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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1910
Page
6
Extracted passages from a 1916 book in which a mother’s letters to her unborn son express delicate whimsy spiritual reflections on motherhood. The author remains unidentified but the volume presents intimate personal guidance and maternal tenderness in prose form.
A mother writes to her unborn son expressing deep love and dreams for his future. She trusts him to know her warmth even if she dies before he sees her. She recalls preparing for his arrival, guarding him, and the moment of informing his father Oliver about the child. The scene reveals intimate family bonds and whispered hopes.
Guidance on making a clear consomme with beef and bones simmered for hours. Includes prep of shoulder portion with butter, onion, salt and pepper, and two and a half hour simmer. Also describes escalloped corn and a pear salad with pecans, orange, and maraschino cherries.
In St Paul Minn on September 88 Sheriff Hob Chanler’s handling of his fortune amid Lina Cavalieri’s efforts to secure it was compared by Prof Norman Wilde to a man’s appetite for beefsteak. Wilde, a Minnesota professor, argued Chanler’s extravagant acts were expressions of intense love beyond ordinary control.
Workmen today began removing the immense old rollers of the New Orleans mint under orders from Secretary MacVeagh. The rollers will be transferred to the Philadelphia mint for use in coinage of European gold sent to the United States.
In Avondale Louisiana last night a group partially looted a Southern Pacific mall car missing a quarter of a million dollars. Packages of currency remained intact and were found later at Texas banks today.
Small girls display and buy hats and bonnets in shop windows this season. Lightweight velvets and beaver cloth shapes use wire frames, shirring, and frills with ribbon bows and tiny ostrich tips. Mothers copy the style for their own children and even older sisters imitate the bonnets.
A reader asks for a fermented grape wine recipe and a baked salmon method. The wine method uses ripe grapes, water, sugar, and a week of fermentation before bottling. The salmon is stuffed, baked, and served with a light sauce. Also advised is a wall color for plaster and fixing varnish damage with camphor and damp earth.
A reader asks about using alcohol after steaming on oily skin and removing cloth stains. The response notes alcohol can close pores and suggests rubbing in cold cream, with optional oil polishing after varnish removal.
Poem lines lament the loss of youth and its fleeting beauty. The speaker notes gains from losses and balm for pain, yet as adolescence departs under manhood’s reign the sweet memory cannot return. Richard Henry Stoddard is cited.
The Seattle Suffrage Club invites members their husbands and friends to a dinner Thursday evening at 6 30 at the Arctic Club. Addresses will be delivered by prominent men and women.
The article notes large drum-shaped muffs returning as a key fashion. Girdles and satin belts fasten at the left front with a long streamer at hem. Gray tones predominate with a return to cut steel and 18th century inspired designs. Novelties include pendants buttons buckles and velvet throatlets. Street shoes become tailored with plain seams and minimal eyelets while evening footwear offers velvet satin kid and suede with rosettes or flowers.
A dollar debt sparked a deadly quarrel in the Bohemian saloon Ballard. Harry Jackson slashed Nels Knudson twice, breaking his jaw. Knudson retaliated with a swing that broke Jacksons jaw. Both men were treated at the city hospital and jailed. Dayton reports an early freeze with temperatures dropping to 28 degrees.
The article advises drinking a cup of hot milk before retiring to aid sleep. It notes that boiled hot milk acts as a laxative, while cooled milk can have the opposite effect, so heating the milk is key to the sleep-promoting result.
A congressional report suggests the president will urge legislation to allow dropping Capt. Peter L. Haina Jr. from the army. Haine, imprisoned for killing William B. Anole in jealousy, is the focus of a proposed legal amendment to simplify punishment for felony convictions.
Seattle bankers refuse to join an investigation into alleged irregularities in bond sales by the city council finance committee. Councilman Mullin, acting president, sought three bankers for the probe, but none agreed to serve on the Sawyer headed committee with Comptroller Bothwell awaiting action.
Mrs Winthrop G Heliker formerly Florence Denny filed for divorce alleging her husband Winthrop G Heliker deserted her since June and failed to provide support. She was traveling to the Orient to take up missionary work and relied on family for maintenance.
Alaska miner W. L. Robillard announces a $100 reward for the return of his roll worth $340 lost near the Stevens hotel yesterday. Robillard says the billfold was tucked through a hole in his hip pocket and resides at 410 28th Ave. 8.
An advertisement touts Pape s Diapepain as a fast, effective remedy for indigestion and stomach discomfort. It claims the product digests meals, prevents fermentation and gas, and offers relief within minutes with a single dose. The copy urges purchasing a 50 cent bottle from a druggist and promises lasting stomach health and freedom to eat any food without misery.
Dental offices advertise gold crowns and porcelain crowns with a 12 year written guarantee. The listing mentions fillings and related dental work, highlighting long term assurance on metallic and porcelain restorations.
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