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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
7
The Times notes a fashion trend as New York women favor short sleeves over long ones. Despite old gowns, buyers shift toward shorter styles with glove factories reporting rising orders for shorter sleeves and accessories.
Fragmented OCR recipe text mixing pastries and cakes with scattered, unclear instructions. Mentions molasses, spices, jelly layers, cocoa frosting, and several baked goods like Shortcake Dip Heavenly Bisculter Walnut Cake and Lemon Pile Without Milk, interleaved with stray lines about efficiency and Red Cross head Clara Horton.
A collection of household tips and recipes. Advice on keeping flies out with netting, making damp proof glue, cleaning halls, refreshing blue serge, dye setting with salt, hair fashion notes, furs protection with turpentine, and a series of desserts and cakes including lemon meringue omelet chocolate cake cream pie and a custard-like filling.
Practical advice for housewives to keep hands in good condition through a daily routine. Use Orangewood stick, buffer, peroxide, and lotion from the druggist to wash dishes, soften cuticles, and maintain pliable nails. After nail care, dip hands in warm water, dry, apply lotion, file nails, and finish with polish for a refined look.
A delicate spring dessert combines sponge cake and berries. Soak berries in berry juice with sugar, layer cake and soaked berries in a dish, then top with whipped cream tinted by berry juice and decorative piping. The finished dish showcases a glossy berry finish.
Basement safesroom mentions corset covers priced from 25c to 49c with trim details such as Valenciennes lace embroidery and beadwork. Gowns in nainsook or dimity offered in slip-over, V neck, or high neck styles with embroidery and decorative hems. Illustrations numbers accompany each style.
Cambric and nainsook drawers priced from 19 to 59 cents with varied trimmings including tucked ruffles lace hems and embroidery. Two piece suits corset covers skirts and white lawn waists also featured with Torchon embroidery Val enciennes and lawn trims at 49 cents to 3.95. Sale room displays many styles with a focus on white undergarments skirts and lawn waists.
Wash skirts of white Indian head thirteen gore flare neatly tailored with narrow bias bands priced at 1 45. Wash skirts of white linen thirteen gore flare with side plaits and pearl buttons priced at 2 95. Basement Sale room.
Silks and dress goods offered include Chevron-stripe Wash Silk 19 inches wide in light blue pink rose apricot lavender Nile and gray with white at Sec yard All-Silk Messaline 19 inches wide in evening shades and dark colors Sec yard Inda-a rough Silk 27 inches wide in desirable colors Sec yard Wool Albatross 34 inches wide in ivory tan blue pink rose Cape Vateeress cartels navy All-Wool Storm Serge 36 inches wide a serviceable weave 50c yard
A catalog-style list shows neckwear prices including silk bows five cents each, Dutch collars five cents, net bows trimmed with Valenciennes edging ten cents, colored bows and jabots five cents, embroidered linen collars nineteen cents, embroidered stiff linen Dutch collars twenty-two to twenty-five cents, ascots nineteen cents, wash stocks ten cents, turnover collars two cents, embroidered coat sets ten cents, striped wash stocks three to five cents, soft Dutch collars ten to twenty-five cents, jabots twenty-five cents, from Hasement Balearoom.
Black kid lace oxfords with patent tip and turned sole priced at $2.50. Black kid blucher oxfords with patent tip extension sole and military heel priced at $2.50.
Patent Lace Oxfords with plain toe and Cuban heel priced at 2.50 dollars. Patent Blucher Oxfords in dull leather with extension sole also 2.50 dollars.
A catalog-style notice lists infants shoes and sandals with patent heels and turned soles in sizes 2 to 8 at 95¢, toddler lace shoes sizes 1 to 5 at 50c, bare-foot sandals in multiple sizes from 3 to 11 priced from $1.00 to $1.50, and scuffer oxfords with extra flexible soles in sizes 5 to 11 priced $1.50 to $2.00.
A good assortment of new and desirable shapes in black burnt and light straws flower and ribbon trim hats also fancy lace hats trimmed with flowers At $1.25 and $1.45 mushroom sailors in black burnt and white trimmed with silk band to match also some good all black hats Hasenrn sands.
Laces and embroideries offered in Venise bands and insertions in white cream and ecru at 10c yard. Net bands silk embroidered in pompadour effects 25c and 37c yard. 72 inch colored net waistings pink lavender old rose 25c yard. 18 inch oriental net all overs white ecru 29c yard. Figured net waist ing white 25c yard. Cambric and nainsook edges 3 to 6 inches wide 5c. Valenciennes edges and insertions 15c and 29c per dozen yards. All linen Torchon edges 1 to 2 inches wide 7c yard. Normandy Valenciennes edges and insertions 2 to 5 inches wide 10c yard.
An assortment of women's cotton hosiery offered at 25 cents per pair. The selection includes black variants with split sole and lace boot, tan plain or lace boot, plus solid colors such as green pink sky cadet gray lavender and red. Harement Salesroom.
In the sale room, children’s ribbed Lisle vests with torn sleeves and extra length priced at 25c. Matching pants offered in ankle length cuff knee or lace trimmed umbrella knee at 25c. White cotton Union suits with high neck short sleeves knee length priced at 25c.
Values in Wash Goods 27 inch figured batiste white ground with dots and floral designs in assorted colors 74 cents a yard. 27 inch printed silk and cotton mall floral designs on white ground 70 cents a yard. 28 inch madras waistings figured on white ground one yard sale.
Cot ton Blankets 10 4 Brown with extra weight for camp use priced at 1 25 per pair. 11 4 Gray Blankets in good weight with pink or blue border cut and bound. Also white single and double bed size blankets used as counter samples at attractive basement salesroom prices.
Machine made opaque window shades mounted on Stewart Hartshorn improved self acting roller 36 inches wide 7 feet long priced 49c Water Color Shades 36 inches wide 7 feet long priced 29c Basement Balesroom.
The advertisement lists Wilton rugs available in multiple sizes with prices from 2.50 to 5.00, printed linoleum at 35 to 45 cents per square yard, inlaid linoleum from 1.00 to 1.25 per square yard, and 10 cents per square yard for laying linoleum. Also promotes carpet ends and drummers' carpet samples and Bissell's carpet sweepers at 1.65 each.
Imported point lace curtains thirty six inches long offered in various patterns some pairs available. Cretonnes in Arts and Crafts patterns with light and dark grounds priced per yard at 12 1/2 cents.
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