Englishwoman Advocates Simplicity in Dress and Home Life
An English visitor, Misa May Morris, sister to William Morris, criticizes American women's fashion and home upkeep. She urges simpler dresses, minimal corsets, natural hair, and without excessive furniture or ventilation issues. She argues for outdoor activity, restraint in eating, and less luxury in curtains and carpets.
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Misa May Morris
England
Miss Morris
William Morris
Brossom
When Valentine Was Very Young Poem Fragment Card
A nostalgic verse recalls a boy writing to his love in grandma’s time. He ties a ribbon bow and declares the rose was red violet blue and pink was sweet. He vows faith and that no knife could cut their love.
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Valentine
Grandma
Rustic Chicken and Rice With Parsley Toast
A simple home recipe describes baking chicken with vegetables in a covered pot. Garnish with parsley and sliced carrots, serve with toast. Prepare a rice side by boiling rice in salted water, then finish with butter thickened milk sauce and peas.
Sunday Menu and Chicken Hot Pot Recipe
A Sunday menu lists Breakfast with stewed prunes egg nests fried hominy coffee Dinner features cream tomato soup chicken hot pot steamed rice creamed peas fried bananas crackers and cheese Supper offers stirred eggs with cheese puffer sliced oranges cake tea and toast with a rich buttered yolk center. The method describes toast topped with stiff egg whites and baked to cook the yolk, plus a layered baked chicken hot pot with ham potatoes onions and chicken broth.
Banana Fry and Cheese Omelet with Butter Toast
A recipe for frying bananas with salt in butter and serving with stirred eggs and cheese. It describes heating eyes until night, adding butter, cream, and parmesan, then cooking into a thick omelet and serving on buttered toast or crackers. Includes a separate batter with sugar eggs flour milk and baking powder baked 35 to 40 minutes.
Worth Knowing Cocoa Butter and Glass Plaques
Cocoa butter is the most satisfactory emollient for primping the flesh. It should be slightly warmed before use and the skin clean before application to ensure absorption. Attractive crystal and silver plaques feature lace or embroidered dolly between glass parts, used as centerpieces and finger bowl stands.
Peel Lemons for Juicing to Ease the Task
The text advises peeling lemons with a knife to remove the white skin before using a squeezer. This method makes the work easier and yields more juice.
Dear Miss Grey Advice Column Snippets
A collection of short reader questions and answers from The Star. Topics include removing paint from wool with turpentine and ammonia, hair tonics and scalp stimulation, handling unwanted suitors with polite firmness, and prize rules for party games like 500, euchre, and 606 with guidance on awarding top prizes.
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Miss Grey
Dustless Duster Promises Superior Dust Removal
The new duster is described as black cheesecloth treated to absorb dust. It remains hot to the touch and releases dust only with soap and hot water. It aims to outperform ordinary fabrics by preventing redistribution of dust. Useful for cleaning hats velvet collars and as a soft brush for clothes.
A Recipe for Husbands
A dated domestic advice piece cautions selecting a husband not too young and raised in a moral atmosphere. It compares husbands to edible varieties, noting some are kept in pickle or hot water, but all can be made sweet with patience smiles and kisses. Garnish with charity and steady devotion then serve with peaches and cream for lasting affection.
Cleaning grease with benzine on a cloth
A vintage tip advises keeping a small bottle of benzine ready to remove grease. Place clean paper under the spot, dampen a cloth with benzine, and rub the grease into the paper. This preserves the tablecloth, and the bottle should be kept away from fire.
The Violet Lady and Jakey The Honest Errand Boy
Jakey, a newsboy in a large city, receives a surprise five dollar gold piece from a kind “violet lady” who buys his evening papers. His father seizes the money, making Jakey doubt the woman’s honesty. The lady later hires him as an office errand boy after learning he is trustworthy, and Jakey begins learning to become a business man.
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Jakey
Violet Lady
Valentine Party Craft and Games From Old Manual
An old style guide suggests creating a large heart from two red tissue sheets filled with shredded tissue balls for a Valentine party. Guests stab the swinging heart with a gilded wooden arrow, prizes for best couplets, and wordplay with a chosen romantic term.
