Fire Destroys Westford Blacksmith Shop
A late night fire destroyed Warren J. Gould’s blacksmith shop near the Westford depot, with losses around 2000 dollars. Boston & Maine notified the town’s fire crew, buckets brigades aided by volunteers slowed the spread, but the building burned for over an hour before Lowell units arrived. origin and insurance status undetermined.
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Hosmer
Boston & Maine
Westford
Warren J. Gould
Middlesex Village
E. Whidden
G. W. Heywood
J. W. Fletcher
Lowell
Gould
About the House Department seeks reader tips
The Lowell Weekly Journal invites ady readers to contribute household hints and suggestions for the About the House column. Submissions, addressed to the About the House Department, are welcome at any time for publication.
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REOPE3
Lowell Weekly Journal
The Dream of the Quiet Town in St Nicholas
A publisher’s verse recalls a long ago town that bans boys and loses life. An old woman laments noise then dreams of a silent place where games fade, messengers vanish, and cherries rot. She awakens to exclaim it was a dreadful dream.
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St. Nicholas
Editorial Reflections on Household Pests and Colors
The piece urges immediate action against water bug infestations using safe, effective treatments rather than weak remedies. It discusses borax as insufficient alone, Paris green warnings, and the need for safe killers. It also muses on parasol colors for eye comfort, noting black, white, dark blue, red, and rare green shades, and comments on the current pompadour hairstyle.
Simple fashion notes urge natural hair and quality buys
The piece praises natural hair styling over fashionable but impractical looks. It condemns cheap ribbons for neckwear, arguing quality ribbons wash better and last longer. It also notes concerns about overindulgent toy purchases for children and advocates simplicity in childhood.
Tomato Jelly and Apple Popovers from Old Recipes
Tomato jelly moulded in cups with egg pieces and circular tomato slices on the rim. Tarragon vinegar boosts flavor. serve on greens. Apple popovers use hot buttered cups, bake thirty minutes, fill centers with stewed apple sauce and stiff egg white, then reseal tops and serve with sauce.
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New York Post
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Household Hints On Eggs And Remedies
Eggs boiled twenty minutes digest better than ten, remaining dry and mealy for gastric action. Beaten yolk can replace cream in coffee, one egg seasons three cups. Gargle uses white with warm sweetened water to ease hoarseness. A fifteenth minute egg with milk and water, sugar, and boiled then drunk helps a cold.
Bacon Cutting Instruction Fragment
In cutting breakfast bacon lay the rind side down on the meat board and cut down to the rind as many pieces as needed. Cut off a block, turn edgeways, then trim one end and the other end followed by the inside.
Slice trimming speed mirrors quick cuts in kitchens
A brief note describes how cutting slices proceeds nearly as fast as trimming one, comparing efficiency to quick, practiced actions. The fragment hints at a process where trimming and slicing share rapid, parallel tempo, emphasizing practicality over detail.
A Housekeeper’s Plea for Lighter Labor and Order
Mrs. M. L. Gulick argues in Table Talk that household drudgery stems from clutter and heavy carpets. She urges simple, systematic living with hard floors, lighter dusting, and organized inventories to transform labor into a pleasant, manageable daily task.
Chelmsford Home Week Picnic Plans Amid Bathing Trips
Middlesex County Chelmsford Centre celebrates Home Week by a basket picnic at Nabnasset on Thursday with contingencies for Friday in case of storm. Barges depart Central square at 8 and 10 am and return at 4 and 7 pm. A committee will oversee sports and games.
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Chelmsford
Nabnassett
Central Square
Arthur W. Allen
Everett
Hannah H. Perham
South Street
Grace M. Felch
Dutton’s
New Hampshire
Frank A. Emerson
Wells Beach
Farmers Column Seeks Short, Pithy Contributions
The department invites northern Middlesex farmers to exchange opinions and experiences in brief paragraphs. Readers with a few lines to share are encouraged to write for the agricultural column, to be edited by the agricultural editor. Long-winded pieces are discouraged.
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Middlesex
Tewksbury Old Home Week Schedule Listed
The programme for Tewksbury Old Home Week outlines events from Wednesday at the Centre with a church reception and an organ recital to a Thursday North Village program featuring a schoolhouse reception and orations. Activities continue through Friday and Saturday with athletic sports and a Sunday union service on the common led by Rev. Yeoman and featuring addresses, music, and congregational hymns.
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Tewksbury
Wm. H. Lee
Mozart
C. L. Pierce
H. M. Billings
J. H. Yeoman
Solon W. Stevens
Lowell
Old Tewksbury
T. H. Manley
New York
New Tewksbury
Albert C. Blaisdell
James Alexander
Newport
N. H
Edward W. Trull
America
North Village
E. W. Pride
Andover
J. L. Fleming
J. K. Ewer
Malden
C. F. Flemings
H. W. Foster
J. C. Duffy
M. I
L. T. Trull
J. €. Poor
S. H. Boutwell
Auld Lang Syne
Mrs. Flemings
Edith Kelley
HB. M. Billings
The Piece Bag Shelves In A Modern Sewing Room
In a new house sewing room a mistress shows wooden shelves split into compartments as "the piece bag." Small oddments of material go into these slots, replacing bulky rolls or bags. The pigeonhole method offers quick access and reduces handling.
Hobson Rescues Drowning Society Girl Amid Scandal
A hero Hobson is praised for saving a reckless society girl from drowning after a wild scramble following notoriety. He could not let her drown despite her foolish actions, underscoring a tale of personal valor amid public folly.
