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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1898
Page
8
Weather notes snow storm no 4 yesterday and after noon thawing with gray skies mild temperatures. Snow began early afternoon and fell briskly then melted soon. Storm turned to rain with a northeast gale at night. Morning overcast, noon cleared to genial temperature. Sleighing down town nearly ended. Boston forecasts much colder tonight and Tuesday.
The item from Monday December 5 1898 presents as a brief newspaper entry involving the Lowell Baily Tenkier with no additional context or details readable in the fragment.
Dinner then smoke Old Hundred as Morse hacks hired. Stratton's concert set for Wednesday December 14. Past Grand Councillor Hector Turnbull to lead a school of instruction with Gen Fiskelodge of I O G T this evening. OFFICERS ELECTED Spindle City Wheelmen elect McKay as president and Hall as vice president with O Heir and Tinker as secretaries and Peabody as treasurer.
The head office of the American Correspondence School of Textiles will move to New Bedford around year end. Prof. Brooks assumes duties as managing director of the New Bedford school on January 1, 1899.
Transfers list in Billerica Dracut Wilmington Chelmsford Westford with parcels in Anderson Otis Suffolk Quebec Hight Dover Fordway Park Brookside Elsmere East Chelmsford Frye Village and other streets totaling many land and building lots often priced at 1 and one hundred fifty dollars plus. Notable entries include Francis Day to Sarah B. Cates and to John D. Whitney. Patrick Lynch to Geo A. McNulty. Geo F. Penniman to James P. Daley.
A Kansas reader asserts coffee causes headaches in children and credits Postum Food Coffee with restoring health. The letter cites a Lennox Iowa case and urges boiling Postum long enough to develop flavor as essential.
Officer John Hickson escaped instant death when Charles A Forbes grabbed a 32 caliber revolver and fired near his heart. The weapon misfired due to a rim fire cartridge while other chambers held center fire rounds. Forbes, a 38 year old freight brakeman, was overpowered by Hickson Tilton and Kilburn and jailed.
The Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford Connecticut announces the Columbia Desk Pad Calendar for 1899. It mirrors the 1898 design with enhanced artistic covers and richer illustrations. Any person can obtain a copy by applying to a nearest Columbia dealer or sending five 2 cent stamps to the Calendar Department Pope Mfg Co Hartford Conn.
A 1897 1898 comparison shows fewer drunkenness arrests in August September October and November. October numbers were 336 in 1897 and 337 in 1898, November 246 and 215, September 298 and 200. The record notes a net drop of 55 arrests for the current year.
The Pine Hill yacht club surprised James Bowring at his Prospect street home with a purse of gold in view of his intended visit to the old country. President Haworth spoke, Bowring expressed thanks and hoped for Col. Bennett’s election. Refreshments followed along with songs and speeches. The event ended at midnight with a chorus of America. Pill Price pills marketed at ten cents a vial were advertised by Ellingwood Co. and C. E. Carter.
A card from Geo. C. Osgood MD and partners offers a full refund on a 50c bottle if it fails to cure a cold or cough and a 25c bottle with a satisfactory guarantee or no pay. Names include Brock Co, Ellingwood Co, Butler Co of Middlesex, Blanchard, Carter, and others in Central and Middlesex.
The war department announced Saturday that the Sixth Massachusetts regiment will be mustered out of U S service when its furlough ends January 5 Gen Corbin’s position and sustained influence led to the decision Though peace is near Massachusetts will see a larger share of mustered out regiments as enlistment draws to a close
Private Frank W. McGlynn shares memories of Brophy and Delorme in Porto Rico, detailing their illnesses malaria dysentery and typhoid fever. He explains their slow return home from Fort Monroe and Arecibo, and recalls bonding formed at Camp Alger before the Sixth Regiment sailed.
Private McGlynn visited the Brophy family to report his fellow soldier’s improved health at Arecibo and Josiah Simpson hospitals. Corporal Harry L. Wadsworth, newly married, fell ill and remains in St John’s hospital, delaying his return to duty in Niagara Falls.
Lowell officers Boyle Blood and others hunted geese after a mysterious nightly clucking near Old Colony tracks. A train whistle halted the bid. dawn revealed the source was a side tracked car, leaving the crew mocked by colleagues as they returned empty handed from a “wild goose chase.”
The fire department answered two alarms Saturday. At 6 pm a kerosene lamp tipped over on Cheever street and a neighbor smothered the flames. no damage after Chief Hosmer declared all out. At 9:30 pm box 72 reported a fire in a crossing tender's shanty at Thorndike and Middlesex streets with slight damage.
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