This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1911
Page
5
Letters from readers cover love age 16 social clubs hair care and wedding etiquette. Miss Grey answers on manners smoking stage periphery and correspondence practices with practical dates and brief guidance.
A suffraget gown shown at the Ladies' Tailors' association fall meeting favors a thoroughly American look shunning Paris fashion. The outfit eschews frills with plain lines and features real trousers, a baggy wide cut, a plain sack coat, soft hat, castor gloves, red tie, and eye shirtwaist.
Anna Louise Wolcott the newly elected Regent of the University of Colorado faces mixed reaction after prohibiting sororities at her boarding school. She later clarified that she supports sororities and fraternities in colleges and universities, opposing them only in schools with students too young to manage them properly.
A Bankers and Investors Magazine compilation ranks forty American women as the wealthiest household names. The list includes Mrs Russell Sage Mrs E H Harriman Mrs Hetty Green Mrs Whitelaw Reid Miss Helen Gould Mrs Phoebe A Hearst and other prominent heiresses and social figures of the era.
The poem lists marriage guidance by month, urging weddings in certain periods. It spoils optimism with warnings about fate, fortune, and happiness tied to different months, hinting at love as fate across the calendar.
Heat a pint of milk and fold in the yolks of 3 eggs with 3 tablespoons sugar and a pinch of salt. Cook in double boiler until thick, strain, cool, and add vanilla. For orange sauce boil Seville orange rind, add orange juice lemon juice and sugar to brown sauce. Bake with dates and wheat flour batter.
Cream 2 tablespoons peanut butter with water then stir in browned flour and butter. Add boiling water to thickness and cook three minutes. A tied cloth in water with cabbage and turnips helps odor. For a new modern furnished room, call The Virginus at 404 Vige ginta st near Westinke.
Instructions describe mixing half a yeast cake with warm water and flour to form batter and let it rise. By night add a pint of sweet milk and yeast, then in the morning mix in salt butter and more flour, bake in greased pans. Finish with a sugar milk wash and rewet after baking.
The article advises women on entering small scale catering with about 100 dollars capital for china ware and silver. It covers advertising, pricing from 75 cents a plate for luncheons to 1 to 5 dollars for elaborate dinners, staffing needs, and suggests books on the topic available by mail for a self addressed stamped envelope.
A mother coach and grandmother disciplinarian debate child rearing. The father, away often, cherishes his boy yet a tattling plea tests household harmony. Grandmother urges firm guidance and early character shaping to instill responsibility and moral uplift.
A precautionary piece warns mothers to shield infants from sun and cold with proper clothing and shade, avoid exposing babies in crowded shopping areas, and not to scold or provoke children in public. It cautions against talking loudly to children in cars to display them.
A speculative aside on home life and gender roles, contrasting funerallike gatherings with lively parties. The piece muses on men’s behavior and wives’ expectations, suggesting married life shapes social affection and preferences in entertaining.
The message urges readers to trust their physician for cold treatment and to follow the doctor’s recommendation, specifically mentioning Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as one option if advised. It emphasizes leaving the choice to the doctor.
A Seattle and Portland crowd touts the Neal Institute drink habit cure. Advertisements claim the institute can remove all appetite for intoxicants, offering guarantees and free treatment if needed. Prospective clients are urged to visit or contact The Neal Institute at East Howell Street and 16th Avenue in Seattle with phone numbers provided.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.