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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1912
Page
3
A reader urges older women to guide motherless girls toward responsibility. She argues women should help with advice and budgets, suggesting young couples share expenses to avoid financial strain and avoid costly leisure.
A curious trimmed excerpt presents Q and A on love and grooming. Vivian and Cynthia answer questions about love, cleanliness of blue serge, eyelashes, hair dye, and household tips, including West Point funding and senatorial letters. The tone mirrors vintage advice columns with practical rubrics and cautions.
A reader asks for cures for bad breath. If teeth cause the odor, treat dental issues. If catarrh, use a lukewarm salt water rinse twice daily. If stomach related, drink water between and before meals and avoid overeating.
A reader asks Miss Grey about wedding attire under a traveling suit. The reply suggests wearing a waist in the same shade as the suit with gloves matching closely, and notes removing the left glove during the ring ceremony if used.
A young boy asks how to handle neighbors who gossip about his detective work. The advisor says it is none of their business where he gets clothes and to focus on doing the work well.
A reader asks why the city does not remove a hard drinking tuberculosis patient despite neighbors bearing costs. Dr Crigh ton is urged to take action. In San Francisco an Illinois farmer David Napping seeks release of Alice J Brown in a suit over $3900 alleged marriage fraud, but he now only wants repayment.
A terse exchange reveals tension as Grace taunts about a necktie she crafted for Helen while noting the other person crafted one for her. The dialogue hints at personal grievances tied to a minor gift dispute.
Col. W. F. Cody praises Wyoming women’s vote as a model of moral politics and intelligent participation. He notes that suffrage there led to a cleaner political scene with no rowdyism at the polls for 40 years since women gained the vote.
Mayor Cotterill and eight council members plus many Tilli kiums visited the proposed West Side stadium site on a Saturday afternoon. They toured by car and were hosted to luncheon by the West Seattle Women's Improvement club, which put them in good humor for a discussion on the site's desirability.
A. C. Dow & Ryden received the contract to build a two story field house with basement at Collins playfield for 21338 dollars. The park board orders the parks superintendent to metal Lake Washington boulevard No. 2 from Seyard park to 500 feet north and to draft plans for a 24 foot bridge linking the boulevard south end with the plank street at 48th avenue.
Experiments in the French academy show that diet affects duck egg color. Fish-eating ducks lay green eggs, meat-eating ducks lay white, vegetarians pale pink. Fish diet ducks started first, meat eight days later, vegetarians after about two and a half months at ten months old. The flesh eating ducks eggs were the heavi
Emergency crews rush to the home of John Leary in San Francisco after a man reports severe sunburn and inability to sleep. Leary answers that he is the one hurt and requests aid.
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