ABOUT THE HOUSE AND COOKING RECIPES FOR READERS
A practical Lowell housekeeper invites Lowell Weekly Journal readers to send tips and thoughts for the About the House column. The text includes a humorous Little Pessimist poem about fairy tale endings and a Boston cooking note on using muld cheese and eggs with anchovy sauce, plus an orange marmalade recipe from the New York Evening Post detailing fruit, water, standing times, and sugar.
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Lowell
Lowell Weekly Journal
Editorial Reflections on Nursing, Cooking, and Hospitality
A nurse with cooking talent wins patient trust and professional success. Wise plant choices around the home matter for cleanliness. maples and lindens offer clean shade. Leftovers can shine in new dishes, with small additions like gravy or jam enhancing meals. Warm hospitality sets the mood for any visit and makes hosts memorable. An anecdote about oil on rubber plant leaves warns of mixed results, while castor oil for sword ferns had a mixed outcome.
Culinary Notes And Fermentation Facts From A Bygone Era
A collection of practical kitchen and household tips. Nasturtium vines are said to attract rats in luxuriant growth. Marinades soak meats with water vinegar wine onion and spices. Burned lamp wicks burn better than trimming with scissors. An egg sinks when fresh. A stale egg floats. Old nutmeg has no oil and can be tested by piercing with a needle to see oil spread.
Cocoanut Macaroons and Mock Crab Toast Notes
Instructions from Fannie M. Farmer describe making cocoanut macaroons by cooking coconut sugar and egg whites until sticky, spreading on a wet pan, chilling, shaping, and baking slowly. The text also begins a mock crab toast recipe, detailing to melt butter in a chafing dish.
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Fannie M. Farmer
Going a Visiting in Old Time Hospitality
Mrs. A. E. Whitaker recalls childhood visits and the ritual of going a visiting in the past. She describes preserving best linens and cutlery, the shy appearances of silverware, a stone jar of fruit cake, and the art of polite conversation while preparations for a formal supper or tea unfold.
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A. E. Whitaker
New England
Gentle Eye Massage Advice From Historical Quotation
A historical note describes John Quincy Adams using a gentle thumb and forefinger eye massage to maintain vision with age. The practice claims to improve circulation, reduce floaters, and prevent lens flattening, recommending 10 to 15 minutes daily and counting passes when time is tight.
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John Quincy Adams
The Medicine Chest for Home Remedies
Mothers prepare camphor and lime water for family medicine chests. Camphor is dissolved in pure alcohol to the point of saturation and poured into a smaller bottle to weaken as desired. Lime water is made by slaking quicklime in water and using the precipitated white powder in boiling water, then stored for use.
Quick Newspaper Snippets of Witty Exchanges
A collection of brief humorous quotations from Boston Traveller and Brookly n Life. Snippets include a lad asking for oatmeal as the meal name, a maid negotiating wages, and a jibe about marriage misgivings, all wrapped in light social humor.
Hood's Pills Cure Liver Ills and Indigestion
Local advertisement touts Hood's Pills as a remedy for liver ills biliousness and indigestion plus headaches. Promoted as easy to take and operate, priced at 25 cents.
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Hood
Hobson Back in Boston After Repairing Spanish Fleet Wrecks
Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson returns to Boston aboard the Beverly and outlines plans for raising Cervera fleet vessels. He discusses the Maria Teresa and Cristobal Colon, the use of air bags and cages to stabilize wrecks, and prospects for Vizcaya and Reina de Mercedes. Hobson notes resources and costs, plus ongoing labor and machinery debates in textile mills back home.
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Boston
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Beverly
Hobson
Park Square
New York, New, Haven & Hartford Railroad
New York
Santiago
Cervera
Maria Teresa
Teresa
Vulcan
Merritt
Cristobal Colon
United States
Colon
Guantanamo
Vizcaya
Mercedes
Bay of
Manila
Dewey
Copp
Out on Strike at Hargraves Mills in Fall River
Fall River mills workers refuse to resume as treasurer Borden runs overtime. Spinners vote to strike in all departments if overtime continues. Borden says he will keep mills running as long as legal, plans to testify to Legislature about overtime impact on workers lacking coal or food, promising rapid layoffs.
