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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
8
The Lowell Daily Courier, oldest Lowell paper, details its publication since 1826 with daily editions from 1845, delivery terms at 12 cents a week and 50 cents a month, and the Courier-Citizen Company address on Merrimack Street.
Trains run between Lowell and Boston on the Boston and Maine line. Service details, schedules, and routing updates are listed in the period rail timetables.
The Lowell Daily Courier reports the latest local news in a concise update from December 6, 1900. Details cover civic events, community notices, and brief reports of interest to residents.
Hon George E Putnam accepting the Republican mayoralty nomination pledges to advance Alder man Taylor s line and form a cabinet of 36 citizens chosen by Lowell voters He will urge the city council to cut costs and save more money than in the current year.
The piece notes tariff politics as settled and party posturing. It mocks Democratic infighting over a Congress with enough GOP votes to reassert control. It cites scant woolen demand, cotton's rise as a substitute, and hints at China violence, concluding with cotton replacing wool in many uses.
The Commonwealth holds five million dollars of Fitchburg Railroad common stock as part of the sinking fund for the Securities Loan. Under the act, any income beyond loan interest flows into the School Fund. The stock is now represented by three percent Boston & Maine bonds, and prior fund income exceeded interest by twenty five thousand dollars, with the remaining income directed to the fund.
The Auditor backs transferring part of the sinking fund to the School Fund principal to shield it from attack, and the Legislature would lock it up. Alderman Taylor explains city finances with frank facts, contrasting Pearson’s speculative rhetoric and suggesting a Republican reform campaign if his paper had appeared earlier.
A reform argues against the Municipal League ticket, accusing it of being controlled by personal wire-pullers and serving the Democratic machine. The piece urges voters to support Putnam and reformist aldermen, dismissing the League as dishonest and partisan while warning that a League vote sustains Dimon and Democratic rule.
The official reporter of decisions for the supreme judicial court, George F Tucker, sent his resignation to Governor Crane yesterday and will serve until December 31. Tucker, a New Bedford native, had been in the role since 1892 after succeeding Kellen, and earlier served as a legislator in 1890 to 1892. He was also a lawyer and author of several noted law books prior to his appointment. Meanwhile actor William Faversham’s condition worsened markedly, with grave fears for his life after a recent appendectomy in New York and a deterioration Tuesday.
A collage of quotes from Boston Transcript New Bedford Standard St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Manchester Union commenting on anti vice probes government action on complicity and restraints on trusts. The notes remark on Boer guerilla estimates and the challenge of counting insurgents.
The writer warns that stepping off electric cars on slopes risks sliding backward before brakes engage, especially in ice. He cites snowstorm forecasts, criticizes opportunistic political clubs, mentions a Kruger ovation postcard scheme, notes Dr Pillsbury’s golf record, and observes blooming apple trees and gray squirrels, then muses on rummage sales and choosing who to consult on sewer work.
Rev Louis H Buckshorn delivered the third travel talk before the Young People s Fraternity in the Unitarian vestry last night. His talk titled Rural England traced a bicycle trip along a premier English rural route with vivid stereopticon demonstrations. The event closed with songs and a musical display by local participants.
Obituaries and funeral notices list Edmund Ryan of Gouldsville Vermont aged 75. Other memorials include James T. McCarthy at 49 Walnut Street with Requiem Mass at St Peter's, Frederick W. Zesewetz from First Trinitarian, Kate Brennan of Boston and Dover attendance, Virginie Pedneault of Moody Street with Mass at St Joseph's, Constantine Lamakis from Fenwick Street, and William F Ball of Gorham Street. Burial details and undertakers noted.
In Foster street yesterday afternoon, D Wallace McGaw and Grace H Wood were united in marriage with William McGaw as best man and Grace's sister as bridesmaid. Cards were not sent. Bennett Miller wed December 5 1900 in Albany New York, with Mabel R Miller to Fred W W Bennett. Dimon inquiry mentions Jesse Shepard and Citizens ticket in your market.
Merchants face a surge of shoppers before Christmas and aim to ease demand. Geo H Wood offers big discounts to early buyers and highlights last year’s Amsterdam diamond find as the source of his holiday stock. The Citizen advertises eye opening prices for jewelry and encourages civic reform through the Citizens' league ticket amid party critique.
Cecil Keith a B and M brakeman was riding atop a freight car when his head struck a beam on the Walker street bridge. He fell forward unconscious and was taken to St John’s hospital. His home is Salem.
The Ladies Benevolent Society of the First Congregational church held its regular monthly social with supper and a play titled The Minister's Christmas Gifts. Cast included Ernest Fletcher, Flossie Carryon, Floy Cutler, Christine Warble, Lillian Cutler, Grace Searle, and others. Grace M. Searle directed. A J Kingsbury accompanied piano. a Christmas sale table was center stage with Mrs Dunlap, Warfield, Means, Mac Donald, Graham, and Boynton assisting.
At St Pauls church on Wednesdays evening the Book-a-Month club gave a reception to teachers who attend the church Miss Georgiana Vinton Miss Gertrude Rediliff Miss Emma Bradley Miss Elizabeth Davis Miss Eva Magoon Miss Grace Coburn Miss Anna Coburn and Miss Antoinette Farnham Also present were Mrs J Clark Glidden and Mrs Charles Holgate officers with ushers Bertram Harriman and Walter Cleworth The program included a piano duet birds talk readings songs and a France talk ending with praise for the club by Miss Farnham.
The annual parish supper occurred Wednesday evening with Mrs. Geo. Hutchins directing and many assistants including Mrs. Holman, Mrs. A. R. Dilts, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Soule and others. Junior servers included Annie Dean, Sadie Dean, Minnie Secord and more. Encouraging reports were read from the missionary society, Sunday school, Farther Lights, Y P S GC E and Junior Endeavor society.
Henry W. Church of Lowell received a patent for a dyeing machine. George W. Danforth of Tyngsboro was granted a patent on a seal lock. William H. Ford of Lowell secured a patent for an apparatus to make rings and a mold cutter with half interest assigned to C. W. Russell of Lowell. Delmar G. Hurd, assigning half interest to M. J. Burns of Lowell, was granted a patent on an advertising apparatus.
A reader asks Mr. Dimon whether he plans to raise funds via a loan to cover next year’s Fourth of July celebration, as was done in 18092 Ady, and seeks taxpayer guidance on the proposal.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a medicine that creates an appetite tones digestion and strengthens the whole system. It urges readers to take it now and to be sure to get Hood's.
A Buffalo couple reports relief from chronic catarrh after using Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. They say the remedy acted instantly and offered gratified relief within ten minutes of first use. Sold by C. B. Carter and F. C. Goodale on 06.17.
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