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Hobson
Be Kind and Serve The Master in Daily Life
Denis A. McCarthy writes in Dona hoe's for July urging a simple path: be kind, honest, pure, faithful, brave, and resigned. He contrasts wealth with humility, noting the mortal end for all and urging devotion to God through daily kindness.
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Denis A. McCarthy
Donahoe’s
Rights in the Road and Shade Trees in Towns
The piece discusses farm rights to highway land and the public use of road materials, citing Judge Bennett and Acts of 1899 on tree wardens with final decisions. It weighs property abutting shade trees, plucking roadside blossoms, and cordwood near trees, plus a note on deaconing fruit and local taxonomy.
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Parker
Townsend Harbor
Edmund H. Bennett
Boston University School of Law
Pennett
Feeding Poultry Beyond Grain for Egg White
Farmers who keep hens should balance their diet with green bones lean meat linseed meal finely cut clover hay or alfalfa and a range of field forage. Relying on grain alone suppresses albumen production, so light balanced feeding boosts egg white and profits.
State Agricultural College Names New Horticulturist
Prof. F A Waugh succeeds Prof Maynard at the State Agricultural College. He is well known as a horticulturist. Dr T H Hoskins of Newport Vermont, who died recently, was a noted writer on fruits for the north. The Maine Farmer of 17th inst contains an appreciative tribute to his worth and work. England farmers use every foot of land with no waste corners.
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F. A. Waugh
Maynard
State Agricultural College
England
Chelmsford
T. H. Hoskins
Newport
North
Maine
Roadside Grass and Bushes Rights Questioned
In the Journal issue of July 18 a reader ponders roadside maintenance in rural districts. He asks who has authority to cut grass or bushes when a tree stands near the road and whether clearing the roadside implies neglect of duty or improper use of land. He seeks a settled rule on ownership and responsibility.
Improving a Rhubarb Bed and Ensilage Notes
Instructions on reviving worn rhubarb beds with fall manure, spring ploughing, and root division, plus advice for locating and caring for crown portions through winter. A second segment advocates silo use on 160 acre farms, detailing silage yields from fodder corn and roughage per cow requirements and stocking assumptions.
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J. B. Morse
New Yorker
Indiana
Rural Representation Critique on Rotating Legislative Seats
An op-ed by N. E. Farmer condemns the practice of rotating rural legislative representatives. It labels the system unwise and vicious, arguing it weakens rural influence and hinges on personal ambition rather than state welfare. It questions districts where rivals sacrifice ego for the common good.
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N. E. Farmer
Women Embrace New Agriculture At Briarcliff Commencement
Women graduates envision self supporting farming ventures from celery to fruit farms near Philadelphia. Miss Barker plans a home greenhouse in Auburn while Omaha sisters cultivate a 2000 acre celery oriented ranch. They stress training, near year round work, and merging housewifely skill with farming.
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Briarcliff Agricultural School
Barker
Auburn
N. Y
Omaha
Nebraska
Staten Island
Philadelphia
Tribune
Nursery Tree Protection and Honest Nurserymen
Massachusetts Ploughman urges farmers and fruit growers to weed out dishonest nurserymen selling inferior or diseased stock. He praises laws requiring registration and inspection, warns that misrepresented varieties harm buyers, and calls for statewide and cooperative action to publish offenders and drop them from business lists.
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Massachusetts Ploughman
Mildew of Lima Beans and Its Windborne Spread
The article explains how a fungus disease on lima beans spreads via insect carried spores and wind. An experiment at a Connecticut station showed mildew starting from spores rubbed onto sound pods and moving rapidly down rows toward prevailing winds, with implications for spraying Bordeaux mixture as a control.
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Connecticut Experiment Station
Sturgis
Efficient mildew prevention for lima beans
S B Keach of East Hartford Connecticut offers advice in Ex change on the best methods to prevent mildew in lima beans. He emphasizes timely planting, proper spacing, soil health, and careful watering to reduce moisture around foliage and inhibit fungal growth.
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S. B.keach
East Hartford
Conn
Cost of Milk at Two and a Half Cents a Quart
New Jersey experiment station analyzes 30 cows over a year from April 1899 to April 1900. Food costs total $1,449.03 and labor plus herd value decrease bring total costs to about $2,109.03. yield 90,984 quarts, about 8.81 quarts per cow daily, cost per quart 1.59 cents. overall cost per quart $0.019.
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New Jersey
Pearl Paradise of Bahrein and Its Pearl Trade
Bahrein is an Arabian island archipelago famed for its pearl beds. The 70,000 population centers on Mehamah, with 10,000 in the capital area. Pearl culture dominates life, from divers to boat crews, who endure harsh diving gear and perilous hours. The mistreated divers work weeks at sea, while pearls rise in value, drawing American interest.
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Bahrein
Koweit
Bahrein Isles
Katar
Persian Gulf
Jebel Dokhan
Moharrek
Sirah
Nissan
Mehamah
al- Bahrein
el Mussally
Gulf
St. James's Gazette
Weather Lore In Verse From Dr Jenner
A contributor to American Medicine recalls Dr. Jenner famed for vaccination as he writes verse to decline a country excursion. The poem reveals keen observation and is presented for recitation. It showcases light as well as observational wit in a poetical form.
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Jenner
Turbot lay 14 million eggs in a season
The report notes turbot produced about 14 million eggs in a single breeding season while cod laid around 9 million. The figures highlight major differences in reproductive output between these two fish species.
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Boston & Maine Depot
Boyless Town
Middlesex County
Editorial
Department of Agriculture
Department
Luke Blanchard
West Acton
New York Tribune Farmer
Taylor
Geo. Parker
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