Strike Talk Overseen By Textile Council Delegates
Delegates from Lowell textile unions report back on a possible strike after mill agents refuse a 10 percent wage increase. Most delegates favor reporting the matter to their unions, with about three fourths backing a strike if conditions don’t change. Meetings are planned across unions as blocks weigh the market and transportation edge in Fall River versus Lowell.
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Textile Council
Cardgers’ Hall
Merrimack Street
Akien
Hafferty
Lowell
Fall River
Carders’ Hall
Appleton, Boott and Tremont & Suffolk
Boston
Lowell Loom Fixers Strike Authorization
New Bedford March 23 At an executive committee meeting of the loom fixers held in this city today the principal business transacted was to authorize the loom fixers of Lowell to use its own discretion in the matter of striking the demand for an increase of wages in that city having been refused by the manufacturers.
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New Bedford
Lowell
Lewiston Mule Spinners Vote 10% Wage Increase Demand
Lewiston Maine March 23 The Mule Spinners held a largely attended meeting voting to demand a 10 percent wage increase effective March 31, giving mill owners a week to respond. A general meeting of all union workers is planned Monday evening to discuss the situation and a broader strike threat looms if demands are not met. Local mill agents offer little comment.
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Lewiston
New Bedford Textile Leaders Refuse Standard Price List
New Bedford rulers of the Manufacturers' association declined to set a standard list of prices after a Saturday conference with a Weavers union committee. The union urged uniform pricing to ease mill discontent over cuts, fines, and picks, but got a blank refusal. Wage-advance talks were also tabled with no statement from Andrew C. Pierce or other presidents.
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New Bedford
Manufacturers’ Association
Textile
Association
Weavers’ Union
Hart
Messrs
Dunane, Goodwin
Gregory
Andrew C. Pierce
Olneyville Weavers Strike Defies Mill Managers
In Providence on March 23 the Olneyville weavers held a meeting where speakers challenged mill managers claims that 400 of 1400 looms are running. They said 70 percent at work are learners who cannot finish woolen goods in six months. A French Catholic pastor urged parishioners to work, but strike leaders rejected the counsel.
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Providence
Olneyville
Pollard remnant sale cuts Spring dress goods price
A. G. Pollard & Co offers about 800 yards of last year’s dress goods at half price. Remnants of 25 cent materials sell for 12 1/2 cents per yard in full widths and colors suited for dresses waists or skirts from the basement remnant department.
Recital by Gertrude Miller Charms Lowell Audience
The Boston soprano Gertrude Miller reappeared with clear enunciation and graceful high notes, delivering Bemberg’s Chanson des Baisers and a Japanese encore. Arthur Spalding accompanied. the orchestra, lacking rehearsal, varied in smoothness. the benefit supported the Humane society while the program featured operatic selections and a Trumpbell march.
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Orchestral Society
Gertrude Miller
Boston
Lowell
Miss Miller
W. F. Trumpbell
Borjes
The
Humane Society
The Siege of Lady Resolute Review in Romance
Harris Dickson’s historical romance unfolds in Louis XIV France with Saint Maurice facing d Hercourt in a duel amid religious persecutions in Cevennes and a Louisiana episode with Bienville. The tale blends passionate love, military action, and court intrigue with vivid battle detail and frontier drama.
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Harris Dickson
France
CeVennes
Saint-Maurice
Julie de Severnc
Madame de Maintenon
Louisiana
Bienville
d’Hercourt
Julie
Saint- Maurice
d'Hercourt
Heccourt
Letters from Egypt and Palestine by Maltbie Babcock
The article reviews Dr. Maltbie Davenport Babcock’s travel letters from Egypt and Palestine, written during a spring 1991 Far East trip and published after his sudden death. It highlights vivid scenes, biblical reflections, and sixteen illustrations, noting the letters blend history, present life, and spiritual insight with a vivid narrative voice.
