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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1898
Page
6
Miss Lilian Burbank narrates a student paper on Wonalancet and his Braves. The piece evokes the era of local Indian presence, blending historical traits with a vivid dream vision. A Lowell Normal school assignment spotlights regional heritage through an imagined portrayal.
A sunlit summer evening yields a vivid tale as a narrator meets Wonalancet, sagamore of the Pennacooks, at Pawtucket Falls. The chief recalls sturgeon fishing by canoe, old camps, and Passaconaway’s reach from Penobscot to Connecticut, with maize, beans, and bark canoes shaping his people’s life.
An elderly companion recalls a journey to Pawtucket and Lowell through Wonalancet’s memories. He describes the old wigwam, Bartlett school, Eliot’s mission, Passaconaway’s farewell, and the clashes with pale faces. The tale blends history, legend, and a final regret over vanished Indian lands and memory.
Chicago June 13今日 traders watched Joseph Leiter dominate Board of Trade action as wheat prices plunged on massive liquidations. Reports say Leiter ordered closures and shifted up to 10,000,000 bushels of cash and futures, with Chicago July dropping to 79 cents and September to 71. European crop optimism fed the decline as bankers prepared to back cash wheat.
Fire at the Philadelphia Oil Refining company plant in Point Breeze, Schuylkill river area, drew 22 fire companies. Three vessels were moved from the stream as flames spread oil across the water. by 11 p.m. the blaze was controlled, destroying two steamers and badly damaging a third, with heavy losses and no reach to gas works or nearby property.
Wim. R. Foster, once counsel for the Produce Exchange gratuity fund, who was extradited from Europe for embezzling $190,000, has escaped from the court’s jurisdiction after posting $20,000 bail and was last seen last week.
Milwaukee June 13 Word arrives from Lieut Dreher son of Austria's millionaire brewer that a ten million dollar Dreher brewery branch will be located in Milwaukee. The project marks a major investment in the citys brewing industry as officials confirm the plan and expected employment impact.
A German professor and a Scottish colleague are teased as sober. One sender mailed six cigar boxes with a request for six marks payment. The professor countered with twelve dissertations offered for three marks each. The return reply sent back the cigars and paid carriage, returning the dissertations.
A bold claim markets Maltox as a remedy that can cure individuals despite their resistance or objection. Advertised as a self-dowering tonic, the copy emphasizes efficacy against personal reluctance.
A New York Evening Post feature recalls young applicants seeking sea berths, detailing a wary shipping office scene. A 15 year old boy asks to sign articles for a voyage, learning the grim truth that cabin boys are scarce and many youths chase an alluring but costly life at sea.
A simple old fashioned recipe for celery with oysters. Simmer one pint fine cut celery in water until tender then season with salt and white pepper. Thicken with flour or cornstarch and butter, add twelve oysters without liquor and cook until they begin to ruffle. Serve over buttered toast with optional cream.
Parboil six pears in water then bake in a pudding dish with sugar until soft. Reduce to a cupful, dissolve in it three tablespoons grated chocolate and three tablespoons cream. Add vanilla, pour over pears and serve hot.
A recipe reads: one fourth pound butter and grated chocolate mixed with eggs and sugar until light, then lemon and salt added. Flour sifted twice, beaten with milk, kneaded and rolled to a quarter inch, cut with cutters, brushed with raw egg, and baked in a moderately hot oven.
A recipe snippet for rolls uses water milk condensed milk yeast butter and salt. The mixture forms a very soft loaf left to rise an hour. Roll cut with a biscuit cutter crease fold place in a pan rise forty five minutes and bake in a moderate oven brushing with butter after baking.
Combine unbeaten whites with an equal amount of cold water. Stir in confectioners sugar to form a soft paste. Add finely chopped nuts to thicken. Roll on a sugared board to half an inch thick. Cut into strips and wrap each in wax paper to keep it soft.
Mix three eggs and sugar, add raisins, butter, soda, salt and nutmeg then fold in flour to stiffen. Do not mold or roll dough. spread on tins to bake.
Franklin Matthews notes in Harper's Weekly that Kansas readers favor high quality literature and newspapers over sensational eastern propaganda. Bookstores report few sales of Coin's Financial School and hostile western eastern sentiment driven by works like Seven Conspiracies and Great Red Dragon. Topeka facial hair and barber shops flourish as evidence of a well informed farming region.
A quick bread method describes dissolving a quarter of a yeast cake in milk, mixing with flour salt and butter, adding milk to form dough, shaping into biscuits, letting them rise in a warm place for three to four hours, then baking about thirty minutes.
A recipe instructs to chop two ounces of suet finely and mix with a quarter pound of bread crumbs two ounces of candied peel finely shredded grated lemon rind one egg and three tablespoons marmalade. The mixture is placed in a greased basin and steamed for two hours.
Beat two eggs with sugar then fold in flour and baking powder. Stir in half cup boiling water gradually and season to taste.
A basic omelet method: beat three eggs with salt pepper and a teaspoon of milk. Pour into a well buttered pan, cook until thickened, sprinkle three tablespoons of pressed moisture-free corn, fold when set, and serve hot.
A recipe describes a soft dough of clear marrow egg salt and nutmeg mixed with flour to form dumplings dropped into boiling soup stock. The piece ends with an endorsement from John Bevins editor of the Press Anthon Iowa praising Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarr'hoea Remedy and noting local sales by Ellingwood Co.
Mrs Watts complains about delays as her church transitions to individual communion cups. Mrs Potts notes a forthcoming change to capsules next week, reflecting a shift in ritual practice reported by the Indianapolis Journal.
For sale two houses with 17 and 18 rooms, new and modern, both fully rented in a central city location. Prices are 850 dollars and 875 dollars. Address shown as 64 Central St by T. H. Elliott.
Administratrix Honora O'Brien will sell at public auction a lot of land containing about 2063 square feet with two dwelling houses in Lowell at 10 o'clock forenoon on Saturday, June 25, 1898. Terms require $100 cash and balance within ten days upon deed delivery. The property traces to a 1866 conveyance from Michael Hoar to Dennis Manning and is bounded by Dupont land, Willie Avenue, Hancock Avenue, and John Lennon land.
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