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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
7
A compilation of Huntington’s life advice urging living for today and frugal, disciplined effort. He warns against overreliance on wealth, stresses punctuality and hard work, and favors business focus over pleasure while urging self reliance and personal advancement. He recalls early Yale Connecticut farming roots and warns against rumors and false pride.
A 19th century guide presents easy non alcoholic beverages like Gingerade and Sparkling Lemonade, plus fruit and egg based drinks. It includes warm weather recipes, Picnic Eggs and Picnic Meat Loaf, pressed chicken, barley water, and a chilled ICID chocolate dessert, with step by step preparation and cooling times.
A Lowell weekly column invites readers to share household recipes hints and thoughts for the page. The piece discusses cooking fish corn vegetables and methods for proper preparation and serving, including corn boiling times and frying fish hot and crisp, with practical tips and a strawberry pop overs recipe.
Suggestions cover cooking pineapple with gelatine, Neufchatel cheese origins, and washing greens thoroughly. Note concerns about gravel in spinach and slugs in beet greens. Advice praises broiled or baked bluefish and stresses cooking bluefish promptly after catch to avoid quality loss.
A fragment describes Sally Lunn as a favorite New England tea cake. It instructs scalding a pint of milk and removing it from heat at boiling point before continuing the recipe.
Table Talk notes green veils returning with seasonable gowns in organdy crepe and lawn. Thumb nail bows in narrow black velvet or satin ribbon adorn bodices in many adjustable ways, described as novel and dainty.
A Good Housekeeping excerpt notes how cheese matters in French dining, with cremeries preferring milk and cream over cheese on counters. It describes milk and butter sales, skimmed milk, buttermilk, and rich cream for the wealthy, plus whipped cream used by chefs in soups and desserts like charlotte russe.
The article traces wedding cake origins from Roman bride wheat ears and corn throwing to English chaplets of wheat and a cake evolving in the eighteenth century. It notes the solid iced blocks, breaking the crust atop the bride, guests reclaiming the crumbs, and the superstition of hiding a horseshoe and a wish bone for happiness.
The piece recalls historic marriage rites where the bride’s father gives the groom a shoe as a transfer of authority, the husband tapping the wife on the head with it as proof of domestic discipline. It notes that old laws permitted corporal punishment with a broomstick under limits until repealed in Wales.
A weary congressman staying in a hotel rooms beside a German clarinetist complains of nightly noise. The diplomat asks for a new room after the German allegedly plays in a key that spoils the music, prompting the clerk with a quip about snoring and harmony. The anecdote appears in the Buffalo Inquirer.
A vintage ad claims half the ills of man stem from indigestion and that Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach to make indigestion impossible. It urges readers to tell advertisers they saw the ad in the Courter.
Sioux City scientist Eugene Hoard travels by flatboat down the Missouri from the upper Cheyenne Fail River to Wind Cave and the Bad Lands, bringing a famed collection of petrified moss, wood, fishes, reptiles, and even two infant figures valued at $45,000 after five years of gathering and fifteen months afloat, with perilous near shipwrecks en route.
In the August Atlantic, Yale’s Arthur T. Hadley argues that great writers distinguish politics by character and public opinion rather than institutions. He contrasts Aristotle and Rousseau, urging education to foster civic responsibility and a shared sentiment behind laws to prevent tyranny.
A home kitchen recipe details simmering tomatoes with onion and herbs then thickening with butter flour and tomato pulp, with optional caramel. The second passage from John Russell Davidson in Woman's Home Companion describes Newfoundland banks offshore phenomena where melting icebergs sculpt grand ice architecture and fresh meltwater cascades into the sea as observed in the Courier advertisement.
Peel two summer squashes and steam until soft then mash. Remove seeds add two tablespoons fresh milk one tablespoon flour one teaspoon salt two eggs beaten add one teaspoon yeast powder mix well fry in lard until brown.
Select fresh watercress and pick all the leaves from the stalks. Chop finely and dry briefly on a strainer cloth. Work into fresh butter until bright green. Season with pepper and salt. Spread on fresh white bread for serving.
Pick over and wash the lettuce carefully, drain briefly, then wipe each leaf dry with a clean cloth. Cover with a French dressing and serve. The wiping of the leaves is most essential.
Public notice promotes Medici Cream as a permanent freckle remover for all skin tones. Claims it leaves skin soft white and smooth and offers mail order sales from Medici Cream Co. Box 15% Boston Mass. The text is faded and likely a deceptive advertisement.
New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad posts revised departures from Lowell Middlesex Street Depot on and after June 10 1909. Trains to Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and local stops run at 7 15 11 23 a m and 5 25 p m with connections at South Framingham to Boston and Albany for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west and at Concord Junction to the Pittsburg line. The 5 25 p m service links to the Stanton line for New York City south and west. Sundays schedule lists 7 15 a m to South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence and connected stations. Signed C Peter Clark General Superintendent and A C Kendall General Passenger Agent.
The timetable lists trains from Merrimack Street Depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Station Lowell to Boston and other destinations with many times. It includes Sunday schedules, connections to towns like Reading Haverhill Exeter Dover Newburyport and Montreal, and notes on special routes and summer service. Copyright and agent credits at end.
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