This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
5
Special interest to women letters from readers ask about love, hair removal, boarding a child, white hands, dandruff, shampoo, chapped lips and general health. Miss Grey offers practical tips and remedies and directs some requests for addresses and care of letters.
The article previews spring fashion for fair skinned women, noting a cream colored feghorn hat with a broad black velvet faced brim and short ostrich feather trim. It references a lace trimmed sailor collar and linen frill as part of the latest fancy, seen on a photographed model.
Dorothy questions why young girls should kiss every visitor and her mother defends a stance that girls should choose whom to kiss. The piece argues against pressuring children to kiss adult men and suggests respect for a girl's boundaries, warning of later awkwardness.
A handwritten recipe describes making hot cross buns with scalded milk butter sugar and yeast. It notes an English belief that the bun brings good luck and helps ward off disease. Instructions include mixing yeast with milk, proving the batter overnight, then rising and sweetening before shaping and baking.
An advertisement extols Marmola tablets as a safe fat reducer for weight loss. It promises rapid fat reduction and improved appearance by converting meals into essential nourishment, claiming noticeable results within weeks and offering mail order options from Detroit suppliers.
A compactdirections recipe discusses ground nutmeg and cinnamon with half a cup of currants and chopped rai sins, flour to form a stiff dough, two rises, and baking in a moderate oven. A syrup glaze is brushed on near completion, an egg optional, and a croissant cut marks made before baking.
A short survey of how various birds construct nests using cement or mud. The piece notes Spain’s stone mason Thila in the pedrero, American robin redbreast as a craftsman of cement, swallows shaping mud nests under eaves, cave swallows forming village nests, barn swallows nesting inside barns, and the flamingo building a mud chimney to perch and keep eggs safe.
Quotes from Professors and clubwomen debate gossip, education, and gender roles. Griggs advocates educating women to curb gossip while Roberts calls for abolishing women’s clubs, and Yanger notes male vanity and social display in contrast to female reserve.
The article lists several recipes and culinary ideas for Easter season including Butter Scotch a grapefruit salad fried shrimp and Vinegar Candy. It provides measurements and simple instructions such as cooking molasses sugar and butter to the crack and preparing a grapefruit celery walnut salad with heavy mayonnaise and cheese straws.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a fast permanent remedy for bleeding and itching piles. It urges readers to request a free trial by mail from Pyramid Co in Maril Michigan, citing a 70 year old Indiana man cured and urging standard 50 cent packages at drug stores.
Coats are cut on loose straight lines and are generally hip to half length. Sleeves vary in length and collars and reverses shape. Artificial flowers reach new perfection this season and look freshly plucked from the garden.
A recipe describes layering cold boiled ham with brown sugar and dry mustard, frying until brown and serving with creamed potatoes. It also instructs a Tomato Curry dish with curry powder, stewed tomatoes, rice layers, bread crumbs top, butter dotting, and baking until rice cooks.
A New York society woman credits a dry shampoo method for glossy hair. Her hairdresser uses four ounces therox and four ounces powdered orris root, brushing to remove all powder. Wetting hair is said to dull and weaken it. Ad.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.