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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
6
Oldest and best daily in Middlesea county established 1825 daily since 1845 published at Courier Citizen Building Merrimack Street Lowell delivered by carrier in city at 6 cents a week Courier Citizen Company.
Yesterday featured a clearing sky and a fresh westerly breeze. It turned cold at night with a near full moon and temperatures dipping to several degrees below 50 in some areas. Forenoon offered splendid weather and readings show 29.64 to 29.80 in barometer.
Boston reports a forecast for New England showing fair tonight and Sunday with general cloudiness and likely showers. Winds shift to light to fresh south to west, warmer tonight except in eastern Maine.
Editorial rooms and counting room numbers listed for contact. Patrons are urged to use care in calls and direct advertising, non-delivery, changes of address, or business inquiries to the business office at 31 5.
Courier readers on vacation may arrange mail delivery by leaving word at the office located at 15 17 Merrimack street.
The editorial argues that New York City real estate assessments raise rents for tenement tenants as valuations rise, spreading the tax burden beyond owners to users and consumers. It accuses demagoguery and criticizes costly municipal expenditures, praising Mayor Howe's prudent economy and cautious spending against extravagant projects.
Boston notes that modern education shows more time and effort yet shorter terms. Critics debate whether longer effort is laudable as the author points to fewer weeks days and hours now. Fifty years ago the school week was longer than today.
The article reflects on long vacations and school terms, currency and finance, the automobile’s permanence, beef prices amid cattle shortages, and a disaster linking Durand Michigan to a train wreck with twenty-two fatalities, highlighting civic lessons and economic cautions.
A collection of aphorisms and light notices touches on Pius X, corn, a shore dinner, boxing at Riverside park, a 64 mile army command trip, Lowell's relief depot, an explosion relief committee head on Wright, mountains and beaches, sleighing, stock speculation, Maine harbors, and pugilist Corbett's new clavicle punch aimed at Jeffries.
The piece notes F M Spaulding formerly of Tewksbury reappears in Los Angeles with an amusement and steeple chase company promising 20 to 25 percent stock returns. It also covers local topics on electric fans, shifting seasons, and a critical view of a municipal directory’s artful missteps.
The essay argues China must pursue internal reforms to withstand foreign pressure, condemns Empress Dowager's suppression of reformers, and notes Shanghai editors facing sedition charges. It warns that persecution of reformers could invite greater Russian influence in Manchuria, urging reforms over punitive actions and a stronger Chinese state.
The report notes only three of the 1877 electoral commission survive ex Senator Edmunds ex Senator Hoar and General Eppa Hunton of Virginia. It also mentions all five supreme court justices are dead and Miss Minnie Eloise Kehoe of Pensacola becomes Florida official stenographer under a new law she helped pass. Jessie Gibson of Indianapolis, MIT graduate, becomes partner with her father and is Indianapolis’s first woman architect.
Mr C D Clark and Miss Frances Clark will spend a week or more at Wells beach while Mr A B Paasche and family return from Salisbury beach. Dr S L Dutton and Miss Bertha Dutton return from a Nova Scotia trip. Mrs Dutton stays with a married daughter. Rev C H Ellis to move to the Baptist parsonage. F L Kendall to Dunstable. Manola whist club of eight couples enjoyed semi mountain climbing at Summit house on Robins hill with private refreshments. Miss C A Richardson and Sunday school class toured Westford to the log cabin estate of Mr Charles L Hildreth.
The piece notes predictions of a bottoming decline proving wrong. It cites Simon Cameron on politics as the meanest business and mentions two Missouri editors tried for contempt of court with justified conduct. It also hints Al Sulloway may replace John Sanborn at Boston and Maine influence, and comments on Mayor Howe and Fourth of July behavior.
The piece notes $8.5 million spent on the St. Louis world’s fair, $1.15 per word to send talk to the Philippines by cable, and a $1 million half year budget cut by the United States commission. It lists animal values from lion to elephant and cites $50 million plus invested in American yachting, including over 40 million in steam yachts and more than 600 vessels.
A Milford Cabinet quote notes horses growing used to automobiles and few remain frightened. A Transcript extract jokes about Pope Pius X being ignorant of diplomacy, claiming it may be a chief qualification as diplomacy declines outside Russia and Cambridge society.
In North Billerica a petition to remove the elm east of Fordway bridge prompts a special meeting next Thursday night. Chief Martin Conway Jr. has recovered from malaria. Carl Mortenson begins a two week vacation to Portland and Quebec. Local photographers Hutchins and Mahoney exhibit ruins of the South Lowell explosion. The cricket game tonight is against the Lawrence Athletics. Philodean club adds two members and hosts winter events. T. R. & T. play Ballardvale. fans scout a double feature at Spalding park versus New Bedford N E. James F. Barry visits Wilson street. Chas Irish is elected collector of the North Billerica council, A R. A., replacing Ernest Stott.
Town teams finish clearing the area of the recent explosion and resume macadamizing Pleasant street. A petition is sent to the State to dredge and clean Round Pond.
Inspector Maher arrested Harry Noble, an out of Westboro school pupil on parole, on a larceny charge. He faces charges in connection with the theft and is in custody for further questioning.
Advertisement claims instant relief and permanent cure for eczema scald head hives and itchiness with Dean's Ointment available at any drug store.
A Springfield Republican editorial warns that the outcome favorable to China's integrity and independence is increasingly imperiled if the reform spirit is crushed, stressing vigilance against rollback and the dangers of stagnation in political reform.
A New York telegraph from the Chinese Reform association appeals to Secretary Hay for U S cooperation with the British ambassador in Shanghai to save reformers under protection. Kwai Pang says reformers seek better government and support the Emperor against the Dowager Empress, with 3000 in New York and six million in the movement.
Nathaniel Parker Gage of Washington D C longtime supervising principal of northwestern schools died in Chester Vermont from apoplexy. Born about 63 years ago in Pelham New Hampshire he served in education for eight decades in the region.
Drummond Tennessee merchant T A Pinner declares he recovered from dysentery after taking one bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He praises it as the best cholera medicine, noting no doctor was needed and the medicine is effective for children and adults. Available at all druggists.
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