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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1900
Page
7
Lowell Weekly Journal invites Lady Readers to send household hints and thoughts to the About the House department. The note includes a reflective poem on death and ends with practical advice to clean winter garments to deter moths, and a quick suggestion pairing radish with cucumbers for a salad.
A New York Tribune writer questions the Empress as a model housewife, noting she delegates management to the emperor while she oversees dressmaking. The bathroom trend favors open plumbing and glass fixtures, and club life reshapes social calls. The text surveys shirtwaist fashion, white versus colored waists, and questions the coming woman’s approach to servants and annual spring cleaning.
The text advises pulling pineapple into small pieces with a silver fork, cites using only sliver, notes washing flannels requires water of the same temperature, and mentions a quotation about needing more fresh air during sleep.
Strawberry jelly made with fresh berries offered in moulds or as a ring with whipped cream and strawberry charlotte center. Bluefish salad uses steamed flakes, French dressing, lettuce bed, and mayonnaise or boiled dressing as an alternative.
The Sanitary Home Fargo North Dakota warns that old potatoes, especially those kept damp and sprouting, contain much higher levels of solanin the poisonous principle. New potatoes have little solanin unless their skin is green or they grow above soil. Late summer poisonings linked to old stock, with symptoms of headache diarrhoea vomiting weakness and dilated pupils. Meyer found old potatoes housed damp and sprouting contained twenty four times more solanin than new potatoes. When using old potatoes in June and July heed this warning.
A comic from Puck ponders a milk and water separation scheme as a fortune making idea. John Kernel recounts an Irishman visiting a dentist where a pin in the leg distracts from jaw pain, prompting a surprised shout about the long roots.
Former Ohio governor James E. Campbell writing in Success argues that the president must possess extraordinary ability. He details the vast responsibilities including legislation, foreign policy, justice, revenue, and treaties guided by Senate advice, warning the veto power must not be entrusted to an inferior or capricious man.
A veteran sailor recalls a night aboard a grim River Street tavern as Sailor Jim reveals how a worn Testament saved him during a deadly voyage. The tale ties to a fateful 1854 wreck near Georgina Bay and explores a mysterious Bible bound by fate rather than faith.
Captain Jansen of the British back Silicon recounts a strange derelict discovery after arriving at Ivigtut Greenland with cryolite. The eerie event unsettled his crew for days and inspired meteor-like foreboding in the arctic silence as the ship loaded.
A Knox County Indiana deaf and dumb institution pupil Rhoda Hewitt, 13 to 16, from a farm, shows slow but remarkable progress after initial fear. She moved from violent resistance to affectionate interaction with Miss Elizabeth Ray and classmates. Rhoda now speaks rudimentary words like shoe, writes cow, and can point to objects, with memory of home and family.
Major Hayford Thorpe of the Duke of Wellington's regiment recounts his 1896 Matabeleland mission to Gwelo where he jailed an acting commandant near delirium tremens. The ex-storekeeper escaped, reached the telegraph office in Gwelo, and sent a wire to Chamberlain in London asking Thorold to be warned to prevent bloodshed.
L A Coolidge notes the shift from volunteer party speakers to regular paid staff. In 1872 Carl Schurz faced pay accusations, while today top orators receive about 50 dollars per speech plus expenses. Some elite voices command 300 dollars, with honorariums used as de facto pay. The era of unpaid political advocacy has largely passed.
Real estate notice describes three properties on Bridge Street Highlands and a carpenter built seven room cottage. First is a fourteen room three tenement house on a corner lot renting over twelve percent. price $3150, asking $2000. Second is a modern seven room two story near streetcars in Highlands for $1600. Third notes a nearly new seven room cottage with 5000 feet land, fruit trees, hen house, sewerage, bath, bay windows near street cars.
Corrected timetable details list October 2 1899 train departures and arrivals for Boston and Maine routes from Lowell and surrounding stations. Includes multiple daily times to Salem Amesbury Salton and various New England destinations with Sundays and weekdays patterns and notes on non running Saturdays and steamer connections. Key entities include Boston and Maine Railroad Lowell Taft Landes.
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