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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1898
Page
3
A Lowell Weekly Journal department invites women readers to send household tips and recipes. It shares playful stories of romance and cottage life, then provides practical recipes such as Raisin Brown Bread and Tomato Toast, with Miss Farmer credited for the cooking directions and measurements.
The piece laments low farm milk prices while noting consumer costs, contrasts 5 to 7 cents per quart for good milk in Lowell, and muses on electric cooking, kitchen modernization, and the comfort of previous generations. It stresses sharp carving knives, heat economizers, and proper potato prep to preserve nutrition and minerals.
A genuine old-fashioned clam chowder recipe uses salt pork and onion fried in fat, potatoes and canned tomatoes simmered with water, spices, a spice bag, then clams and soaked biscuits added before serving. Also notes on wearied rump of beef and angel pudding methods appear.
A writer in the Ohio Farmer cites Dunkard methods for pork curing that have yielded reliable results for twelve years. The recipe uses eighty pounds of pork with three ounces selipetre three ounces brown sugar three pints fine salt and later pepper. Rub every five days for three rubs, dry in a cellar, then smoke in twenty days. The note claims the meat stays flavorful and never spoiled. Also mentions using the same method for beef and details sausage salting ratios two pounds fine dairy salt and one pound butcher's pepper per one hundred pounds of sausage meat, with current demand at twelve and a half cents per pound.
The guide explains a six cent a pound flank beef dish with fat trimmed, boiled gently to retain juices, and bones added for gelatine. After simmering the meat is pressed with weights, cooled, then served in thin slices atop parsley for an appealing presentation.
A trio of comic quips from periodicals highlights business vanity, a Thanksgiving feast, and thrift irony. The Cincinnati Enquirer mocks marketing hype about mineral water output doubling, Harper's Bazar features a playful turkey pun about BP, and the Pittsburgh Bulletin riffs on a boy asking for a pony to spare shoes under economizing talk.
In Macon Georgia December 19 the President and party were welcomed by a large crowd as Confederate veterans pinned a gold‑letter badge on his coat. Col Wiley led Bibb county survivors taunting praise for the Union and Confederate ties. The visit included a review of Gen Bates division troops and a politically charged address noting peace talks and unity.
Providence December hearing reopens the Ross King case over the William H. Kins millions. Ex-Congressman Hemphill of South Carolina leads motions in the appellate court challenging probate orders to disburse bonds and distribute assets.
At Kansas City during the American Federation of Labor meeting, resolutions favor DC voting rights and federal telegraph system ownership. A renewed dispute arises between the Typographical Union and Linotype Machinists over control of linotype repair work, referred to a committee and then taken up in executive session.
Wilminston Del Dec 19 The jury deciding the fate of U S Senator Kenney was discharged by Judge Bradford at 430 pm without reaching a verdict after more than seventy hours deliberation. Twelve ballots were taken with no majority for conviction. Kenney supporters express disappointment at the second mistrial while Kenney remains quiet.
In Hartford today H. Kirk Woodbridge, former prison clerk and son of Warden Jabez Woodbridge, pleaded guilty to embezzling prison funds totaling 1758 dollars. He was sentenced to four years in state prison.
Notices posted at Hartford Carpet company Windsor Locks say two large parts of the works will start full time next Monday with a 56 hour week. A 7 percent pay cut is planned in the department.
London reports the death in Florence of Francis Ettrick the former British minister to the United States in 1857 and details Napier family lineage and career from ambassadorial posts in Vienna Teheran Constantinople and St Petersburg to Governor of Madras and acting Viceroy of India with later roles in education and London city reform and the Crofter commission with heir William Napier born 1846 and in diplomatic service since 1869.
In Hull Quebec Judge Lavergne heard Mrs Parisien accuse Dr Mackay of maltreat. The priest Rev Father Rochon refused to testify citing confessional secrecy. The judge ruled no immunity exists but adjourned to let Rochon reconsider.
