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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1912
Page
5
A historical ad style listing household tonics and cosmetic potions including eye drops, complexion beautifier, dandruff treatment, and eyebrow conditioning. Describes simple mixtures and claimed benefits for skin, hair, and vision, noting use with whiskey or water mixtures and occasional lash applications.
In a letter to Miss Grey a reader and friend debate ragging in dancing. The writer argues ragging can be acceptable if done properly and a skilled dancer is required, while a friend condemns it as degrading. The writer requests public opinion.
A wife writes from Seattle urging support for the two platoon system to ease loneliness during her husband's fire department duties. She asks mothers to vote for better conditions at the firehouse and home, contrasting family isolation with the proposed schedule.
A reader asks if a 25 year old can love a 16 year old and how to handle a friend's mother who accompanies them. The advisor says the girl is too young to marry and should focus on education while the meeting of ages suggests the relationship may be a first romance.
A widow aged 48 asks if she should marry a 34 year old man who drinks. The adviser warns against marrying a drinking partner and urges the widow to withhold support and wait until he has abstained for a year to prove commitment.
Billie Burke writes on the power of fascination for girls seeking male attention. She notes looks help but manners matter more, advising gracious hosting and interest in callers. The piece defines a fascinating girl as clean wholesome simple and able to make good times in any situation.
An old advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for colds and Grippe. It promises relief from headache fever sneezing nasal congestion and body aches with a 26 cent package and no quinine. The endorsement urges taking a dose every two hours until three doses are taken.
A man writes seeking guidance from Miss Grey about whether to stay single and enjoy life or marry. He mentions wealth, 160 acres, a house, and age twenty eight, asking if marriage would lead to a better life or a rougher one. The tone seeks practical counsel for a personal life decision.
Classified list features bargain prices and items such as Dover Egg Beaters Aluminum Tea sets Aluminum Jelly Moulds Strainers Granite Spoons Cookie Cutters Comb and Brush Japanned Coat and Hat Hooks. Prices mostly 5 to 15 cents with many items offered in dozen quantities.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy promises to restore faded gray hair to its natural color in days. The ad touts relief from dandruff itching and hair loss while offering a fifty cent bottle with a money back guarantee from druggists.
The excerpt discusses voting behavior at primaries versus general elections, introductions between girls, and historical socialist candidates J F Mahoney and Eugene V Debs. It also mentions Longfellow and a legal view on marriages under assumed names and age of consent.
A store announces a disposal sale to close out its stock and shift to an enlarged Toy Department. Dry goods are prioritized with rapid reductions and specially priced tables, offering many household articles at half regular prices for a short time.
A list of assorted domestic goods including stove polish, mincing knife, tack pullers, skirt hangers, garden trowels, can openers, candy scoops, asbestos mats, iron handled knives and forks, mouse traps, picture wire, graters, egg beaters, cake turners, slotted spoons, apple covers, butter moulds, and fruit jar fillers. The compilation reads as a practical inventory for home use and maintenance.
A shopper’s catalog of discounted goods lists items like tin pans milk pans ding pans and flour lifters with prices ranging from 7 to 15 cents and including cloth lines dust pans corn poppers and coat and skirt hangers. The notice reads as a straightforward price guide for common kitchen and household tools.
Readable pieces show a hardware store listing several items with pennies pricing. Items include granite saucepans milk pans cake pans skimmers and preserving kettles. Also advertised are kindling hatchets claw hammers and loose bottom cake pans at low prices.
A local ad lists bargains on blue and white enameled cookware and bakeware. Items include bowls, platters, pudding pans, loaf pans, stock pots, fry pans, pastry brushes, dish pails, scrub brushes, straw shopping bags, and broom, with prices ranging from 25 to 76 cents.
Listing of assorted household goods with prices including 50c shirts waist irons 50c imported wood salt 60c lunch baskets 50c gray double boilers 17 quart granite dish 50c milk bucket 60c tin milk bucket 60c heavy retinned dish 50c oyster stewpans 50c hens fruit press 60c fries tin roll pan and the vegetable slicer.
Classified listing shows small tea kettles at 25 cents, whitewash brushes 15 cents, 50 foot clothes lines 15 cents, hens fruit press and thermometers around 25 cents, mail boxes 25 cents, shoe brushes 15 to 26 cents, white enameled vegetable items priced likewise. Details appear from a bargain catalog or ad snippet.
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