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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1910
Page
6
The Grey’s correspondent fielding queries discusses whether two people should sit together at the same show, a recipe for apple dump cake, choices of winter gifts, and how to whiten yellowed gray fabric. Advice mixes propriety, household tips, and personal style.
An advertising pitch claims a cold remedy breaks severe cold grippe with a stimulant dose every two hours. It asserts years of research, no quinine, and superiority over all other medicines, promising quick relief without discomfort or aftereffects.
All are the holy Cynthia Grey. Soiled spots on white silk or satin may be removed by rubbing with a fine flannel cloth dipped in alcohol or other. Darning over shoe trees makes darns conform to the foot. After washing rub bands with vinegar and camphor. To remove shine from a coat or skirt rub with turpentine or strong coffee.
In Atlantic City on November 15 the board of education faced a bizarre proposal from a man signing as the King of the Tramps. He offered to provide hungry tramps to sample meals prepared by city high school girls, claiming he could assemble a squad able to eat any dish from pies to freshly baked biscuits. The offer will be discussed at the next school board meeting.
At the seventh annual Pacific coast branch meeting of the American Historical Association to be held in Berkeley California on November 18 and 19 Professor O H Richardson will present a paper titled Mary Queen of Scots in the Light of Recent Historical Investigation.
Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Evanston justice of the peace and noted suffragist, is described as marrying many men to their chosen brides. The article highlights her roles as lawyer, wife, mother of four, author, reformer, and refined American woman.
An unknown Everett sender mailed six 2-cent stamps to the post office to be placed in the conscience fund without any accompanying explanation. The incident occurred in Wash ington on November 16.
The page itemizes buying prices for poultry and livestock including hens, turkeys, ducks, beef, and pork products. It also lists grain and feed prices such as wheat, oats, corn, and middlings, plus selling prices for vegetables and fruits like onions, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and apples. Notable entries include local potatoes, Yakima potatoes, and winter apples with varying per hundredweight or per ton figures.
A Mexican romance and cattle rustling tale ends in blood as Alfredo Villa and Claro Reza clash in Parral. Reza dies after Villa’s ambush. the bandits flee into the Durango mountains pursued by rurales. A seduced peon’s daughter, Rosa, sparks the feud and awaits her fate.
Howard Taylor of Eagle Gorge was selected as speaker nominee after a conference in Olympia. He holds 66 votes, with Ed Simme, W. M. Beach, Ed Dicksons, and P. H. Carlyon dropping out in his favor. Taylor was among the legislature's youngest members last session and served on the investigating committee.
Olympia reports another inquiry will be held into the Great Northern freight wreck at Chatterey last week in which eight lives were lost, per an announcement by the railroad commission.
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