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Fall River
Hargraves Mills
Borden
Textile Council
Fail River
Jealous husband stabs wife in Boston tenement
Frank Rossetta fled after stabbing his wife Rosie Rossetta during a quarrel at their 14 Fleet street basement home. The 40 year old woman lay dying at City Hospital with a knife wound to the left side. Police broadcast descriptions as they pursue the suspect.
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Boston
Frank Rossetta
Rosie Rossetta
City Hospital
Rossetta
Fleet Street
Frank
Hanover Street
Dunn
Jaquith Named Democratic Candidate for State Treasurer
Boston October 24 The Democratic executive committee chose Harry J Jaquith of Wellesley to fill the vacancy as state treasurer and receiver general after Pierre Bonvo loire withdrew Jaquith is a lawyer with an office in the Equitable Building and has long been allied with the Williams faction after their two year campaign prominence
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Boston
Pierre Bonvolloire
Harry J. Jaquith
Wellesley
Gouvouloir
Jaquith
Williams
Equitable
How to Prevent Croup by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
J M Nickle of Nickle Bros in Nickleville Pa declares Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy prevents croup attacks in his household and notes it outsells all other cough medicines. Advertisement lists Ellingwood & Co. and Barker’s Welsbach Light at 75 cents for sale.
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Chamberlain
J. M. Nickle
Nickle Bros
Nickleville
Casto Riea Adopts The Kind You Have Always Bought
A terse OCR fragment notes a signature and branding phrase The Kind You Have Always Bought associated with Ola ALelekiut Casto Riea appears to be referenced in a business notice or advertisement without clear context or complete details.
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Casto Riea
Blessings of Sleep and Nervura Treatment Described
A vivid testimonial describes how nervous dyspepsia causes pain insomnia and fear and credits Dr Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy with restoring appetite sleep and well being. Mrs Ira A Bass of Littleton New Hampshire praises the cure after fifteen bottles and asks for divine blessing on the doctor. The piece urges personal consultations at Dr Greene's 34 Temple Place Boston with no fee.
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Ira A. Bass
Littleton
N. H
Dr. Greene
Temple Place
Boston
Mass
Greene
Mustering Out Begins for Second Regiment in Springfield
The Second Regiment started mustering out of U S service in Springfield on October 24 with all companies assembling for ten days of duty in their armories. On November 3 the entire regiment will gather to receive pay and be mustered out. Three local companies met at the State armory on Howard street at nine this morning, joining the field and staff, except for Chaplain Welwood and surgeons ill or absent. Average company strength is about 60 men, fewer than the 74 mustered in due to illness and disease. Preliminary physicals were led by Capt. G J Neugarden, Lieut. Shea, and Dr. C W Bowen. Meals are good and soldiers are not required to sleep in the armory.
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Hargraves Mills
Spinners’ Union
Fall River
Springfield
United States
State Armory
Howard Street
Welwood
Hadley and
Huckins
Greenberg
G. J. Neugarden
Shea
Ninth
Massachusetts
C. W. Bowen
Westfield
Cuba
Muster Out Physicals For 2d Massachusetts Volunteers
Worcester officers and soldiers of Companies A C and H invited to the armory for morning physical examinations before muster out. Maj. Francis Magurn of the Ninth Massachusetts volunteers serves as examining surgeon.
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Worcester
Massachusetts Volunteers
Worcester Armory
Francis Magurn
Ninth
Clothing for the Sixth Ordered to Be Sent Out
Adjutant General Dalton orders one thousand hats coats trousers shoes flannel shirts blouses drawers undershirts and stockings to Captain Hyde in Boston. A boat will be chartered to meet the steamer Mississippi and deliver the clothing to the regiment’s quartermaster to charge against the soldiers’ clothing account. Signed Ludington Quartermaster General.
