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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1903
Page
5
Middlesex Women's Club meets Monday November 7 with Prof. Justin H. Smith of Dartmouth College presenting The Soil of History illustrated by the stereopticon.
The article contrasts Mr. Dowie and Zion City with New York lunch trends and then highlights growing suffrage support. It notes the American Federation of Labor and the National Grange endorsing full citizenship and voting rights for adult women, while recognizing women's cautious social standing and potential ridicule by men.
Mr. G. W. W. Bartlett of Haverhill displayed yesterday at the Middlesex Women's club council rooms a fine collection of well known New England scenery photographs colored by Winsor and Newton water colors. He takes his own photos and colors them, with artistically chosen scenes and exquisite coloring. Members admired the display before the lecture.
Mrs Helen Cole Duffield, famed for her prior Bible readings for the Middlesex Women's club, will speak this afternoon before the Women's Alliance in the vestry of the First Unitarian church on Merrimack street. The reading is part of the Alliance Bible study program for its members.
Pittsburg Nov 380 officials announce a strike of Pittsburg Railways street car men by Friday if demands are not met. An estimated 2500 of 2700 employees are members of the Amalgamated association. Company president Callery says no conference request has been received but a meeting may be arranged.
Frederick R. Burton of Yonkers presented an Ojibway lecture recital at Middlesex Women’s Club on Longfellow’s Hiawatha. He studied with the tribe, earned their trust, and now directs a company that renders authentic melodies with elaborate accompaniment while translating songs. The program featured native tunes sung in Ojibway and English, including Nokomis lullaby and love songs, with Burton noting the music’s pure poetry despite a later rewritten lyric for one melody.
Eight girls from Roxbury formed a band to steal in major department stores. They were arraigned in Boston today on larceny charges and held for a hearing on December 3.
Judge Hardy reserved ruling after arguments on a motion to dismiss the bill by J E Doherty and others against Boston Gaslight and related parties. The suit seeks to set aside Mercantile Trust Co New York sale of local gas stock to Kidder Peabody. The defense cites Pepper receivership in Delaware pending in the Supreme Court as grounds to dismiss.
In Boston on November 80 Judge Colt of the U S circuit court named F M Edwards as receiver for Codman and Hall company wholesale and retail wine and cigar merchants located at 645 647 Atlantic avenue. The receiver must file a bond of 50000 dollars.
The critic recalls a line about a love song that isn’t, and highlights a suite of pieces including a war song and My Bark Canoe. The Death Song of Hiawatha, sung antiphonally in the play’s finale, embodies a tribe’s death chant as Hiawatha sails westward. Mr. Burton praises Ojibways as gifted in music and aims to educate them to create distinctly American, original works.
A European influenced fashion roundup details chic military blue coats with red trims and brass buttons, plus trims like gold braid and ribbons. It notes hats with gold accents, mink turbans, wine velvet bands, lace fronts, and bold evening gowns with shaded color transitions, including chiffon yellows fading to nasturtium orange and rose pink.
A Philadelphia Bulletin item notes a woman who praises Wagner and Beethoven, calls Rubinstein divine, and loves Mozart, while alone preferring to sing In the Good Old Summer Time. The piece highlights her fondness for classic music and enduring tunes.
Boston affairs reveal Geo Boyd’s will allocates 175000 outright to public charities with 60000 contingent and 150000 in personal items. Residue to be distributed by executors to Boston and Portland charities. largest bequest is 70000 to All Saints Episcopal Church Dorchester.
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