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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1909
Page
7
A highwayman and another thug planned to rob a nurse near the Steilacoom asylum but refrained after seeing her uniform. Assistant nurse Mr Jacobs notes the remark Dont bother her shes a nurse and Mrs Jacobs adds that nurses wearing their uniform deter trouble. Matron Mary Fleece, a former nurse, says she always wears her uniform and it protects her when going out at night.
San Pedro faces severe flooding as water from Palos Verdes hills rushes toward the town. Ocean swells endanger the area, electric Car service is disrupted, and a passenger steamer reports heavy deck losses. Memorial events mark Lincoln’s day with readings and speeches in Washington and New York.
A writer recalls drum memories from war, then Lincoln notices him. Lincoln offers a job washing fence and later makes him his office boy, detailing a fledgling career under the president.
A nostalgic recollection describes Lincoln's sayings on hard work honesty and optimism. The narrator recalls personal moments in his office life noting Lincoln's simple chair lunch at the desk and habit of working in shirt sleeves.
A fragment praises Lincoln as a model combining visionary insight with practical work. It notes he had sense without the visionary excesses and without the narrow practical limits that hamper many realists.
William Jennings Bryan, speaking in Springfield near the LincolnDouglas debates site, pays eloquent tribute to Abraham Lincoln as an orator. He argues Lincoln’s enduring reputation rests on his oratorical gifts and earnest sincerity that moved audiences and shaped antislavery sentiment in the north.
Special list of misses and children's undergarments in cream natural colors. Medium weight merino and jersey ribbed union suits priced at 95c and 78c. Children’s fleece lined vests and drawers in cream or white offered with broken lots at 35c and 50c. Second Floor.
Included at special prices are Cor set Covers Long Skirts Gowns Drawers and Combinations. The assortments are varied and embrace many dainty styles. Corset Covers 50c to Drawers 50c 75c 1.00 3.95 to 2.00. Long Skirts 50c to 10. Gowns 50c 1.00 2.00 to 5.00. Combinations 1.00 to 5.00 Second Floor.
Colgate perfumes and assorted odors priced to 35c per ounce. 4711 Bath Salts 25c. Colgate Dental Powder 15c. Bourjois Java Rice Powder 25c. Sozodont 19c. Hudnut Liquid Green Soap 1se. Rose glycerine soap. Bailey’s complexion brushes 20c to 45c. Wearever 2-qt water bottles 1.25. Vaseline camphor ice. Mennen borated talcum violet 10c. Pears unscented soap on first floor.
Advertises a range of sewing and fashion accessories with prices: electric curling irons, corset clasps, whisk brooms, pin books, Princess Chic Heses, skirt markers, collar stays, mending tissue, gilt hairpins, nottahooks, hair light pompadours, and shoe laces. Items marketed by Kirby Beard Co. on the first floor.
Jewelry items include German silver mesh bags priced from 6 to 10 dollars and gun metal mesh bags in assorted sizes at 8 10 and 12 dollars. Black or white fans feature spangled duchesse lace or hand painted styles with pearl or ivory sticks priced 95 cents to 20 dollars. Rosary beads in colors range 2 50 to 10 dollars and plain pierced or fancy hand carved barrettes with hooks and clasps are 50 cents to 3 50.
Basement Salesroom Point Venise Lace Yokes and Chemisettes in white and cream priced 50c 63c 87c 95c and 1.00 each Gibson Stock Collars white Venise lace and fine Swiss embroidery 15c and 25c each Women's Handkerchiefs fine crossbar lawn Se each Women’s Figured White Lawn and Colored Cambric Handkerchiefs 64c each Women’s Fine Silk and Linen Colored Handkerchiefs 17c each 3 for 50c Women’s Pure Linen Plain Hemstitched Handkerchiefs 1Sc¢ each
Advertises muslin sheets 81 by 90 with 3 inch hems at 50 cents each. Bleached muslin pillow cases 42 by 36 at 1 dollar each, claimed reliable quality.
Listing offers pure Irish linen damask cloths 68 by 90 inches in excellent wear. full bleached linen damask suitable for hotel use described as good heavy quality. Prices shown as 2.07 dollars and 0.49 dollars per sank with laundering notes.
Cream color medium weight fleece lined cotton union suits with high neck long sleeves and ankle length priced at 35c. Pure white jersey ribbed cotton union suits with low neck no sleeves lace trimmed at umbrella knee priced at 38c.
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