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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1900
Page
10
The paper invites Northern Middlesex farmers to contribute brief, pithy notes for an agricultural discussion column. Readers with only a few lines to share are encouraged to write, as the agricultural editor will edit for concise opinion and experience exchange. Long pieces are discouraged.
Holman F. Day recalls Aunt Belindy crafting a burlap rug with charred wood symbols and squee-jiggers as children crowd to watch. The tale honors patience and family labor, ending with elegiac tribute to Belindy and the rugs that bind memory to home.
The article notes Cornell Universitys farmer reading course now expands toward farmers wives with a state funded program, while describing cold storage cellars and home building ideas for farmers. It adds a Western belief that moon phases affect hog meat yield and asks readers who believes in the moons influence on pork quality.
A fragment notes grape roots face an insect foe described as a tough enemy. The concise item hints at ongoing orchard pest concerns and potential countermeasures in viticulture. The text remains fragmentary but signals agricultural pest dynamics affecting grape cultivation.
A late June emergence of the grape root worm suggests a possible need for poison spray. Kansas reports a winter wheat yield of 76 095 548 bushels, corn at 184 523 677, and egg weight observations from Rhode Island Red and Hamburg hens sparking a note on selling eggs by weight as a concept. The town shipped 85 380 154 pounds of butter, about six million less than 1899, with a crust born from beef demand as meat prices rise.
The article surveys totals on chicken and egg economics in the U S and describes plant breeding advances noting hybridization of grape, strawberry, and cereals. It covers pruning grape vines after leaf drop and guidance on bud numbers to balance fruit with vine health. It also covers pig growth, feed efficiency, and advantages of legume for hay and soil health.
Practical tips on soil preparation and nitrogen sources for seed beds followed by poultry feeding guidance. Recommends bone meal for soil nutrition and warns against using stable manure after good stand. Introduces rolled oats and shredded wheat as chick foods and outlines a daily feeding plan for over 200 chicks raised for profit.
Grinding grain is widely regarded as profitable by long time feeders in cattle hogs and sheep operations. Farmers report advantages in ground fodder for finishing cattle and sheep and note oats sheaf grinding yields excellent horse feed. Wind water and steam powered mills each have limits and costs while horse power remains common.
The author advises frost-acted swamp muck spread on snow using multiple sleds and simple hooks to unload, forming shallow heaps for quick frost action. Topsoil, lime or wood ash, and spring rain aid pulverization. Composting with stable manure is debated, as is mixing muck and manure across plots for best results.
Elegant French gilt frames and art pieces including etchings engravings water colors and a hotogravure Returning from Calvary. Gilt frames priced from 25 cents to 4 dollars. Fine assortment of holiday gifts at affordable prices. George Baker corner Merrimack and John Streets under bank telephone
The Woman's Home Companion highlights five master paintings in its January issue while outlining features such as The Floral Setting of the White House by Walden Fawcett, Shopping in the Great Cities of Europe by Lilian Bell, and The Girls' Art Schools of New York by C Montgomery MacGown. It also premieres a Harriet Prescott Spofford serial A Little Old Woman and includes four short stories, fashion and lace patterns, and articles on women’s topics.
The January issue lists sections and features such as Holiday Fashions Fashionable Weddings On Choosing Christmas Presents What to Wear and How to Make It The Secret of Charlotte Ferrars Good Looks Some Delicious Cakes How to Improve the Appearance Fashion Hints for Children Games for Holiday Parties A Queens Christmas Present Dressmaking Notes The Neatly Dressed Woman The Kind of Women Men Like Our Young Folks Corner Breathing Exercises as an Aid to Health That Christmas Eve story Fancy Work Department Nursing Notes Little Civilities Premium Pages Fashion Pages There is a mix of style advice fiction and patterns aimed at a broad readership.
Cyrus Townsend Brady's new Revolutionary Love Story completes in the January issue of the New Lippincott. The issue also features short stories by James Gardner Sanderson A E W Mason and Albert Schinz, plus poems by Clinton Scollard Albert Breelow Palme Hildegarde Hawthorne and Dora Read Goodale and essays on Washington and Chinese women.
