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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1909
Page
2
The baby show at the exposition on October 2 offers a special prize of $15 for the smartest red headed child under three. All contestants may enter a separate class, with judging based on performances and humor. Parents are invited to bring infants and any entertaining paraphernalia, poems, or cheers for Taft.
Speaker Meigs failed to record Frank H. Renick as a committee member due to a minute clerk error. Meigs has stepped down to restore Renick a place on the committee alongside A. B. Ruth and others, including Senators Harry Pt and George A. Piper, Representatives Hubbell David and John A. form Peter.
President William Howard Taft will be elected honorary president of the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition during his Seattle visit on September 30. A gold badge is being made by a local jeweler to match the official badges, with the inscription honorary president and the reverse engraved Howard Taft president of the United States.
Water will be shut off in the district north of Green Lake from Fourth Ave N E to Allingford Ave. on Monday September 27, from 9 a m until 5 p m. The notice alerts residents to expect a temporary interruption in service and to plan accordingly.
The Nezin scot tug sank in a gate off Cape Ann last month as her crew launched the boat and escaped. Captain Thomas E. Evans and Surgeon Trotter perished after clinging to debris, with others fate uncertain, per court martial testimony at the navy yard.
The Bera Meeker restaurant on the Pay Streak was seized by the sheriff’s office but guards interrupted removal to protect grounds. Exposition counsel advised against removal until the fair ends. Effects were turned over to Chief of Guards Wappenstein with a receipt.
Mil ton Hyatt, a prominent Los Angeles architect, was sentenced to thirty years in San Quentin after confessing to the district attorney his relations with a ward aged 18 and Louise Huffman. Repentant, Hyatt deeded his estate to the two victims, each receiving about $15,000.
In El Paso Bailey telegraphed acceptance to a joint debate with Bryan over tariff rates on raw materials. Bryan’s reply was not yet received. Bryan planned to speak in El Paso on Monday to address Bailey’s tariff criticisms.
New York, Sept 25. Theodore P. Shonts, former chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, is sued for 25000 damages by Frederick F. Hipach, New York manager for a Kentucky distillery, who alleges Shonts bought Hipach’s wife’s affections. Shonts’ attorney Delancy Nicoll calls the suit preposterous and a case of mistaken identity.
New Haven Sept 26 A claim centers on wheat stored by Joseph or another ancient figure for the seven years of famine in Egypt. Hammer of Branford presented the artifact which allegedly dates to the nineteenth dynasty about 1500 years before Christ, or more than 8496 years ago.
New York dispatch reports Herman Ruhe chief petty officer on the North Carolina died of heart failure after seeing the statue of liberty as the armored cruiser returned to port. Physicians attributed the death to excitement and overwork of the heart.
Dr. J A Adame editor of the Chicago Advance will preach Sunday morning at Plymouth church. Under the pen name Grapho he is noted as a trenchant writer on religious sociological and political problems.
San Francisco reports the season's first rainfall began today across the state. Meteorologists note a light but steady shower moving from coastal areas inland, bringing cooler temperatures and scattered showers to several counties.
A. V. Bouillon, superintendent of public utilities, won the first skirmish in a dispute to compel Seattle, Renton & Southern and Seattle Electric to exchange transfers. The city council committees recommended Bouillon and corporation counsel Beott Calhoun take legal steps to enforce the exchange.
The steamer Cottage City is held for arrival tomorrow and the Queen is delayed to Wednesday. Pacific Steamship Company vessels govern local service. Jeanie arrives from Valdes and Katalla with salmon and ore for port. Governor sails for San Francisco with 426 passengers and 3,016 tons of freight.
Justice of the Peace Free C. Brown used clemency for Frederick Staley a Butler hotel clerk found guilty of ticket scalping. Staley was fined 160 dollars and costs but lacking funds faced jail. the judge with Deputy J H Perry’s help granted a suspended sentence warning he would face full penalties on a future offense.
A morning runaway on Railroad Avenue in New York involved an express wagon from Reliable Transfer. It crashed at the corner of the New York Harness Company store and toppled onto sand, with no injuries despite a crowded street. The horses escaped harm and the wagon was badly smashed.
Concert planned Monday evening at the Unitarian church features Wilhelm Heinrich, a renowned American tenor who has been blind since childhood. He trained under top American and German masters, drawing widespread interest for the performance.
A dated instructional piece advises women to avoid loud chatter and exposing purchases in public transport. It also offers home remedies and manners guidance, including a bleaching tip with Epsom salt and witch hazel, advice on self control, and tips on meat preparation and digestion.
A reader asks how to clean wool lace water and how to remove rain spots from a brown wool suit. Answers advise lukewarm soap suds and minimal starch, ammonia sponging for wool, and careful pressing. Other letters cover skin care, a benzoin wash, and etiquette on awaiting a Yale pennant gift.
In mourning millinery a wide range of bonnets remains in use. Large and small hats are draped with heavy veil or none at all, contrasting solemn tradition with personal style. Some mourners eschew veils to show their hats while preserving dignity.
The text advises keeping the shoulders white as a sign of good health. If discolored, improve the diet and groom daily with warm water and soap, then rub with alcohol. It emphasizes discreet personal care as a mark of good breeding and reminders for women to maintain modesty in public.
An experienced cook gives practical ratio guidelines: bread uses one cup liquid to three cups flour, muffins use one cup liquid to two cups flour, batters use one cup liquid to one cup flour. Also included are ratios for leavening: one teaspoon soda per pinta of sour milk and one teaspoon soda per cup of molasses.
A recipe note describes using stale bread torn or cut into small pieces. Ingredients include sugar currants milk eggs baking powder and salt. Steam the mixture two hours in a well greased mold for a soft pudding.
A recipe for Irish moss pudding using Irish moss soaked in water then milk and flavors, cooled in molds. Also a Red Cabbage and Celery Salad with shredded cabbage celery, dressing of egg oil vinegar sugar mustard salt pepper and garnish with gherkins capers and cheese.
A woman dismisses soap as mere suds but learns Fels-Naptha works best when used with cold or lukewarm water following wrapper directions. The ad-style piece urges proper use to save time fuel health and achieve cleaner whiter clothes without heat or back-breaking labor.
A jumble of kitchen notes describes making a large fruit punch with lemons oranges and berries and a separate cake or tea mush recipe. It includes sugar butter milk flour baking powder walnuts eggs cocoa vanilla and bread as ingredients with steps like beating yolks and whites separately and baking for about twenty minutes.
A recipe describes combining half a cup of rice with four tablespoons sugar and four teaspoons salt. Add one pint hot water and one pint milk, search and remove half the liquid, bake until nearly done, then stir in the remaining liquid and bake briefly. Remove while still quite wet as it dries on cooling.
A home style recipe gathers ham pork and bacon scraps, boils to blend, adds potatoes bay leaf and cloves then seasons with salt and pepper. After cooking the fat is skimmed and the dish reheated for serving with parsley. Suitable for leftovers.
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