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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
5
A calm stock session with light two hour activity and firm tones. Sugar remains strong trading near 126 while Erie Telephone rose to 98. Continental Tobacco closed higher. Banks show reserve declines and deposits rise with overall cautious investor sentiment amid political and global tensions.
Bright, Sears & Co report the day’s market happenings in Boston and New York. Stocks indexes and commodity prices rise amid trading, with notable gains in railroad and steel shares.
San Francisco August 10 Judge Troutt ruled Mrs Nettie R Craven is not the widow of James U Fair denying her 5000 monthly allowance The pencil will and deeds are forged and the Sausalite marriage is deemed invalid The judge notes lack of good faith and that no mutual marital duties existed An appeal to the state supreme court was filed by the attorney for Mrs Craven
In New York on Aug 10 Pradstreet notes a brighter tone amid mid summer turmoil. Despite crop damage talk and dull speculating, orders for dry goods clothing and hardware rise at western centers. Steel products bookings grow in Pittsburgh and Chicago with firm steel bars and improved Western prices. Bank clearings dip, but rail earnings show gains. wheat and wool firm, cotton goods strengthen, and fall dry goods trade remains active.
The article analyzes synchronized depressions across the United States Great Britain Germany and France with tables of 1826 to 1887 dates and 1882 1886 iron production. It argues a shared condition across these nations caused the panics and seeks a universal factor not found in Russia Austria Italy or Spain. It cites Hull in The Engineering Magazine.
By order of the Merrimack Mfg Co, 82 shares of Merrimack Mfg Co new stock issued at 11.90 a.m. The notice records the corporate action and the share quantity with the procedural timestamp and authority.
Richard Duffy recounts William Gillette’s early years from Hartford to St Louis and New Orleans, where tall stature limited roles, through New York where he played minor parts and studied at the University of New York and Institute of Technology. His big break came with The Mother's Secret in Cincinnati and a later breakthrough with The Professor debuting June 1 1882 at Madison Square Theatre.
The article recalls Samuel Langhorne Clemens first public appearance at the Academy of Music in San Francisco on September 29 1866. It notes his Sandwich Islands trip reports and peer coterie of bohemians including Bret Harte Prentice Mulford and Warren Stoddard. The San Francisco Chronicle predicted mixed reception noting the queen of the islands in attendance and Twain’s promised lecture with doors opening at seven and audience intrigue.
Will M. Clemens in Ainslee's describes a lecturer who arrived to find his band canceled at the last moment. He tried to explain with humor as he began with a famous line and delivered an hour and a quarter of geographic, agricultural, and statistical remarks in rich, soaring prose.
An excerpt from Robert E Strahorn describes a vast lava sea stretching from Yellowstone through Idaho Oregon and Washington to southern British Columbia. It details a grand circular lava flow along the Snake River lava plain with mountains iced and charred by flames and lava forming canyon walls and shorelines. Hood's Sarsaparilla is touted as a blood purifier curing catarrh rheumatism and other humors and boosting appetite.
To let the house at 25 Anne Street offers one main room and bath with steam heating. Inquiries should be directed to Gordon Tweed at 63 Markel Street.
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