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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
3
A Tacoma reader signs as TRUE BLUE WIDOW and sends a letter to The Star editor outlining a wish for a suitable marriage. Other correspondents from Seattle and Tacoma seek partners through the paper’s love and matrimony column, describing desires, incomes, and traits.
Style 208 showcases a long line corset with lace trim, coutil fabric, bust draw-string, hose-supporters, and four inch longer length. Style 152 offers a medium low bust fit with hose-supporters and tight hip coverage. Style 106 presents a low bust model with extended length, strong boning, and two hose-supporter pairs.
Through the Star letters on marriage and homes, readers have sent for cor rents. About 26 letters remain for No. and others list Lazy Bachelor Tid Bits and Down and Out. Selma Lagerlöf, the noted authoress, has won the 1909 Nobel Prize in literature.
Practical home advice on preserving mutton and pork without salt or ice by packing in milk and sealing, plus methods to keep sausages fresh in stone jars. Also instructions to treat iron kettles, and to make fronting board covers from white muslin with tied tapes for a secure fit.
A dated list details meals including Banenas cereal with cream, baked eggs, corn muffins, coffee, mock bisque, sliced turkey with cranberry sauce, potato puffs, mashed turnips, rice pudding with raisins, and a supper of old meat with salad and fig layer cake. Recipes describe romaine salad with oil and vinegar, grapefruit dressing, and a rice pudding method with milk rice sugar and raisins.
The duchess known for desate portraits in pencil and crayon is praised as a clever sculptress. A dreamland dance event is advertised with tonight’s program and admission listed.
Washington women face no inheritance handicaps and share equally in community property when a parent dies without a will. Divorced women may resume maiden names, and common law marriage is largely banned. marriages from six months after divorce are often deemed unlawful, with some confusion among lawyers.
A reader asks for a Mocha cake recipe and filling with detailed ingredients and steps. Another asks how to treat winter leg weakness in chickens and how to fatten them, with a veterinary suggestion involving baking soda and diet.
The new establishment at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Virginia is now open offering 106 modern furnished rooms including singles and en suites. Rates range from 2.00 to 4.00 per week.
Several children’s sleepwear items listed in outing flannel. Blue and pink striped sleepers with feet for ages 2 to 8, at 59c. Striped pajamas with feather braid, sizes 2 to 14 years, $1.00. Gowns in blue and pink stripes with yoke and braid trim, sizes 2 to 14 years, 59c. Night shirts in striped outing flannel with turn-down collar, sizes 2 to 10 years, 59c.
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