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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1905
Page
4
A political anecdote from a city election shows an organizer guiding women voters to the polls and praising their support for an opposing candidate. The piece then shifts to a Middlesex Women’s Club bazaar plan to fund emergency aid, and finally notes Alice Roosevelt’s marriage choice and a Christmas concert at Colonial Hall with a mixed choir and soloists.
A revived old fashioned tea features pink ham hot biscuits frosted fruit cake quince preserves honey in the comb old cheese and hyson tea with leaf sugar. Serve on small glass dishes with blue willow ware and brass or silver candle holders. The hostess makes the delicacies as in bygone times.
A large attendance at the Middle Sex Women's Club yesterday afternoon honored choir master EB K Baldwin of St Anne's church and his St Anne's choir. The Yuletide concert followed last year's successful program and drew strong appreciation for the performances.
A columnist argues that tight footwear harms feet, urging readers to choose proper sizes and restore natural foot function. It calls for daily toe and ankle exercises, nightly warm baths, and alternating footwear to improve circulation and comfort.
Jane Allen urges women to improve looks for pure self development and happiness. A dainty, clean appearance in daily life is praised as a civilizing force alongside books, food, music, and wholesome sabbath observance.
A tall young woman laments being perceived as less intelligent due to her height and recalls a ruined dream hat. She describes shrinking from fashion to avoid attention, even after paying twenty dollars for lace trimming that no one would see atop her head. She longs for giants in the land and sympathy from others.
Christmas suggestions will be the subject of the demonstration lecture on Thursday night before the Women’s branch of the People’s Club. The menu includes durbans of halibut with secubise sauce, jellied tomato salad, cream dressing, holly pudding, Christmas cakes, brended frosting, peppermint and wintergreen drops, and candied orange peel.
Brown Spook of Boston argues that timely replies to letters show courtesy and respect. He condemns delaying answers for weeks and leaving questions unanswered. The piece emphasizes answering questions first and saving gossip for later to avoid rude impressions.
A Dallas News ad notes neckwear sold in boxes for 50 cents at 62 Central Street. The humorous quotation about ceremony frames the shop’s display, inviting readers to browse affordable accessories. The line cites a moralizing quip about weddings, adding local color to the listing.
A damaged OCR item lists several names and streets such as Frye Crawford and Middlesex Street, with fragmentary references to Dalle and Os, Westford Street, rh and Co, and Square Droge Bere, ending with A K Moore opposite. No clear action or full context provided.
The piece extols home cooking over fancy baked goods and praises seedless raisins, practical kitchen habits, rain wearing fashion, and comfortable footwear. It recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe on domestic trials, reflects on teaching children cooking, and notes the shift from rag dusters to cheesecloth dusters for a tidier home.
A speaker recalls a long past boiled dinner at home, noting there was a special boiler made just for the meal and stating nothing similar has been seen since in their observation.
The Royal Baking Powder is described as inexpensive per pound, outperforming competitors in price and quality. It claims to produce more, better, and healthier food, offering superior value compared with similar articles globally.
A collection of historic kitchen recipes from Boston Cooking School and Good Housekeeping. Bananas au Caramel describe peeling and baking with flour cinnamon sugar butter and boiling water serving hot with cream. Haricot Beans and Marrow Balls give stock and meatball like steps. Vienna Style Potatoes offer mashed potato rolls brushed with egg yolk and baked to brown with goose fat or dish.
Mixed readings describe combining four with one teaspoon and rubbing in a tablespoon. add equal parts milk and water to moisten the dry mix into a stiff dough. Roll and fold dough, beating and aerating until tender with numerous air pockets, then break a piece to test.
Instructions describe using a wooden trough and clamp to aerate dough quickly and compare with an axe method. Also details a table talk suggestion for shaping dough into egg sized pieces and baking until golden brown. A Lewiston Sun recipe adds baked apple mold with lemon zest and custard sauce.
Remove rind and lean from bacon strip, cook until crisp then drain fat. Beat eggs with hot water and pepper, cook in bacon fat, roll when nearly set, color slightly, and invert onto platter. Garnish with crisp bacon and serve.
A collection of practical tips from a home guide describing kerosene to remove ink, embroidery cotton for table linens, weekly copper flushing to remove odors, eggshells for cleaning, ice on burns, mouse-hole packing to repel rodents, lemon juice for wood scratches, salt anti-clumping, chloroform on delicate fabrics, potatoes diced for uniform cooking, citrus in cookies for flavor, apples keeping cakes fresh, salt on faded plush, quince and pears preserves, and mend china with skim milk boiling to fix cracks.
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