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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1901
Page
8
The record notes astronomical measurements for August showing a gun rise at 4.58 and moon set at 8.02 p m. sun set at 6 43 length of day 13 50. This compact entry records daily cycle data with emphasis on sun and moon timings for the month.
Yesterday continued a fine summer day and night was clear and pleasant. Today similar with high temperatures around 83 and 84 degrees. Barometer steady at 29.82 to 29.85. Indicates fair tonight and Sunday with showers possible in western portions and west winds for Massachusetts.
The fragment from the August 17 1901 Lowell Daily Courier reports a Saturday issue with local notices and brief items. It preserves the newspaper’s period tone and likely lists community happenings, notices, and short briefs common to an early 20th century daily.
The notice invites patrons to Miss Ida Merrill of 482 Central Street as she reopens her boarding house on Sunday August 18 offering lodging as summer season resumes. The short item cites a local entrepreneur and a specific address.
The American band director P J Burleigh will lead a Sunday program at Fort Hill Park from 3 to 5 pm. The bill includes Invincible Eagle Sousa march Jubel Weber overture Dolly Gray He Laid Away a Suit of Gray Cleopatra and other selections with solo piccolo, baritone obbligato, and a medley of popular songs. An advertisement for Chamberlain's Liver Tablets follows.
Plattsburg New York August 16 The national convention discussed the temperance clauses in the constitution and amended subdivision A of section 104 to exclude employees without contact with manufacture and sale and subdivision B to also exclude druggists and their employees from the prohibited classes.
Citizens advised to donate to Mr. Edward Ellingwood to support country week. The appeal notes the charity benefits the poor children and has already helped over a hundred, with more awaiting assistance.
John Cote of 162 Lincoln Street suffered a hand injury at work when a sawn board struck him while employed by Merrimack Paving yesterday morning. He was taken to Emergency Hospital where the wound was dressed and several stitches were required.
Joseph Jacobs and John McGaukey were arrested for larceny at Belle Grove yesterday morning by Officer Chagnon. Jacobs later suffered cramps in his cell and was taken to the city farm by ambulance. Naples reportedly hosts a church cat population kept by authorities to catch mice, with cats seen among worshippers during mass.
A reader notes that after two to three weeks of using Grape-Nuts the body gains mental strength and clearer thinking. The advertisement claims the food provides materials Nature uses with albumen to rebuild gray matter in brain and nerves, promising definite results from regular use.
Mr and Mrs Charles J Glidden hosted an automobile excursion for Mr G E Adams during a European tour from Liverpool to Paris and London. They met Sir Thomas Lipton in London and discussed yacht racing and Lipton tea while Adams noted factories in Germany and eyeing a Boston race invitation.
J E Conant & Co announces an absolute auction in Lowell and Lawrence Massachusetts for the Prospect Worsted mills and Globe Worsted mills properties. The sale occurs August 22 1901 with parcels offered at 2 30 PM and 3 45 PM followed by adjacent tenement property at 4 15 PM. Trustees Henry K Webster Charles W Walworth Williams Knox oversee insolvency proceedings.
The text identifies Ner as both a successful publisher and a skilled machinist. It also notes that a Daniel Webster appears in two other profiles, one as a machinist and another as a farmer, highlighting a blend of vocation among notable individuals.
Real estate activity shows several tenement blocks sold by W E Potter and Son to J O Laughlin Henry B Sewall and Selby W Kidder. Edward McGovran buys 28 Fort Hill avenue for 3200. Freeman Higgins sells 102 High street tenement to James B Long for 3000. W H Limburg builds a cottage on Bridge street. Norman White purchases George J Holmes residence on Whitney avenue. S H Knox Co 5 and 10 cent store to be enlarged by removing Robbins store partitions to create 4800 square feet, with new steel ceiling and four windows. change date pending M F Davis architect.
Page and Curtin of Medford plan to convert the vacant church site into a business block. The first church there was built by Unitarians in 1824, burned in 1860, rebuilt, and transferred to Catholics in May 1876.
In North Chelmsford Mrs. Margaret McCabe and her daughter Angela are spending their summer at Old Orchard beach. The Unions promise a strong showing against West Acton in West Acton Saturday afternoon. Many villagers visited Old Orchard beach Thursday for a Boston and Maine excursion.
South Framingham Antoine Laplante and Fred Yeager were arraigned in district court Friday morning charged with maintaining liquor nuisances at 186 Waverley street and the Wisconsin house on the same street. They pleaded not guilty and their cases were continued for hearing to Saturday August 24. Each man was required to recognize $200 and bail was furnished.
