This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 22 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
7
Lowell Weekly Journal invites ladies to send in household recipes hints and thoughts for the About the House column. A poem extols the potato at low cost and a lamb hind quarter roasted with mint, imagining wealth and abundance for the reader.
An editorial discusses adulteration in carriage and flour, berry based shortcakes, and hot day diets. It muses on wedding cake customs, umbrella wear, and tea timing as a tonic. It profiles a Chicago trunk packer whose business grows from hotel referrals and expands with sister help.
Advice on lamp maintenance warns against high wicks to avoid oiliness. Creaming chicken method marines with two tablespoons of oil and one of vinegar for thirty minutes. Emphasizes clean burners and wicks to prevent poor light and odor.
The article advises wiping fruit carefully before eating due to surface germs. It notes warm soapy water can cause cloudy streaks on windows. It repeats the old method for testing lobster freshness by tail springing back, indicating the lobster was alive when cooked.
Currant jelly instructions explain washing off debris, weighing fruit, sugar ratio, cooking steps, straining through fabric, reboiling with sugar and immediate canning. Vegetable note suggests peas with carrots and optional potatoes, simmering in salted water and butter. A potato salad recipe from a Brooklyn housekeeper combines potatoes walnuts olives with French dressing and chill time.
A medical specialist condemns linen handkerchiefs as a major source of contagion for colds catarrh and influenza. He urges use of disposable paper handkerchiefs as presently recommended for tuberculosis patients and notes households with multiple affected members should rigorously manage towels and handkerchiefs.
Advice emphasizes a complete nightly toilet routine to look fresh in the morning. It covers washing, applying eau de Cologne, brushing hair for twenty minutes to improve shine, then donning a warm robe and drinking a light hot beverage with a cracker. The goal is restful sleep and refreshed mood for the next day.
An English paper mocks American women abroad by noting their notable leather belt wallet accessory. The satchel like appendage, seemingly more for ornament than use, is never opened and leaves the wearer with a mystery inside.
Dialogs reveal a light exchange about Wagener at a music festival and a playful jab about Wagner reminding Delia of house cleaning. A separate note praises Susie and Emma in cooking school for their progress. They have learned to craft raisins and cloves into small turtle shapes.
A. G. Pollard & Co offers seven walnut finish and fourteen hardwood finish screen doors left, previously sold at 98 cents to 1.25, now offered at five cents each in the basement sale.
Advice on choosing a suitable refrigerator and storage in a city home, including ideal locations, water connections, and ice handling. Instructions cover preserving foods in deep dishes and jars, organizing a pantry, and practical uses for cress, tomatoes, and a frozen cheese and cress dish served in various ways.
A Washington Star excerpt recalls an 1880s Cork Archbishop sermon on extravagance and debt. Irish congregants burst into laughter at the notion of stripping dress for payment while fashion and social status were mocked. The scene captures the lively wit of Dublin’s fashion devotees.
A recipe segment instructs to mix one pint of cream with four teaspoons sugar and two beaten egg whites, add vanilla and nutmeg, heat gently in a hot water bath, then fold in the eggs and cook briefly. Keep warm until serving.
Instructions for preparing a fine chopped clam filling seasoned with salt and cayenne. Mix crackers moistened with warm milk and clam liquor with a beaten egg and butter, then fold in chopped clams. Fill buttered clam shells, bake in a pan until browned, and serve hot.
Instructional note describes brushing ham with beaten egg yolk, coating thickly with fine cracker or bread crumbs, then applying thick cream and browning quickly to form a half inch crust. The method aims for a delicious glaze and crisp crust.
A compact recipe note describes mixing flour with baking powder and eggs, adding melted butter and milk, then frying spoonfuls to brown. It also details breakfast bread by dipping dry bread in milk with beaten eggs seasoned, then frying in hot lard.
Clean and kin the fish, parboil in fresh water, then cut up. Place in a stewpan with salt pepper and butter and cook ten minutes. Put in a pastry lined pan, add the gravy from the fish, and top with rich stock if needed. Cover with a top crust and bake until done.
The St. Louis Star recalls famed figures once labeled dull by teachers. Walter Scott, Sheridan, Swift, Goldsmith, Clarke, Chatterton, Burns, Alfieri, Barrow, Davy, Clive, Chalmers, and others were described as lacking promise in youth. Their later achievements disproved those early judgments.
Choose a young tender chicken and ready it for frying. In a frying pan melt butter then heat. Beat eggs milk and a touch of flour into a thin batter. Season and dip each chicken piece in batter. Fry until a rich brown in the hot butter.
A recipe describes washing and boiling feet until tender, then cutting, deboning, salting, peppering, flour dusting, and frying in butter until light brown. It is served with a parsley butter sauce.
A historical note describes mixing three pounds of flour one pound of sugar and one pound of butter with three spoonfuls of ginger. Wet the dough with molasses then roll and bake in biscult pans in shapes to suit the fancy.
The piece discusses bird migration as a yearly cycle driven by family rearing and seasonal shifts. It notes that males migrate first, then females and young, and reflects on instinct and navigation, explaining routes are often winding rather than straight.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.