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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1911
Page
5
Mary E Williams explains in New York public schools how to can peaches pears and plums without sugar. Sterilize jars thoroughly keep contents hot and pour into sterilized cans while still hot. Seal airtight and reuse rubber rings only once for safety.
Letters discuss home wine preparation from grapes and pressing methods. They explore social propriety in courtship and dress, including whether a 17 year old should wear a black voile dress, matching hosiery, and greetings with a boy after a long absence.
Washington notes sugar prices climb to 7.26 dollars per hundred pounds as Thomas of the Sugar Trust orders another increase. Brokers on Wall Street cheer while observers in Washington grimace at the trust’s alleged past cheating of Uncle Sam on duties. The rise spreads across the nation, triggering scrutiny and concern.
A reader argues marital duties and finances define a partnership. The writer cites neglect of family duties, social calls, and meal planning as breaches of a contract, and suggests separation or court action while warning against surrendering custody of the children.
Society adopts home sham pooling to save natural hair. Advert describes a canthrax based solution as a quick, inexpensive shampoo. It claims soap jelly dulls hair and causes brittleness, split ends, and loss, while the proposed mix cleans, dries quickly, and leaves hair soft and fluffy.
Clara Barton, renowned Red Cross nurse born in Oxford Massachusetts, near ninety, rests at her childhood home as she nears death. Her long career began in New Jersey with ten years teaching, then frontline nursing in the Civil War. She earned the Iron Cross from Germany and received honors from Switzerland Spain Siam Servia Turkey and Armenia.
A devotional children’s prayer asking protection from danger and illness for the day. It pleads for diligence in study, kindness to peers, justice and humanity, honesty, and restraint from vanity, with care for the aged and the poor. It asks guidance to defend the weak and avoid vulgar influence.
Thomas Murphine an attorney loves chili sauce served nightly with soup. Mrs Murphine skilled in chili sauce shares a recipe using tomatoes onion green pepper sugar vinegar salt cloves cinnamon allspice nutmeg cooked to a slow boil for two and a half hours.
The Star resumes weekly contests offering three $1 prizes for the best three ideas on an ordinary family breakfast. Submit a simple wholesome breakfast menu on one side of the paper with name and address to Breakfast Editor, The Star, by Friday night.
A recipe fragment describes browning sugar in a granite pan then adding boiling water to thicken like molasses. It notes cooling before cake prep and mixing creaming fat and sugar while combining yolks water and flour with baking powder and soda dissolved in parts of the burnt mixture.
The text describes folding in stiff whites, then making a caramel filling. It instructs cooking one cup of milk with sugar and the caramel until thick, then cooling until spreadable. The phrasing resembles a kitchen instruction for a dessert filling.
Mending gloves is straightforward with a fine needle size No 10 11 or 12 and fine thread. Use a mending finger or your own finger, stitch over and over to match the glove seam, then hide the thread on the wrong side. When possible mend from the right side, else from the wrong side.
A French formula bests massage for stubborn wrinkles and crow's feet. Mix one ounce saxolite with half a pint hazel water, bath face neck and hands daily. It cools soothes relieves fatigue and insomnia and may tighten skin and improve double chin and baggy cheeks.
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