Textile council seeks ten percent wage rise for workers
A meeting of the Textile council at Carders Textile hall backed a ten percent wage increase for Loomfixers Mule Spinners Carders Knappers jointers Long Chain Beamers and Cotton Weavers with an effective date of March 24. Delegates plan a mass meeting with United Textile Workers and urged support for bills on timekeeping and child labor. A next meeting is set for Tuesday at 8 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carders
United Textile Workers
Bird pictures on exhibition at the Middlesex library
A set of pictures of New England birds is on display in the Middlesex library room. The collection is loaned by the Woman's Education association in Boston and will be shown until March 19. All are invited to call and see them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Lirary Room
Woman's Education Association
Boston
Lirary
Mrs Hosmer and Caiger Plan Two Month Western Trip
Mrs Julia W Hosmer and Master Caiger depart Thursday for a two month western tour stopping in Chicago Des Moines Denver and possibly Leadville They travel costs include a town loss estimated at 1000 due to recent snows Bedford Street near Sleepy Hollow cemetery overflow caused the worst road condition in memory and electrics could not cross for several days because of the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia W. Hosmer
Caiger
Chicago
Des Moines
Denver
Colorado
Leadville
Bedford Street
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Illness News And Local Events In The Town
Mrs H W Wilson recovers from pneumonia under care of Dr Braley and Dr Clapp with Boothby hospital nurses. Union hall program by Union grammar school featured music recitations and Afternoon Tea with cake. Arthur Hood ill with pneumonia at his brother Edgars Tyngsboro. Mrs Abby Nickless visiting Roxbury in improving health. Varnum Stevenson from St Louis visiting Uncle Gilman Nickless. Christian Endeavor topic for Friday March 7 The Secret of Endurance led by W B Chamberlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Wilson
Braley
Concord
Clapp
Boston
Boothby Hospital
Union Hall
Grammar School
Hope Bennett
Arthur Hood
Edgar
Tyngsboro
William Hood
Hartwell and town notes include meetings and visits
In Littleton residents recover from illness with Co P Hartwell now able to be out. Unitarian guild discusses Is Morality Enough John v 41 43 led by Mrs C A Hosmer. Mrs A H Knowlton and son Heyward visit Somerville with Mrs Parker. Grace Mitchell stays with Miss Annie Manning. Master Austin Hartwell visits his uncle in Somerville. Miss Margaret Fairbanks at home in Fitchburg. Mrs Leslie Hager visits Boston area relatives. Abbie Rolfe of Concord county W C T U speaks on Advice and Counsel to Mothers to the Women's club next Monday. light refreshments to follow. Last Saturday Dr Phelps suffers a severe kick while harnessing his horse. 18 attend the Women’s club meeting at Mrs C A Hosmer’s. Edward Frost of Cambridge helps on cemetery commissioners report. N B Conant away on southern trip. Back Log Club concert planned at First Congregational Unitarian church Thursday evening to raise funds for a church clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. P. Hartwell
Unitarian Guild
John v
C. A. Hosmer
A. H. Knowlton
Heyward
Somerville
Parker
Grace Mitchell
Annie Manning
Austin Hartwell
Margaret Fairbanks
Fitchburg
Leslie Hager
Boston
Vicinty
Abbie Rolfe
Concord
Women's Club
N. B. Conant
Back Log Club
First Congregational, Unitarian
Sudbury Grange Lecture Goes Ahead in Town Hall
Public invited to a Sudbury Grange lecture at the town hall Tuesday evening March 11 by Charles H. Rice of Leominster on Two Days in the Mammoth Cave. The piece notes local housing moves and a possible sale of the Raymond estate at South Sudbury, with several tenements becoming vacant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sudbury
Town Hall
Charles H. Rice
Leominster
Mammoth Cave
Will Parmenter
Richard Oliver
Eail
Stiles
Mr. Oliver
Waldo
Butterfield Funeral Held in East Pepperell
In East Pepperell on February 26, funeral services for James E. Butterfield were held at the Congregational church. He died Sunday on his 69th birthday after a long illness, soon after a birthday turkey dinner with family. He served as a fire department driver and longtime farmer and trader, was a Prescott Grange member, and leaves a daughter in Shirley. Also noted were obituaries of Alfred Nelson Davis and James H. Wiley, local social events, and upcoming lectures and WCTU plans in town communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Butterfield
Mr. Butterfield
