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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
8
A long column examines women's wages in New York shirtwaist shops, the dress of British society, and the role of mothers. It critiques street life for Lowell girls, praises domestic education, and discusses suffrage, labor, and public policy with references to Norway’s servant-change system and Moody’s poems.
A review praises William Vaughn Moody highlighting his true poetic insight and commanding language. The piece notes six of his twenty three poems have appeared previously in Atlantic Monthly Scribner's Chap-Book and forecasts Moody as a poet of the future. The poetry volume is priced at $1.25 from Houghton Mifflin.
A Harper Brothers novel about a self made railroad manager who saves a town and wins employee respect through decisive action and courage. The review compares its American success to other recent U S and British publications and discusses differing tastes in the two nations for works like Eben Holden and David Harum.
Miss Beulah Hood of Denver Colorado distant relative of John D Rockefeller to study at the Emerson school of oratory in Boston this fall. If her talent holds, she may charm eastern audiences with readings and is said to have won several medals in elocution contests while attracting the attention of the oil magnate who will support her development.
A historical meal plan lists breakfast items such as cantaloupe on ice orange omelet and coffee, followed by lunch of baked macaroni and tomatoes and raisin roly poly, then dinner featuring cream of barley soup fricasseed meat balls and stewed cucumbers with parsley potatoes. A detailed raisin jelly candy and meatball gravy recipe steps are provided, including soaking raisins in water, sugar cream of tartar, rolling jelly, and preparing the meat balls with beef eggs bread crumbs and gravy.
Miss Ava M. Stoddard of MIT won a 100 dollar prize from the College Equal Suffrage league of Boston for an essay arguing that government should promote the common good and that extending the franchise to women would influence legislation. She notes only half the population, the women, have no direct influence in lawmaking and questions how best to serve national welfare.
Miss Maud Witherspoon, once a frail girl in New Orleans French Quarter, turned to rag-doll making to support herself. She crafts black mammy dolls with painted faces, knitted hair, bandanna turbans, and blue dresses. Her dolls sell quickly in Canal Street stores and she now runs a factory supplying major firms in the North and East as the Maud Witherspoon Rag-Doll Manufacturing Company.
The passage discusses the fading Kailyard novel and credits Barrie Crockett and Maclaren with guiding it. It recalls a 18th century tale of Mr M being spared execution after a counter petition, with a royal pardon framed for display. Maurice Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes will be published in England by Cassell & Co.
In August Literary Era W S Walsh discusses Thackeray’s satire and public veiled allusions to critics, noting the Yellowplush sketches as wit masterpieces while Young Grub Street shows petty ebullition. It previews September New Lippincott Magazine stories and lists works by Clinton Scollard, M Burton Harrison, S R Crockett, Ayrton, and others with poems by Carryl Cawein and Dunbar.
Advertises tenements for rent in various areas with monthly prices from 4.50 to 58.00. Listings include 2 to 6 rooms in Centralvill Central ville Highlands Belvidere Northern depot and Ayer City. Apply T. H. Elliott 4 Central street.
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