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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
4
Boston and Maine Railroad schedules show trains running between Lowell and Boston with regular intervals and typical travel times. The service connects key regional centers, providing daily commuter and passenger options along the corridor.
Summer travelers can have the Cour ier mailed to mountains, country, or seashore addresses for any period by sending word to the Courier-Citizen counting room.
The Lowell Daily Courier weighs in on Northern lynching sentiment, Western prosperity, and local civic pages including a bath house veto. It notes a U S warship to Colon and ongoing Isthmus traffic concerns. Describes a steel strike and China floods with 20,000 deaths, and Admiral Evans avoiding a clash with Chandler.
The piece argues the Democrat nominee for Massachusetts governor is unlikely to perform well, praising Murray Crane as a strong governor and noting laborers acknowledge his record. It warns against a windy demagogic campaign this year and predicts a poor contest for the Democrats.
The Massachusetts statutes are due for revision at considerable cost after long arduous work. The effort aims to bring the statutes into a convenient form, a task repeated every few years as the legislative body has grown rapidly.
The piece weighs the Public Statutes and blue books for understanding law, contrasts Tampa’s labor agitation tactics with northern methods, and notes how deportation and agitation tactics would fail here. It praises President Shaffer for respectful leadership during a pivotal labor dispute as workers weigh wage gains against broader costs.
A detailed overview of canal route debates in Congress as supporters reexamine Nicaragua and Panama options. The discussion covers U S and British interests, potential French rights, a canal zone, and the economics and geopolitics of securing a passage across the Isthmus.
The discussion centers on Panama versus Nicaragua as a sea level canal. Proponents argue Panama would boost American carrying trade by linking to South America, while critics warn against discarding Nicaragua studies. Commissions urge action or deferral until a clear decision emerges.
Baron Mount Stephen donates £40000 to the Presbyterian church of Scotland for ministers in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. Captain Spelterini plans a second attempt to cross the Alps in August starting from St Moritz after a wind driven first try into France. Professor Johannes Lamp, leader of the German East Africa Congo frontier expedition, dies at Ranada in his fifty first year. The three children of Daniel Addison Heald donate their father’s library of 1150 volumes and three pictures to the Orange Free Library in Llewellyn Park New Jersey, valued at over $7000. donors Aremah M Burtis George L Mannin and John Oxenbridge Heald.
Quoted editorials warn a general wage reduction is imminent in Fall River signaling possible widespread cuts in cotton textile wages across New England. Reports note Lawrence mayor advocates strict bar closures and police action, while Lowell papers criticize city leadership for bank cash use and municipal governance.
A Nantucket skipper could tell shoals by sand color in a fog bound voyage. A passenger tests the tallow lead and, with dirt from a flower pot, the skipper declares the Widow Jones garden sparked the sunken island joke. Mayor Dimon to host park event. civic notes on streetcar service and nocturnal cats. Revenue from South Common cited. debate on exclusive rents for Trades and Labor council continues amid city governance concerns.
A forenoon home ceremony bound William B. Hilliard and G Mabel Sprague in marriage at 10 45 yesterday at the bride’s grandparents 589 School street. Rev R A Greene of Grace Universalist church officiated with only close relatives present. The bride wore white and sweet peas. The couple departed at 12 45.
A Lowell couple married and will reside in Bridgeport Conn where Mr Hilliard recently secured a machinist job. They have many friends in Lowell who extend best wishes and gave a wealth of wedding gifts.
Mr Albert H White and Mrs Nellie Hartley were united in marriage Wednesday at the rectory of Worthen Street M E church by Rev J F Allen.
Local notices list residents and relatives departing for seaside resorts and trips to New Hampshire Massachusetts and beyond. Individuals include Patrick Gilbride and wife heading to York Beach, John Higgins traveling to Buffalo for the Pan American exposition, and several families visiting Old Orchard Beach Mont Vernon Bradford Springs and Great Lakes border cities.
An elderly woman recounts a tale from 1860 describing a drought in Kansas. She and her husband traveled from Lecompton to Lawrence when a German farmer hosted them for dinner. The meal featured abundant fresh vegetables, unusual for a drought season, and the farmer showed a garden planted in the Kansas river bed where moisture remained after the river ceased to run.
Philadelphia became the first city to issue a directory, its inaugural edition published in 1785, marking a pioneering step in urban record keeping and local business listings.
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