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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1898
Page
8
The item lists daily sun and moon rise times for August with sunrise at 4.38 and moon rise at 7.14 pm, sun set at 7.02, and day length 14.24 hours. It notes yesterday afternoon was fair and not too warm, today bright and hot, and provides temperature and barometer readings. Massachusetts forecasts call for thunder showers tonight and Thursday.
A compact 1898 Lowell page notes various items such as Morse hacks, Maltox for health, and Old Hundred cigars. It lists travel via Fitchburg Railroad to Lake Chautauqua, Steinert music shop offerings, and Arthur W. Drewitt’s 24¼ mile bicycle win at Boulevard. Also mentions Dows’s Diarrhoea Syrup, quarter day at Washington Savings Bank, Fitchburg line to Adirondacks, and a Saratoga racing-season note. It closes with Traders National Bank publishing a war atlas featuring Spain, the West Indies and the Philippines.
Fraternal News reports Garfield colony Pilgrim Fathers plans an entertainment and celebration in Odd Fellows temple next Tuesday with visitors and Gov Wentworth as a guest. Lexington council American Mechanics met. TEirone lodge Good Templars installed officers and four candidates initiated. Mt Zion lodge likewise installed. committees named and sick and absent members noted. Lowell Lodge Elks head to Nahant for reception honoring national dignitaries with luncheons and special cars scheduled.
Vim vigor vitality or Maltox as a brand nickname appears in a brief note discussing possible spellings and usage. The short item mentions the terms. No dates or organizations are cited. It reads as a lexical curiosity item in a local column.
A caller asked to be contacted at telephone 628-2 to arrange an appointment for a service. Details are not provided in the fragment.
Letters from Lowell soldiers in the Sixth Mass inform on shipboard life at Guantanamo Bay Cuba July 1889 98 with talk of scarce supplies sickness at Siboney hard tack coffee and desire to be discharged soon. Henry Driscoll and Ralph Clogston share views on Morro Castle battleships Gen Miles and the ongoing wait for orders as ships and troops remain in the bay.
A letter received by Joseph O'Brien from July 20 1898 aboard the U S S Yale at Guantanamo Harbor describes health, weather, and a large harbor view in Cuba. The writer notes Sampson's fleet with torpedo boats, arrival near Santiago, and anticipated sailing to Porto Rico. He mentions scant food, a soldier shot on the Marblehead, Charleston to Cuba trip in three days, and jokes about river life and home.
Charles Tilton writes from the Yale on July 24 1898 about a naval expedition to land troops and nurses on Puerto Rico. He notes the Sixth Massachusetts as advance guard, burial at sea of the color bearer, typhoid cases aboard, and hope for future mail.
Two letters received yesterday by Thomas H. Boyle come from Dr. Waldo F. Miles and Harold L. Young aboard the cruiser Yale off Guantanamo Bay dated July 21 1898. The sailors express eagerness to move from confinement aboard the vessel and mention plans to depart for Porto Rico soon.
George S. Howard of this city writes from the Yale off Porto Rico to friends. He says his Sixth Massachusetts regiment is at sea en route as Gen Miles plans an invasion of Puerto Rico. He recalls Cuba and mentions 18 ships with 2200 infantry 1400 artillery and nurses aboard plus 30,000 troops expected from Tampa.
Private Fred Hastings of Company C, Sixth Regiment, writes from aboard the U S S Yale bitter about scarce rations for volunteers. He notes volunteers beg from sailors and waiters and envy officers with better meals aboard. He reports buns pies and cigarettes commanded five cents, reflecting harsh privations aboard.
In a Lowell Sun letter John Dempsey of Co. C Sixth recalls sighting George Charette aboard the New York. The crew cheered as their ship neared him, vowing the cheer could be heard in Santiago.
A Millbury bound team loaded with furniture and hens was stopped in Bridge Street by Agent Richardson of the Humane Society. The hens suffered from confinement and a horse showed harness gait. Driver shifted hens to crates and summoned a leather stitcher before continuing. An earlier alarm from box 25 reported a flash of flying fat in a Merrimack Street restaurant near Tremont Street. responders found no fire.
An advertisement touts Grape-Nuts as a wholesome cereal. It claims benefits like strong teeth and steady nerves, good digestion, and a well fed feeling suitable for any meal. Growers sell Grape-Nuts.
The New York Sun quotes the League of American Wheelmen denying a collapse in membership. Massachusetts records show growth since 1896 with 48 members in Boston and 12,507 statewide in 1898, while New York and Philadelphia fall. Racing is defended as popular and well regulated by the L A W amid internal political disputes.
Lowell groups honor Mary Gertrude McKenzie for four years of charitable service and announce a September benefit in Leicester Opera House. The production Ingomar with McKenzie as Parthenia led by John J. Lonergan features a cast including William Thornton James J. Dunfey Patrick Quinn and George O Dwyer as organizers plan the event to support the Lowell General Hospital and other causes.
Mrs F H Adams received a surprise birthday party Saturday night from friends at her 11 Waite Street home. A dining table was presented as a gift and guests shared refreshments, creating a memorable celebration. Maltox, advertised health product, appears in the text but no further context provided.
Andrews Opera company staged two strong performances at Lakeview with a large evening audience. A big bouquet greeted Mr. C A Parker who bowled with hearty humor. The prayer chorus at the end of act one drew an encore. Iolanthe is scheduled for its first showing this afternoon and evening.
The altar boys of Immaculate Conception church held their annual outing at Mountain Rock under Rev John Reynolds O M I. The Chelmsford Centre Unitarian society held its annual picnic at Willow Dale today. A Spanish nobleman muses that the Yankee pigpen is smightier than the Spanish sword.
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