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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
4
A reader instructions to count keys on a piano keyboard, identify the number of black and white keys, fill blank lines with the total, name and address, and send for a free offer with no obligation. This is framed as an educational exercise.
Caroline Coe reflects on maple sugar season as a nostalgic harbinger of spring. The excerpt lists maple based desserts and treats including maple frappe mousse penucha waffles and a maple cream, with instructions and ratios. It ends noting the ancient origin of lace and Egyptian textiles as a contrast to the present sugar weather.
Readers debate curfew for men and women’s rights, with letters applauding suffrage progress. A young woman asks about marriage and aging, and Miss Grey counsels patience and thoughtful commitment while urging personal choice and maturity.
An ad promotes a cosmetic alternative claiming powders clog pores and dull expression. It touts a nightly paste that peels a thin skin layer to reveal a softer, more youthful complexion and warns that common cosmetics damage the face. A wash lotion made from powdered sacotite in a base is offered as a free of instruction treatment.
Readers note many letters lack names and addresses in the paper. A stamped self addressed envelope is requested to ensure a prompt reply. Cynthia Grey adds that not all letters receive responses.
Merode tuck atiied hand trimmed medium weight suite with high necks long short and elbow sleeves ankle or knee length also in low necks short sleeves ankle or knee length garments for 1.26 Carter's fine ribbed white cotton suits in all desirable styles high or low neck long or short sleeves ankle or knee length at 1.25 Kayser Swiss or fine ribbed suita with banded tops low necks sleeveless knee lengths 1.25 These garments are the heat of their kind Nothing can be offered which will in any way excel them at this price First Floor
A sale listing describes Gingham Aprons in several varieties and prices 19c to 60c and 75c to 85c for Princess and Ellen Aprons. Percale and Rand Aprons offered in multiple patterns and colors with pockets and ruffles. Third Floor display.
A note suggests wood can be made waterproof through thorough drying and saturation with hot or melted paraffin. Also mentions a call to recruit 1,000 Socialists to read Coming Nation at Red Wagon on Fourth and Pike.
A vintage home health column urges simple tonics for scalp revival, hair color, lash growth, and skin whitening. It prescribes mixtures of alcohol and water with quinine, a resin for lashes, a basic skin lotion, and a parlnotia-based weight reducer with hot water, claiming safe, rapid results without exercise.
A simple compromise fountain pen can be fashioned from an old style pen holder with a tin top. Pack the hollow with loosely tucked cotton batting so that when dipped in ink the cotton saturates and feeds ink drop by drop to the point, allowing a single dip to write a full page or sign many pieces of mail.
The item lists scattered facts from various topics including times in cities, an Edison address, medical notes on swollen feet, dates, newspapers, the Talmud, a university library count, eczema care, a singer born in 1876, and linseed oil care tips for tortoise shell limbs.
Mrs Havel Miller envied her husband and sought to trap him as he left a Chicago store. With landlord Wood they hid using lampblack on a corner. A snow storm caused the mask to run, a policeman gave them a patrol wagon ride, while Miller returned home. X ray work and leaded fabric ideas surface from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and France as protections emerge.
Inet advertises Cryatolia as a miracle hair treatment claiming sole American rights and gold medals in Paris and Brussels. It touts rapid hair regrowth within days for bald, gray, or thinning scalps and promises dandruff relief, itching, and a healthier scalp based on customer reports and one claimant's timeline.
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