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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1901
Page
4
Train service on the Boston and Maine line connects Lowell and Boston with scheduled departures and arrivals. Service frequencies, platforms, and potential delays noted for commuters and travelers along the corridor.
Subscribers planning absences for the summer may have the Courier mailed to mountain, country, or seashore addresses. Send word to the Courier-Citizen counting room to arrange the service for any duration.
The column surveys weather hopes for Europe and rapid transport a wireless San Francisco to Honolulu test a gold rush lure in the Philippines and Ohio politics on silver. It notes a race track showdown and a two minute mile goal plus malaria mosquito warfare and Cuba climate safety claims by Governor General Wood amid yellow fever caution.
Commentary notes how coal price hikes hit small buyers hardest while mine owners reap gains. It compares growing ship sizes and speed to changing times, questions rainfall by man with rain-makers near Lincoln, and argues weather cannot be man ordered.
General Miles walks daily in Washington often with a companion. A poem by Stonewall Jackson from his early army days surfaced in Lexington. Frau Itta von Ilten, Waterloo captain’s widow, turned 100 in Hanover on June 12. Jay Cooke’s 80th birthday is August 10. Cushman K. Davis’s widow may write his biography in Washington. Henry Pritchett of MIT may lead the St Louis exposition.
The Lynn Item notes Saugus Swampscott and Nahant police study a baseball guide after the Lynn police nine returned from Lowell. American visitors remain numerous yet thrifty, a view echoed by cabmen porters and hotel staff who call Americans the least remunerative clients abroad.
A Lowell reader rails at council members for meddling in labor, urges real city improvements, and questions repeated cries of looting the treasury. The letter argues for funding streets schools bridges and lighting, warns against niggardliness, and cites past “looting” cries over water works and fire alarms.
Miss Emma S. Elliott daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Samuel Elliott of Kenora street married Rev T G A Cote pastor of the French Congregational church Lowell at 5 o'clock yesterday in East Parish Congregational church The ceremony was performed by Rev George L Gleason pastor of the East Parish church
The Wampanoag mill directors in Fall River plan to switch to finer fabrics as Southern cotton mills flood the market with coarse goods. They have named a manager skilled in fine goods and may overhaul machinery, acknowledging the need to adapt to changing conditions and competition from the South.
The fragment notes a claim about slow adoption of new remedies and a promise of a quick, permanent cure for constipation costing 50 cents, highlighting a promotional tone typical of vintage advertisements. It references a cheap remedy without specifying product or source details.
Miss Elliott’s family on the mother’s side has been communicants for five generations. The ceremony was private with no invitations. The bride wore traveling costume. The couple will honeymoon visiting Montreal and Saguenay, then Chicoutime where Cote began his ministry thirty years ago. Cote founded the Lowell church in 1877 and did statewide missionary work 1884 to 1895. Mrs Cote is active in Haverhill charities and admired for private kindnesses. They will reside at 31 Harvard Street, Lowell after September 1.
Personal notices list Master Olin B. Farley and Mrs. Annie Taylor visiting in New Brunswick and Houston Maine for about six weeks, Miss Harriet Drewett and others at York Beach Maine, M G Leonard homebound in summer heat, Dr J W Pepin at York Beach, Peter A Clune visiting Old Orchard Beach, Herbert Walley and Edward Silcox vacationing in Quebec, Granby, Sherbrooke and Montreal. Henry Wilson on a month’s Canada trip via Pan American Expo, W H Fuller family back from Maine and provinces for two weeks, Holmes family headed to Los Angeles for permanent home, Gertrude Little visiting Rae Kelley at Randolph House Nantasket, and a general roundup of summer travel plans and family farewells.
TO LET. Tenements to let in all parts of the city in the very best of repair and the lowest prices. 5 rooms in Centralville $8.00 per month. 2 rooms in Central ville $4.50 per month. 3 and 4 rooms in the Highlands $7.00 and $8.00 per month. 5 rooms in Belvidere $8.00 per month. 4 large rooms near Northern depot $9.00 per month. 6-room cottage in Ayer City $8.00 per month. Apply to T. H. Elliott, 4 Central street.
Mrs Elizabeth E Dugdale wife of Councilman James P Dugdale died at Ocean View house Salem Willows aged 50 years and 22 days after two years illness. She was daughter of the late James Meadowcroft founder of American Bolt Company. Survived by husband and three children Mabel E Frye George F E and Sarah H Dugdale. Body brought to 48 Marlboro Street and burial planned in Lowell Cemetery.
Mrs Clementine Robinson aged 86 former resident died yesterday at daughter Mrs Myron D Fuller East Greenwich remains to be brought here for interment widow of Jesse Robinson leaves son Lewis D Robinson and daughter Mrs Martell Crawford of Chicago Also Mrs Sarah Quinn longtime Dracut resident died Saturday at home survived by daughter Mrs Sarah Briscoe and son John Quinn
Funeral services were held for Mary Cox at her home with burial in St Patrick's cemetery. Martin Galvin's service followed from his sister's home with burial at St Peter's cemetery. Nancy Dickinson, Thomas Calnin, Patrick McGeever, Mary Maroney, Mary Caswell, John J. Shaughnessy, and infant Walter J. Shanahan are also recorded with burials at local Catholic cemeteries, led by undertaker Molloy or Rogers and notes of church services and bearers.
In this city on Aug. 4 William C. Johnson aged 64 of 64 Lundberg street at parents home. Stanislas Winisky aged 6 months at 253 Middlesex street. Mary Burns aged 80 at 101 High street. Clementine Robinson aged 86 of Greenwich R. I. funeral Tuesday at 1 from Lewis Powell street home. Mary Gallagher aged 20 at 67 Hudson street. Elizabeth E Dugdale wife of James P. Dugdale aged 50 at Salem Willows. Funeral at 48 Marlboro street Tuesday 3:30. Mrs Mary Holden aged 34 died at Carney Hospital Boston funeral in Peterboro N H.
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