pleated skirts circled by velvet bands and button fastenings. A green silk chemisette and linen cravat complete the ensemble.
The piece recalls Jamaica’s sugar plantings and great houses, noting how wealth faded with competition and banana plantations rose. It contrasts St Jago de la Vega’s past grandeur with modern decline, capturing hospitality, social life, and the planter caste ethos tied to families and long tradition. It also sketches the Nana role and slave-era echoes in present planter society.
A young man spends half his week’s pay on a remembrance for a birthday anniversary and sends flowers by a messenger. He waits near the young woman’s residence to hear her reaction. The messenger reports she is on her porch with another man who is “sparkin” and approves a flower for him, while she says nothing to the messenger.
A fragmentary meditation on pricking a watermelon with a plug to study decay. It describes pressing the melon, listening for a crack, and wonders whether a wound reveals a heart breaking within as the fruit yields to the probing. The piece blends sensory detail with mythic imagery as it moves toward ritual imagery of gods eating the fruit.
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