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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1904
Page
2
Fashion notes describe a blouse waist with an elbow length sleeve bolero in antique front and fringe trim. Pattern 4763 fits busts 34 to 40 inches, with fabric needs listed for blouse and bolero in multiple widths and fringe details. Additional tips cover handkerchief kimonos, potpourri, and a simple Paris muslin corset cover design.
Practical household hints on cooking fruit cake and keeping pans clean with ammonia. Tips on hay water for washing, bread crust care, and delicate hats with lace. Also instructions for making old fashioned pot pourri with rose leaves, salt, alpaloo, and cinnamon sticks.
Shawls appear in unusual numbers signaling a revival of 1830s and 1850s styles. Silk shawls attract attention with embroidery in self or contrasting colors. Pale carmon pink, magenta with red patterns, and pale pinks, blues, and creams are prominent. Pongee color with white or yellow trim adds variety.
An antique description lists rose ash tones and pale blues with pinks in fashion accessories. Modish milinery features green gooscharries and white roses. A silver cross replaces a jeweled heart on a raft chain while wash mohair petticoats and eighteenth century brocaded mules offer home wear.
A concise description extols pongee goatskin garments for young girls, noting charm and practicality. It highlights warmth suitable for summer days and mentions a simplified thin version with an inverted point at the back for added detail.
The text describes a coat with tonal fulness and folds, full amply sleeves, and a coat that may be worn open or closed with or without a collar. It lists yardage for a medium size 10 years as 96 1/2 yards 21, 2 1/2 yards 44 or 2 1/2 yards 55 inches wide.
Instructions for cleaning an eiderdown quilt include mending small holes first, then soaking in warm water with boiled soap, plunging, and squeezing until water runs clear. Repeat with fresh soda, rinse in multiple water changes, wring, shake, and dry. Do not use a mangle as it will flatten the fill.
A Chicago inventor, Samuel M. Friede, proposes a 700 foot tall aerial globe with a 560 foot diameter, 1 million dollar cost, and capacity 25 000 to 30 000 people. The complex includes observation towers, a large coliseum, restaurants, and telescoped viewing for citywide sights.
A Seattle firm laments clerks marrying and leaving for home life. Managers note steady staff turnover as brides depart to start households, despite ads requiring applicants to stay unmarried for a year. Over twenty young women have married in eighteen months, affecting customer attachments and trade continuity.
The maxim states a commitment to pursuing what one loves rather than a guaranteed path to riches. It expresses the resolve to chase meaningful work or passion even if wealth is uncertain, preferring personal fulfillment over certainty of fortune.
A Henderson Ky woman, from a wealthy aristocratic family, visits New York with her husband and reunites with her former mammy. The scene at the station shows a dramatic display as the black nurse is embraced, kissed, and cared for as a devoted mother would.
An iron plant for Frontera, Mexico, will build steel iron and wooden vessels for river and ocean navigation. A full equipment of machinery and tools has been ordered from the United States for the plant’s operations.
An article discusses improving voice quality through modulation. It describes three vocal registers the chest, throat, and head, and notes pitch variation enhances seriousness or excitement. It emphasizes steady, skillful control to keep listeners engaged during talkies and public speaking.
The Queen of Holland, noted as an amateur farmer, operates a castle dairy at Leo in a businesslike manner selling butter and milk regularly. She is said to be self-supporting and profits from the dairy. A second hobby is photography, with the queen and other distinguished visitors enjoying tours.
Ludwig Eisenbaum, a forty five year old German born American, completed a seventy six day Atlantic crossing in a nineteen foot craft. He says storms were welcome and he never felt lonely, recounting a capsizing near Madeira and a whale encounter as he slept in a cubby hole amid the spray. He pursued the voyage for glory and personal achievement.
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