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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1909
Page
10
Practical guide to canning fruit and making jelly including sauce pans utensils and steps for raspberries currants and cherry pie. Gives measurements heat times and cooling methods with jars glasses and paraffin sealing notes.
A set of vintage recipe fragments includes Baking Powder and cream tartar blends, beet and corn starch mixing notes, and packing tips. Tomato Salad with Cream suggests thick tomato slices with whipped cream and olives. Split Pea Soup uses soaked peas, pork, onion, clove, and slow simmering to finish. Beason and Minnehaha Filling list unusual ingredients like white cigar moisture and hee whites mixed with ratatus for a savory prior dish.
A quirky item lists pantry organization tips for storing rice sugar benny and other small goods in glave jars and a large box. It then notes a turpentine-dipped cloth to revive faded rugs and oddly mentions Amborgria from whale byproducts used in perfumes, with rising value due to sperm whale scarcity. The Brooklyn Eagle tone adds a boastful aside.
Ragland scouts dig at Knap Hill camp in Wiltshire hoping to expose a prehistoric fortress. Ming Jane Addams of Hull House in Chicago is noted as the first woman president of the National Conference on Charities and Correction and a leading social settlement figure.
Dresses described in white figured and dotted lunette patterns in brown navy black and Copenhagen with surplice waist and fancy trimming. skirts are gored and net yoke long sleeves. Price four dollars eighty five. Also striped lawn dresses in brown white black white and blue white with tuck waist net yoke bordered in self colors and gored skirts. Price four dollars eighty five. -Derément
Ad offers women’s knit vests at 15 cents each or 2 for 25 cents. Cotton knit vests available in white pink and sky blue with crochet designs. Extra sizes in white. Hakement Halewrooi listed as seller.
Seasonal fabrics priced for the shopper. Fancy printed challis in floral and ombre stripe designs at 27 cents per yard, Seaside Check Suitings at 23 cents, checked serges in 34 to 36 inch widths from 35 to 42 cents. Wide range of colors and patterns available.
Catalog-style notice lists women’s white cotton knit underwear items including high neck vests and umbrella lace trimmed drawers all priced at 19 cents. Also mentions lisle corset covers and a term Manement Rulesroom.
Misses' knit union suits in white cotton with high necks and short sleeves reach knee length and are offered at 25 cents each.
Catalog lists drawers 19 to 49 cents corset covers 19 to 40 cents gowns 49 to 75 cents skirts 75 cents to 1.49 dollars and combinations 75 cents to 16 percent. Sale note mentions Tasoment Sal.
Rompers of blue chambray gingham in sizes 2 to 6 years with striped shirts in sizes 1 to 6 years. Also blue and white or pink and white checked gingham with blue accents. Prices listed.
Black taffeta silks with fine dye and finish priced at 48e per yard. Black messaline offers bright lustrous finish at 50 cents per yard. Black satin duchesse, medium weight, priced at 8 dollars per yard. Black ottoman cord described as dependable quality at a dollar per yard. Extra quality black taffeta, 35 inches wide, one dollar per yard. Basement Aalearoe.
Desirable novelty silks at 48c per yard offer corded wash silks in popular colors including pink light blue tan cardinal old rose reseda and gray. Louisine silks present in desirable shades chiefly stripe effects with some broken plaids per yard.
Parasols described in two white linen finished styles priced at 85c and 1.00, featuring open work embroidery or blind embroidery with white frames and wooden handles. Also listed are parasols in pink, blue, tan, navy, brown and white in fink soisette fabric with deep hemstitched borders and wide tucks, natural wood handles. Banement.
Catalog listing fabrics including patterns and widths. Denims on attractively patterned dark grounds at 32 inches wide suitable for curtains and pillows priced per yard. Burlap offered in brown green red blue and natural at 36 inches wide. Ruffled curtain muslin features embroidered ruffle and tamboured edge at 34 inches wide. Oriental couch covers listed at 24 yards long and 72 inches wide in colors suitable for couches with price per item.
Navy blue Copenhagen and white percale dresses with dot ring and plaid trims offered in light or dark colors. Sizes range from 2 to 6 years. Priced at 55e.
Advertises women's fabric gloves priced at 25 cents per pair in black white tan brown gray and navy. Glove styles include 12-button and 2-clasp designs described as excellent quality and desirable for warm weather wear.
Advertisement for white dimity waists priced at $1.25 each. Features include small ring polka dots in black or blue, a deep pine tuck yoke at the front, long lace edged sleeves, and back tucks in clusters.
An advertisement lists machine made opaque window shades mounted on Stewart Hartshorn improved self acting Foller. Sizes include 46 inches wide by 7 feet long and 36 inches wide by 7 feet long. Prices shown in the notice.
Morning waists of light colored percale feature black designs and tucks across the front with a turnover collar and buttoning at the wrist. White madras waists in Peter Pan style have Dutch collars and broad shoulder tucks.
A catalog tranche lists scalloped-edge galloons in 2 to 3% inch widths for trimming lingerie and dresses at 25, 15, and 19 cents per yard. Also offered are 45-inch colored net waistings in pink, brown, olive and reseda at 25 cents. oriental embroidered net bands in white, cream and corn at 15 and 20 cents. embroidery edgings and insertions in open-work patterns at 5, 10, and 15 cents. cambric embroidery edges from 4 to 12 inches wide at 12 to 25 cents. 45-inch striped net waistings at 75 cents per yard. series tucked net at about 145 dollars per yard.
Women's and men's handkerchiefs offered in various linen and cambric materials. Styles include hemstitched borders with embroidered medallions and color options lavender pink sky brown. Prices range from 10¢ to 17¢ each, 3 for 50c, with men’s Irish linen at 17¢ each, basement salesroom.
Advertisement item listing neckwear with Dutch collars and jabots priced from 20 to 25 cents. Includes braided, Venise lace medallion corners, Valenciennes lace, Baby Irish trim, satin finish, and child sizes in linen stiff collars.
A large accumulation of remnants in white and colored wash goods includes Batistes Dimities Mull Voiles Linen Pongees dress linens imported and domestic ginghams Zephyrs Madras table linen towels crashes sheeting muslins flannelettes outfing flannels and calicoes offered at very interesting prices. Tasement fa
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