The Buntings will play the Mohair Plush at Chelmsford street grounds with Priestly as captain and players Patrick Burns Rowley Croft Briggs Simpson Ellison Waterhouse Birtwistle and Chippendale. Reserves are Ianson G Bailey scorer J Aspin. No lawn bowling this afternoon on the Bunting grounds.
Leather workers prepare for Labor Day with khaki crash trousers blue shirts white cap butterfly neckties and a walking stick. About 600 men are expected to parade. The Lowell Military band has been engaged by the organization.
Lexington votes to grant Lexing ton and Boston Street Railway a double track franchise from Arlington line along Massachusetts avenue to Oak street. Directors accepted conditions including widening the street to 70 feet, paying damages to abutters, and land takings costs. Tracks to be laid in the middle of the road, and the street kept in first class condition.
In Wakefield a barn on Elm street burned after 4 am Friday destroying 21 cows. C R Hussey saved five with help from neighbors. Loss about 1200 on cows, 1200 on the barn owned by Mrs B A Osgood. Cause unknown. Fire alarm chain failures hampered response. insurance partially covered barn and stock.
A city directory of Lowell becomes a playful study of names and occupations. Amid classical and famous names such as Ananias Crete Demosthenes Demetriades Lycurgus Christopoulos Andre Bruce Bruyere Burns Chalmers Clay Grays Herschel Hood and Scotts, readers note varied jobs from clerks to machinists, overseers to poets, illustrating local character and eras through onomastics.
Gospel service will be held at the Young Women's Christian Association Sunday afternoon at 4 15. Mrs. McCoy of Chelmsford will speak. The praise service will be led by Miss Bennett. Twilight song service Sunday at 7 p m. Saturday evening social at 7 30.
The passage asserts that daily evidence supplied by citizens at home constitutes sufficient proof for the greatest skeptic. It frames proof as undeniable and invites readers to consider a presented case as demonstrative evidence.
Dr Charles H Utter of Panama Colombia reports a 16 year old patient with severe dysentery improved after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Within eight hours she felt better and by a week was completely well. For sale by all druggists.
In 1898 Mary Enwright of 11 Cedar street reports Doan's Kidney Pills from Ellingwood & Co aided her brother's backache. Her mother also used the remedy, always keeping it on hand. Sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo sole US agents. remember the name Doan's.
Tenements to let in every city area in good repair with low rents. Centralville offers 5 rooms for $8.00 monthly, Centralville two rooms for $4.50, Highstands 3 and 4 rooms for $7.00 and $8.00, Belvidere five rooms for $8.00, near Northern depot four rooms for $9.00, and a six room cottage in Ayer City for $8.00 monthly. Apply to T H Elliott, 64 Central Street.
The August National features human interest pieces on the Pan-American Exposition with A G Kingsbury from Cape Nome on Arctic discoveries and Tolstoi interview via Rev Peter MacQueen. It previews fiction and sketches, notes on LArt de la Mode for September, reviews, and vivid illustrations.
The Crisis popularity grows with demand at libraries and stores across cities. New works include Miss Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Tory Lover about the Revolution with illustrations by Woodbury. Orison Swett Marden’s Talks With Great Workers forthcoming. Anna R. Brown Lindsay’s What is Worth While in tenth thousand. Frederick Willer identity as C Sparre revealed in The Black Tortoise.
A Belgian count touring Switzerland was repeatedly mistaken for Dreyfus. Crowds gathered, he grew irritated, and disbelief followed until he produced his card proving his identity.
The August issue of The National Magazine will include the sprightly Good Cheer edited by Nixon Waterman andWaterman will continue as a regular contributor. A Thoroughbred Mongrel by Stephen Townesend is returning in new edition from F. A. Stokes Co. and is praised as dog comedy. Aaron Burr romance Blennerhassett to feature twelve full page oil sketches by C. H. Stephens.
The piece surveys The Oxford Year with a sonnet to September by J Williams and excerpts from Emily Read Nature Songs, including Sick Sorry Understand Nature hath cures, and an excerpt from Songs of Lucilla on Botticelli inspired Venus. It also comments on Botticelli’s Nascita di Venere as reimagined by an anonymous author and a closing meditation on Aphrodite.
The L. C. Page company publishes Arline Valere a realistic novel of modern New York. The book includes over one hundred pen and ink sketches by the author and is a facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript. It presents a unique production in book making.
During the present month we shall make very low prices on a lot of odds and ends in pictures and frames. We wish to close them out before we begin to get in our fall stock. This will be an excellent opportunity to secure a picture or portrait frame very cheap. We shall also continue to make low prices on framing just to keep our help busy and to keep things moving. GEORGE E. MAKER. Cor. Merrimack and John Streets.
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