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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1900
Page
4
Boston and Maine Railroad operates trains between Lowell and Boston from Middlesex Street Station. The service connects Lowell and downtown Boston, with schedules indicating regular daytime runs and frequent stops. Commuters rely on the route for daily travel between the city and the town.
The Courier invites readers planning vacations away from town to leave name and address at the Citizen building business office to receive regular copies. This notice directs readers to submit contact details at the Courier business office in the Citizen building.
The editorial notes General Collins backs the straight Democratic ticket and questions true democracy. It laments New York heat deaths and a Pennsylvania express messenger murder, fears rising crime, and discusses Li Hung Chang, China’s bargaining stance, and the anticipated repercussions. Coler is urged to reject Tammany, while Croker and Platt influence party unity amid temperance quarrels.
The writer notes the importance of observing Cubans as neighboring people and urges studying their appearance, habits, and customs while relations with the island are now closer, viewing today as a key opportunity for acquaintance.
Saturday and Sunday brought the usual crimes accidents and fatalities as the holiday rush and the strain of public life during summer weighed on people. The passage hints that these costs accompany modern pleasures pursued on weekends.
Filipino labor is capable of meeting future needs without Chinese immigration. Manila’s potential grows as education rises, while improvement includes better housing, banks, and harbor works. The old walled city, Ermita and Malate, Rinondo, and Pasig river expansion frame a vision of a modern Manila.
The Tabasco Banjo Mandolin and Guitar Club travels to Mont Vernon New Hampshire on Wednesday to perform at the McCollum Institute fiftieth anniversary celebration in the Town Hall. They are joined by Miss Gertrude Sewall and Mr H Porter Smith with W E Stratton and others in the group.
Webster Mass visitors stay with Capt Philbrick in Walker street while guests from Baltimore and Washington join Lowell and Lisbon notables for parties and anniversaries. Boston Herald notes welcome at Clifton as Boutwell family returns from Liverpool with a celebratory breakfast.
Reports say former President Benjamin Harrison has become fond of golf. Seen at a nearby Indianapolis course, the pudgy but dignified statesman is described as lively and enthusiastic, wearing bright golf attire and moving with youthful vigor as he puts and drives.
Charlotte Bronte's widower the Rev Arthur B Nichols now over 80 and spends much time on land business at Banagher Ireland. Though remarried he observes the anniversaries of his first wife’s birth and death.
A long list of residents and friends plan trips and vacations across New Hampshire Vermont New York state and Canada. Included are Albert E Hill Clara B Hill Edith Freeman Harriet Conant Jennie McLaughlin William Frantz who resigns from Middlesex mills and many others spending time at Newmarket Hampton Beach Lake Sunapee Newport Coney Island Old Orchard and other locales. Also noted are career moves and a health reminder about colds and Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup.
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