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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1901
Page
6
A historic note details trains operating on the Boston and Maine line between Lowell and Boston. It outlines routes and service scope, indicating passenger trains serving the corridor and typical travel activity during the era.
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The page surveys reform in New York and political strife related to Tammany Hall, commentary on Blondin sightings, and echoes doubts about Admiral Evans and his papers. It notes a stern New York bribery sentence and jokes about university and church crises including London’s St Paul’s cracks and a perilous foundation.
The essay discusses naval vs army power, praising sea strength while noting land force growth opposition. It critiques Admiral Evans and ex-Senator Chandler, questions the missionaries indemnity, and highlights New York anti corruption efforts linking police to gambling. It mentions Gen Chaffee, Dr Ament, Mark Twain, and Parkhurst society.
Gen. MacArthur notes the Philippines face a tangled currency problem well before and after American occupation. He describes a chaotic mix of world minted coins with no common standard, fluctuating value, limited legal tender, and speculative conditions fueling banking activity and profits.
Gen. MacArthur favors adopting a gold standard, proper coinage, and a national bank system in the Philippines to replace unstable values tied to pesos. The plan would keep the Philippine peso as unit while anchoring it to a stable gold standard, with United States money improving currency relations and reducing market volatility. Charles A. Conant is to study the issue and report, signaling high official interest.
Harold Parker of Lancaster a state highway commission member and Wachusett mountain reservation commissioner is seriously ill in Clinton hospital after a successful appendicitis operation and expected to rally. Gov General Wood of Cuba arrived in Boston from New York for a vacation and will visit his Cape mother. Charles D Hart of Hingham sailed from New York aboard the Ingalls for the Philippine islands to take city supervision of public instruction in Manila. Hart, a graduate of Hingham High and Bridgewater Normal, has taught in Lancaster and Leicester public schools.
Quotations discuss American progress from Manila and street hygiene with a ditty about not spitting. A Texas boom is launched as Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. unite to build a modern packing plant in Fort Worth costing over a million. The Boston Journal notes Texas advancement and warns against anti-industrial actions in the South.
A meandering notes piece covers wildlife, weather, time experiments in Cambridge, superstition about number thirteen, golf club anecdotes in Providence, a St Anne church bell tune, and a parade of local social notices. Readers in Provincetown Cambridge Lowell and Newburyport are referenced along with several residents and visitors at beaches hotels and expositions.
Mesers M J Sheahan clerks Jos T McGirr and John P Kenney set out on a hunting trip through Maine. Miss Mary P Gookin enjoys a two week vacation at New England beaches. Miss May T OConnell and clerk from A G Pollard & Co sails to Portland to visit her uncle Right Rev Wm H OConnell bishop of Portland. Master Ernest G Smith of 13 Shaw street marks a birthday anniversary.
Sullivan Richardson died Monday at the city farm aged about 89. He was known to old city residents and once ran a restaurant at 10 and 12 Merrimack Street.
Funeral notices list Mrs. Ann Faircloth from 204 Fletcher Street with mass at St. Patrick's Church led by Rev. John J. McHugh and choir under Edward F. Faulkner, plus interment in Catholic cemetery. Other services note infant Margaret Breault at 75 East Carrisonack Street, Mary J. Hallowood at 25 Rogers Street, John Hesson child from Rogers Street, and Annie Reed from 498 Lakeview Avenue, all under Undertaker C. H. Molloy or J. A. Weinbeck with Catholic cemetery interments.
Death notices from Aug 11 to Aug 12 include George L. Sheehan infant son of Maurice and Norah Sheehan at 10 Mill street. Henry McKee 84 in Billerica. Ellen E Murphy 28 at 12 West Street. Luke W Welch 6 at 257 Fayette Street. John William Simonds 16 years 5 months 22 days at 170 Pleasant Street, son of Frank J Simonds.
The survey notes 43 submarine valleys with depths over three miles and eight deeper than four miles, highlighting an extensive undersea topography.
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