Miss Jewell
Mr. Gray
Daniel Butterfeld
Chase Hill
Francena Shattuck
Edward Smith
Luther Holden
Shirley
Edward Thompson
Fred Holden
Butterfield
Fire Department
Prescott Grange
Grange
John O. Bennett
Parker J. Kemp
Charles M. Blood
Henry C. Gray
The
Alfred Nelson Davis
Webster
Davis
Daniel Scott
J. B. Thrall
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Russell Lowell
Bachelder
North S Brookfield
Leighton
James H. Wiley
Boston
Fryeburg
Anna C. Wright
Union Station
Helen
Joseph A
Frank C
Elm Street
North Chelmsford
Nashua
Hollinsworth’s
S. A. Wright
F. A. Wright
Worcester
Main Street
M. E
Walter Merritt
Epworth League
Ll. P. Causey
Miss Stone
Katherine Lente Stevenson
C. A. Woodward
Westford Republican committee names officers and calls caucus
The Westford Republican town committee for 1902 selects Herbert Fletcher as chairman Julian Cameron secretary and Samuel L Taylor treasurer A caucus is set for Friday March 7 to nominate town officers for the March 17 town meeting The note urges fiscal honesty and cites upcoming entertainments and meetings including the West Chelmsford Debating Society and a farmers institute debate on farm surroundings prospects
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert FE
Fletcher
Julian A. Cameron
Samuel L. Taylor
Unitarian Church
Weekly Journal
Committee On Institutes
Jesse B. Butterfield
Tyngsboro
Good Cookery Corn Bread Recipes for Hearty Eaters
The column shares several corn bread methods from a trusted parson. It details a dense mix with corn meal, flour, sugar, sour cream or milk, butter, baking powder, eggs, salt, and soda, plus alternative light batter, two additional egg rich batters, and a South Carolina hoecake method. It emphasizes lightness, nutrition, and flavor for outdoor and family meals.
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South
Fragrant Chestnut Mold With Candied Cherries
Peel and blanch chestnuts then boil tender. Puree and sweeten with sugar and hot cream, add vanilla, fold in chopped candied cherries, mold. Make a vanilla cream sauce, cover mould, garnish with more cherries, serve cold.
Boston Brown Bread Recipe Steps and Rise Times
Scald one pint yellow cornmeal with boiling water until wet. Stand ten minutes then add cold water to form a soft batter. Mix in one quarter pint yeast one pint rye meal half teaspoon af one salt spoon soda. Beat, rise overnight, stir, bake in a buttered tin about two hours. Excellent toasted in slices.
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Boston
Scalloped Mushrooms Bake with Butter Flour and Parsley
To make scalloped mushrooms, form a roux with butter and flour then whisk in two cups of chicken broth and chopped mushroom stems. Simmer sauce, season, and pour over pressed mushrooms in a shallow dish. Top with batter and crumbs, bake five to eight minutes, and serve in the same dish.
French Cake Recipe Improves With Nut or Raisin Additions
Beat three eggs with sugar, fold in soft butter then cream, stir in sweet cream, add flour with cream of tartar and soda, sifted and added in parts. Line tin, bake in moderate oven. Nut meat or raisin currant additions enhance flavor. can be made two to three days ahead.
Lamb Cutlets with Fine Herbs Recipe Card
Trim the cutlets leave a delicate fat rim and shape with skewers. Brush with beaten egg dip in bread crumbs then cook thoroughly. Dish on spinach with sauce around. Sauté mushrooms carrot shallot and sweet herbs in butter, stir in thickened brown sauce and serve.
Lemon Ginger Sherbet Recipe Steps
Boil water and sugar for fifteen minutes then dissolve gelatine in cold water. Strain, cool, add lemon juice and ginger syrup, freeze. Beat in finely chopped ginger preserve after freezing.
Local debate on farm power spurs panel and mill updates
A town committee schedules a debate with Lucian C. McLean and Samuel L. Taylor defending the affirmative while opponents remain unseen. George C. Moore’s box shop at Westford Depot runs, with woolen mills at Brookside and North Chelmsford supplied from that shop. The adjacent saw mill shows fewer logs, and the board of registrars sets its final meeting for March 8 at the town hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucian C. McLean
Tyngsboro
Samuel L. Taylor
Westford
George C. Moore
Brookside
North Chelmsford
Board of Registrars
Easy Pie Crust Method With Lard and Butter
Three quarters of a pint of lard and a pint and a half of flour sifted twice are mixed with iced water and salt to form a smooth paste. Butter in three portions is folded into the dough, rolled into an oblong, and thin strips are cut to line pie dishes, yielding four or five pies.
