Lowell Courier-Citizen Historic Local Paper Note
The entry describes the Lowell Aly Courier as the oldest and best dilly paper in Middlesex County, established in 1826 as a daily by 184. It notes daily publication excluding Sundays and holidays from Courier- Citizen Building on Merrimack Street, Lowell, with carrier delivery at 22 cents weekly and 50 cents monthly by Counter-Ciltizeun Company.
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Middlesex County
Courier- Citizen
Merrimack Street
Lowell
Counter-Ciltizeun Company
Boston and Maine R R Trains Between Lowell and Boston
Passenger trains run between Lowell and Boston daily with stops at key stations. Service schedules indicate morning and afternoon departures, offering commuter connections to central Boston and surrounding suburbs. Local notices warn of limited weekend trains during track maintenance.
The Courier Notes War News and Navy Movements
The August 6 1898 issue reports vacation delivery options and rates for subscribers. It notes uncertain Spanish decisions, Dewey at Cavite, the Bay State hospital ship sailing to Cuban waters, and stock prospects of Electrolytic Marine Salts. It discusses Aguinaldo’s letters, Major Donovan, and rumors about the Sixth Massachusetts regiment in Porto Rico with cautious skepticism and calls for full inquiry.
Pious Frauds Behind The War Debate
The speaker denounces many critics as pious frauds who avoided the front yet claim the war serves noble Cuban causes. They argue Americans should sacrifice while Cubans receive aid, asserting no consideration for our own starving soldiers. The passage questions their motives and logic.
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United States
Inflammatory call to action on Cuba and Maine memory
The speaker denounces demands to attack in revenge for Spanish atrocities on Cuba while urging restraint on honoring the Maine incident. He argues such rhetoric misleads patriotic sentiment and tarnishes Christianity, labeling it cant rather than true duty.
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Maine
Alaska Coal Find Alters World Supply Fears
Reports from Alaska claim huge coal deposits found along the Hoyakuk river 400 miles up from St Michael's as miners search for gold. An English authority compares the coal to Pennsylvania anthracite and suggests vast mineral wealth beneath Alaska and Siberia, including iron and ore alongside gold.
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Alaska
Middle
Middle Western States
Europe
St. Michael's
Hoyakuk River
Pennsylvania
Yukon
Siberia
The Catchall and a War Era Outburst of Pride
A fragment from a local column mixed with wartime sentiment recalls a veteran’s salute to a black regiment, doubts about Cervera, labor union demonstrations, Huntington hall fixes, towels for soldiers, and a Dewey-named rowboat on the Merrimack. Bert Brock reports from Yale about Guantanamo Bay news and fleet activity.
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Bert Brock
Yale
Guantanamo Bay
Siboney
Santiago
Florida
On the Water Two Weeks Aboard With Hardtack Meals
A letter describes two weeks at sea with cocoa and fruit on land visible, but hardships of deck sleeping, constant coffee and hardtack meals, scarce paper and envelopes, and a wish to land somewhere. The writer mentions swimming nightly, fishing, one rainy night, and hopes to write from a present address to Bert.
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Guy
Pet
Charleston
Bert
Review of August literary issues and magazine contents
The August issue of Table Talk offers practical housewife reads by Martha Bockeelint and Virginia Lyndall Dunbar. Collier’s Weekly shows naval and army photos from the Santiago fall events, and St Nicholas includes navy and weather pieces by E. B. Rogers and others. The August Outing showcases sport and travel features, plus local society notices from Lowell and Tyngsboro. The Lowell branch reports surgical shirts and bandage donations, while Chelmsford notes community efforts. Ell a P. Judkins signs as secretary. The August Ladies’ Home Journal pleases readers with nine short stories by Hawthorne, Morris, Bangs, Maude, Goodloe, Ford, Welch, and Cloud, with a poem and a novelette concluding.
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Martha Bockeelint
Virginia Lyndall Dunbar
Tewksbury
Lowell
F. H. Farmer
Henry Billings
Elbridge Whiting
T. W. Gray
Thomas Carley
Kinoch Foster
Joel Phelps
Fannie Spaulding
Lizzie Rogers
Ida E. Chandler
George Brown
Ellen Lock
Irving Lock
Marcellus Patten
Hiram Dinsmo
Chelmsford
Centre
North Villages
Episcopal Society
North Village
Ella P. Judkins
August Ladies' Home Journal
Julian Hawthorne
Clara Morris
John Kendrick Bangs
E. H. Maude
Abbe Carter Goodloe
Sewell Ford
Bettina Welch
Virginia Woodward Cloud
Salem
Julia Magruder
Shocks From Firing a Big Gun Explain Effects Near
Philadelphia Times explains the physical and mental effects on soldiers near a large cannon. The piece details gas expansion, ignition, inflammation, and combustion of gunpowder, plus complex air pressure, line forces, and recoil. It notes possible heart tremors, deafness, headaches, nausea, ear drum rupture, and nervous shock.
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Ito
Philadelphia Times
War Cry in Lowell through Mattie Towne’s faith
The Lowell Salvation Army paper War Cry is sold by Mattie Towne, a resilient local figure who survived a past accident and still eyes a larger role. She sells about 200 papers weekly to a mix of businessmen, lawyers and bankers, and learns from customers how her prayers influence their lives.
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Lowell
Mattie Towne
Salvation Army
New York
Bng
Mattie
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Charette
Aguinaldo
Wildman
Donovans
Porto Rico
COAL
Old Sixth
Cervera
Merrimack
Christian Hill
Spain
City Hall
Huntington Hall
Volunteer Aid Association
The
American Bar Association
Saratoga Springs
Ian
Tyngsboro
Admiral Dewey
All Druggista Hood
Collier's Weekly
Admiral Cervera
General Shafter
St. Nicholas
Navy
Margery
Anna A. Rogers
E. B. Rogers
America
Charles’ B. Howard
Philippines
Juanito
Jefe
Charles M. McCarteney
John M. Elliott
Cuba
Ellicott
Willie Tucker
Fisher Ames, Jr
E. L. H. McGinnis
Catskills
A. H. Godfrey
Ed. W. Sandys
Jock Scott
M. Gertrude Cundill
Adirondacks
S. A. Miller
J. Parmley Paret
H. W. Huntington
Newfoundland
Cockburn Harvey
Seaboard
Hugh L. Fitzpatrick
Oya
Louis Alexander
Central Street
Army
Hamilton Woolen Co
Putnam & Son
NEW York Cloak and Suit CO
John Street
Stanley
H. C. Church & Son
Ansurance Agency
P. F. Devine
Merrimack St
Middlesex St
Mt Ene Hocaine Rem
A. W. Brown
Banner Market
Prescott Street
Courier
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