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Boston
Dalton
Washington
Mass
Hyde
Mississippi
Ludington
Mail for Sixth Massachusetts soldiers from Porto Rico
Boston dispatch reports five sacks of mail at the post office for the Sixth Massachusetts regiment en route home from Porto Rico. Superintendent Barker negotiates with Adjutant General Dalton on delivery options, with plans to deliver mail down the harbor for distribution aboard the transport, though the task after landing is deemed difficult.
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Boston
Washington
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment
Porto Rico
Barker
City Delivery Division
Adjt
Dalton
Thomas
Ryan Beats Bonner in Contested Fight Decision
New York Oct 24 The referee ruled in favor of Ryan in the Ryan Bonner bout after a closely contested match with the crowd hearing the verdict.
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Ryan
New York
Ryan- Bonner
Bram Faces Murder Trial For Mrs Nash Case In Boston
Boston, Oct 24. Mate Thomas Bram, already convicted in Captain Nash’s murder, may be tried next year for Mrs Nash’s death. U S Attorney Jones has orders from Washington. grand jury to convene December. Bram’s lawyers may seek habeas corpus to overturn the verdict. Witnesses remain in marshal custody for an indeterminate period. Charley Brown and Henry Slice, both in custody, fear for their freedom and hope to marry after release. Bailiff Ruhl reports witnesses calm at Winthrop and may relocate to Charlestown for winter. Perdoc, freed on bail, now runs an elevator in downtown Boston.
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Boston
Thomas Bram
Capt
Nash
Herbert Fuller
United States
Jones
Washington
United State Attorney’s Office
Fram
Charley Brown
Charley
Sweden
Henry Slice
Brown
Ruhl
Winthrop
Charlestown
Mi Perdoc
Apple crop in United States much smaller than recent years
The New England Homestead reports 1898 U S apple production at 27.7 million barrels, far below last year’s 40+ million and the 1896 peak of 70 million. The short crop spans the nation from Pacific to Maine, with New York at only one fifth of a full crop and Ontario also short.
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Springfield
Mass
United States
New England Homestead
Pacific Coast
Maine
Michigan
New York
New England
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Europe
Belgium
Holland
Wild Bill Turner Shot In Kentucky Border Report
Middleboro Kentucky October 24 reporter says Wild Bill Turner a famed mountain figure was shot and killed by Will Combes last night Turner ran a moonshine whiskey shop on the border and had killed several men He was the sixth brother killed and the last of the family.
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Middleboro
Wild Bill" Turner
Will Combes
Turner
Same Old Story Promotes Doan's Kidney Pills
Lowell resident Mrs. F Warburton reports three years of kidney trouble with dizziness backaches and sleepless nights. After trying several remedies she found relief from Doan's Kidney Pills advertised at Ellingwood Co. and tested by readers. She praises the product noting diminished kidney pain and no further backache. Sold by Carter Sherburr and other dealers. 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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Lowell
Dean
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N._Y
United States
Dean’s
Grocery Ad Teems With Coffee and Tea Deals
Store boasts finest coffee in the city at 25 cents a pound and five pound canisters for a dollar. Highlighting a broad selection, the ad claims leadership in teas and coffees.
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Isabel de Witte Kaplan
October
Ladies’ Home Journal
New York Evening Post
Bonnes Bouches
Bridget
Marm
Boston Traveller
Lowell Daily Courier
Young Naval Constructor
the Colon
Hargraves Mill
Bram
Atlantic
Pacific
SGA
The
Courier
Carter & Sherburr
Banner Market
Vermont
Banner Wiarkel
Prescott Street
Caleby Smith
Boston Branch Grocery
Middlesex Street
America
Washburn, Crosby & Co
Igreenwood Bros
Lawrence St
A. L. Pendergast, Prop
Eldredge
van Nostrand
P. B
Consumers
Niagara
Roya Wy
Loma
Quincy
Merrimack Street
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