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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1910
Page
3
The Star notes hair fashion trends among women featuring extravagant styles and Oriental influences. Women wear large jeweled bands, semi-precious stone headpieces, ribbon bandeaus, and ornate pins, with some confessing to high spending on switches and extensions. A simple groomed head with shell pins remains admired and increasingly rare.
A boy named Frank drifts to a warm tropical dream when the South Wind lifts his couch through the window. He explores orange groves, ripe bananas, bamboo houses, and river life before waking to report the amazing journey and his wish to visit someday.
The Quaker Drug Co promotes Samose as a flesh forming food with tonic effects that aid assimilation of nutrients. They guarantee refunds if Samose does not make thin people fat or restore strength, and note weight gain and improved health after a week to ten days. Price is 50c postpaid on receipt.
A home remedy advises rendering Matton tallow and applying it inside old kid gloves to hands and arms. Scrub with warm water and Castile soap, then rub with lemon juice each night for three nights. Leaves hands softened and stained areas lightened, with repeat use as needed.
C H Brown Plumbing Co thawed and repaired pipes in a local job. Main 3500 and Ind 1300 numbers appear in the service listing.
A reader asks for orange marmalade instructions and pork sausage spice suggestions. The page then provides guidance on griddle cakes without eggs, drippings as shortening, and fat clarification for cooking. It includes Malfine and cookies recipes using clarified fat and baking powder notes.
A 17 year old student asks if adenoids cause fatigue and difficulty studying. The advisory reply links adenoids to nervousness and general health decline, suggests removal as the only cure, and urges seeking a physician if possible. It also notes negative stereotypes about dullness and behavior tied to adenoids.
An imported suit labeled Early Spring Suit showcases a slender woman’s rearming design. MH features handsome tweed with velvet revers, cuffs, and a semi Norfolk jacket. The half fitting skirt is pretty and likely to become popular in America. Also notes sugar weed placement in tarts for crust texture.
A Seattle business notes a historic chance to secure high-grade goods as opportunity arrives with sharp timing. The firm urges quick action to capitalize before rivals can react.
A warehouse promotion urges readers to clip a certificate and buy one of 60 brand new pianos at the corner of Third Avenue South and Washington Street. Free delivery is offered and customers can get two dollars in credit per dollar of cash toward the certificate. Customers may visit via a Third Avenue car to Yesler Way and walk one block south.
The Redfern shipment presents three corset styles in batiste forSpring fashion. Style 5151, $4.00, targets average figures with long waist and hip fit, lace trim, hose supporters. Style 6767, $3.50, long torso with two hose supporters. Style 5353, $3.50, slender figure, soft whalebone, two hose supporters.
Spring Silks and Dress Goods offer Firet Poor English dull finished washables in white with hairline stripes at 2.00. Novelty black and white stripe silk overshot jacquard at 1.15. New crash weave 56 inches wide in pheasant artichoke castor and black at 1.65. Sharkskin suiting 51 inches wide 1.65. Herringbone cheviot 50 inches wide in multiple colors 1.65. Burlap suiting 56 inches wide in black violet um navy 1.75.
Large stock of dependable notions including Franklin sanitary turbans 50c, Carbona cleaning fluid 15 20 45c, string shopping bags 25 50c, Kleinert stockinet dress shields 25c, Stephenson skirt supporters 25c, Setwell skirt markers 206 nickel-plated, Wilson hose support 25c, Vassar binding tape 9 yards 15c, Best linen corset laces six yards 10c, antiseptic safety pin books 10c, automatic bachelor buttons a dozen 10c, Boston tip tie laces 30 inches black or tan So pair. First Floor.
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