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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1910
Page
6
Special interest page guides schoolgirls and working girls on sewing a complete wardrobe for 25 dollars. It details materials like longcloth muslin and cotton crepe, trims, and lace edges, plus patterns and alterations to create a corset cover, combination, and petticoat with plain and refined finishes.
The right side of the garment shows where to baste and attatch. Turn the piece over to the wrong side and clip pantaloons edges so they lie flat along the curves. Turn edge of a trim, stretch to fit the wider curve, baste and attache. Use ruffles as trimming and finish with a linch hem ornamented with careful details.
Instructional text describes a Princess corset cover and pantaloons in a French style with shoulder seams and front closure. It covers fabric amounts, trimming on shoulders and armholes, bias strips for drawers, darts shaping, and a petti coat with four gores. It promises patterns and materials costs totaling $1.90 with a fourth article promised tomorrow.
Emma Smith DeVore thanks the Seattle Star editor for dignified aid in shaping public opinion and defending the cause. She says the paper helped win support and anticipates a large majority for the effort. She signs with respect from liberty loving women of the community.
A fragmentary quotation passage combines lines reflecting on experience and exploration. The text juxtaposes poetry lines about life as an arch and an endless margin, suggesting themes of memory, travel, and pursuit of the unknown.
A reader asks about the value of a pearl found in cave oysters and how to prevent a ball from falling out. The columnist replies with jewelry tips and cosmetic pomade ingredients. Another query asks about marriage license costs in Seattle and whether a courthouse minister is available, noting options with fees and officials.
The article explains that brown blemishes from peeling fruit occur when exposed to air. Peel fruit under water, then store in a covered dish to avoid staining. Lemon can prevent skin stains and warm water without soap cleans hands after peeling. It also notes mending sheer fabrics with hair, and instructions for sewing buttons on linen strips to serve multiple wash waists.
A fragmented recipe passage guides making a pie with pumpkin custard and meringue. It describes beating egg yolks, folding in whites, baking in a pastry, then topping with a vanilla sugared meringue. It also covers a pumpkin filling with milk eggs sugar ginger salt and nutmeg, baked under butter and short pastry.
A compact old recipe lists ingredients for fried batter: one cup sugar one egg one tablespoon melted lard one cup sour milk a pinch of nutmeg and salt plus flour to roll. The batter is fried in deep fat for cooking.
A recipe instructs covering 1 cup coconut with 1 quart milk and cooking for 2 hours. Then add 2 cups bread crumbs and 3 beaten eggs, mix, pour into a greased dish, and bake 45 minutes.
A vintage recipe describes Pineapple Tapioca cake made with eggs sugar sour cream and flour, flavored to taste and frosted. It then outlines a quick cook tapioca pudding with ling tapioca stirred into boiling water sugar butter salt, then folded with shredded pineapple and chilling to serve with whipped cream.
Elisabeth Spencer a Puget Sound pioneer died at her Juanita residence on Sunday at age 70. She first came to Tacoma in 1869 and lived later in Port Blakeley and Seattle where she resided twenty years. Survived by husband A L Spencer a son a Ree of Entiat a daughter Mrs Nugent and granddaughter Mrs Walter S Fulton.
The document presents a price list for dairy and meat products including butter, sugar, eggs, poultry, and roasts. It shows items like Freehorn butter, storage butter, granulated sugar, spring broiters cones, turkeys, veal, and dried bacon. Prices are listed with various small denominations, reflecting a dated market display.
MIDDLEPORT N Y November A farm laborer named James Dean or Olive Meeker admitted masquerading as a man since last May. She left home in East Byzacine to work at Chautauqua assembly grounds as a boy waiter then with Mr Bell during apple picking season. A fall from a tree exposed her secret.
Elgin Starke of Kansas City traced his trick horse to a Omaha, Nebraska stable. The horse identified him at first sight, reared in greeting, danced briefly, then extended its right fore hoof in a gesture of fellowship. Police witnessed the moment and returned the horse to its owner.
The University of Washington assembly tomorrow morning will be restricted to women only. Men are barred from attendance as women orators speak to strengthen women organizations.
Ottawa dispatch reports the department of trade and commerce has closed its inquiry into Chinese immigration frauds for now. Those held under detention at Vancouver are to be deported after failing to prove their status as Chinese merchants.
Officials announce a January aviation meet in Los Angeles featuring a dozen top pilots including the Wright trio Hoxsey Johnstone and Brookine. other participants named are Grahame White Moissant Frisbie and Baldwin.
In a northern town a North Daten resident reports finding a Lincoln penny marked Dakota and Washington. The strange coin prompts locals to question authenticity and officials advise it may be genuine. A minister general has received a note from the finder claiming ignorance of the penny’s origin.
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