Reading, Dec 19. At the Wellington club the Earl of Selborne under-secretary for the colonies praised the Marquis of Salisbury for managing relations with the United States. He noted a shift from war talk three years ago to understanding and confidence, crediting the premier's firm handling of the Venezuelan issue.
The Spanish mail steamer Villaverde landed Marshal Ramon Blanco, former Cuba captain general, and several officers from Havana at Alicante. Blanco, avoiding the crowd, telegraphed devotion to the Queen Regent and received a greeting from Senor Sagasta before taking a train to Madrid. He declined to discuss the Cuban campaign but appeared greatly affected.
London dispatch says the Midland Railway Company of England ordered 20 freight engines from Philadelphia and New York due to an engineers strike. English firms face backlog as they cope with arrears of work.
Commander Mori traveling to San Francisco to assume command of the cruiser Chitose says the United States expansion policy has strong support in Japan for sentimental and commercial reasons. He ranks Dewey with Ito and Nelson, noting Mori as a great naval officer and statesman. He has not met Dewey but witnessed his Manila actions from the Naniwa.
Tracts for warships will be let to American firms citing superior workmanship and proximity to the home country. Vessels can cross the Pacific without a long voyage through the canal or around the Cape of Good Hope. Russia seeks loan. An official agency reports the US envoy informed Russia’s finance minister of a plan by Ivins and financiers to grant a large loan, decision by M DeWitte pending.
London reports the St. Petersburg Daily Mail corresp says the Russian government has ordered 10 new destroyers for the Pacific squadron to be completed within two years.
At Yale financial union, Manager James Brown presented Treasurer Walter Camp with finances for two championship games versus Princeton and Harvard. Yale and Harvard will split 30550.50, each receiving 15225.25. Harvard held 6364 of 17600 tickets. Yale sold the rest. Expenditures totaled 3791.80 with receipts 34542 and 429 tickets unsold.
The Call reports the U S training ship Adams is unlikely to voyage to Samoa or distant ports. She may only head to Magdalena for gun practice if approved. Spar deck beams have opened and other defects appeared, making the vessel unsafe for a long voyage. Constant drilling by 200 naval apprentices on the spar deck is blamed for the deck problems.
About $700 in counterfeit money was captured in an Italian tenement on Scott Street Buffalo N Y early today Two men Frank Ferrer and Pasquale Antonach were arrested while passing counterfeit coins Police seek a third man tied to the plot The counterfeiters outfit remains unfound Prim escaped lynching attempt in Cerro Havana as crowds threaten ex police official and other officials shot at by unknowns in Pueblo Nuevo and nearby towns Cuban forces enter Calabazar and Santiago de Las Vegas hoisting the Cuban flag.
In Jasper Missouri on December 19 a farmer William Lowenstein and his wife were found dying from gunshot wounds at their home three miles from town. A son and farmhand reported three shots then discovered both bodies with head wounds and the woman with torn clothing and bruised hands. Authorities believe Lowenstein killed his wife after a quarrel and then shot himself.
The navy department confirms the Texas reached Havana after a three days voyage from Norfolk. The arrival brings three U S warships to Havana harbor joining the New York and Topeka.
A Fitchburg Sentinel reprint argues that American troops must be deployed to tropical colonies, predicting high mortality and urging patriotic sacrifice. It warns parents their sons may die under disease while serving empire builders and questions whether such deaths would truly help the heathen.
Several convenient tenements in good locations vacated and offered at very low prices. One tenement four and a half dollars per month another five room unit six dollars fifty cents. Save money by reducing rent. T. H. Elliott, 64 Central Street. Tell advertisers you saw it in the Courier.
A dramatic ad describing severe itching and sleepless nights from piles and skin troubles. It promotes Doan’s Ointment as immediate and permanent relief, cites a customer case from Mr. Lewis Snow and urges purchase through Carter & Sherburne and Foster Milburn Co. sole U.S. agents.
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