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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1902
Page
8
The About the House department invites Lowell Weekly Journal readers to contribute practical housekeeping hints suggestions or thoughts. Readers may send their notes to the About the House department for publication.
A poem describes a singing brown thrush in a tree urging happiness and caution to a girl and boy while noting eggs hidden in a juniper. A separate note from the New York Post warns about handling muriatic acid safely and offers a garlic flavoring tip for salad oil. A paint tip suggests white exterior paint on screens to obscure views from outdoors.
A 1920s style diary piece muses on mastering gas ranges for even baking, balancing kitchen duties, and the ideal housekeeper who keeps kitchen and home in harmony. It urges readers to tune ovens, improve apple sauce, and ensure safe rubber seals for fruit preservation.
A household tip recommends using a tablespoon of muriatic acid to cleanse glass vases carafes and bottles. It instructs rinsing slowly around the vessel to remove foreign matter then transferring the acid to another container for reuse and thoroughly rinsing the original vessel with hot soapsuds and clear water.
Instructions for making apple jelly using red or white skinned apples with skins and seeds, boiling with water, straining, and sugaring. notes on timing and jelling. Flavor additions include lemon, rose geranium, and vanilla. Also provides tomato catsup with tomato pulp, spices, vinegar, and canning steps, plus dill pickle guidance and idea that canned tomatoes allow year round catsup.
A compact compilation of light quirks from old papers. It recalls a boy Tommy awaiting a bill of fare and a waiter’s prompt, a puzzled Englishman in bean soup, and a few domestic exchanges about butter and cook ads from the Detroit Free Press and Philadelphia Times.
Chief Adolph John Keller of the Metropole Chicago recounts the imperial family's simple table habits during Prince Henry of Germanys US visit. Breakfast is coffee rolls and boiled eggs, lunch light with chicken or chop and vegetables, 1130 a.m. Dinner at five features greens, oysters sometimes, soup, fish, roast or meat, two entrées, two desserts, and an ice. A reserve kitchen crew remains available for swift replacement.
William P. Upham announces the decipherment of Jonathan Edwards shorthand in the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings. The article details facsimile, carefully drawn characters, and extant material, noting 20 consonants, four digraphs, and signs for some, small world, because and perhaps.
A New York World article describes the detailed manufacture of a baseball in a Pennsylvania plant. It covers core molding, automatic winding with wool yarn, cement dipping, leather covers from horsehide, machine cutting, stitching, and final weighing. The process takes about thirty minutes per ball and explains usage in professional and amateur play. It notes large annual production and the mystery of ball disposal, then pivots to a separate New York anecdote about Justice Dugro carving at the Savoy with a $17,500 salary and vast wealth.
A Washington Post anecdote recounts Representative Hamilton of Michigan chasing two drawbridges for the Pawpaw river. He bursts into the war department with Pawpaw river water to prove there is water in the river and persuades officials, after consulting the chief engineer, that Benton Harbor deserves bridges to boost commerce.
An old German watchmaker Weber refuses sale of a small corner room he calls home. Lejee plans a nine story department store around it, finally returns the office to Weber, gifting sentiment over profit as the big house rises. The tale contrasts money seeking with personal memory and loyalty.
Professor Turner asserts that building an observatory on Mount Hamilton boosted local land values. In a related experiment, locals announced a larger telescope and ordered two forty inch disks, which raised land prices enough for the buyer to eye the opportunity. The lenses remained unused until Mr. Yerkes bought them for his famed telescope.
A 19th century London census style recap notes child births every three minutes and deaths every five. It cites over 700 railway stations, about 800 miles of line, eleven Thames bridges, and massive daily transit: 1,000,000 underground riders, 2,500,000 in 5,000 omnibuses, 7,000 hansoms, 14,000 cabs and 7,000 tram cars. It also reports population between 6 and 7 million, 4,000 postmen delivering 10 million letters weekly, and vast telegraph and water utilization figures.
A Washington correspondent reports a western senator’s daughter answered the class question on inhabited moons. The pupil replied that one moon is inhabited, then added that the honeymoon is inhabited. The remark, spoken to please her parents, drew laughter from the audience including the senator and relatives.
In Edinburgh Lord Rosebery left his brougham with papers inside and the coachman sped seven miles toward Dalmeny before discovering an empty carriage. He found the peer later in high spirits aboard an omnibus, the mystery of the missing horses resolved.
The Division of Forest Extension within the Bureau of Forestry oversees forest creation on abandoned lands in several states, directing field parties of 32 and coordinating planting plans for corporations cities and states. Ongoing projects include land examinations with Fort Worth and Denver City Railway in northern Texas and Massachusetts watershed planting for Boston area water supply.
In North Chelmsford Middlesex County Rev Robert W Dunbar and his wife and family have gone to Portland Maine for several weeks to visit relatives. Miss Maggie Cummings of New York is spending two weeks with her parents on Main Street.
Mrs. E. E. Morrill and daughter Miss Stella Morrill departed Monday for two weeks of recreation at Alfred Missouri. Electric streetcars ran late Monday afternoon and evening due to sand washed onto the tracks by heavy rains.
A severe afternoon storm in Malden and nearby areas caused extensive damage. Lightning struck the Maplewood Methodist church belfry tearing boards and plastering, injured a janitor, and caused about $500 in damage. Additional strikes hit an old stable near Oak Grove station, a tree in Middlesex Fells, and a Cronin residence, totaling around $250. Heavy rain compounded destruction in Malden and Medford, especially the Jowland district.
About five thousand Italians and Italian descendants gathered Sunday for St Chierin s day celebrations. The Boston Worcester airline and Metropolitan water board workers organized the event with bands, an altar for vespers, orchestras from Boston and Milford, and fireworks. Attendees included prominent Italians from Boston Worcester Milford and Marlboro. No incidents were reported.
A special Chelmsford meeting at Centre town hall with about 30 attendees elected Albert H. Davis as moderator. The town approved borrowing 1500 dollars to install a better heating system for the town hall at North village, with a 40 foot excavation and three annual 500 dollar installments, under selectmen supervision. The session lasted under 30 minutes. Emma L. Parkhurst and Mrs. John H. Wilson planned a trip to North Woodstock, New Hampshire.
A 100 year old totally blind woman has been released from an Austrian prison after years of confinement. A dialog notes a friend described as “medium,” with one woman saying he listens to her troubles and expects to hear his own tales in return. Chicago Post.
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