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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
5
A wide-ranging critique covers aristocratic child adoption schemes, speculative investments aimed at women, and trends in Turkish harems. The piece weighs gender politics, education, and career paths, contrasting domestic roles with professional ambitions, while noting new ordinations and social debates in America.
Advice on practical, simple clothing for mountain trips emphasizes minimal layers and durable materials. Recommends cloth or corduroy suits, knee-height skirts like cycling skirts, reefing jackets with stitched belts, light flannel shirt waists, silk bloomers replacing petticoats, soft sun-friendly stocks, heavy waterproof leather boots, and light cool hats such as Panama or felt sombrero.
Buffalo消息 reports Frances Willard statue to stand in the National Capitol Washington. Illinois presents the statue modeled by Helen F. Mears of Oshkosh Wisconsin after training with Augustus Saint Gaudens. The white marble statue will be installed after a two year study period in New York and Paris.
Bright lunch and dinner menu items alongside several home recipes. Details include Sugared Currants and Deviled Kidneys with sherry option, Paprika Cream Sauce for cucumbers, Marie's Graham Bread, Roasted Sweetbreads with white sauce, Stuffed Peppers, and Lemon Cream ice cream with directions and ingredient lists.
A short verse fragment imagines ideal devotion as a wagon wheel happy to travel through mud and mire and share love’s gushing over the tire, attributed to Chicago Record-Herald.
Mrs M A Haskell of Meriden visits H M Billings. Misses Fornstall and Billings plan two weeks at Ogunquit and Wells beach, then Bellingham. Knowlton family move to Connecticut. St John’s parish picnic at Nabnasset grove enjoyed. Frank Quinn and Jim Healy race Aug 10 at Littleton driving park. Burke sisters visit Lawrence. Sweatt recovering at home after hospital stay. Fletcher on Lake Pleasant with malaria now improving. McDermotts visit with blacks to P Wall home. Band concert at Ayer attended. Marcia Healy and Lowell visitors. Forge Village couple wed this week with reception at Abbot’s hall. Healy, Rafferty boat trip to Long Sought-For pond. Ball club photos taken. girls await results. B W.
South Chelmsford reports visits by John Nichols in Hardwick Vermont and upcoming sermons by Rev. D. C. Easton next Sunday and his son Charles Easton on August 11. Ednah F. Byam travels to Northfield for a few weeks. A church lawn party is planned for Saturday evening August 3.
North Chelmsford hosts a Saturday opening of Troop F cavalry range from 1 to 6 pm with nine targets. Distances include 20 yards and 600 yards with offhand at 200 yards and rests at 500 and 600 yards. The unit plans practice then a game against Lowell companies. Misses Addie and Marion Kennedy of Lowell visit Mr and Mrs Patrick Ready. A ball game is planned between combers and wool sorters of George C Moore's mill in coming weeks.
During a severe thunder shower Miss Spaulding at the town farm fell and dislocated both wrists and suffered bruises. Dr Hamblin attended. Mrs Rena M Clark is ill with malaria. A lawn party at Mr John P Davis’s Wednesday evening the 24th was enjoyed by the young people with cake and lemonade. Mr and Mrs Chester Blanchard of Arlington are staying at Davis’s. On Monday evening July 22 a son Sterling Roby was born to Mr and Mrs Alden Davis. The Orthodox church will be closed the first two Sundays in August. The junior Christian Endeavor will meet as usual. Gaining by losing is the topic of the C E prayer meeting Friday evening August 2 led by W B Chamberlin. Tuesday evening an infant boarding with its parents at Charles S Taylors died in convulsions. R.
Westford sixth annual Jury association reunion set for Saturday August 10 at Willow Dale. Lowell leaders Charles M Young and Edward Boyle serve as president and secretary. Community events include a midsummer grange program with piano solos recitations songs and a farce titled A Pair of Lunatics and an ice cream social. Sunday school social at Lake Nabnasset planned for August 3. Library hours changed Sundays in August and Rome views exhibit runs August 6 to 24.
Mrs Mary Hurlbut died July 29 at age 87 widow of Deacon Thomas P Hurlbut noted for Civil War era town leadership and service in the Massachusetts Legislature. She leaves son Rufus Hurlbut also a legislator and head of Hurlbut Rogers Machines, and daughter widow of Dexter C Jones who also served in the Legislature. Also reports Thomas Lee injured after a fall in his barn, an infant death in Wayland, and Charles Ernest Haynes replacing Harry Morse in the Centre grocery order wagon.
Graniteville's home club overwhelmed the Lowell Franklins with heavy batting led by Prinn, McCarty, and Petherick. Herbert Fletcher of Westford pitched, with Jocko Healy catching, while Nat Butterfield and Laporte formed the Franklin battery. No game next weekend at home.
The West Groton barn of F Lawrence Blood burned Saturday afternoon after hay loading began, destroying the barn and its contents including stock and equipment. The adjoining farm house was spared. Local events note visiting relatives and church services, with town life descriptions and notices of picnic plans, vacations, and community updates.
The funeral of Wm B Fenner was held Thursday afternoon with interment at Woodlawn cemetery. Both masonic organizations attended and Rev J W Roberts led services. Fenner, a respected businessman, held prominent posts and was widely known among Ayer’s aging citizenry amid population change.
Rev J B Thrall completes fourth year at Congregational church while small audience hears H W Smith lecture on Socialism and the Land. Prescott grange meets Aug 9 with Parker Kemp as chairman. Various local notes include a band concert for Epworth league, a July 27 auction of Mrs Prescott Wrights goods, and the deaths of Charles Nichols Shattuck at 76. Also reports of July 25 Ladies Benevolent fair and a mild horse distemper spreading.
Phillips academy and the theological seminary advance a new heating plant, a Main street upgrade with a new track, and an academic building site for archaeology and social use. A summer school opens, a new gymnasium nears finish, and Peabody & Stearns are the architects. Local pastors take vacations as reading and Boston trips become easier from Andover.
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