Oyster Stuffed Turkey Recipe for Holiday Bake
Wash a plump turkey thoroughly and prepare a stuffing with oysters. Stew a pint of oysters in their liquor, drain and chop. Combine with butter onion thyme and oyster liquor moisten bread crumbs, add eggs, season, and mix. Stuff turkey, sew, rub with butter and flour, add water, and bake, basting regularly.
Chicken Salad Recipe From An Old Cookbook
A traditional chicken salad method instructs removing skin and boning two broiled fowls, dicing white meat, and adding chopped celery. Mix with liver paste, mashed egg yolks, oil or butter, mustard, sugar, salt, cayenne, lemon peel, vinegar, and thick cream, then toss just before serving.
Pranust Wafers Recipe From Old Kitchen Note
Stir half a cup of butter with sugar to a cream then dissolve soda in milk and mix. Add two cupfuls flour, beat well and spread on a buttered upside down pan. Top with finely rolled peanuts and bake until brown. Slice into squares and cool on a moulding board, then store in a tin to stay crisp.
Chicken a la Stanley recipe from old column
Slice one onion and melt butter then brown onion with chicken pieces. Add stock made from necks giblets and pinions letting chicken cook until tender. Strain stock and onion, whisk in butter and flour, thin cream, season with salt and pepper to make sauce.
Golden Cream Toast Recipe Instructions
Instructions for Golden Cream Toast. Cut bread and toast, moisten with hot water, beat six eggs, separate whites and yolks, chop whites and press yolks through a sieve. Make a sauce from butter flour and cream, mix in whites, season, spread on toast, sprinkle yolk, serve hot.
Rolled Fillets of Flounder Recipe Technique
Select flounders of uniform size and large enough to yield two strips about two and a half inches wide on each side. Marinate or dredge with salt and pepper, dip into butter, roll from the broad end, and fasten with a skewer. Egg and bread crumb, fry four at a time for seven minutes, remove the skewer, and serve with tartare sauce.
Velvet Cream Coffee Gelatine Dessert Recipe
Soak half a box of gelatine in cold water then add hot coffee. Dissolve gelatine, add lemon rind and juice, and sugar. Strain, cool, then beat in cream and heat to a droppingly thick stage. Pour into moulds and chill until firm like blancmange.
Cranberry and Raisin Jelly Recipe
Soak one cupful of seedless raisins in water to cover, boil fifteen minutes, add a cup of strained cranberry juice, cook fifteen minutes more, sweeten with a cup of sugar, boil once, then pour into moulds and chill before serving.
Baked Onions Instruction Card
Peel and parboil onions then drain and place in a baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and bits of butter. Add enough sweet cream or rich milk to nearly cover. Bake one and a half hours.
Professor Wiehle Sees Girls Becoming Money Earners
A professor notes concern over girls pursuing income and asks why many worry they may not earn enough to support themselves. He suggests the social and industrial context rarely troubles scholars, highlighting a mismatch between academic focus and real-life economic pressures.
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Wiehle
Thase
Prices Current Vowell Retail Market March 5 1902
Prices from Munn Co and others list grocers items, teas, butter, cheese, eggs, sugar, molasses, coffee, rice, tobacco, matches, raisins, prunes, tea, wood, flour, hay, grain, and feeds with cents per unit. Entries include butter at .82, tea Young Hyson .60, kerosene .14, sugar brown .5, oats and meal prices, and various wood and grain rates.
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Vowell
Munn & Co
J. B. Cover & Co
D. W. Horne & Co
Killpartrick Ros
F. E. Putnam
Prescott Street
Young Hyson
Java
Rio
Japan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lowell
Textile Council Acts
York
Central Massachusetts
South Sudbury
Sandham Brook
East Sudbury
Wayland
Treasury Department
Nathan Barker
Marion J. Hall
Allen J. Hall
Sarah J. (Haynes) Rafuse
Joseph Rafuse
David Haynes
Goodnow
Mary L. Cutter
Middlesex County
Dunstable
Carlisle
Littleton
East Pepperell
Barbara Sadler
Professor Morris
Corizex
Courier - Citizen CO
Merrimack Street
Lehigh
Franklin
Cumberland
Malaga
Boston Branch Sewing Machine CO
Raymond
White
Singer
Wheeler & Wilson
Kinson
Sewing Machine GO
Ugdale
Middlesex Street
Merrimack House
Kimack
Dutton
D. J. Murphy, JR
Korona
H. B. Shattuck & Son
Prescie Se
Courier-Citizen Company
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