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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1902
Page
8
The Lowell Weekly Journal announces a department inviting ady readers to submit household recipes hints and thoughts for the About the House column. Letters or suggestions addressed to the About the House Department are welcomed at any time.
A poem-like request from a reader to share in love and daily burdens. The speaker asks to belong to the beloved’s times of play, work, and pain, offering support and joy as the beloved faces laughter, cares, and distress. The stanza ends invoking shared endurance and affection.
The piece surveys a coming season favoring white garments and elaborate shirt waists with feather stitching and fagoting. It notes plain cooking as essential, contrasts real skill with false “plain” cooks, offers celery storage tips, cautions about microscopes in kitchens, and reflects on table linens, clock reliability, and domestic gossip after Dr Depew and Miss Wilkins marry.
A columnist shares oldtime favorites ideal for warm weather. Connecticut apple pie blends apples with pastry to keep juices tender, using a simple two crust method and finishing with butter and sugar. Also described are oyster sandwiches with spiced mayo, fried oyster variants, and Old Fashioned Brown Betty with a baked breadcrumb apple base and a light hard sauce. The recipes emphasize ease, flavor, and traditional technique.
The essay traces the evolving dinner hour from medieval London to modern times, detailing how meals shifted from 10 or 11 and noon to 1 2 and later. It notes two solid daily meals as nature’s demand, with Cambridge customs, collegiate messes, and the rise of breakfast and tea replacing earlier fare.
A London Times advertisement from 1849 seeks a man to supervise a household and preside at table for a cheerful, many-attribute lady. The listing promises qualities from agreeable to zealous and ends with a humorous note that qualifying letters cover the alphabet, making the position unusually rare for widowers and single gentlemen.
A remark praising the influence of the First Daughter, Alice, on national prestige and diplomacy, suggesting she may be more valuable to the nation than a larger navy. The quote emphasizes the soft power of an influential first family member in international relations.
The city awaits William Faversham in the new romantic comedy A Royal Rival at the Opera House tonight after a landmark 100 night run at New York’s Criterion theatre. He is joined by a strong company including Miss Julie Opp and Edwin Stevens, with Lewis Morrison to revive Faust on Wednesday.
The Savoy presents a wave of new acts for week two of the year headlined by Great Leon making his first city appearance after Boston. Also showing Crane Brothers with new jokes, Johnny Quigley with a natural voice show, Reed and Shaw on the flying rings, Misses Walker and Inman with singing and dancing, and Charles E. Whalen as a featured comedian and dancer.
Beginning tonight Manager Dempsey offers a refined vaudeville bill at Music Hall featuring Cook and Sonora and the Raymond trio plus Nellie Burt Gilson and Perry Selina and Vouletti and Joe Bonnell and Deleaur Debrimont and the Wilson Brothers. Matinees daily 2 30 with evening shows at sharp o clock. many acts new to Lowell audiences.
The Y M C I Choral Society held its first regular rehearsal for Bells of Corneville in Stackpole Street hall. A large turnout sang with spirit and enthusiasm. The choral committee believes the opera will be a grand success and plans a near presentation after Easter.
The report covers Fr McDermott leading a 9 o clock mass and Fr Ronan noting the nearly finished new church with five marble altars from Canara Italy. Rev L C Fox older priest gives Epiphany sermon at Immaculate Conception. St Patrick’s mass features Prof Bond and Mr Johnson reaching 26th year as organist.
The mayor reviews department management for Lowell in 1902. He notes tight carriage hire expenditure, steam pipe insulation saving 615 dollars, and praises city messenger Pattee. He outlines pauper relief, library expansion with a new youth room, and new trustees Mrs. Charles D. Palmer and Dennis A. Sullivan. Parks, common works, and future city improvements are discussed with call for cooperation.
Allen Sangree surveys training at William Daly's stable on Coney Island where boys as young as four begin with lead work. Daly screens thousands, accepts few, and pays apprentices while future earnings go to Daly or their guardians.
A Philadelphia performance of Handel's Messiah featured an anthem with the line We have turned every one to his own way. The chorus repeated the phrase so often that, while turning pages, one elderly audience member muttered in the rear that they should stop turning those goldened pages and be quiet.
A Washington Times report describes a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution starving two snakes in a room to death before preserving them in alcohol. An assistant handled a Cuban boa and two adders, exposing the brutal scene amid jars of reptiles while a visitor watched.
A Chicago Record correspondent notes Brazilian papers publish lavish birthday cards. The column features poetic tributes to individuals like Zulmira Rainho, Antonia Villas Boas, a celebrated father, and painter John Ferreira da Silva. Cards celebrate December 8 and 17 with florid language and public well wishes.
Professor W H Lynch of Mountain Grove Academy Missouri claims to subscribe to 538 newspapers, six daily editions. He uses the papers in classes to teach current history and geography, calling newspapers the best instrument to study life’s drama and world affairs. Fridays at the academy are set aside for newspaper reading.
A Kansas City Star excerpt recalls a 19th century poetry based geography by George Van Waters. The book mixed prose with verse to teach states oceans and maps, demanding children memorize couplets and recite meanings aloud.
A Paris exposition feature recounts Herr Desley of Vienna wheeling his wife and child in a barrow to Paris with minor trouble for selling unauthorized postcards. A Norwegian wager traveler from Christiania earned expenses by needlework and services. An Amiens family crossed on roller skates to Paris amid cheering crowds. An elderly spinster recalls a wartime heartbreak after a fiancé’s death and enduring widowhood.
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