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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1898
Page
7
A reflective fragment follows a painter’s morning after a troubling night of doubt. He contemplates sacred imagery and a mistaken act with holy water, then sees a transforming dawn. The essay links faith, art, and a vision of Christ as a joyous comrade amid nature and humanity.
A second mate recounts the sinking of the Golden Vanity after a fire and abandonment at sea near an iceberg. The crew endures a six day drift, hunt a polar bear for food, and discover Emily Beaumont frozen in an ice coffin. The captain Lomax’s party survives. Mrs. Beaumont dies of exposure and is buried in the iceberg tomb.
In a Boston Transcript note, Wikwak defends Sumley as thoughtful about children. He is praised for his care, such as shutting windows before logging a boy to avoid disturbing people in the street.
Fur fashions dominate this season with fur caps inspiring renewed styles. Toques show fur drapery, hats feature fur crowns with satin or velvet brims, and bright trimming with ribbons and feathers. Chinchilla remains a chosen favorite for its color and pliability, especially gray tones in hats and bonnets. The Princess gown shown uses chinchilla trim, pink surah plastron, and a jeweled clasp at the waist.
The article describes fashionable cushions with ruffles declining in popularity and oblong shapes rising, with oriental coverings like tapestry and velvet. It notes preferred fillings as feathers for shape retention, and suggests chimney screen decor in Louis XV and XVI styles for unused fireplaces. It ends with a New Orleans anecdote about a man miscasting juggling at a Bremen music ball, mistaken as an irascible trick.
John L. Stoddard's Lectures illustrated and embellished with views of world famous places. The Florence lecture discusses art's beauty and simplicity while Naples reveals Italian life and emigration. Pompeii, Rome, St. Peter's, and the Vatican are featured with historical fidelity and recent discoveries. Two more volumes promised completing the set.
A Philadelphia Times reprint recounts Sir Rowland Hill the English postal reformer who pioneered uniform penny postage after a North England inn incident. The piece traces his career from schoolmaster to civil servant, the 1840 penny rate, and the 1845 adoption in America, noting his Westminster Abbey burial at age 82.
The Pullman Palace Car company will bring its exhibited model train on a personally conducted tour to California. It will be the first service trip, offering luxurious accommodations in electric lighted cars including dining sleeping library observation spaces with a bathroom barber shop refreshment buffet and a piano. The round trip rate from Boston for thirty seven days is 405.
Popular Science News explains that lying down lowers heart rate by about 10 beats per minute, reducing 600 strokes per hour and nearly 5,000 strokes in eight hours. With six ounces of blood per stroke, about 30,000 ounces less blood is pumped during a night in bed. Additional coverings compensate for the slower flow.
The annual meeting of the Railroad National Bank of Lowell will be held at their banking rooms on Tuesday January 10 at 9 o clock A M for the choice of directors and other business that may legally come before the meeting. Frank P Maggett Lowell December 6 103.
The Old Lowell National Bank will hold a meeting at the banking room of each bank on Tuesday January 17 at 1 o clock in the afternoon for the choice of directors and other lawful business. CHAS M WILLIAMS Cashier Lowell Mass December 12 15 Inds.
The Prescot National Bank of Lowel calls an annual stockholders meeting to elect directors and handle other lawful business. The session will be held at the bank rooms No 40 Central Street on Tuesday January tenth near Stovelock a.m. Frederik Blanchard, cashier. December 7, 1s1. edi tojil.
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