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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
6
A reader invitation from the About the House department seeks tips from Lady Readers. The text mixes a children story about a sewing bird with a kitchen recipe from American Kitchen Magazine involving fruit, lemon juice, sugar, freezing, and stirring steps. The fragment blends domestic hints with a whimsical tale. The overall piece resembles a column segment from a newspaper page.
The piece muses on tea strength and lemon flavor for cooling drinks, hammock comfort vs wire ham mocks, and the rich use of wildflowers for outdoor weddings. It notes disinfectant use for summer health, then describes Miss McKinley’s Sept. 12 marriage with her elaborate gowns and bridal attire.
A cooking teacher prescribes tea and table setting practices. Use one teaspoon per half pint, keep the teapot hot and pour after a second off the boil, and do not let grounds steep beyond 15 minutes. Cucumbers require chopped ice, “as cool as a cucumber” literal, cantaloupes chill thoroughly, and warm melon is unappetizing. Laundering table linen benefits from thorough sprinkling and ironing while still damp for a fine finish.
Miss Bedford shares a recipe for a light warm weather French tea cream dessert. Scald cream with tea, steep briefly, finish with eggs sugar and gelatin, then chill and serve with whipped cream. Granite a la Aurora combines pineapple peaches bananas Florida oranges lemons sugar and water with careful preparation of the fruit pieces.
The word macaroni has varied meanings from a fool to a pasta, but its true modern use is the tubular wheat pasta. The piece urges proper preparation with a simple sauce and cheese, noting macaroni is wholesome, inexpensive, and suitable for both laborers and epicures, while criticizing ignorant prejudice against it.
A humorous American menu prepared for a popular actor features playful lines like Soup-per-abundant be your pleasure and May you never complain that the turns are out of joint. The toastful menu wishes a happy evening, full entree into the new salon, full dessert, and blessings that troubles end in smoke.
A humorous note on foreign practice of placing economy focused menus with daily dishes on napkins and suggests an American paper mixing restaurant bill with war headlines. It imagines startling headlines printed in chocolate on coffee cake frosting to lampoon such trends.
A witty exchange from the Indianapolis Journal features Penelope tired of keeping her shirt waist and skirt together amid a teased scene. A sharp reply by a witness notes the evening wore on, ending as the day closed.
A district newspaper discussion notes the potential adoption of mail collection carriages in cities. It cites Boston Cleveland and Brooklyn trials showing faster mail handling than horse drawn boxes. Awaiting results, officials expect to gauge benefits and drawbacks before wider use. The item ends with an advertisement and a brief note to readers.
Middlesex county brief reports a police shake up with Hugh Gallagher resigning at Dracut and Frank Hill named chief in Collinsville over protests from residents. Ex officer Frank Scott declines Navy Yard post as building work at Collinsville mill progresses and a Knox rally is planned at Dracut Centre. A boiler room fire at Windham mill is quickly fought with minimal damage. Golden Brook farm owner George Simpson vacationing in Malden. Merrimack Woolen dye houses, nearly destroyed by fire, are being torn down with rebuilding uncertain.
A North Chelmsford surprise party for Miss Reba Jones featured Japanese lanterns ice cream and cake with an opal ring gift presented by Annie Wright on behalf of local friends. Other items report school term start fishing catches visits from Lowell residents and relatives traveling to Montana and Somerville with various return dates and short notes.
A Washington Letter notes a dangerous tree worm feeding under bark and browning foliage. It bores through sap, leaves gray discoloration, and weakens trees until they topple in wind. Commissioner Hermann warns the pest is highly dangerous, with limited knowledge and ongoing study.
Long article warns of a new worm depredator invading Spearfish River district in the Black Hills forest reserve. It chews through pines, killing half the trees in affected townships, and may destroy a premier pine forest if unchecked. Washington studies its biology. a worm sample remains alive after two months in a corked bottle.
In Frederick Irland’s September Scribner piece In the Gameland Our Fathers Lost, two hunters pursue and kill a flock of twenty six wild sheep in rugged British Columbia terrain. Johnnie fires six times, killing a ram two hundred yards away as the flock flees, while the narrator reflects on the quiet life of wild creatures and learning from harsh mountain travel.
A Saratoga Springs correspondent surveys the town revealing rampant shoddy, lavish displays, and open gambling. Hotels vary in quality and price while grand cars parade for tourists. The piece notes pervasive betting, doled-out race fixing, and officials' tolerance, concluding that respectable visitors are drifting away.
Rev L O Donovan cites Tennyson as not a Catholic but showing catholic spirit in Idyls and St Agnes Eve. Taine notes noble God and soul with ecclesiastical prejudice. He admits all non pagan Britain was Catholic from yule logs to chalk cliffs.
A New York man who nearly choked a woman to death realized he was in the wrong flat and the woman was not his wife. He must explain the mistaken act in court and awaits a sentence that fits the crime.
A tense exchange unfolds where a woman asks for trust and a man vows life risking faith. He urges her to eat mushrooms he picked, insisting they are safe and urging belief in him. The scene centers on testing trust through a dangerous blind meal.
Corrected timetable lists trains from era Street Depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Lowell to Boston and other cities. Includes departure times for numerous destinations such as Lawrence Haverhill Salem Newburyport Amherst and York Beach routes with Sunday variations and notes on services to St John St John via steamer Eastport and Castine area.
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