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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
6
A Lowell Journal department invites readers to send notes and tips for About the House. The piece blends a nostalgic poem about children leaving home with household recipes and cooking ideas from Farm Field and Fireside, New York Post, and Table Talk. It includes a macaroni escallop method, Marlborough Pie steps, and kitchen tips for making jelly or cream fillings.
The piece counsels care in decoration and money handling, notes the dangers of money between lips, and favors homemade candy for Christmas. It urges gratitude for pleasant weather, critiques gossip and needless worries, and observes American women struggle to rest, advocating leisure over constant busyness.
To wax furniture mix two ounces white or yellow wax with four ounces best spirits turpentine melt over moderate heat then cool or apply hot rub with a hard brush. Polish can be renewed later with a large cloth. Ice candies burn slower and drip less. Eyes shells clean carafes and mixed hot soapsuds make grass clean. Sandwiches may be underseasoned. Cold hotted potatoes are said to be hard to digest. A potato salad is a popular dish.
Small scraps of pie crust from baking are saved to form tiny rounds intended as tarts. The note describes shaping remnants into small circular pieces, then possibly baking or using them in a simple, quick dessert.
A Chicago Democrat writer notes husbands, like spoiled wives and children, appear in tale though rarely. excess kindness can turn a husband into a self centered figure, while domineering wives can drain his manhood by ruling with dictatorial control.
The passage cites Miss Dustin in Linborough Sanitarium praising onions as natural sedatives and claims General Grant demanded onions to move his army in 1864. It references onions curing dysentery and cites Napoleon and Wellington as knowing their value, presenting a mix of anecdote and historical rumor without medical backing.
A New York woman who spent two winters in St. Petersburg says American tea is misnamed. She describes genuine Russian tea as scalding hot, brewed from caravan tea, with lemon, sugar, and a generous portion of claret added before the very hot tea is poured.
A collection of humorous exchanges and wry observations on marriage honesty and everyday ethics. A clerk and customer banter about cracked eggs and inflated secrets, followed by a man noting his wife hides a mystery savings plan. Subtle social humor from early 20th century papers.
An old actor recalls a Cincinnati theatre moment when a child in a box whispered that the staged doctor smokes. The remark struck him so hard that he has not smoked on that scene since, citing that a child’s words carry powerful truth. The anecdote appears in Youth's Companion.
Classified notice offering five rooms at 7.50 monthly and large two story houses at 13.00. Boarders 15.00. Tenement with stable and hennery for 100 hens 12.00. Cottage with smith shop and a quarter acre land 8.00. Contact T. H. Elliott at 64 Central Street.
New York Dec 26 Expert Henry L Tolman testified on disguising handwriting in the Barnet letters highlighting loops in initial f and h and the blind leap. Expert Daniel T Ames supported observations noting slant shifts and three persistent characteristics across admitted and disputed writings. The court adjourned with Ames continuing tomorrow.
New York immigration chief Thomas Fitchie reports November saw 30,593 arrivals at the port, with 26,460 steerage and 4,133 cabin passengers. He notes a heavy flow from Southern Europe and Austria Hungary, driven by economic opportunity, and cites year end projections implying a large ongoing influx into the current fiscal year.
The outlook shows most of this year’s rise driven by Austria-Hungary and Italy with newcomers mainly from poorer regions. Austrians come from Croatia, Ukraine, Dalmatia, Pesnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Men are warlike yet lazy, pressuring women to farm, fuel, and household chores. Italians largely hail from the south, especially Sicily and Naples.
Franklin B. Livingston a 56 year old blind man turned himself in after admitting to choking his wife Rosie Livingston to death at their Baltimore home. He claimed a quarrel led to the killing and that he burned both bodies. The nude body was found in the tub. Jealousy cited as possible motive. Livingston served with the 66th New York regiment, lost his sight at Fair Oaks in 1862, and draws a $72 monthly pension.
Pittsfield stockholders voted to move the institution to Dover and rename it Dover National Bank. Capital stock rises from 50 000 to 190 000, bank established in 1850 and reorganized in 1585, with C H Carpenter and J A Goss as officers.
St Louis December 26. Siegel Hillman Dry Goods company filed a deed of trust to secure creditors totaling 200000. The Hargadine McKittrick Dry Goods company is named as trustee and will run the business. Other large creditors include Fourth National Bank of St Louis and Corn Exchange National Bank of New York.
The Maine railroad commission report for the year ending June 30, 1899, records 124.00 miles of net steam railroad growth, total Maine mileage at 1871 with 154 narrow gauge. Gross operation earnings rose by 492,199.99 over 1898, with total Maine income projected at 8,723,318. Passengers carried reached 4,908,971, up 12,906, while freight tonnage rose to 6,592,206, up 892,824 tons.
In New York on December 25 the city council debated a pro Boer resolution identical to a prior aldermen action. President Guggenheimer ruled it out of order and laid it over. A separate council resolution expressed regret over General Lawton's death and sympathy for his family.
Charlton T. Lew president of the New York Prison association traveled to Cuba representing state and national groups. He submitted a sensational report to the secretary of war asserting the U S government bears responsibility and that a truthful description of the prisons would provoke universal indignation.
In Middletown on December 20 authorities report Assistant Cashier Louis E. Goldsmith of Port Jervis National Bank under defalcation. Initial loss cited as 25400, now estimated at 101,987 revealed via draft account and ledger manipulation. Bank examiner urges stock assessment to restore funds and resume business.
A Dunkirk informant claims Fenian organizers in Buffalo region plan an invasion of Canada. Dunkirk is said to be expected to raise 600 men toward a national quota of 125000, with two carloads of arms and munitions hidden near the city.
Omaha, Dec 26 reports persistent Fenian sentiment in the west linked to a planned public meeting to discuss another Canada invasion, echoing the 1866 Ridgeway raid. Notably, Lincoln notices to Fenian and Land League members are unclear, and John O’Neill is buried in the city.
Washington officials dismiss Fenian raid stories as planting to pressure Canada and Britain. State department notes no credible movement and watches recruiting in U S. If any real plan emerges, strict action will curb violations of neutrality and protect volunteers from consequences faced by 1866 raiders. Border Canadians panic rumors recall past Fenian alarms.
Washington Dec 23 The British ambassador Lord Pauncefote has not protested to authorities over reported organised movements in support of Fenian causes. Talks with Secretary Hay occurred, but embassy notes show no evidence of broad or sustained organization. Consuls report local, trifling activity and no confirmed secret movements or war devices received.
Ottawa on December 26 reports that stories of a Fenian invasion from the United States are laughed at by the militia department the government and the people of Canada.
A Bowling Green Ohio resident, W. Lenhart, describes a running itching leg sore that caused tortures and was relieved by Doan’s Ointment, which effected a permanent cure.
Corrected timetable lists trains from Merrimack Street depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Station Lowell to Boston Lawrence Salem Haverhill Newburyport Amesbury Ports Exeter Dover Rochester Somersworth Augusta Bath Lewiston Skowhegan Bangor St John Halifax Montreal Quebec and coastal routes with weekday and Sunday times, noting steamer connections from Portland and seasonal adjustments.
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