Letters on Love and Matrimony from The Star Page
A chaotic multiple text fragment from The Star columns shows letters seeking marriage partners. A widow describes herself as a good homemaker worth 12000 dollars seeking a steady husband. Another poem, verses, and reader responses discuss an elusive No 21 shop girl and demand for a suitor who abstains from smoking chewing or drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raitor
G. I
Twinkle
Star
Seattle
Boas
Pinkerton
The American mother and the home ideal
The article extols the American mother as central to national unity, claiming she and her husband and children form a single home unit. It praises rights gained, rejects bondage, and lauds maternal industry as advancing women’s happiness and national vigor through history and influence.
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United States
America
Breakfast menu and imperfect recipe fragment
A scrambled OCR fragment lists breakfast items and a rough baking instruction. It mentions cereal with cream, muffins, coffee, onion soup, beans, peaches, Parker House rolls, graham muffins, and a wonky recipe advising to sift flour with sugar baking powder and salt then mix with milk and bake about 20 minutes.
Old Time Home Kitchen Notes From A Murky Recipe List
Fragmented recipe text lists cheese with pasta and puddings, ham with crackers, and baked fruit jelly. It includes measurements like ½ pound cheese 1 can milk 1 tablespoon sugar and directions to bake until brown. Several lines reference maple, currants, vanilla, and nut meats with unclear arrangement and timing.
The Enchanted Swans of Lake Killarney Tale
An ancient Irish tale tells of King Lir whose jealousy spurs a stepmother to curse his children into four graceful swans. A druid foretells that bells rung by Christians will lift the spell. Patrick later calls the swans ashore, breaking the curse as a church bell rings, restoring the children to life.
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Ireland
Lir
Kiilarney
Patrick
Lake Killarney
Oil wealth and fashion notes from Stella Feller and Katie De Wall
Stella Feller of Hartin co Texas earns $150000 in a single afternoon by marking down two oil wells and reports daily offers of tens of thousands in fees for special work. Mise Feller concentrates on discovering oil beds and has profited from her own wells and fees while funding an orphan asylum. Katie De Wolle of New York earns nearly $20000 per coat in household decor and credits hard work for her success.
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Stella Josephine Feller
Hartinco
Texas
Mise Feller
Beaimeont
Mise Kiaie de Wolle
New York
Fron and Froning Tips For Salads And Clothing Care
After thorough rinsing in three or four waters the item should be put through milk. If retted briefly and then froned the handker chiefs appear new. When troning set the fron on a heated brick to retain heat longer. If short of chicken for salad, cook pork chops in broth to absorb chicken flavor and resemble it.
The Vase of Give and Get Life’s Giving Fountain
The piece presents a parable of give and receive, likening life to a magician’s vase that overflows only when you pour in. It asserts that what you impart returns in kind, so love and charity attract happiness and success, while envy and hate repel them.
Proper Footwear Care and Household Cleaning Tips
Advice on relieving tight shoes with a folded cloth soaked in hot water and rewarming the shoe. Tips cover moth prevention with painted floors, wood treatment with alum, cleaning spills on polished wood, and rapid drying. Separate laundering for fine handkerchiefs with warm soapy water and borax, plus gentle bath rubs.
Fashions Show Spherical Buttons and Palm Leaf Algrets
The article highlights gilt spherical buttons and novelties in dress trimming. It notes small dogskin gloves for children styled like men's, closing with a single clasp. Algrets are shaped like palm leaf fans with Mercury wings at the base. The puff returns, adorning sleeves between shoulder and wrist.
Dear Mise Grey Health Q and A from Readers
A column of reader questions on hair changing from curly to straight and sleep talking. Advice covers teenage health changes, hair care and brushing, plus steps to relax before sleep and avoid stress. Also tips on removing brown teeth buildup with pumice and hydrogen peroxide, and a nasal red nose when entering warm rooms with cold water splash for circulation.
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Mise Grey
Misa Grey
A. Tiathe
Salads String Bean Salad Assembly and Finish
A compact recipe for string bean salad with romaine lettuce, cold string beans, beet centers stuffed with celery and mayonnaise, tomato slices seasoned with salt and white pepper, finished with whipped cream and chopped olives. Serve on lettuce leaves.
Salad Assembly and German Potato Salad Instructions
Step by step method for assembling a lettuce platter with boiled egg halves stuffed olives and tomatoes, topped with mayonnaise. Then a detailed German potato salad recipe covers peeling tiny potatoes slicing onions mixing salt pepper sugar vinegar oil and parsley with butter mustard cayenne and lemon juice for dressing.
Velvet Hat Dress and Carnival Bazaar Details
Graceful hats feature a brim of tinted rib bon and a draped velvet crown. The bazaar at Mammoth rink lasts ten days starting January MM with Rev. John KB. O'Brien coordinating workers from room 300 Bavoy hotel. Russian blouses for boys and girls offered as pretty and comfortable.
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Mammoth Rink
Betel Home
John KB. O'Brien
Bavoy Hotel
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the Star
Star Boat
Beaton Girl
Peter
G. L
Mothers OF the World
Parker House
Rolle
Graham
Tories
THE
Swan Children
Synthia Greys Correspondents
Edison Phonograph
Slezak
Ana
Metropolitan Opera House
Jean DeReske
Faljson
Edison Armberol
Edison Standard Records
Edison Grand Opera Records
Handi
Rollew Aion
Rusnatard
Seon
Seemanen Co
Lakonide Avenue
Orange
Talking Machine Headquarters
Dilera Musto Building
Third and University
Seattle-Tacoma
Portland
California
Shasta Limited
Tacoma
San Francisco
Owl
City Ticket and Freight Office
First Avenue
Dearborn St
First Ave
Railroad Ave
W. D. Skinner
Poulsbo
Colman Deck
M. Herpard Ellet
Dental
Nial
Brown Dental
Federal
Federal Paint & Wall Paper Co
Newport Cafe & Grill
Central Coal Co
Main
IND
Pensea
John Brown
Third
Columbia
Beattie
Bvemett
ND & Monds
Guy
A &F m
Encenneer
Oor Sung Sian
Bunset
Galty
Kepve
Albert Hansen
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