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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1903
Page
6
The text notes the Lowell Daily Courier established 1825 daily since 1845, published at Courier-Citizen Building Merrimack Street Lowell. It lists delivery by carrier in the city at six cents a week.
Yesterday improved with a dry westerly breeze and lower noon temperature. Morning 68 gage. forenoon and afternoon were fine. night cooled with 68 at the morning reading. Barometer around 29.82 to 30.08. forecast for New England calls for fair weather tonight and Sunday with cooler eastern Maine and fresh NW to W winds.
Editorial Rooms 31 3 Counting Room 315 Job Department 114 Patrons are asked to use care in calls Communications about advertising non-delivery of papers changes of address and business inquiries should go to the business office 31 5 Courier readers on vacation may have the paper mailed to summer homes by leaving word at the office 15 17 Merrimack street
The London census finds that evening services rival or exceed morning in several denominations with 220 431 morning and 209 722 evening for Church of England. Nonconformists trend higher in the evening while Catholics show morning lead. It notes gender and class patterns and calls for American comparison and further local enumerations.
The article surveys rail layoffs and a West Coast injury settlement exposing cash payments to quiet claims. It discusses Lou Dillon the trotter, Alfred Vanderbilt’s political leanings, Worcester’s crackdown on explosives, Old Home Week efforts in Massachusetts, New Hampshire leadership, a Boston duel trial, and San Jose scale devastation to Pennsylvania fruit farms.
A playful column riffs on current events and absurdities from politics to loud headlines. It mocks papal rumors, public scandals, and town gossip, noting public figures like Carrie Nation, King Edward, and Booker Washington while lampooning sensational rhetoric and local mischief.
A traveler recalls a fast moving New York train race on a Connecticut section with telegraph poles flashing by and passengers exchanging greetings across the tracks. He notes posters on luggage and humorous ads from Boston grocers, plus a slow Woburn Medford electric trip ending with a two and a half hour ride to Scollay Square. A Provincetown observer links a distant explosion to maritime warship signals heard on Cape Cod.
A rural plea warns that indiscriminate gathering of native wild flowers harms rare varieties. The writer cites blue lupine and pink lady's slipper among others, urges humane collecting with stems cut rather than uprooting, and encourages use of scissors or a boy’s jackknife to preserve plants for future seasons. Also notes travel ad and a patent remedy promotion.
A Nashville American excerpt laments waning attraction of ministry for youth, noting improved clergyman pay yet small earnings in many cases. It argues that refined churches attract fewer attendees and signals a broad shift from old time faith driven by itinerant ministers, revivals, and camp meetings to modern influences like science, commerce, liberalism, and education.
A collection of short items notes demographic stats such as Germans per capita beer use and Swiss language shifts, etiquette about women aboard ships, and media mentions. It recalls P T Barnum bringing Jumbo, his elephant, to America in 1882 and its death in 1885, plus scattered data on humorously varied topics.
Passa conaway tribe of Red Men held a well attended session with reports from trolley party and relief committees. Division 11 A O H saw 200 members present, two new initiates, five applications acted on, then social time and a 30th anniversary program with readings songs and piano. Central council members attended. remarks praised six years of work and featured several speakers and musical numbers. Meeting adjourned at 11 30.
The Eastern U S Co offers Sunday excursions on the Kennebec Division to Bath Maine aboard the new steamer Ransom B Fuller leaving Union Wharf Boston at 9 am. The 20 hour round trip covers 250 miles with a return to Boston by 6 am Monday. Cost is $2.00, tickets by Union Wharf office or via mail or telephone.
More than 200 miles of electric rail lines in Queens Nassau and Long Island City areas pass to a New York trust company in a deal described as one of Greater New Yorks largest street railway transactions. The transaction includes the New York and Queens County Electric Railway and the New York and North Shore road with connections to Nassau and Suffolk counties and unused franchises.
Chicago Aug 1 Three million dollars worth of property has been found as part of the estate of Colonel George T Cline who died July 7 and whose will was probated The estate may reach about six million dollars Most of the fortune is in land and is left to relatives in California and Maryland Cline 80 years old Civil War veteran lived alone in Englewood in a hotel building he bought after the world’s fair He was known as an old school financier and few Chicago friends knew him.
Maurice Runkel a New York contractor named in the Washington postal investigation says the indictment comes as a surprise and that he knew nothing beforehand. He notes decades of government work and vows receipts will prove he fulfilled all contracts.
John Kreinbuhle treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Spokane was shot twice by a masked highwayman on a Hillyard street car. Five robbers demanded hands up, Kreinbuhle resisted, and the bandits escaped with about $200. He suffered a scalp wound and an arm injury.
When you want a physic that is mild and gentle, easy to take and certain to act, always use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by all druggists.
The Cenecit Py peestesn band performs at Canobieke Park on Sunday afternoon and evening.
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