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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1904
Page
2
A garbled Silver Messenger column surveys diverse items from literature, science, and society. It mentions a mule carrying Abyssinian explorers, a rattlesnake bite claimed to cure leprosy, soap famine prospects in America, and rail-accident humor, interleaved with musings on China, Santo Domingo, and Galveston’s dikes.
A healthful mushroom culture method uses spare corners, loam, salt, bricks, and daily watering to yield a crop in two months at a low cost. A girl’s collar fashion article highlights versatile yoke collars for young girls, with five modeled designs in lace, tucking, and embroidery, paired with a gray crepe de chine gown and pipage trims.
A pretty white linen walking suit features an eton coat with a vent trimmed in green linen. The sleeve tops share the same green trim, and the skirt remains plain. A green linen waist complements the outfit, matching the trim shade.
Pander nndences Bodices are more bloused than ever. Girdies are wide and some high. Hips tucked shirred and trimmed. Engle and ow heads top new bat pink in silver or gilt. Satin bowlvaux form fashionable trim. Taffeta gowns supreme this summer plain and checked. Linen with sky blue to be worn. Skirts round and full, clear the street. Canvas and lawn frocks double word large spotted ribbons.
This fashion note presents a blouse or shirt waist design in natural shade pongee with Persian embroidery. It describes a gathered back, front fullness, invisible center front plait, and extended trim straps over straight cuffs, with fabric yardage for various widths and banding details.
The narrative describes a bespoke ensemble for Mrs Clarence Mackay featuring a lustrous black cloth three piece suit. The design highlights a round skirt with taffeta trim graduated toward the back and a waist that finishes in a mon cut, portraying a decorative and elegant style.
Lace blouses gain fashion notice with tamsur and Alegéan lace and inlet medallions of duny lace and guipure. Pale batiste options feature wide yokes and broderia Anglaise cuffs and collars in pistache green ochre orchid mauve and Wedgwood blue tones.
The piece notes that puffed trimming dominates summer frocks with lavish shirring and a Parisian trend. It comments that managing puffs requires skill and the look mostly suits very slender figures, ideally taller wearers, as fashion evolves through the season.
Plush goods can look bright again if sponged with a little chloroform. Ammonia helps bites and stings from insects and should be applied immediately. Clean nickel with borax and hot water, use soap, rinse, and dry. Paint plumbing white enamel for sanitation and easier upkeep. When pouring boiling water into glass, add a spoonful first to avoid cracking. If a lamp catches fire, water won’t help. earth, sand, or flour can extinguish flames.
A description outlines alternating lace and chiffon on a fitted lining to form a blouse yoke both back and front. It notes batlate embroidery points placed as intervals on the hirrings with good effect and references a long shoulder one and upper elements.
Text describes a blouse sleeve with repeated yoke design, shirring released into a full puff over the elbow, cuff finished with a Ingl er le rufley detailing. The blouse fullness is gathered into a dull black satin girdle showing the 1830 point in front.
A recipe for fillets of chicken breast prepared from cold roast chicken. Mix minced chicken with cream and baking soda, blend butter and corn starch, cook briefly, add eggs, cool and stiff. Shape into cutlets, coat with cracker dust and egg, chill, then fry and serve with white sauce.
The box plaited walking skirt is showcased as graceful with long lines and abundant flare. Nine gores create soft box folds concealing seams, with invisibly closed back placket. Material use noted for medium size across three width options.
Readers are urged to scrub ovens thoroughly after baking lamb, poultry, or fat rich items. Use a stiff brush and strong soapsuds with washing soda to cleanse walls and floor, as unwashed ovens can leave greasy odors in pies, cakes, and biscuits.
A home bread method explains scalding milk with melted butter and salt, dissolving yeast in warm water, mixing flour to form a batter, letting it rise eight hours, then adding more flour and a cupful of seeded raisins or currants dusted with flour. Bake after resting overnight.
The article lists white wine mas Ue putty and chalk as the most popular colors for ceremonious gowns with new silks and velvets available in these shades.
A blue gelling coat trimmed with Persian banding matches the skirt and suits many fabrics. The design features extended sleeves forming a box plate over the shoulders and ends at the edge. Material needs cited for a 14 year old, with widths 44 inches and varied yardage.
A man haunted by Nellie’s refusal stalks the cotillion, plans to flee to New York, and triggers a noisy burglary alarm while trying to escape. In the ensuing chaos Nellie fears for Jack, a murder scare erupts, and the mystery of the alarm remains unresolved amid family drama and jealous misunderstandings.
A discussion with Wallace F Randolph reveals an inventor boasting a powerful explosive meant to float into enemy lines on a balloon. The inventor claims a fuse lit ahead of launch would detonate over the opposing army, but risks destroying the user’s own forces first.
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