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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
8
A Lowell Journal department invites readers to send practical home tips and memories. The piece riffs on buckwheat cakes with nostalgic verse, recalling family breakfasts, and notes how fried foods require good ventilation to prevent odors from filling the house.
The piece argues for naming social events differently such as calling an afternoon gathering chocolate, praises clear glassware and small kitchens for efficiency, urges lighter midday meals, and critiques fur collar fashions and closet odors, reflecting early 20th century domestic concerns and advice.
Pieces of tomato left around when ants congregate will destroy them. To cleanse a sponge let it stand in strong soda with walnut-sized soda and salt, then boil and rinse. Clam shells clean pots better than a knife, removing burnt surfaces quickly. Pickles or vinegar won’t keep in a jar that ever held grease. A garter cleans with a small whisk broom.
Frozen Lemons recipe details selecting firm lemons, removing pulp, freezing in rinds, and serving on plates with greens. Miss Bedford’s method uses ice cold water or freezer, then refill rinds when solid. Cream Pie explains rich paste crust, scalded milk, flour sugar eggs and vanilla, double boiler thickening, filling, cooling and dusting with sugar.
A stenographer in a law office and church worker quietly keeps a clipped poem on her pin cushion. She uses spare minutes brushing hair or adjusting a collar to memorize lines from Recessional, then swaps in new verses, earning a nickname for being well informed.
An American traveler in San Juan describes a chaotic hotel breakfast where a loud American shouts Boiled eggs and curses locals as jackasses. The head waiter replies Kool, kool and serves cracked ice as the man vents about supposed stupidity of the natives while the author steps in to calm the scene.
The text presents a comical exchange among Mrs Henpeck Mr Newly-wee and mice characters from Life magazine style quips about marriages and flirtations. A note mentions a sewing circle meeting and an advertiser cue in the Courier, hinting at a light local column feel.
Seven people died in two New York tenement fires in Harlem and on Tenth Avenue. In Harlem on Third Avenue a mother, child, and five others perished or were badly burned, while on Tenth Avenue a mother and her two and a half year old son died. Firefighters rescued several women from windows as flames ravaged stairwells and air shafts. Damages are estimated around forty thousand dollars.
Utah witnesses testified today before the House committee probing Mr. Roberts of Utah. Dr. Miles of Salt Lake City detailed a 1897 visit to Mrs. Dr. Maggie Shipp Roberts claiming she should be addressed as Dr. Roberts. Witnesses described introductions suggesting a marital link, with Roberts denying jurisdiction prior to 1899 and questioning the scope of testimony.
In New York on December 19 William J. Kinsley the handwriting expert faced sharp cross examination nine days into the Molineux murder trial. He maintained his view that Molineux penned the poison package address despite challenges from Weeks. John F Tyrrell then testified that all disputed writings matched the defendant's admitted hand.
Former President Grover Cleveland lies in bed at his Princeton home with rheumatic gout after cold exposure during a hunting trip on his New Jersey land preserves. He sank in marshy ground near the Millstone river, bagged rabbits and quail, and his doctor reports improving condition. Mrs Cleveland’s absence from Philadelphia is unfounded.
Concord New Hampshire Bailey former head of Colebrook National Bank was charged with falsifying bank reports and, pleading nolo contendere, received a five year sentence. Judge Lowell imposed one year in Coos County jail and four years in Hillsborough County jail. Other counts dropped. Grand jury excused until December 27.
The body of Lieut. Brumby is escorted with full naval honors from Washington to the Southern Railway depot for Atlanta Ga. where interment will occur. A marines detachment led by Lieut Commander McCrea supplied the escort. Admiral Dewey and relatives sent floral tributes. The remains will be placed in the Heyward vault at Oakland cemetery.
The U S board of engineers submitted a report on regulating Lake Erie's level via Niagara River discharge and a canal with a lock on the American side around the Niagara dam. The plan proposes fixed weirs, sluices, and a one mile canal to improve navigation for 16 to 22 foot depths, with estimated costs of 796,923 for the works and 2,825,067 for locks and canals. International agreement with Canada is required for implementation.
Miss Menzies, once a chorus girl in Round New York in Eighty Minutes, marries John Day Jr. He is disinherited by his millionaire father John Day Sr, who says there will be no reconciliation. The father, head of H. L. Judd & Co., calls the Wall Street fortune tale nonsense. The couple lives at 247 West Ninety Ninth Street.
Richmond reports U S Senator Thomas S Martin re elected for a term starting March 4 1901 by both houses in separate session with joint meeting planned to canvass results. Senate devotion across party lines with Dinwiddie absent Republican and delegates prior unopposed.
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