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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
3
Miss Grey answers readers questions with kitchen tips and recipes. The items include peach butter ketchup tomato onion pickling and mushroom ketchup while a reader asks about statehood facts.
The garble discusses cooling styles for hot weather including gowns gloves and hair, advises elderflower-water powder and veils, and shifts to remarks on marriage honesty, proposals, and the balance of romantic expectations seen in familiar social discourse. It blends fashion guidance with reflections on engagement and compatibility in relationships.
The description highlights showy gowns with increased fullness at the waist and skirt for dress-up events. Soft folds, extensive drapery, and a likely ribbon sash dominate the look. The Napoleon hat suits slender faces, while trimming with coque feather and buckie adds a refined touch.
A dated kitchen snippet outlines pork chowder with eggs and potatoes, along with an orange cake recipe. It includes cooking steps and measurements for both dishes, plus a gem batter using flour baking powder milk and butter, with tips for beating egg whites and serving.
A vivid listing showcases beaded Eton collars and dog collars in assorted prices from 65c to 5.25 plus items like one-side cascade jabots in jet and hand embroidered jabots. Irish linen jabots and Irish crochet trims appear with prices from 65c to 3.75 and coat collars priced 19.50 to 24.75.
A fall catalog describes a strong line of women and misses tailored suits at 25 dollars. Fabrics include serges plain and striped, cheviot diagonals, and man nish suitings in navy blue tan brown olive and other colors. Coats are satin lined with tailored coats tight-fitting skirts and cluster-plaited styles.
A milk based corn starch pudding recipe describing heating milk with corn starch, folding in eggs and vanilla, and creating a sugar sauce. It suggests variations using fewer eggs or different sugars and optional coconut, cocoa nut, and sherbet cups for serving.
A column extols everyday female heroism under modern strains. It honors ordinary women who sacrifice for family, work, and love, citing Labia Hulapa’s leprosy deception to join her husband in Molokai and praising military spouses and frontline carers for their quiet endurance.
A recipe suggests using cold chicken with green peppers. Boil pepper strips, mix with minced chicken, make a cheese sandwich, fry in butter, and serve with mayonnaise or ham optional. Includes steps for a pepper and chicken filling and a second bread slice fry.
Advice for treating poisoned ivy in children includes baking soda on early blisters and vaseline for soothing patches. For later exposure, sugar or lead may be used and a wash of bicarbonate of soda helps reduce swelling from mosquito bites.
A recipe fragment lists ingredients for oats cookies using two eggs brown sugar shortening buttermilk cinnamon oats flour and rolled oats with a note to stir with a spoon and drop on a baking sheet.
Black broad cloth coats offered in a strictly tailored, single breasted design with satin lining to the waist, tucked cuffs, coat collar and revers. Priced at 17.50, sold by Jet Floor.
Advertises two styles of one piece house dresses on the second floor. The first features navy or Copenhagen percale with dot or ring patterns, plaited waist, narrow white piping and pearl buttons, priced at 1.98. The second offers black and white plaids with a small navy yoke, white piping on cuffs, plaited skirt, and fitted circular belt at 2.25.
Newly arrived kimonos of excellent silk feature long full cuts with shoulder tucks and satin ribbon trimming. Designs show large floral patterns with dark navy red brown tan Copenhagen rose and green hues. Special price is 4.50.
The ad promotes early fall children's coats in multiple price points from 1.50 to 5.00. It highlights reefer coats in navy, green red, gray cheviots, and corduroy varieties with sateen lining, turnover collars, and pearl buttons. Limited shop details mention Second Floor location.
The advertisement lists multiple shoe styles all priced at 3.65. Styles include patent colt button shoes Encore last with features such as short vamp high arch and Cuban heel along with Vici Kid Lace and Blucher shoes Goodyear welt sole. Extra light Velour Kid Button Shoes and oxford variants are also shown with similar pricing and features.
An expert teacher will give Irish Crochet lessons in the Art Needlework Section on the Second Floor. Classes run on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays from 2 to 5 PM. The cost per lesson is 50 cents.
Early fall shop displays feature enhanced designs for children with simple trims and juvenile appeal. Wash dresses, chambrays, madras frocks, and plaid ginghams in blue and brown lead the line, with white piping and pearl buttons.
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