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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1909
Page
3
A collage of humorous lines and scenes about a well behaved boy who avoids mischief, a jewel ring about engagement, a keepsake lock of hair, a joke writer with empty brain, and quips on birthdays and education. The excerpts include dialogues on manners, vaccination, and social classes.
A reflective verse traces progress from horse to steam to faster travel. It laments the pace of discovery andifting tastes as humanity seeks swifter movement. The poet muses on a restless urge to fly, capturing a moment of restless modernity.
A collage of humorous exchanges and cartoons from a late 19th or early 20th century page. Jokes reference summer fiction habits, a landlord, a stranger at an inn, a puns laden window tale about George Washington, Roosevelt era science, and light social banter about office lines and baseball, with playful dialect and social satire.
Lingerie for trousseaux described with French pattern drawers and top corner detailing. It outlines pieces including chemise nightgown camisoles and combinations with exact yardage and widths for materials such as Valenciennes lace insertion beading embroidery ribbon and lace.
The piece advises girls with limited funds to wear colored slips under white gowns to create many looks for class day and beyond. A colored slip extends a white dress, protects the gown, and offers versatile matching accessories like sashes necklaces and flowers for varied occasions. It also suggests white eyelet frocks embroidered in color as an affordable option.
A description of a blouse in silk with wide embroidery bands simulating a cholera pattern and laced in front with ribbon. The gulmpe and undersleeves are made of tulle.
The author describes linen and batiste garments for stout women. Corset-cover pantalon combinations are noted for exquisite make and finish. Garments are low necked and knee length, designed by a perfect seamstress. The tone emphasizes quality and fit for curvier figures.
The cuirass style gown remains popular offering a net and embroidery bodice extending to the hips paired with a long four knife plaited skirt. A coarse net cuirass with silk embroidery and soutache outlines a hem top, elbow sleeves with lace frills, and a Dutch neck with valenciennes lace.
The season features a princess costume with a pointed waistline and new silhouette variety. Menswear shirting shows narrower stripes than last year while bathing suits use mohair, fine serge, taf feta and silk serge. Sleeveless skirts and coats appear among smart outfits. Jet bead necklaces complement collarleaf gowns.
A fashion note describes summer suits using fine serge and shantung in matching shades with simple finishes. Braiding appears mainly on the turn down collar and sleeve edges, while evolving sleeve strimming grows in popularity. A self embroidered waist features bands at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist.
Last summer Iowa orchards suffered extensive leaf loss on cherry and pear trees from a slimy slug that feeds on the leaf surface. Two broods appear, first in June and molt to orange slugs in July, then a second in August. Apply paris green or hellebore, dry or in spray, to protect trees and limit defoliation.
Silage must be properly handled to prevent tainted milk. Feed after milking, keep floors clean, avoid excess silage, ventilate the stable, avoid green or moldy silage, and store away from alleys. Poor handling taints milk and lowers quality, while proper practice yields cheap, excellent feed.
An article argues that alfalfa enriches soil rather than exhausts it due to deep root growth and nitrogen-fixing tubercles. It notes increased yields when planted on nitrogen-rich ground and cites Kansas acreage rising from 36,000 in 1891 to 743,000 in 1907 as evidence of growing adoption. A Krubm.
Sage cultivation yields profits, with 25 cents buys enough seed for about 1000 plants. First year harvest can cover sowing and picking labor. In spring, transplant into rows three feet apart and one and a half feet apart. With good soil and care, plants can be harvested three times yearly for several years.
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