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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1910

Page

5

Dance by Ounce It's Dying Out The False Hair Fashion

A Star readers column reports on a shift in women's hair fashion. Madam Polly explains false hair is fading as offices adopt lighter styles. The trend favors minimal extensions, with four ounces as the practical limit, using half moon or cap curls for those with little natural hair.

Madam Polly Flere Klark

Yuletide Fairy Tales and the Poet's Gift

A haunted Adirondack tale features a generous poet who shelters a nearly naked child with a bow and arrows. The child, Dan Cupid, explains his aim to ease heavy hearts and create happiness. A wedding follows ten days later, underscoring the poet’s unwitting aid to fate.

Poet Dan Cupid

Quick Lunch Prepared in Two Minutes Says No Substitute

A brief notice urges choosing BORLICK S quick lunch option and directs customers to avoid substitutes or trust arrangements, stressing speed and simplicity.

Borlick

Lungs Warn of Coughs Prompt Doctors Visit for Ayer’s

A speaker urges immediate medical consultation for persistent coughing and advises asking a physician about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. The admonition stresses no delay and following the doctor’s guidance for treatment.

Ayer

Has Your Husband Realized Your ONE Big Requirement

Advice column asks readers to share how their husbands met or missed a single defining requirement in marriage. Cynthia Grey invites letters detailing dreams of ideal husbands, the realities faced, and lessons for other women without publishing names.

Cynthia Grey Prince Charming Star

Actress Stabbed Scene Wins Paris Audience

Regina Badet of the Opera Comique, famed dancer turned actress, drew loud applause this week in The Woman and the Puppet based on Pierre Louys work. The play features a heroine who becomes a star Spanish dancer and a scene where her lover strikes her, which the audience welcomed as dramatic, while withholding sympathy for the character.

Paris Regina Badet Opera Comique Pierre Louy Mlle Badet

Morgan mayor honored with Christmas visit in Cottonwood Falls

In Cottonwood Falls Kansas Mrs W A Morgan 65 former mayor in 1686 hosted a Christmas gathering at her home. A.L. Hall’s at 1111 Fleet Avenue advertises bikes for boys. In San Francisco charges of grand larceny are filed against EK Smith Margaret Henry J T Woodson and James Woodson in a Humboldt bullion theft case involving $50000.

Cottonwood Falls Kas W. A. Morgan San Francisco EK. &. Smith Margaret Henry J. T. Woodson James Woodson Humboldt

Dear Miss Grey Advice Column Highlights Inquiries

A collection of Miss Grey letters covers nationality of John Philip Sousa, a Bremerton Marine relative, date of September 28 1904, hair loss remedies, Christmas for Thanksgiving, citizen papers, hosting a suitor, peanut brittle recipe, and wedding decoration etiquette.

Minn Grey John Philip Sousa United States Marine Corps Bremerton, Wash Miss Grey

Where Do Pins Go The Wompo-Loo Eats Them

In New York on December 17 a book titled In Dilla off Land is published. Mrs Pell, wife of a broker clubman, writes to answer a common question about the fate of pins and related items.

New York Dilla Mra Hie Pell Mre Pell

Wompo loo verse about a needle eating creature

A quirky limerick describes a queer Wompo loo who can walk on hands on walls and slide on his head. It claims he survives on needles pins and tacks and lives in floor cracks waiting for drops to munch before retreating again.

Seventy Seven Od Pill Package Promoted as Flu Remedy

An old advertisement touts Seventy-seven as a remedy for influenza grip coughs colds and sore throat. The small vial of pellets is sold at drug stores or by mail from Humphreys Homeo Medicine Co at the corner of William and Ann Streets New York.

Heavy Earthquake Recorded in Ohio

A strong earthquake was recorded on the selamograph at St. Ignatius college in Cleveland. Scientists compare the event with the Java quake of years past. The shock is estimated to have originated about 6 000 miles from Cleveland.

Cleveland Java St. Ignatius College Scientiata

Danish ex minister jailed for vast thefts in Denmark

Former Danish Minister of Justice Albert was sentenced in Copenhagen to 86 years in prison and a 4 million dollar fine for multi year embezzlement as banker broker and official. The crimes devastated thousands of families and involved hundreds of poor people. Detectors hunt for millions in stolen money and securities.

Copenhagen Albert Today Denmark Alberti

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