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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
6
A local agricultural column invites brief, sharp reader notes for the Northern Middlesex Farmers section. The piece prints a classical verse praising labor and the dignity of toil, drawn from Youth's Companion and attributed to Virginia Frazer Boyle.
This digest collects farm notes on muck quality for nitrogen fertilizer and the need to select high grade muck. It urges removing unprofitable orchard trees, grafting thrifty stock, and restoring business efficiency. It also covers tobacco stems as a pea louse remedy, soil thoughts from Rural New Yorker, and Angora goats to clear brush land with careful winter feed and rational management.
The piece argues skin is the main organ for expelling poisons and notes farm labor is dirty. In heat sweat and dust clog pores, so workers should bathe and wear clean clothes at night. It emphasizes hygiene for laborers.
The U S Volunteer Life-Saving Corps urges parents to teach swimming and stresses inspecting boats for sufficient life-saving gear. It provides step by step rescue methods for non swimmers and drowning victims, guidance on handling capsized or rough waters, and instructions on emergency care including mouth-to-mouth, chest compressions, and rapid recovery. The article promotes Rescue and Resuscitation Cards and provides the World Building New York address for inquiries.
The Middlesex North society will exhibit Angora goats at its coming fair, with five granges near Lowell planning entries to win the five premiums. The 1899 display had five entries and was considered instructive. Also notes New York potato worm concerns and advised steps, plus fence removal improving lawns and opinions on raspberry varieties Cuthbert and London in New England winters and yields.
Mrs Laura Alderman of Hurley D owns the largest apple orchard in the Northwest. A Kansas wheat farmer rents 25 000 acres on half the yield paying 45000 net last year. He owns land worth about 3000 and bank stock valued at 250000 invested in Oklahoma farms.
A reader critiques Brother Parker and the idea that agriculture alone sustains society. The writer questions how to revitalize the agricultural settlement without dulling insight. He warns against settling for simple truths and urges a higher duty beyond mere daily survival.
Samuel L. Taylor argues against eating meat, urging a vegetarian path and linking tuberculosis concerns to animal products. He condemns meat consumption, praises corn and potatoes, and notes farming tips on fertilizing potato crops. He cites Bro. Parker and Prof. Koch while urging ventilation and animal-free sustenance.
A collection of farming notes discusses sheep as weed eaters and their pasture benefits alongside cows, claiming sheep can suppress diverse weeds and improve feed quality. Side items include stomach capacity comparisons for horse and ox and cribbing prevention tips using water, low boxes, pine mangers, and a wood preservative.
Muck improves dry gravelly soils by enhancing mechanical condition and humus content. It often contains essential fertility elements, especially nitrogen, with samples from Maine showing up to 2.85 percent nitrogen in dry material. Given high moisture, a large quantity of fresh muck would be required to deliver this nitrogen.
An exhortation to farmers to adopt hygiene practices to prevent disease. Emphasizes fresh air as best cure, open housing for ventilation, use of disinfectants, pure water and abundant bathing water, and distillation if needed. Warns against pigpen odors and emphasizes practical steps to reduce illness and medical costs.
Milwaukee Sentinel notes Mrs. Harry Klingenfeld as a pioneer in American interior decoration, dating her start to a Columbia College course that opened to women later in time. The piece highlights her training, barrier breaking, and continued influence on public taste as women increasingly entered the field.
The Lowell House department invites lady readers to send practical household tips and suggestions. Address About the House Department Lowell Journal.
A vivid poetic scene portrays a cave like cellar with windows, spiders on silver chains, swinging shelves of jams and jellies, shining apples, pumpkins, firkins of pickles, and a brown oak cask of kraut. The poem likens rough minds storing rich provisions for life’s feast, attributed to Adela S. Cody in Good Housekeeping July.
Recipes from the New York Post describe a two to three week keep salad dressing with eggs sugar salt mustard milk and vinegar, thickened over boiling water then butter added, plus an apple pudding from stewed apples mixed with sugar butter breadcrumbs and eggs baked and served with cream.
The piece muses on cooking methods and food presentation, favors milk based dishes with beans, cabbage salad ideas, and stresses hygiene in lunchrooms. It argues women should design kitchens around their needs, warns against neglecting the cooking space, and asserts a woman’s expertise in planning the kitchen. It critiques lunchroom service and the treatment of a household pet, ending with the claim that a woman’s perspective guides efficient kitchen design.
Rev. Alden W. Quimby urges humane treatment of maids and shared responsibility in households. He stresses clear boundaries, careful knowledge of the maid’s life, and mutual respect. He calls for systematic work, proper hours, recreation, and well ventilated living quarters to benefit both maid and employer.
A column outlines practical stain removal methods for common laundry problems. Ink spots on gingham respond to milk and salt or oxalic acid. grass stains need alcohol. mildew requires lemon juice or chloride of lime solution. red iron rust uses salt and lemon or muriatic acid with hot water, followed by ammonia rinse.
An exchange describes a table decoration used by a Honolulu hostess. Carnations native to the island are massed in a large silver bowl with a wreath around the base and chains extending to table corners. A flexible wreath hangs over each chair and guests untie it to wear as a fluffy neck boa. The carnations are arranged by removing calyxes and threading petals for a soft vertical display.
In the sweltering city, 94,600 workers form the common herd and are told by Sunday papers what the other 400 are doing at the mountains or seashore for consolation.
The writer lampoons restrictions on smoking in rear seats and suggests carrying a pocket cuspidore to spit in. He notes no board of health law bans the device, and fellow passengers would not object if he uses it when leaving the car.
Property listing for 40 acres located 412 miles from Lowell includes good tillage and pasture, 25 apple trees, a house and barn in very good condition. Recently acquired by the seller, offering easy terms. Price 1300 dollars. Call at once.
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