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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1900
Page
6
A Lowell housekeeper column invites lady readers to send household recipes hints or thoughts for multiple columns. The text discusses daily menus, cleanliness of dishcloths, and the challenge of varying meals to please a family, noting the march of time and changing appetites.
The article traces the rise and fall of hoop skirts from starched petticoats with multiple layers to hoop extensions using flour barrel hoops, whale bone, rattan and wire, noting the spectacle of movement and the eventual return to modest dress as the fashion faded and women regained enactment of dress limits.
The writer notes that hoop skirts and the Grecian bend bustle faded but may return in the future. They dismiss immodesty and grotesqueness, predicting no fixed time for their comeback, yet acknowledging a possible return someday. The piece reflects on evolving dress norms and public reaction to extravagant silhouettes.
A look back at outdated styles and culinary tricks. Pantalettes for little girls faded fashion, a grotesque hat like headgear draws scorn, and a grandmotherly boiled cider applesauce recipe sweetens with molasses while reducing cider to two thirds.
Instructions for making fish balls from salt cod and potatoes plus a method for baked parsnips. Includes soaking, mashing, binding with egg and butter, frying in hot fat in small batches, and serving with bacon and mustard pickles. Also describes baking parsnips with retained cooking liquid for moist, browned results.
The piece describes an expert butcher whose skill lies in precise weight cuts. It notes how he measured three and a half to four pounds by eye and scale, achieving near exact portions with smooth, confident motions, earning customers' respect as a kind of wizard.
A study of how writers close letters shows curt endings like Yours or Yours truly used in both business and personal notes. Enthusiastic young writers often append affectionate yours and cordially yours, while some write nothing but their signatures.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt a witty exchange unfolds on a car ride. One speaker mocks the front seat companion as a "big sausage manufacturer" while teasing plans for an upcoming event with music and supper next Thursday. The banter blends humor with social invitation.
A fashion note describes oversized velvet flowers as trim for hats, with bright roses and orchids, and outlines color shifts away from blue violet and red toward yellow. It warns brunettes away from greenish lemon tones, notes draped velvet boleros, fur trims, lace wings, and jeweled buttons, and previews a turquoise blue bodice by CHOLLET.
The text describes fabrics and construction for fashionable gowns from plain tailor made to ceremonial attire. It details bodice fitting, princess or walking styles, back and front length tricks, and flat arبدbes with velvet lace or guip embroidery. It notes corsages, chevreau touches, chinchilla linings, and a gray felt hat with velvet trim and quills.
The passage discusses how modern wars often end abruptly yet resolve through compromise, noting moral weariness of war and its broader societal disruptions. It references sects, unrest in Inter este and Brooklie Eagle, and a fragmentary dialogue about cracked wheat.
Probate Court in Cambridge requires all interested parties to appear February 6, 1900 at nine in the forenoon to show cause why the first account of Sarah M. Webster administratrix may not be allowed. Notice to be served by copy to all interested parties at least fourteen days before court, with publication in Lowell Daily Courier for three weeks and mailing of copies seven days prior. Charles J. McIntire presiding judge.
Christine Terhune Herrick describes dried flour ball preparation from unbolted wheat flour and malted barley decoctions to aid infant digestion. It covers barley gruel, diet adjustments for bowel weakness, and cautions from physicians, plus recipes for arrowroot jelly and chicken jelly, and a brief note on thin white sauce.
A compact kitchen card presents Cream of Spinach Soup made from two quarts spinach, onion, milk, and thickened with flour and butter, strained for smoothness, served with Boston Brown Bread. The bread recipe uses graham flour, corn meal, molasses, sour milk, soda, salt, and steams about three hours.
A historic doughnut method reveals a two rise process using milk yeast and a mix of shortening and lard. The batter forms stiff doughs, shapes with a biscuit cutter, and finishes by deep frying then rolling in powdered sugar.
A common method for serving dried or smoked beef is described. Thin raw or warmed slices are simmered briefly in water, then cut, returned to a hot pan with butter and pepper. Beaten eggs are stirred in, using about four per half pound of beef, cooking briefly until set, and served hot in a covered dish.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts State House January 26 1900 joint committee on the secrecy will hear interested parties on the petition of Larrabee Stearns and others with accompanying bill Senate No 9 regarding department stores at State House room 227 Wednesday January 31 at 1030 AM Charles G Washburn Chairman Charles O Engstrom Clerk of the committee
Multiple real estate offers described by Fish and Plummer at 137 Central Street Lowell. Properties include a two story two tenement house near Shaw Hosiery, a central city grocery and provisions store, a half acre farm nine miles from the office, a residence with extensive land near the Highland Club, and a two story Belvidere tenement pair with gas and sewer. Prices range from 1300 to 8500 dollars with easy terms.
Thinly sliced cold roast beef is steamed in a butter gravy with walnut catsup vinegar mustard and currant jelly for a breakfast dish. Oysters are drained fried in butter, thickened with flour and egg, then poured over toasted bread. Egg yolk paste dumplings flavored with butter pepper salt are boiled briefly and added to the soup.
Chop six ounces of suet and half a pound of the best figs fine, add three quarters of a pound of bread crumbs and four ounces of sugar. Mix first the bread and suet, then the figs and sugar, add nutmeg, a beaten egg and a cup of milk. Boil in a mould four hours.
A recipe describes filling a dish with neatly sliced apples and sweetening them with spices nutmeg and lemon or vanilla, then covering with a crust and cooking on the stove to rise before baking to a delicate brown. The crust uses one quart of flour three tablespoons baking powder butter the size of an egg salt and enough milk for a soft dough.
One quart milk and one cup sugar boiled together then flavored with lemon or vanilla. Stir in cornstarch dissolved in a little cold milk, boil briefly, then pour into a mold.
One cup cold boiled rice, one pint flour, no eggs, one quart milk or enough for a thin batter, one tablespoonful of lard or butter, and one teaspoon of salt. Beat hard and bake quickly.
A brief recipe fragment lists ingredients for breakfast gems: one and a half cups flour one cup milk one egg two teaspoonfuls baking powder. It advises a very hot oven to ensure light and delicious results.
7 room cottage with various land sizes from 4000 to 4900 square feet and prices from 1,150 to 1,450 dollars with 200 dollar down payments. Includes a family summer house and barn near lake, a 2 acre hen farm, a 10 acre farm with fruit, a 40 acre farm with fruit, two tenement houses near mills, an 8 room modern house in Highlands, a room potege near Court House and Gorham street, and an 8 room modern house with carriage barn plus a 40 acre near mills with building.
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