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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1900
Page
6
A Lowell Weekly Journal section invites Lady readers to submit household recipes hints or thoughts for about the House. The piece weaves domestic scenes from a postnuptial poem between romantic memories and current tea preparations, then shifts to practical notes on coffee pot construction boiling potatoes and meringue technique using a slow oven to set.
A reflective piece discusses appetizing sandwich varieties, appearance versus taste, and the role of eye appeal. It considers summer cooking with coal versus electricity, ice usage for refrigerators, and the need for ample ice to prevent spoilage. It urges simple, washable furnishings, coastal home wear, and careful shoewear to avoid a slatternly look.
Advice on proper beef roasting and coffee boiling notes that placing beef on a rack in the pan preserves juices and flavor, while boiling coffee dulls its fragrant aroma.
Describes how to prepare stuffed pineapple with almond coconut filling and a chilled serving method. Also provides currant or cherry sherbet steps including fruit juice extraction, sugar syrup, and freezing guidance for texture. Includes detailed proportions and method.
A foreign man aboard a Braddock to Pittsburg trolley car slept with a hen on his lap. The hen laid an egg on his knee, sparking surprised stares from passengers who watched as he revealed and then ate the egg. The crowd shared amused smiles at the odd scene.
The Women's Health Protective societies are urged to unite against trailing skirts citing personal cleanliness and disease risk. A bacteriologist tested a freshly brushed skirt and found a hem binding harboring up to two hundred thousand germs including diphtheria pneumonia and typhoid microbes.
A collage of antiquated quips from Detroit Journal Life and Indianapolis Press, noting Mercy rich, Langdon’s growth riddle, marriage’s contentment, and a servant's macaroni miscue. Each item showcases old newspaper bon mots and social jests from colonial to modern framing.
Several first class residences in the Highlands and other locations are offered for sale now. Prospective buyers can expect favorable terms and full information on request from T. H. Elliott at Central Street. A small farm is also available to let along the electric line. Tell advertisers you saw it in the Courier.
A springtime tale from Washington's parks describes a magnolia bloom early in the season. A sick child in a nearby home, cared for by a Black mammy, hears a robin sing from the magnolia while a crow sits nearby. The concert becomes a daily event, drawing neighbors, until the birds vanish and the girl’s condition changes.
A Missourian, a retired businessman visiting New York for the first time, learns about ocean liners and comments on modern commerce. He notes satisfaction in business sentiment and wonders if naming children after people reflects an era driven by commerce.
A visitor recounts visits to lawmakers in three months in the national capital, noting many were in baths or busy washing. The anecdotes mock congressional frugality and bath culture while implying persistence leads to influence, with Punchlines about soap, the Potomac, and legislative length. Grace Heyer profile on flower girls and a closing note on Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for ills.
Low key guidance on making sweet pickles for family use by Louis Rose outlines sugar to vinegar ratios, fruit choices, and fermentation checks. It details methods for sweet pickled beets cucumbers ripe grapes and gooseberries with steps on prep brine syrup and spice additions.
A nineteenth century guide warns parents of summer diet hazards for children from unripe fruits to sour berries. It advises ripe fresh fruit in moderation and cooking cherries if not fresh, plus recipes for cherry blancmange and cherry custards with step by step directions. (Continued next week.)
Instructions for making cherry preserves by layering cherries with sugar in a preserving pan, adding currant juice per pound of fruit, boiling quickly without stirring, skimming scum, and sealing in jars after the syrup thickens and the fruit appears clear.
In a porcelain lined kettle combine two quarts chopped white cabbage and two quarts celery with three quarts vinegar plus half an ounce crushed white ginger and turmeric. Add one quarter pound white mustard seed two tablespoons salt and five of sugar. Cook until tender then slice and boil a bushel ripe tomatoes with six red peppers. Strain and boil an hour more with two tablespoons black pepper two ounces ginger one ounce allspice half ounce cloves one eighth ounce mace and salt to season. When cold add two ounces mustard two ounces curry powder and one pint vinegar.
Instructions describe preserving six pounds of strawberries with three pounds of sugar. Boil berries in a preserving kettle on moderate heat for thirty minutes, stir often, then add sugar and remove from heat. Return to the fire and boil twenty minutes, then fill pots and seal securely once cooled.
A vintage recipe for a table sauce blends one ounce cayenne pepper one quart vinegar two tablespoons soy three crushed garlic three small shallots bruised and five anchovies bruised. Mix well rub through a sieve keep ten days corked then bottle. Straining optional.
Instructional fragment describes frying a dish called fried breakfast bits. Chop meat bits mushrooms or hominy finely, mix with eggs equal to diners, add flour cream and salt, beat and fry in hot fat as cakes. A practical early 20th century breakfast method with simple pantry ingredients.
A Pall Mall Gazette quotation notes a 26 letter ten syllable word nonintercom municability cited as the longest in English. It references Archbishop Benson and a September 1892 diary entry about the Free Church of Scotland as antidisestablishmentarians.
Henry Graves asserts he is Chicago's oldest resident, having moved there from Ashtabula for a 1831 settlement with 12 family members aboard a schooner. Only Alexander Beaubien remains from that era but not continuously. Graves recalls a village with just a few white residents as troops were away on campaign.
Advertises the Welsbach Light using the Yusea Mantle claiming 50 percent more light and three times the strength, with long life and bright output. It states cost under half a cent per hour and 100 candle power per lamp, sold at this office. Also promotes first class gas cooking ranges on installment plans.
No charge was made for the use of meters or for running supply pipes from the street into consumers' cellars when left at the office. Orders were promptly attended to.
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