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Babcock
Far East
Holy Land
Brick Presbyterian Church
New York
Dr. Babcock
Jakob’s
Sinjil
Palestine
Jerusane
Jerusalem
Samaria
Mount
Ebal
Mount Gerizim
Sychar
Shechem
Jacob
Joseph
Jesus
Bennett
Egypt
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Charley Scribner's Sons
Lowell
G. C. Prince & Son
H. Lawler
Difference Between Gas Radiators and Coal Heaters
A Lowell Gas Light Co. representative argues gas radiators burn gas efficiently and regulate combustion, reducing air pollution. He claims hygiene benefits, easier labor, and lower running costs, guaranteeing savings with 90c gas.
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Perlor
Lowell Gas Light Co
Human Hearts and The Arkansas at the Opera House
Manager Nankeville announces a brand new production of Human Hearts with a superior cast and entirely new scenic equipment. The show opens at the Opera House this evening. Also San Toy resumes at the Lowell Opera House on Thursday March 27 featuring Samuel Collins Marie Celeste George Fortescue Melville Stewart and a 75 member chorus under John Braham.
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Arkansas
Arkansas” Traveler
Arkansas Hills
Nankeville
Opera House
Lowell Opera House
Daly’s Theatre
New York
Samuel Collins
Marie Celeste
George K. Fortescue
Melville Stewart
John Braham
Aiden Benedict Presents Thelma Theatrical At Opera House
Aiden Benedict will present a dramatization of Marie Corelli's popular Thelma by Chas W Chase at the Opera house on Tuesday evening March 25. The tale's heroine has inspired many names and the Viking Norse mythic elements appear as the dying hero is guided by a Valkyrie. The cast promises strong acting and stunning scenery and effects. John Drew returns in The Second in Command at the Opera house Friday 28th instant. Seat sale opens Wednesday morning.
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Aiden Benedict
Chas. W. Chase
Marie Corelli
Mr. Chase
Odin
Valhalla
John Drew
Charles Frohman
Kittingham
Robert Marshall
Opera House
Atlantic
Haymarket Theatre
London
Drew
Bryn Mawr President Praises Women’s Brains
The Bryn Mawr College president expresses belief in women’s intellect, noting many brainy women disagreeing with the sentiment and offering a refreshing contrast.
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Bryn Mawr College
Diamond fear in Wu Ting Fang mislaid by turban flip
In Washington Wu Ting Fang the Chinese minister fears he lost the diamond he wears at his front. A friend notes he had worn the turban wrong before and the gem is likely safe at the rear. The piece pivots to Benson's Porous Plaster as a cure for cold symptoms.
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Wu Ting Fang
Washington
The Big Diamond Hat Adito Unclear Product Claim
A vintage advertisement extols Benson's Plasters as a potent remedy for gout rheumatism neuralgia and chest colds claiming rapid relief and urging readers to buy genuine plasters with prepaid postage offered by Seabury Johnson Mfg Chemists in the United States for 25 cents each
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Benson
United States
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N
Recipes to Add Variety to Everyday Potatoes and Veggies
A reader shares practical menus to diversify meals using potatoes beans and herbs. Recipes include Stewed Beans and Bean Cakes Potato Mold Potato Fritters Potatoes a la Creme Potato Puff and Timbales with step by step guidance on soaking mashing baking and shaping for appealing side dishes and substitutes for meat.
Chops a la Maintenon Broiled with Mushroom Filling
A recipe instructs to toast butter and flour, add mushrooms parsley salt and pepper, moisten with stock then cool. Split six French chops, stuff with the mushroom mixture between the bone, press edges closed, broil eight minutes and serve with olive sauce.
Liver Saute German Method of Cooking Liver
A traditional German liver recipe. Slice liver thin after trimming, boil five minutes in salted water, then fry onion in butter to create a gravy with the liver liquor and flour. Finish with a dash of vinegar. Serve with Brussels sprouts in white nutmeg sauce.
German Coffee Cake Recipe Approach
Dissolve two yeast cakes in warm water and mix with scalded milk, flour to form a stiff batter. When light, add melted butter sugar salt egg lemon rind and more flour to stiffen. Beat well and spread in a buttered pan. Let rise, brush with egg, dust with sugar and cinnamon, bake hot and reheat for meat.
