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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1899
Page
6
The verse laments findable pleasures better than this night lost between tomorrow and yesterday. It evokes the sea’s gray calm, a circling gull, and a kindly wind before declaring the speaker finds no better in this moment. Blanche Trask appears in The Land of Sunshine.
New York Sun reports a dramatic curtain fire at a girls boarding school where gas fixtures were disabled for curling. Curtains and woodwork burned as pupils fainted and hysteria spread, a Texas water pitcher caused injuries, and the staff treated nine tenths of the school. the janitor left town seeking work in a lunatic asylum.
Blackwood's Magazine notes penny novelettes vary in externals more than in internal quality. Better editions are neat and artistic while inferior ones use gray paper and blunt type. Illustrations range from crude woodcuts to poor process plates showing sensational incidents like villainy, kidnapping, and dramatic horsewhipping.
An editor vows revenge on a printer after a quarrel sparked by a biased write up. The feud involves a trailed suspect and a plan to leverage past misconduct to target the editor’s wife and family in a small city dispute reported by the Indianapolis Journal.
A poetic woman sighs for wings of a bird while her husband warns that another woman would soon wear them on her hat. The Washington Star notes the exchange as a playful aside of seasonal fashion.
A renowned professor reports wide regional variation in magnetic declination across central Russia. The compass does not consistently point north or south, showing deflection west in some areas, east in others, and even points east and west within a single locale.
A note states that bluebottle fly eggs placed in the sun will hatch in about two to three hours, illustrating rapid development under heat.
A yellow dog named Trolley Mike shifts allegiance from Philadelphia to Staten Island. After a kind moorman fed him, the dog stays with the Staten Island crew, riding the cars with a preferred spot on the front fender. He defies steam cars and enjoys the sea air, becoming the road’s mascot.
The article describes elephants lacking front teeth and flesh-eating tendencies. It notes eight large molars, two on each side, and a movable tongue used to shift hay or fodder. It compares milk teeth to permanent molars, noting they shed around age 14 and that baby teeth are sometimes kept by circus personnel.
The Chicago Record notes voice care matches dress in importance. Proper speaking relies on deep breathing and ample air, enunciation without rushing, and avoiding forcing breath. With practice, one can produce musical, pleasing tones worth the effort.
A playful verse describes mutual exchanges of chores and affection between a couple. The narrator lists tasks like wetting water, cooking, sewing buttons, and making the bed, paired with reciprocal kisses and payments in kind, illustrating a lighthearted tit for tat relationship.
A young boy watches a large vessel towed by a puffing tug in New York Harbor. He exclaims with wonder that the big boat has the little one by the tail and is squealing, prompting shared amusement between father and child.
A Maine coastal town Bucksport features a family cemetery with a tall granite shaft near the road. The piece recalls an old legend of the Bucks family and an imprecatory prophecy linked to a condemned woman on the scaffold, hinted by a blemish on Col Buck's tombstone.
Philadelphia Inquirer recounts Bucksport founder Colonel Jonathan Buck born 1718 in Haverhill mass died March 18 1795. A granite pedestal bears a mysterious foot outline tied to the witchcraft legend and a curse said to foretell Buck’s death, inspiring superstition for generations.
A New York World item recalls a humorous note on bargaining where a shopper claims to pay nothing for a suit after guessing the tailor would overprice it. The tailor guessed a price, the buyer guessed none, and the exchange ends with a playful misunderstanding.
A brief quip from Journal Amusant shows a youth asking a barber to trim just enough for people to notice he has had a shave. The line captures a playful vanity and social display through a simple grooming act.
Witty exchange on the language of flowers leads to a joke about removing the conservatory for lessons in the language of gardeners. Ally Sloper humor fills the panel with playful banter.
A column explores Creole cuisine and offers recipes such as Chili Con Carne and Eggs Indian Style, with cooking steps, ingredients, and serving ideas. It includes notes on hot peppers, curry, and fruit scones, aiming to broaden American culinary tastes through regional dishes.
A recipe segment describes hashing cold boiled potatoes with salt and pepper, frying them in fat from salt pork, shaping into an omelet style cake, browning, draining, and serving. This method emphasizes quick thorough cooking and preserving a compact, browned patty.
Ally Sloper quips that Perkinson learns the truth of his paternity after the village madman enters the shop during Mr Barber’s absence. The cartoonish line hints at scandal and social gossip in a small community setting.
A readable recipe notes a gingerbread mix using one cup sugar half cup melted butter and half cup milk with two and a half cups Hour and one teaspoon ginger and soda plus two of cream of tartar. An alternative uses one teaspoon vinegar and the egg to finish.
During a Cork performance of Faust the Mephistopheles actor was so stout the trapdoor could not drop him. As he remained visible above the stage a gallery god groaned Begorra the place is full and caused a stir.
The note mocks a local figure nicknamed Obwi Brown as a rising man amid light banter about a recently acquired horse. The exchange hints at community chatter and reputation in a small town.
One cup sugar two eggs and half cup molasses with shortening milk and spices. Raisins folded in with soda and cream of tartar. Flour added to form stiff dough and bake.
The article offers kitchen tips such as celery in duck stuffing dressing, using water to fill empty cake pans, rice as a nutritious staple, and methods to prevent butteriness in homemade ice cream by chilling cream before churning. It presents practical guidance for cooks with period style.
Prepare chicken by removing joints and breast bones. Season, flour, brown in butter, then fry onion slices. Mix cornstarch sugar curry powder in butter, brown. Add water or stock and strained tomatoes or chopped sour apple, season. Simmer until tender, stir in hot milk or cream, and serve with boiled rice.
A recipe for a creamy sauce combines butter sugar and fruit syrup with cream. It instructs to warm the bowl over hot water and stir until smooth not hot enough to melt butter, and to adjust with more cream a lemon or vanilla if desired.
The recipe describes boiling milk with cornstarch until smooth, then whisking in butter. Cool and fold in four well beaten yolks and four stiffly beaten whites. Bake in a buttered dish set in a hot water bath for about 20 minutes and serve immediately with a creamy sauce if possible.
A simple bake in a leaf pan or patty pans. Mix butter and sugar, add an egg, milk, flour with baking powder, then currants. Cream butter, beat eggs, fold in dry ingredients, and bake until done.
Beat one cup of butter to a cream, add two cups of sugar and beat until light. Beat two eggs light without separating, and add to the butter and sugar with one half cup of sweet milk. Add three teaspoonfuls of baking powder to one cup of Hour, mix with the batter, then mix with flour, enough to roll out, but as soft as possible, the softer the better. Cut with a sharp, round cutter and bake until a light brown in a quick oven.
Blanch oysters and dry on a cloth before saving the fat for frying. When the egg and cracker crumbs are brown the oysters are sufficiently cooked.
Boston advertisement notes Souirke's ham as always exactly right. The copy emphasizes consistent quality from John P. Squire & Co.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment centers on a confrontation over proof of loan repayment. A speaker demands evidence while asserting the other party borrowed money, highlighting a dispute about credibility and financial obligation.
A London landmark stands at 202 feet, described as the tallest shaft in the area. The note frames the monument as a notable feature in the cityscape while referencing distant ties to era rich families and urban pride.
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