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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1911
Page
5
A 1910s women’s guidance piece urges young housewives to favor simplicity in bedroom decor to cut costs. It contrasts pricey solid wood sets with affordable white furniture, suggesting inexpensive enamel finishes and small, lighter patterns to achieve an appealing yet economical look.
A devotional morning prayer asks for patience during tasks and cheerful resilience in difficulties. It seeks loyalty to employers, helpfulness to colleagues, restraint from gossip, skilled and swift duty, calm judgment, and gratitude for the day's work. It emphasizes truth, simplicity, faith, and a hopeful end to the day.
In Seattle a peculiar helmet shaped knitted cap is noted as a real curiosity. The unusual garment is described as worn to protect china from freezing conditions, drawing attention as a quirky local item.
Report says John J. McNamara may not be tried in Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Times bombing but could be brought to Indianapolis to stand trial if the government indicts him. Federal officials declined to comment. Also noted is a Seattle water famine causing 3,000 bundles of laundry to arrive in Tacoma for relief.
An ad touts Samose as a true flesh forming food to improve health and create pleasing plumpness. It claims thin people lack strength and health and that Samose tablets mixed with meals aid digestion and blood quality. The Bartell Drug Co offers a 50 cent trial with money back if no marked flesh increase.
The Star hosts Cynthia Grey’s advice column with reader questions about family finances and social life. Violet urges gratitude toward a mother supporting education, while an 18 year old asks how to ask a dance and where to find a masquerade costume.
A collage of readers seek guidance on domestic finances marriage and dating ethics. Topics include women managing household bills asking for personal spending money avoiding infidelity and guidance on dances age appropriate courtship and name changes for a stepdaughter.
A collection of brief reader queries and Miss Grey's responses on fur cleaning using heated flour and salt, marriage witnesses in Vancouver, back pain from stenography and social manners, romantic love for a married woman, and questions about who wrote the Ten Commandments.
A 14 year old girl writes that teachers focus on singing stories and music, rarely teaching writing and arithmetic, and asks for guidance on how to complain. A poor mother requests the Salvation Army headquarters location in another note.
An advertisement touts Doctor's Best Formula as the quickest cold remedy. It instructs mixing glycerine and concentrated pine compound with whiskey and taking doses after meals, with dosage varying by age, and warns to obtain genuine Globe Concentrated Pine.
An advertisement extols teeth as essential for life and nutrition, arguing intrinsic and relative value of teeth, and urges investing in ALVEOLAR DENTAL CO offerings. It claims bridgework inferior to their dentistry, promises curing pyorrhea, and invites inquiries with samples and references in Portland.
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