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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1910
Page
5
A fragmentary dialogue outlines a young woman named Margaret and her parents. Margaret, eighteen, faces marriage prospects and consumer choices while her mother worries about control and a future secured by a husband or work. The scene shifts to an urgent note of a neighbor announcing an elopement.
A collection of questions and musings about Miss Grey seeking work as a chorus girl and the morals of theater life. The piece also covers kitchen tips, shoe fit issues, ammonia questions, fabric care, and a casual look at preparing a fruit cake.
Advertised remedy promotes making cough syrup at home using sugar and pine extract, claiming rapid relief and asthma aid. Cited ingredients include Pinex and Norway pine extracts with a promised price advantage over store brands, noting Seattle drugstores like Bartell Drug Co. carry the plan.
A reader asks Dear Misa Grey if a crepe arm band suffices to mourn a brother killed in the East. The response agrees the band is sufficient.
Helen Hamilton of Bellevue enters the University of Michigan engineering classes to study sewer construction. She notes equal opportunity for women in building sewers and plans to become a successful contractoress, helping her father in prework and embracing a field she finds appealing.
A vintage culinary excerpt describes a arson for New England pumpkin pie recipe using stewed pumpkin milk and spices to yield four pies. It also provides a home candy method mixing sugar corn syrup coconut and egg to form coconut balls.
A bread pudding recipe uses two cups bread crumbs two eggs two cups milk one and a half cups powdered sugar half cup seedless raisins grated lemon peel. Soak crumbs in milk fold in yolks and other ingredients, bake thirty minutes, add jelly and meringue, bake until browned.
A short exchange notes why a boarder left, blaming the landlady’s curiosity and questions about when he would pay his board bill. The dialogue contrasts a long version with a concise response.
The guide explains washing chiffon by folding soaking in soapy lather then draining, pressing and rinsing with lukewarm water. It advises using a wringing machine for final drying and warns against hand wringing. It also notes soap on drawer slides prevents sticking and can help sticking doors.
Patrolman Steen halted two safe blowers at the Porto Rico cigar store rear on James street. One thief, Merman Hymle, was captured after a chase. the other escaped. The would be robbers aimed to take about $200 from Johnny Clancy’s former gambling room earlier today.
Philadelphia woman Anna Kelly, aged 55 though claiming to be 36, is mother of nineteen and was held by Coroner Ford to investigate alleged neglect causing the death of her nineteenth child. She argued she should not be prosecuted while claiming more children are planned.
R. McLaughlin, representing the Chamber of Commerce, spoke at the Pacific slope congress in San Francisco. He said the gathering would chiefly benefit Alaska by securing proper governmental rights and San Francisco by advancing a longed-for Panama exposition.
In New York on November 26 Barbara, eight, warned by her mother Mary Dengensberger that a tooth loss was a sign of death, predicted she would die. Later Barbara wandered near a pier and fell between a string piece and a barge, drowning after the mishap.
Property owners along the Du Fah river valley met at Adolph Behrens residence to form a campaign organization to reelect the present waterway commissioners. The district election on December 6 saw Newell Frank H. Paul and Hamm unanimously endorsed for reelection. Opposing candidates include L. Wilson of Georgetown and EB R Todd of South Seattle.
Three recently arrived Greek laborers were killed yesterday in New York when they blew out a lamp and gas ignited, causing a fatal blast.
Officials urge mailers who send early Christmas gifts not to inscribe Do not open until Christmas on outside of packages. Last year guidance advised Not to be opened until Christmas and suggested rubber stamps or stickers to mark parcels.
Mrs. William Bowle, separated from her son for 40 years after disappearing from Scranton in 1870, has located him in Stamford, Connecticut. European absence followed the mysterious departure, and she is now reunited with her son after decades apart.
A prominent official of the Harriman group revealed that the North Coast railroad was a Harriman project financed to retaliate against James J. Hill. The Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation Co. incorporation supports Harriman control in the Northwest with Robert E B Strahorn named as vice president.
After seven years of toil B B Dobbs presented moving pictures at the Seattle Press club last night featuring a polar bear hunt and a walrus chase in the Far North.
In North Yakima on November 26 Judge Preble ruled that a wife cannot recover money lost by her husband at poker. Frank Riggle lent $1,120 to play at the Star cigar store invitation by O. A. Olson. The court found the wife was not proper plaintiff since she did not lose the money if it was lost.
Washington reports Albert W. Ports aged 60, the steeplejack who performed the hazardous aerial work when the Statue of Liberty was erected in New York harbor, has died.
The contract for a two story building for Union Savings and Trust at the corner of Beconday and Cherry may be let today. Estimated cost is about $450 000 with work to start around March 1 1911.
Patrick Leonard was stabbed through the stomach in Mason City Indiana. A surgeon removed the stomach, stitched the wound and replaced the organs. The incident was reported on November 26.
After a cockfight ban, Granite City sportsmen host a duck drinking bout. Liquor is fed to two ducks simultaneously and the bird that stays standing the longest is declared the winner. Organized during the reform era, the event reflects quirky local entertainment.
Plans are under way to organize 800000 working women of New York in unclassified trades into a single local union, aiming to unify labor and strengthen bargaining power.
Dr Edwin J Brown details a battle against the Dental Board and Society over licensing and ethics asserting independence from combines. He states his charges are half of what other dentists demand and offers free painless extractions with a guaranteed standard of work. Brown advertises his Union block office at 718 First Avenue over L W Suter's Jewelry Store and invites free exams and price quotes.
Sister Theresa, 23 years with the House of the Good Shepherd, leaves the convent and adopts the name Hattie Holmes. She plans to live among friends and relatives in Chicago as her days are numbered.
James J. Gallagher the discharged dock employee who shot Mayor Gaynor will be brought up for trial in Jersey City within days. The report notes that when clubwomen intervene in cloakmakers strikes they are met with violence.
A benefit for the Orthopedic hospital cleared five hundred dollars at the Grand theatre yesterday afternoon. The event combined amateur and professional acts with a full house enjoying the program led by Mrs. William Pitt Trimble. Performers included Vardon Perry Wilbur Lee Chapman and Franz Adelmann and his orchestra. Dr. P. W. Willis demonstrated hospital uses with a stereopticon. John Cort allowed the Grand to be tied free.
In Lenox Massachusetts on November 26 wealthy summer residents fearfully report a New York restaurant hotel purchase by a Black individual. He vows to convert the hotel into a vacation resort catering to his race, stirring concern among cottagers.
Fresno California November 26 John Gardner is dead from injuries after the auto he drove struck a stone wall. Three other occupants of the car were badly hurt in the crash.
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