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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1912
Page
5
A long ageless advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a safe remedy for sour stomach gas and indigestion. It claims rapid relief when it contacts the stomach and urges readers to keep a fifty cent case on hand for meals that disagree.
Paris fashion notes say the Separate coat will be the high spot of the season with Navy blue serge and touches of scarlet and white. Designers Worth and Doucet showcase the trend as conservatives chase progressives in style mirroring political debates abroad. French designers quickly adapt to national developments for American markets.
A reader asks if a foster mother should reveal she is not the child’s birth parent. Grey replies that adoption papers are essential to legal parental status and that most cases benefit from telling the child the truth, starting early to avoid future heartache. The exchange urges clear truth and legal adoption to protect the child.
The article advises proper bedroom ventilation noting sleeping releases body impurities and cold air exchange is essential. It recommends opening bottom windows and top windows respectively to create a cross current and keeping room temperature below sixty degrees. It also mentions shoe tongue slippage and a hook fix to keep the tongue in place.
Dear Mies Grey warns that honesty is best after adoption, recounting an adopted girl who proudly says she has two mothers one in heaven and one at home. The writer notes adults may lie to protect the truth and cites a familiar tale of a child taken by a mother who wanted her.
Nesta offers a baked apple dish in a buttered dish with a milk flour and egg paste baked until set. Serve with sauce. Apple Jonathan describes using soft bread dough to line a dish then layering apples with sugar butter and spice baked and inverted to serve hot.
Ballard high school debaters elected officers for the ensuing year with George Kastner as president Winnifred Lake as vice president Henry Hanson as treasurer and Robert Lee as Shingle reporter.
National Piano Manufacturers announces a late night settlement with the railroad and a sweeping sale of near perfect interiors pianos with factory ten year guarantees. Customers pay what they can monthly or cash and receive new pianos from Ebony Emerson to Knabe with prices ranging from 75 to 355. Located at 823 Third avenue near Marion in Seattle.
The Beattle night schools enrollment has reached 2500 and is expected to rise to at least 3000 by next week, reflecting strong participation and growing educational access in the area.
The Fallard field house opens its winter season with a total enrollment of 1,094. Organizations have been found for athletics this winter.
A letter suggests a woman should be treated as the child's real mother in spirit while being honest about the adoption. It argues she may be called mother and should explain the facts to the child when appropriate, preserving the love of their relationship.
A reader asks who is at fault in a broken home where a young man tempted a married woman, who then remarries her husband for the child. Cynthia Grey advises both parties erred, the husband’s return acceptable for the child's sake, and urges living by clear principle to find happiness.
A potpourri of odd tips and notes covers topics from drinking water claims to cleaning a bearskin coat with gasoline. It mentions a December 2 1903 Panama Canal treaty ratification and Spooner Act background with Colombia negotiations, plus cleaning tips for white ostrich plumes.
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