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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1903
Page
8
Real estate note describes a two-story frame house on a stone foundation with cemented cellar, porch spanning the front, bay windows, four well-lighted second-floor rooms with closets and a bathroom, a spacious first-floor reception hall, parlor, library, dining room, kitchen with pantry, and u-shaped hallways.
Over two months workers decorated the Lowell Masonic lodges under L Haberstroh Son of Boston. Improvements include red main hall decor, a red velvet carpet weighing four pounds per yard, new electric lights, a pine banquet-floor with waterproofing, a cloak room, and a notable committee led by A G Pollard. Plans also show broader Lowell building activity and upcoming projects across health, education, and real estate sectors.
The text notes P O Hearn as the busiest Lowell contractor directing work for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. He handles the Textile school addition, Appleton mill addition, and the county truant school building at North Chelmsford. Plans for a Nashua high school compete with Stickney Austin and Harry Prescott Graves. Herbert R. White, secretary of Peters Exchange, is at Baker's Island.
Real estate transfers show William Manning to John T. Conway and others exchanging land with buildings on various streets for one dollar. Transactions list buyers, sellers, street locations in Chelmsford Tewksbury Dracut Wilmington and surrounding areas with minimal prices noted as one dollar.
J W Gorman's Imperials headline at Canobie Lake Park in the Rustic theatre for the week starting Monday August 31. Acts include the three Millettes with grand tumbling and strength feats, Dan and Bessie Kelly in a character comedy sketch with singing and dancing, Eckhoff and Gordon in vocal and instrumental numbers, moving pictures, and Franz Reilhoffer's Alpine Vagabonds a German Bavarian vocal and instrumental sketch performed by three women and a man.
Cunard steamer Lucania reached New York after a five day eleven hour voyage. Passenger Robert Grau reported on board news from Wales where Adelina Patti stays at Craig-Y-Nos castle. Patti will sail to America on Oct 24 with Grau managing her tour. Grau also secured Mary Anderson Navarro for ten readings in 1904-05. Patti reportedly to be paid $5000 a night plus expenses for ten companions. Mary Anderson terms are not settled.
Melbourne report says the protectionist association led by Sir William Lynne has cabled Colonial Secretary Chamberlain announcing support for preferential trade within the present tariff framework without altering colonial protection policies.
An advertisement warns of constipation dangers and urges Iron-Ox Tablets as a tonic laxative that builds the entire system. It claims rapid, dramatic risks from stopped bowels and contrasts purgatives, offering fifty tablets for 25 cents from The Iron-Ox Remedy Co of Detroit.
Sabbath lesson narrates David in the cave Adullam taking measure against Saul with Abishai. David spares Saul, trusting God, while Abishai would have slain him, and Saul later confesses sin yet remains unreliable. The study links to meekness and divine deliverance, urging trust in God.
A weekly Christian Endeavor commentary stresses the church's duty to the foreign born, noting their numbers at 10,460,085 with 850,000 newcomers anticipated. It details immigration trends, origins, and settlement patterns, urging salvation and Americanization to avert threats to national welfare and Christian institutions.
Dr Clark emphasizes devotion to Bible study and improved youth education within the church. He praises quiet worship, orderly giving, and Christian citizenship efforts grouped like chapels around a cathedral, highlighting the Christian Endeavor movement as a guiding framework.
In England there are 55 605 Primitive Methodist Endeavorers a gain of 4 806 over last year. Two hundred one new Junior societies have been organized.
The Christian Endeavor World is described as official representative of the societies adopted by the sixth annual convention. The united society president edits the paper and the treasurer handles business with support from the paper. Officers of state and local unions volunteer their services.
London reports the royal commission on the South African war issues three blue books totaling more than 1700 pages. Generals Lord Roberts Lord Kitchener Lord Wolseley and others detail strategic errors within the war effort and criticize the War Office for lack of clear plans and instructions.
Portland Maine August 28 Navy joint maneuvers end at noon with thousands of troops withdrawn from city defense. A landing party of 1800 under Rear Admiral Coghlan claimed victory at Cape and Spurwink stations though inspectors later said no landing occurred as troops and boats were kept from shore. Night demonstrations near Two Lights with searchlights and the fleet firing at Fort McKinley and Fort Levett followed by mortar batteries as the staged war game continued. The Panther and another cruiser were seen near the Cape heading toward Haly Way Rock.
The Nashua Fair on September 10 will stage four races on a fast track. More than 100 machines are expected to enter with automobiles from Massachusetts New Hampshire and Rhode Island joining rivals for over 500 machines on the grounds. The fair promises many other attractions to draw crowds and surpass prior records.
In this city a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thor Borg of Rea Street.
F L Wilkins of Shell Lake Wisconsin recounts his four year old son's severe colic and cramps. After morphine injections failed the boy improved after half a teaspoonful of Cimberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sleeping within thirty minutes and recovering. Sold by all druggists.
Scrofula salt rheum erysipelas and other distressing eruptions yield quickly and permanently to the cleansing purifying action of Burdock Blood Bitters as promoted in this period advertisement.
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