Ainslee's leads the century with H H Lewis on America's Largest Water Works highlighting Massachusetts plans designed for future decades and Boston's chance to house the world's largest reservoir. The issue features illustrated spreads, profiles on mining romances, industry magnates, German railways, poetry, and fiction set against urban and riverfront life.
The western quarterly presents January pieces including Christmas Bells a poem illustrated by Mamie Sylvester Paden A Bit of Flat Head History Enrique Palmer The Christmas Tree Illustrated Mrs Hattie A Chute Frances Burney an account of her life and work with court life Contemporary Science and Current Literary History.
Mc Clure's Magazine January presents Clara Morris memoir in New York debut, Baker's portrait of Emperor William, and Skinner on modern bridge engineering. Fiction includes Kipling's Kim installments, Raine's After Cul loden, Wilcox's The Rocks of Moraga, Flynt and Walton's The Revenge of the Four, Wyatt's Chicago study Limitations, and Payne's Chairman's Politics alongside Universal Brotherhood Path pieces and a children's department.
Two notable features are "Rock Me to Sleep" poses a set of 10 full length half tone illustrations and "Ben Hur" tableaux a colored 17 piece set with dramatic guidance for stage or parlor reproduction. The issue also presents portraits of 18 English Grand Opera singers from the Metropolitan Opera and an article on obtaining operatic engagement. It includes "The Ancient Christ The Spoken Word" illustrated by Skredsberg's The Son of Man and fills pages with recitation declamation entertainment and departments offering practical content.
Life Publishing Company presents Overheard in the Wittington Family by C Allan Gilbert. The richly illustrated volume features black and color prints on heavy paper with a unique cloth and paper binding. Gilbert’s wash drawings highlight refined tone and delicate treatment of young women.
The January Black Cat features a $500 prize story by 8S. C. Breau (C. E. Burns) titled Margaret Kelly's Wake and a $125 prize winner When Time Turned by Ethel Watts Mumford. Remaining tales are The Father of His Country by Frank B. Chase, An Arizona Pastoral by Frank H. Mayer, and The Vanishing Window by Richard Barker Shelton.
In January Atlantic Professor Woodrow Wilson opens the first of an important series of papers by famous hands. Elizabeth Bisland analyzes The Time Spirit of the Twentieth Century. R. Van Bergen outlines the Empress Dowager of China and its future, while Charles A. Conant covers The Growth of Public Expenditures. Mrs. Sara M. Handy recounts The Last Days of the Confederacy as experienced by a woman.
In January St Nicholas an appealing feature for boys recounts Tarleton's riders halted by a young innkeeper who rode thirty miles in two hours to warn Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. The piece by R. T. W. Duke Jr places the deed beside Paul Revere's famous ride.
The January issue surveys American activity across fields from soil reform and moral wealth to towering construction projects and exploration. It includes Churchill on Lord Roberts, a snow plow day in the Rocky Mountains, and Grogan’s Africa journey, plus park making, landscape gardening, and a roundup of notable books and global progress.
The column lists managers and theatres planning new works and revivals in Philadelphia Boston New York Chicago and London. Highlights include Pitou choosing Philadelphia for Garrett OMagh with Chauncey Olcott, Isabelle Everson in Trilbys revival, M liss at Grand Opera Boston, and Ammelia Bingham staging The Climbers in London after NY hearings. Major stars like Maude Adams and Blanche Bates loom in upcoming parades and tours. 90,000 expected receipts loss cited for Sothern’s Hamlet absence.
Charles Constantine, famed pantomimist once at Boston Opera Comique, died in New York near eighty. Mary Mannering reportedly scores big in Janice Meredith at Wal lacks New York. Sale opens for Mme Sembrich’s Boston season week of January 7 with four operas Barber of Seville Rigoletto Don Pasquale La Traviata Faust. Associated stars Lara Bensuade Roast Dado Galagzzi Mme Mattfeld, conductor Signor Bevignani. grand orchestra and chorus feature the engagement.
A Philadelphia Press item describes a seventy year old retired merchant in West Philadelphia who, in a family ritual dating from their boyhood, waits up every night for his three sons the clergyman, the lawyer, and the dentist. He then locks the front door and ensures the house is secured before retiring, regardless of their late return or professional obligations.
A note on church Christmas celebrations portraying them as extended and richly sweet events. The account emphasizes communal warmth, traditional carols, and festive rituals across congregations.
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