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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
4
Timetabled departures and returns between Nashua Lawrence Ayer and surrounding towns. Listings show morning and evening boats or trains with multiple times, some returns, and notes for Wednesdays Saturdays and Sundays.
Courier readers heading out of town for the Summer will have the paper mailed to a preferred address with flexible changes. The paper offers to update delivery locations as often as needed to accommodate travelers.
The Lowell Daily Courier notes sharp words from Hon. E. J. Phelps about Chicago supporters and derides Chairman Jones as appealing to “plain people” for campaign funds. It comments on McKinley prospects, warns of Hill’s trust issues, and labels Jones’s appeals as flubdub to bind the masses with “financial forces of Europe.”
The letter of acceptance by Gov. McKinley is plain, intelligible, and exhaustive. It argues with keen logic and stresses facts, defending sound money and providing arguments for supporters. It also handles the protection question conclusively for anti free traders and portrays the author as a statesman fit to govern seventy million people.
With revenue falling many millions short of expenses each month, the article notes leaders resisting steps to replenish the treasury. It cites dwindling manufacturing under foreign competition and ongoing economic strain as the broader context for the dispute.
The piece argues that free traders and free silver advocates threaten national prosperity by eroding currency value and protectionist gains. It recalls a bygone era of strong wages, rising trade, and wealth, asking why voters would abandon that progress for uncertain reforms. It mocks the 1896 platform as madness akin to a lunatic asylum.
Maine appears poised for a Governor Kent result again while Vermont vamps up a lively campaign with Lodge, Proctor, Edmunds, and Thurston speeches. Chauncey Depew’s after dinner remarks draw mixed reviews as crowds flock to rallies where many rely on newspapers for President Harrison views.
A Boston Herald critique denounces silver agitation led by Williams and allies. It argues that backing silver threatens national credit and industrial welfare, claiming it would close workshops and trigger a financial crash harming wage earners.
The Concord Monitor argues during the War of the Rebellion half a million workers faced scarce labor yet prices rose sharply and wages lagged. Depreciated currency lowered purchasing power until 1879 when specie payments resumed, proving cheap money harms wage earners regardless of it being paper or silver.
The column notes Anne Brown Adams facing poverty in California after a house fire, sheltering in a blacksmith shop with six children and an invalid husband. Dr. John Wesley Gadsden, a leading veterinary surgeon, died in Philadelphia and helped prove pleuro-pneumonia is contagious, serving as veterinary inspector and Montreal Veterinary College examiner. Louis XIV is described as of medium height, with royal tombs at St Denis desecration and discovery of the king's height. Max Nordau is labeled Paris’s greatest cafe visitor with a caustic portrait by an American observer.
Mint officials estimate this calendar year’s gold production reaching about 225 million dollars with the United States contributing at least 50 million and other major producers like South Africa, Australia, Russia, and Mexico adding substantial amounts. Silver output remains steady while gold will be the year’s largest on record, offering triple the value eight years ago after accounting for industrial use.
Philadelphia youth Geo F Elwell reportedly smoked 20 cigarettes in 30 minutes and died before morning authorities investigate possible health effects of rapid tobacco use and underlying conditions on a case in Philadelphia storefront.
Read like a late 19th century column, the piece covers new silver certificates seen by banks, a joke about John F. Murphy and fortune, crowding of familiar faces from vacations, bicycle etiquette and sidewalk riding, gum chewing, pedestrians versus wheelmen, electric streetcar anecdotes, and a humorous misfire about a trolley delay as the car crew blames the wires.
Dr. Chapman hosted a horseback party to honor Miss Bernard of Philadelphia, riding to Tewksbury and back. Guests included Miss Lowman, Miss Rena Pindar, Miss Helen Dimon, Mrs. Chapman, and young attendees who danced on the lawn after a spread on the parlor lawn. Bernard sang with banjo and offered a witty parody on Woman's Rights.
In extreme sprain or bruise, cut or burn cases Thomas' WM electric Oil provides near instant relief and serves as an ideal family liniment.
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