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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
6
The Lowell daily Courier-Citizen announces itself as oldest in Middlesex, established in 182, daily since 1845, published at Merrimack Street, Lowell. Delivery by carrier six cents a week. publication excludes Sundays and holidays.
Yesterday's clear, cool night and a strengthening westerly breeze set a mild, pleasant day. Forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions across New England tonight and Friday with cooler air in eastern Maine and light to fresh westerly winds.
Publisher lists editorial and counting room phone numbers and directs readers to contact the business office for advertising, newspaper non delivery, address changes, and business inquiries. It asks patrons to use care when calling and provides specific extension numbers for each department.
Courier readers on vacation may have the paper mailed to summer homes by leaving word at the office, 15 17 Merrimack Street.
The article cites Prof William James in a Springfield Republican letter noting humans harbor latent bloodthirstiness. It argues civilization suppresses homicidal impulses, but warns that any relaxation of external pressure could unleash brutality. Lynching, increasingly common, exposes a veneer of modern civilization and calls for individual reform and societal revulsion.
A contemporary opinion piece argues that Rockefeller could not justify provoking a stock panic to force anti trust repeal. It portrays the threat as a bluff, notes market volatility as natural, and warns that the presidency should resist capitulating to trust pressure while criticizing Maj. Vardaman's white supremacist view as inhuman and unacceptable for Mississippi.
Massachusetts clerks meet in Boston with Willard Allen as a focus while a group photo forms near Lowell. News recounts motorists visiting Mont Vernon New Hampshire, a splash of local anecdotes, a beer case, and a long reminiscence about choke cherries and milk after a childhood misadventure.
A jaunty compilation notes storms in Jamaica and a Canadian revenue cutter rumor, while Massachusetts battleship activity in Bah Habbah stirs social scenes. References sweep from Tolstai books to Carrie Nation protests in New England towns with sharp, satirical takes on current events.
Premier Balfour declares that Macedonian outrages balance criminal styles with revolutionists, not Turks. The Paris horror shows danger of underground electric trains and the need for nonflammable cars to prevent trains from catching fire during tunnel travel.
Boston keeps the tax rate at 14.80 dollars, aided by a 28 million dollar rise in real estate values and a smaller increase in personal property. The Irish Home Rulers gain favor, John Redmond cites better odds for home rule, crops show improvement, and Gov. Durbin of Indiana is floated as a potential vice president candidate.
Prof Kendrick C Babcock special history assistant at University of California has been offered the presidency of the University of Arizona. John Brisben Walker Cosmopolitan editor buys Berkeley lake and 100 acres in Colorado for development. Paul Laurence Dunbar ill in Chicago slowly recovering and plans Catskills trip. Capt E W Van C Lucas engineer corps in charge of Mississippi improvements says work funded by $2,000,000 appropriation will begin near Memphis on Aug 15.
Excerpt quotes Gen. Miles versus Gen. Root over the Philippine war and war department tensions, noting Roosevelt’s intervention. Also cites Uncle Russell Sage’s 87th birthday quip and editorials on Tillman, South Carolina, and miscegenation debates, with mixed opinions about southern development and political authority.
Joyful automobilists welcome Sawyer Carriage company’s new auto repair shop on the second floor of the factory. Equipped with special machinery and an experienced supervisor, the department offers complete repairs from minor troubles to serious breaks, plus painting and upholstering drawing on the firm’s carriage-craft reputation. Illuminated canoe parade and shore illumination, Willow Dale, tonight.
The Herald reports little change in the dry goods market as prices rise and demand dwindles. Lowell mills face long delays on fall deliveries due to a prior strike while retailers stock up, awaiting new orders at current high prices.
The advance announced by American and Merrimack yesterday surprised no one in the jobbing trade and is already boosting activity. Buyers rush orders at old figures while retail stockpiles anticipate further gains. Woolen and worsted sectors show strength as fancy worsteds open and prices remain near last year, with lines redesigned to cut costs amid higher wool and labor costs.
Dancing men are in short supply at Newport, with no double trading stamps or bargain-counter waltzes offered. The city’s social scene sticks to modest dancing and standard entertainments as crowds seek simple pleasure.
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