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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
7
Public health officials and doctors call spitting the main pathway for spreading tuberculous infection and demand drastic measures. They cite Koch’s findings and urge education, school hygiene, and citywide notices to curb the habit, with police cooperation and city postings.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets offer mild gentle relief. Easy to take and pleasant in effect, they are for sale by all druggists.
Lowell journeymen barbers urge rules and sanitary inspection as a health menace in public shops. They request investigation of shop conditions and a hearing. A druggist questioned midwifery rights, while the State Board of Registration notes midwifery is a medical practice.
Mrs. Mary Clossey, about 50, died of diphtheria in a Union Street tenement yesterday afternoon. Eight children were nearby as health officials traced her, learning a false address hampered locate. She had recently sought aid, stayed briefly in Mrs. Hayden’s attic, and collapsed after requesting water at 2:30 pm. The board of health removed the body and sought to protect residents.
Garfield colony Pilgrim Fathers held weekly meeting with Mrs Clara Mahoney installed as deputy sergeant at arms. Lawrence hosts a conference with colonies from Lawrence Andover North Andover Methuen Lowell Haverhill and Salem Depot to plan a convention in Lawrence City Hall on Sept 11. An exhibition of degree work for members takes place in the afternoon, with a public evening reception and address by Hon John L Bates lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and former governor of the order.
Saturday practice shoots by Troop F Cavalry in North Chelmsford signal upcoming matches with Lowell militiary companies. Miss Rose Hafey of Newton Centre visits the Hogans and plans to attend the Pan American Exposition. Ready and McEnaney depart Sept 4 for St Anselm College. Misses McGrath and McEnaney vacation at Crescent Beach. Edwin Killpartrick and wife return from Newport. Chelmsford Foundry Co. erects a new shed for castings cleanup crew. Kitty Curry spends weeks in Wilton New Hampshire with Miss Emma Duval.
The third concert of the season by Allen's Cornet Band will be held on the common Friday evening next from 8 to 10 o'clock with a program including Cuba Libre, Little Nell, Medley Overture, Beer March, Blue and Gray Patrol, Tomah, Dolly Gray, The Star Spangled Banner, and other selections under director A. H. Newton. Next Saturday afternoon the Jug-a-Longs of Watertown perform at Faulkner Park. Everett Livingston takes a week’s vacation at Plum Island. An adjourned hearing on Atlantic Telephone poles’ relocation is set for Thursday at 2 o'clock in the selectmen's room.
The Chelmsford item clarifies Dr. Richard Dutton’s Wakefield practice, notes his mother Carrie A Parkhurst’s ties to the town, and reports cemetery improvements including leveled ancient plots, cleaned stones, reseeded ground, and new interment records. Also mentions Mrs. Arthur W. Allen ill, S H Knights tenement, Mrs. Elizabeth Fiske and daughter’s New Hampshire vacation, town hall grounds upkeep, and pending county highway line decisions affecting South street.
A recently deceased hotel keeper reportedly began an inquiry revealing that 200 men used hotel stationery and other free privileges without buying cigars. The anecdote labels the scheme a mean, shopping-tour, sample-lunch trick.
A fragmentary local item notes a court matter involving Beare and a cited party, with names and places only partially readable. The readable portion suggests a legal or civil action filed locally, but essential details are obscured by OCR corruption.
A fragmented note lists items under Astoria and related purchases, mentioning the showy brand and generic goods. The text suggests catalog style entries with references to buyers, dates, and quantities, though many words are garbled.
A homemaking piece offers affordable vegetable preparations using onions eggplant and Dutch red cabbage with steps for stuffing and baking. It includes a marble cake recipe with butter sugar eggs vanilla milk flour cocoa and spice, detailing mixing baking and oven heat guidance.
A recipe describes beating eggs with water salt and flour to form a stiff dough. Roll into thin wafers then ribbons, dry, then boil with salted water. Serve with buttered breadcrumbs on a dish for meat or fish.
Instructions describe making a piquante sauce by browning butter with flour, whisking in brown stock, salt, and cayenne then simmering. A separate vinegar onion sugar reduction is prepared and added, finishing with the combined sauce.
A damaged recipe fragment describes suet pudding and baked sue style batter. It lists milk two eggs currants and flour with baking powder and salt. Instructions mention mixing beating and baking at a moderate oven with a sweet sauce served afterward.
A compact recipe describes mixing three cups sifted pastry flour two spoonfuls baking powder one half teaspoon salt and one saltspoon of mate. Beat one egg add half cup sugar one teaspoon melted lard and half cup milk. Combine with dry ingredients cut into rings and fry this rule yields twenty doughnuts.
A recipe section describes Orange Souffle with orange pulp and caramel finishing, and Chops in Paper Cases featuring salt pork fried chops layered with a minced veal ham mushroom parsley sauce folded in buttered paper and baked briefly.
Uniform flounders are cut into four fillets each two and a half inches wide and marinated or dredged with salt and pepper before dipping in butter. They are rolled, secured with toothpicks, dipped in egg and bread crumbs, fried in hot fat for seven minutes, then served with tomato sauce after removing the toothpicks.
Wash and halve a soft shell squash and fill with a seasoned mix of three cups fresh bread crumbs, ground coconut, chopped green peppers, onions, celery, mint, sage, salt, eggs, and milk. Top with melted butter and bake until tender and brown.
Use a one inch thick halibut slice. Season, bread, and saute in hot fat from salt pork until browned. For the sauce, simmer canned tomatoes ten minutes, season, add crumbs, cook five minutes, then stir in two tablespoons butter and serve at once.
Cream butter and sugar until light, beat eggs separately, then blend with flavoring. Stir in flour to form a firm paste, roll thin, cut circles, stamp a small inner circle to form rings, bake on floured sheet. Brush with egg white and dust with powdered sugar until lightly colored.
Instructions describe a yeast doughnut recipe using warm milk, three yeast cakes, salt, butter, sugar creamed with eggs, nutmeg, and bread flour to form a soft mouldable dough. After kneading half an hour, roll to half inch, cut with a biscuit cutter, prove near a range, fry slowly, and roll in powdered sugar. Yields about three dozen.
Mix a teaspoonful of salt with a cup ful of corn meal and scald it with just enough boiling water to dampen it. Then add enough cold milk to enable it to be moulded, stir it well together and form into cakes three-quarters of an inch thick in the middle and oblong in shape. A tablespoonful of dough will make one of these cakes, which are to be baked on a greased pan in a hot oven for twenty-five minutes.
Starting June 1 1900 trains will depart from Lowell Middlesex Street depot for Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and nearby stations at 7 15 11 25 a m and 5 25 p m All trains join South Framingham for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west and Concord Junction for Fitchburg The 6 25 p m train connects with the Stonington line for New York City and the south and west Sundays service includes 7 15 a m for South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence and nearby stations C Peter Clark General Superintendent A C Kendall Passenger Agent
The bulletin lists corrected schedules for Boston and Maine trains from Lowell Street Depot and Middlesex Street Station with numerous departure times to Boston and other destinations. It includes Sunday variations, connections to Lawrence, Haverhill, Newburyport, Exeter, Dover, and coastal points, plus notes on express services and line-wide references.
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