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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
5
A fragment from The Star discusses a shop girl’s view on marriage and home life. It contrasts factory labor and a hoped for better living with a home, a husband, and duties, asking if a wife should trade family life for a room. The tone probes gender roles and domestic expectations.
A fragmented instructional fragment discusses gowns and fabric care. It mentions vinegar, sugar, moisture, staining, cleaning methods, and avoiding tinselly looks. The text is incomplete but focuses on improving fabric appearance and preservation.
The Star invites women to send in favorite recipes to share with Cynthia Grey. Readers are asked to send dishes they cook as treats for husbands and children, hoping others will try them at home.
Sunday menu lists breakfast options of baked apples cereal with cream liver and bacon dry toast coffee and dinner features bouillon smothered chicken sweet potatoes succotash lettuce salad maple nut cream cake coffee. A recipe explains beating yolks with air until thick then gelatin and folded whipped cream for dessert.
Instructions for frying chicken with butter and cream, pan browning in a hot oven, then preparing French fried sweet potatoes, escaloped onions with bread crumbs and sage, and a tomato rabbit sauce using butter flour and cream. Includes cooking steps and serving notes.
The passage presents a garbled collection of cooking instructions for tomato soup and a fruit cake. It lists ingredients like canned tomatoes, American cheese, garlic, onion juice, and various baking components with numerous typos and unclear quantities. It resembles a faded kitchen note mixing uneven amounts and steps.
A fashion note describes loose belted coats returning to favor among tall slender women. The coats vary in length from knee to three quarter, with a black broadcloth suit illustrated and trimmed with bandinga details.
A cloth description notes interlined blouses and wraps worn with a small fur neckpiece on mild days. Hats in vogue are simply trimmed with a tricorn shape popular this season and paired with tailored garments.
A dated column urges women to shape a sunny home atmosphere despite personal trials. It condemns moodiness as selfish and stresses overcoming weaknesses. The piece then gives old fashioned washing tips for woolens and damp cleaning methods for paper articles with a flour polish.
A column from The Star includes quirky notes about Cynthia Grey, Florence K N and others in Columbia and Seattle with plans to London. Readers seek beauty cream recipes using glycerine and wax, and a Q&A on romance, vanity, cleaning grease from fabric, and chilblains remedies. A reader asks about marriage licenses in Washington with guidance on residency, examination, witnesses, and cost.
Advert says possum skin remedy eradicates eczema pimples rash and facial blemishes overnight. It touts thousands of cures and asks buyers to obtain a 50 cent package or $2 jar from Seattle drug stores and to request free samples by writing to Emergency Laboratories New York City.
The Oriental Pool Rooms offers 45 pool tables and 26 bolo tables plus a bar restaurant cigar stand and seven chair barber shop. Claimed as the largest of its kind in the world with 10 cash given away daily. Located at 1413 15 Thirday between Pike and Union.
The notice quotes questions to a doctor about prescribing stimulants and tonics to children. It asserts Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a non alcoholic tonic with no stimulation or alcohol habit risk.
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