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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1910
Page
7
Mary J. Lincoln explains how to start yeast without stores or friends by making a thin flour and water batter in a warm place. She compares dry compressed liquid yeasts, favors homemade potato or hop yeast, and gives steps for using boiling hops, salt, sugar, and ginger to prevent souring while promoting growth.
Boston physician Dr Charles B Page urges housewives to reduce overwork. He says washing dishes daily, not after every meal, saves weariness and stresses the need for open air exercise and pacing home duties to avoid fatigue. He also suggests trimming wardrobes to cut toil.
Practical hints on sewing, laundering, and care from Cynthia Grey and a home nurse. Guidance covers sewing hooks and eyes, fomentations with old blankets, sponge care with tartaric acid, stain removal using glycerin, wrapping flounces and trimmings, keeping dry hands with borax solution, warming hot clothes in a steamer, and a method to clean burnt pans with washing soda.
A historic recipe uses sour cream salt and soda to form a stiff dough split into two sheets baked then separated and filled with sweetened orange slices. Also we note an advertisement for M C M Soap Seattle and Columbia City Grocery at 4857 Rainier Ave East 1989 Ind 2.
A detailed old recipe explains making yeast from potatoes flour and sugar with boiling water and slow fermentation. It covers prep steps water temperature how to mix grate potatoes strain and let rise, plus variations using hops ginger and water quality for bread with strong entity cues like yeast, flour, potatoes, hops, ginger, water.
The piece argues that women's love of dress serves as a natural recreation born from necessity and emotion. It claims dress helps social balance and contrasts frivolous excess across classes, noting fashion's modern variety and its positive social role beyond mere indulgence. Gerrish Bros. Seattle advertises M M Soap.
In a smoky town near Glasgow Paisley remains a center for shawl production as canny Scots coin millions from the old family shawl works. The picture shows a Paisley shawl draped in this season's stylish arrangement, despite the town's rough reputation.
A reader asks about Hallowe'en origins. Miss Grey answers on hairstyles and dress length. Other letters cover millinery training, a Texas beef chili recipe, spider control, and shaping chocolate creams with sugar. An Equal Suffrage meeting is advertised.
The notice lists all elected offices for the November 8 1910 election in King County Washington. It names Congressional district seats state senate and representative seats for multiple districts county officials and Seattle precinct offices. It also covers proposed constitutional amendments and a King County Harbor Bond Issue with Yes or No ballots. Poll hours vary by location and date.
King County voters consider a $1,750,000 negotiable coupon bond issue in twenty years with bids at par and interest not exceeding four and one half percent. The plan funds county improvements as approved by the Board of County Commissioners in September 1910. Otto A. Case, County Auditor, certifies the nomination list.
A dense ballot slate lists Republican candidates for Congress and state offices, including judges for the Supreme Court, several state senatorial and representative districts, and county roles. Voters are shown multiple district lines with names such as Humphrey, Morton, Parker, Fullerton, Ennis, Wester, and many others across Seattle and surrounding counties.
The slate lists W. W. Black and C. K. Guiberson for the 80th and Slat Senatorial Districts with Chas Petrovskiy and others across the 82nd 47th 41st and 42nd districts. It also names Otto Reining Thomas Burns Joseph Glasgow and others for various representative seats and county posts including commissioners and constables.
Socialist slate lists W. W. Smith and W. B. Richardson for six year terms, E. J. Brown and Samuel Sadler for six, A. H. Barth for four, Horace G. Cuppples in the 42nd and 22nd Districts, with J. T. Ronald, John F. Main, George H. Clements on the Judges list and John T. Casey among names.
The list shows judges selected for six year terms including Charles B. Shepard Hans Bugge William Hickman Moore and Preston M. Troy. This brief notes the five judges elected to serve six years each on the Supreme Court.
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