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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1922
Page
6
The Enterprise Press lists its office at 1 Mechanic Street Marlboro Massachusetts with standard publication data. It notes second class matter status and post office filing under March 8 1879, with in advance price 2 dollars and single copies four cents for six months.
A 1909 19 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzes income and its distribution in the United States. It uses tax data and census figures to gauge production, rent, household food, and labor, noting women’s domestic work is excluded and women paid for it would raise the total. The study finds average national income around 40.2 billion from production and 39.7 billion from incomes, with each person’s annual share near 333 dollars in 1909 and 372 dollars in 1918.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that a newspaper man, born in England and long resident in Canada, was denied admission under the contract labor law after immigration checks. Officials concluded he is part of a learned profession and not subject to the contract labor restrictions.
The piece argues ambition and opportunity shape political leadership more than rural upbringing. It contends that capable individuals from small towns seek broader fields, while urban talents often focus on private work, making public office a goal only when political drive exists.
Concord Junction report notes Baypath Institute student Miss Cecelia Williams of Springfield spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. R. H. Williams and friends from Palmer on a motor trip Saturday. Also update on Mary Williams daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin A Williams recovering after appendicitis operation at Deaconess Hospital.
Mrs Y R W of Hudson offers advice on desserts that please a husband’s sweet tooth and improve home life. The note emphasizes returning home to enjoyable treats and the idea that good things boost happiness.
A simple cherry jelly dessert recipe with gelatine, cherry juice, canned cherries and sugar. Soak dissolve fold in stiffly beaten egg whites then chill and serve with whipped cream. Other fruits may be used.
A dessert recipe uses gelatine maple syrup and cream to create a light filling. Soften gelatine in cold water, dissolve, heat maple syrup with the beaten egg white, fold in gelatine, cool, and fold in cream with vanilla and salt. Add nut meats, line a mold with lady fingers, pour in cream, and chill. Sally Ann.
A home kitchen instruction describes mixing cocoa sugar milk and flour with baking powder and butter then steaming the batter in a coffee can for two hours. Serve with whipped cream and a cherry. Sally Ann.
Recipe notes mix lemon and orange juice with sugar and egg yolks then thicken over heat. Soak gelatine, fold into stiff egg whites set on ice until thick, mold with lady fingers, and chill for serving. Helen Crosby.
A column by Mrs Nellie Holt shares two simple pie fillings. Prune whip blends soaked prunes with egg whites sugar vanilla and brown in a moderate oven with a light sauce of eggs sugar butter and hot water. The banana pie uses mashed bananas granulated sugar almond extract and egg whites baked in a pastry shell then chilled and topped as described.
Walter Stone buys a Buick. Carolyn Watson goes to Mountainview New Hampshire for her father N H Watson's death. Mildred Davis enjoys a week from Framingham Normal School visiting Boston. Mrs Leon E Hawes ill but improving. Myron Lavin to return this week from winter in myde Park.
Funeral services for George A. Oviatt M D were held at Memorial church on Thursday afternoon March 2. An Episcopal service conducted by a Waltham rector drew a large attendance with many out of town guests. The church was filled with floral tributes as bearers included Harland H. Rogers Clifford Richardson Howard Burr Forrest Bradshaw Henry Eaton Samuel Underwood. Interment followed at Mt Wadsworth cemetery South Sudbury.
The Grange began new actions at its last meeting noting attendees including Mr and Mrs Gleason Mrs Sanders Mrs Jordan Mrs Emma Johnson Miss Leona Johnston and Mr Davis. Further details follow in the report.
A brief notation records that one half pint of cream was whipped to stiff peaks by J. L. B. The terse entry notes a kitchen task or recipe action without further context.
Instructions describe making a baked custard with milk eggs sugar and cornstarch, flavored with cocofhut vanilla. It details preparing a meringue with beaten egg whites and sugar, topping a baked crust, then a citrus curd filling made from orange and lemon juice zest water, cooked in a double boiler until thick, cooled, folded with stiff egg whites, and baked again in a pastry shell.
Two eggs with sugar, walnuts and dates folded into flour and baking powder. Bake in greased pan for about 30 minutes until set. Serve with whipped cream and enjoy this simple Walnut Date Pudding from Dad's Pal.
A Victorian style pudding recipe listing figs suet evaporated milk stale bread crumbs eggs sugar salt and water. Mix chop suet with figs soak crumbs in milk beat eggs add sugar and salt combine and steam in a buttered mould for two and a half to three hours serving six with hard sauce.
Simple easy to prepare cutlets with skin removed dipped in egg milk and salt then breaded in crumbs. Fry in bacon drippings until browned then cover and finish until tender. Serve with tomato sauce.
Onions are peeled sliced and separated into rings then dusted with flour salt and pepper and fried in deep fat until brown. They are drained on brown paper dusted again with salt and pepper and served hot.
Slice top of new potatoes and scoop out a cavity. Stuff with two bacon strips and a lump of paprika butter, cap with the top, secure with a wooden toothpick, and bake in a hot oven until done.
Large uniform potatoes are baked and peeled by removing tops. Fill with cream salt pepper and beaten eggs. Add fried bacon pieces and return to shells. Serve in one dish, covered with a napkin.
Ralph Hawes Edith Davis and Merton Haskel announce a Thursday March 9 social time with dancing. An afternoon and evening gathering offers a free supper and a “repair meeting” theme for spring cleaning. Women bring sewing utensils while men bring tools for home repairs.
The Farm Bureau held a pleasant and profitable meeting March 2 at the town hall. A larger number attended the day sessions than expected. Lectures were interesting and instructive. Evening pictures drew a good crowd. The collection was large as usual.
The annual town vote in Acton on March 6 filled multiple offices. Results name Horace F. Tut tle as Town Clerk and Mary L. Richardson and Bertram BE Hall to the School Committee, with several other three year terms and one year posts listed.
A letters page argues for a dedicated town hall as a community hub for schools music libraries and public offices. The writer recalls New England tradition praising town houses while noting fears over taxes and funding, and hints at voting to support construction. He closes urging civic courage to act.
A humorous domestic ode lists a woman's trials from facing jealousy and gossip to managing household tasks and social judgments. It highlights steadfastness under public scrutiny, maintaining grace, and supporting a partner through life’s temptations, ending with a hopeful marriage implication.
In a single contest for free warden the regular caucus nominee Albert H. Perkins faced Frank R. Manning and James O’Neil. The tally stood Perkins 202, Manning 174. Other names listed included James B. Tuttle Frank W. Holt Ed gar H Hall Asaph Merriam Horace Tuttle.
West Concord Woman's Club met in March with Miss Ainsworth as the afternoon speaker. She spoke informally on lingerie and hosiery after gowns and wraps were lost in transit. Mrs Maude Marrs reported on the mid winter state federation meeting at Allston. The Household Economics sale, led by Mrs Mary Hewitt, was well patronized and financially successful.
F M Esty identified as registrar in a brief entry with abbreviated notation and date shorthand.
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