Seventy-Seven Promises Quick Grip Cure At First Symptoms
Advertising claims urge early treatment with Seventy-Seven to lessen grip severity and shorten illness. The pamphlet promotes Seventy-Seven as breaking up stubborn colds, handy in a vest pocket, and sold at drug stores for 25 cents by Stumphreya's Medicine Co. in New York.
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Medicine Co. Cor
William and Ann Streets
New York
Tennett Et Wharf
American Standard Jewelry Co
Dearie Mich
Leland Co
Beattie
Wenied Ne International Pree
Aeh Weekly
Andere
London
Broadway
Pear Yester
Northwest
Duff
Secent Cooka
V. Newton
Chicago
Beattie Bee Herbert & Upper
Chelee
T Free Capital City Nursery Co
Midaleport
Meiroee
Columbeue
Gailwaldier Rovievard
Lane
Stevens
Loughney Bake Ovens hailed as cure all in Seattle
Advertisers claim the Loughney Bake Ovens in Seattle have relieved thousands since their founding two years ago. Prominent doctors in New York Philadelphia and Berlin endorse dry hot air therapy for gout rheumatism and related conditions. Free consultation offered at People's Bank building corner Second and Pike with hours eight to six weekdays and nine to noon Sundays.
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Seattle
Europe
Lewis A. N. M. D
New York City
Mrs. Wood
Philadelphia
Rosenbaum
Berlin
People’s Bank
Seconday
Pike St
Loughney & Loughney
Lincoln's Birthday Observed Across Seattle
Lincoln's birthday events included a Young Men's Republican club banquet with King Dykeman as toastmaster and Lincoln life literature readings in schools. Flags flew on school grounds and offices, banks, and the post office closed for the holiday, per civic observances.
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Lincoln
Young Men's Republican Club
King Dykeman
Drafts Claim Cure for Rheumatism Without Payment
An advertisement from Magic Foot Craft Co. promises rheumatism relief with Drafts sent to readers on free trial. It claims to cure chronic, acute muscular, sciatic, and lumbago pain, urging readers to request the Drafts by returning a coupon and not pay unless fully satisfied.
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Magic Foot Craft Co
LKG
Oliver Ridg
Jackson
Michigan
Classifieds items and notices from The Seattle Star
A mix of subscription notices and pay status warnings, memorials, business notices, lost and found ads, and personal notices with names such as Dore BK Con, Meattie, and Rena Dewar. It includes subscription expiration reminders, address label details, and contact numbers Main 1064 Ind. 641. Also funeral notices for Dore BK Con and Beattie, and various lost items like a rowboat on Lake Union and a child’s bracelet.
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Wookwalders
Tare Beatsie
Ium
Meattie
Witomi Uxy Concern
A. HK. Bergemann
Ole Beventhav
Beattie
A. HM. Horgmann
Perret
Mer Miere
Hon Marche
Hest Creamery
Green Lake
Bon Marcher
Star Nedding
Fith
Jackson
Vaan W. Dewar
Rena Dewar
Cora M. Madole
Madole
Randall
Tady
Belmont
Central Building
Lake Union
Latona Pharmacy
John Weteye
Ay & Ind
BSOR
Mtone-Inher
Wanted: rental cottages and houses in University district area
Incoming notices describe buyers seeking modern broom cottage or small homes for rent in University district, with partial cash offers and monthly balance terms. Listings mention various addresses and prices including $15 to $45 per month, Furnished or unfurnished options, and multiple rooms with references to North Ththat Mountain View Station and Wallingford area.
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University District
Plano
Broom Cottage
North
Mountain View Station
Ind
Auroraft
Wallingford
Blewett
West Beattie
Madison
E. Bath
Danner & Co Main
East
Ballard
Bolumbie
N. & Block
Take Union
Hoay
Entlake
Howarday N
Property listing notes with various parcels and terms
A garbled listing describes acres in a valley with orchard timber and sage brush areas, mentioning rents and a price around 260 dollars per ranch. It references Seattle property and a person or firm named GRO. A. Virtue.
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Kitties Valley
Hyd 9 Acre Home Near Pions Square
Fragments describe an acre home near a square with mentions of a barn, a Walter, a Woodland park, and a site called American. A note references 000 dollars worth of fruit sold last year and local properties including a barn and a coupe. The readable text is fragmented with unclear dates and names.
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Lasington
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