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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1898
Page
6
Washington dispatches report Paris advices that peace commissioners will limit the treaty to protocol points, hastening signing. President Wilson instructed Day to speed conclusions, with other matters left for future diplomacy. Possible submission to Congress before Christmas recess.
Paris dispatch notes the joint commission's session denying Spain's demand that its ships and products receive the same duties and port access in Cuba and Porto Rico for ten years as those granted to the Philippines. Americans cite unresolved coaling, religious rights, and political prisoner issues and caution on futura Cuban governance.
The speaker laments a burst of public feeling in Britain after the Fashoda incident and urges officials to reject pin pricks and avoid provoking maneuvers. He cautions against proposals like rival colleges to General Kitchener and warns such acts could shift Britain from forbearance in Egypt to harsher measures, risking French sentiment.
The Radical reports that inquiries by the court of cessation indicate Col Henry, not Dreyfus, betrayed military secrets. Henry’s lavish spending, funded from abroad, links him to Esterhazy and suggests Henry dictated the bordereau for the Dreyfus dossier.
The Medfield insane hospital seeks clues after Howard F. Wyman, 19, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, disappeared on the night of November 26 during a storm. He left in a black suit after finishing duty, taking no extra clothing or belongings, with a search spanning roads and river. Authorities fear possible self harm or foul play, though colleagues described him as steady and cheerful. His father from West Sydney, Maine, arrived to aid the investigation.
Paris reports Sir Edmund Monson in a silver jubilee British chamber of commerce event lauding the new diplomacy fostered by press enterprise and American mind, crediting shapers like Col. Hay and Bayard. he departs from usual diplomatic limits to address the audience and urges advertisers to note the moment in the Courier.
In Chatham on December 6 the widow of Captain Burke A. Dunbar ordered his body sent to Castine Maine by train after funeral arrangements. Charles Tinkham’s body remains unclaimed. A man’s body was found near Monomoy station at 8 PM as offshore winds drive more floaters ashore, according to Ute savers.
Kingston Ontario fire crews reported a blaze found at 3:30 this morning in the Grand Opera House collapsing into a mass of ruins before firefighters could halt it. The loss is total with no immediate details on casualties or cause.
The Herald reports on the new Paris school of art under MacMonnies and Whistler and Massachusetts plans for the Paris exposition with Walter Gilman Page Charles A. Walker Edmund C. Tarbell Philip L. Hale and Samuel J. Kitson pushing a Massachusetts jury and director of fine arts candidacy for Thomas Allen. Boston clubs host Christmas displays and paintings by Nesmith Wescott and Adam, with gains in Gainsborough studies and a Colonial Dames exhibition awarding Ross Turner.
Dr Wurth extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a far reaching stomach remedy. He links digestion to overall health and warns indigestion harms nerves and heart. The ad claims safety, cites ingredients, and offers mail order and drugstore availability alongside Burdock Blood Bitters for vitality.
The twenty fifth annual National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention at St Paul featured a Frances E Willard memorial fund with two dollars from each union and five thousand member gains led by Indiana earning the banner for most growth. Officers were elected including Lillian M N Stevens as president and Anna A Gordon as vice president at large. The retreat from temple trust was voted with 285 to 71, and Seattle offered for next meeting while Miss Willard’s influence and the crusade spirit dominated, drawing fifty veteran crusaders to the platform.
Combine three and a half pounds veal fat and lean, a thick slice pork, raw chopped, six crackers fine, two eggs, half cup butter, tablespoon pepper, cloves and herbs. Mix, form loaf, bake two hours at low heat, basting. Slice for lunch or tea. keeps well.
A recipe instructs mixing one pint hot mashed potato with salt pepper celery salt and butter, moistening with milk. When cooled add yolks beaten, then whites folded in. Bake ten minutes in a hot oven, adding more milk if needed as eggs thicken.
Mix half a tablespoon salt with half a tablespoon mustard and a tablespoon sugar. Stir in one egg slightly beaten, two and a half teaspoons melted butter and three quarters of a cup cream. Add a quarter cup vinegar slowly. Cook over hot water till thick, strain and chill.
A fragment lists a Lily Cake recipe with vinegar, brown sugar, spices, and apples cooked soft but not broken. It also notes a Fried Bread method dipping dry bread in water, then beaten eggs, seasoned and fried in lard.
A historical recipe lists ingredients for a cake batter: one and a half cups molasses, two thirds cup butter, one egg, one cup boiling water, one heaping teaspoon soda, scant teaspoon cassia and ginger, plus flour to achieve cake-like mixing consistency.
A recipe for apple fritters is followed by a promotion of Henry D. Perky founder of the New Era Cooking School in Worcester Massachusetts. The piece extols natural foods and balanced proportions as key to health and offers a free mailed copy of The Vital Question 4th Ed. to readers requesting it.
Signed to refund money on a 50c bottle if it fails to cure cold or cough and offer a 25c bottle with satisfaction or no pay. Warranted by Geo. C. Osgood, M D, Brock & Co, Ellingwood & Co, Butler & Co, and Blanchard, Carter with Middlesex address.
A legal notice from the Court of Registration of Suffolk cites Robert G. Bartlett Peter Lundin and others to respond to a petition by Frederick Lawton and Jed A. Buttrick Trustees of Lowell to register a described parcel in Lowell. The description covers starting bounds from Hale's Brook area and traces lines across Bartlett, Lowell and related properties to define a 481565 square foot site of 11.055 acres with multiple stakes bounds and railroad easements. Court date set for December 19 1898 in Boston with potential default.
The theater announces a lineup of new works including See Yup ey sat A Three Bottle Comedy by W. E. Norris Finding the Gold Queen by James Selwin Tait The Striped Chest by Conan Doyle The King's Rose Diamond by George Griffith A Tragedy in Permutations by Joseph M. Rogers A Modern Parrhasius by Francis Lynde for upcoming performances.
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