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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1900
Page
7
A humorous vignette recalls a rough riding child reenacting Roosevelt's San Juan Hill charge inside a home. The brave rider disrupts furniture and decor until Grandma halts the clash with a kiss and bedtime. Plus practical tips on removing iron rust, cleaning mahogany, and carpet spill cleanup.
The About the House department of the Lowell newspaper invites lady readers to submit practical household hints and thoughts for this column. Send suggestions or ideas to the About the House department in care of the Lowell Journal.
The piece discusses dinner table setups using a round table for elegance and contrasts ribbons with flower arrangements. It critiques arbutus bouquets, notes the charm of a gentle voice in conversation, and advises practical cooking tips for dry pie crust including Miss Bedford’s method of pre baking with egg white and rice to prevent sogginess.
A fragment notes alum water as a cleaner for closet shelves and claims imitation maple is produced by boiling hickory chips in syrup, a process said to impart a deceptive maple flavor. It ends with a remark that lemon offers something superior.
A cookbook note shares concise methods for frying eggs with a two stage butter and vinegar sauce and making a puff omelet. It also describes veal pie with a potato crust using diced roast meat, ham, hard boiled eggs, and a creamy stock filling baked under a potato crust.
Helen C. Candee argues that education for mistresses and servants is essential to elevate domestic work. She proposes a school for domestic science using a well equipped kitchen for sixteen pupils to teach systematic housekeeping, making housework a trade. The piece cites current practices and urges reforms in training and oversight.
A collage of wartime style quips and cartoons reflects old newspaper humor about animals, politics and race. It references the non and the hon, jokes about the negro vote and cakewalking, and stray captions from Kansas City Independent and Chicago News.
Includes a wide range of office supplies such as desk pads trays letter scales rubber bands paper weights inkstands rulers pens pencils waste baskets document files typewriters blank books and more. The listing also mentions Mino graphs pencil sharpeners and other items suitable for a first class stationery shop.
President David Starr Jordan argues in the New York Independent that stimulants and narcotics induce a false sense of pleasure by injuring the nervous system. He describes how drugs like alcohol, cocaine, tobacco, opium, caffeine, and others distort sensation, weaken the will, and can lead to mania, insanity, and death, while noting moderate use may be acceptable as a social or medicinal exception.
A Knox County Indiana deaf school pupil Rhoda Hewitt, aged about 13 to 16, emerged from a wild rural upbringing to study under Miss Elizabeth Ray. Initially fearful and combative, she learned affection through touch, pantomime, and word associations, now knowing sixteen words and spelling cow, with progress in lip reading and signs.
A Willow pattern plate depicts a mandarin's estate with a willow tree on the bridge, a gardener's cottage, pavilion, orange and peach trees, and a distant island cottage. The three figures are Li Chi the mandarin's daughter, her lover Chang, and the mandarin. Li Chi elopes with Chang after the mandarin's disapproval, they hide in the gardener's cottage, reach the island lover's home, and are pursued by the mandarin who aims to beat them. Gods transform them into birds as punishment for the elopement. the willow sheds leaves during the tale.
A quoted debate shows a protest urging action against monopolies and a statesman replying that he weighs why his constituents would act if in his place rather than following their current wishes. The exchange reflects tensions between public pressure and representative judgment in Indianapolis.
For Sale by Shepard and Fuller a neat central cottage with seven rooms in good repair and nearly 000 feet of land within ten minutes walk of Merrimack square on a quiet street. Also a nine room two story house with piazza bay window stable hen houses and an acre of land with fruit trees. Prices 1900 and 3500 with easy terms on main city street near electric car line.
Real estate ads show properties for sale or exchange in Centralville and Pawtucketville, including a 8 room house on Claire Street, a poultry farm near Lowell, Highlands estates with land, an 10 room house with 9000 feet of land, two tenement houses, a modern cottage on the Heights, a blacksmith shop with high annual earnings, a 26 acre farm with electric line and 6 miles from Lowell, a cozy Pawtucketville cottage, and a summer residence with 10 rooms and ice house near a pond. Listing agent LeDodue, Fire Insurance, Room 6, 26 Central St.
New York New Haven and Hartford R R announces October 22 1899 trains from Lowell Middlesex Street Depot to Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and way stations at 716 am and 525 pm 11 percent a m 5 25 p m Sunday service to South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence on way stations at 715 am Trains connect at South Framingham with Boston and Albany for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west and at Concord Junction with Fitchburg R R The 625 pm train links with the Stonington line for New York City the south and west G P Clark Gen Sup A C Kendall Genl Pass heent
Corrected timetables dated October 2 1899 show trains from Merrimack Street to Boston and Lowell with numerous departure times and Sunday notes. The bloated list covers routes to Salem Haverhill Nashua and multiple New England towns including St Johns Montreal and Quebec with special mentions of express and via Plymouth connections.
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