Creole Mutton Sauce Over Rice Dish
A Creole style preparation cooks green pepper and onion in butter, adds flour, brown stock, and tomato pulp to form a sauce. Season with salt pepper horseradish and lemon juice, then heat thin mutton slices and serve on a bed of cooked rice.
Canape a la Modern
Cut stale bread into small rounds and fry to a brown crisp in oil. Mix finely minced boiled ham into a deviled sauce and spread on the fried bread rounds. Top with a medium poached egg and serve on a hot plate. An attractive and palatable presentation.
Stewed Shin of Beef Recipe from Historic Cookery
A Shin bone is broken and simmered in water with herbs onion celery peppercorns and allspice. Vegetables added near end, then gravy thickened with flour and mushroom ketchup before serving.
Potatoes with Sour Cream Ham and Cheese Bake
Boil three or four potatoes in their skins and brown them in hot butter. Mince lean ham and shallots or chives. Layer potato slices with ham mixture and grated cheese in a buttered dish. Mix flour with milk, add sour cream and egg yolks, pour over, top with cheese and crumbs, dot with butter, and bake until brown.
Alabama Broiled Chicken Method for Succulent Halves
Dress a young chicken and cut it in halves through the back and breast. Fasten a bacon strip on the breast of each piece with a wooden skewer. Place in a dripping pan with two tablespoons butter melted in half a cup hot water. Season with pepper and salt, bake until tender basting often. Remove, brush with butter, broil to golden brown, then pour the baked gravy over. Garnish with chopped cress and serve at once.
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Alabama
Duchesse Soup Recipe from a Historic Menu
A nineteenth century style duchesse soup method uses milk, onion, celery, carrot, mace, and peppercorns simmered in a double boiler, thickened with butter and flour, enriched with cheese, then combined with beaten yolks and served over buttered crackers.
Farina Dumplings for Soup Delicacy
Prepare a mixture by simmering half water and half milk with salt then whisk in farina until thick. Stir in butter ginger and pepper, cool, then beat in two eggs yolks. Shape into dumplings and drop into boiling broth. Boil five minutes and serve. great in soup.
Almond Cream Cakes Recipe Steps and Filling
Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg yolks, then milk vanilla almond extract and baking powder. Stir in flour, fill cups two thirds, bake until deep straw color. Cool and fill centers with almond whipped cream. add gelatine if needed to stiffen.
Banbury Cake Mince Cream Sandwich Recipe
Instructions describe making a Banbury cake style sandwich. Banbury cake mix with 14 stone and chopped large cupful of raisins lemon citron and candied orange peel. Add lemon juice and rind egg sugar. Roll puff paste thin cut diamonds fill with mince and top with another diamond seal edges bake lightly.
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Banbury
PATE DE FOI GRAS IN BEEL MOULDS WITH EGG DAISY
Instructions describe ornamenting timbale moulds with a hard boiled egg daisy design, fixing with jelly, layering jelly and pate de foie gras, filling the moulds, turning onto a flat dish, surrounding with shredded lettuce, and serving with mayonnaise.
Preparing Turkey Liver How-To Saute With Butter
Rinse liver in cold salted water after turkey arrival and soak. Drain dry and roll in flour then saute in butter until browned. Add a small amount of water and simmer on low heat fifteen minutes or more. Other poultry livers can be prepared similarly.
Ribbon Sandwich Delicacy Described For Winter Fans
A winter favorite, the ribbon sandwich is made with six thin bread slices buttered on both sides. Layer deviled ham between slices, press the sandwich, and cut crosswise into slim ribbon-like pieces.
Scalloped Onions Recipe from Plain Cookery Page
Peel slice and boil until tender. Layer in a baking dish with crumbs salt pepper and bits of butter. Repeat to fill dish top with crumbs. Pour enough sweet milk to cover and bake twenty minutes.
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the Textile Council
Mass
Lowell Textile Council
Sol
Klet
India Food Co
Stamford
Conn
Lowell Loom Fixers
Olneyville Weavers
A. G. Pollard & CO
Society
Dercourt
Paris
Phineesses
D’ Hercourt
de Maintenon
Lady Resolute
Harper & Brothers
T. H. Lawler
Sapolio
Parker
Barbara Sadler
Offich
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