Oldest Daily Courier Reaffirms Lowell Origin
The OMEL Daily Courier describes itself as the oldest and best daily paper in Middlesex County, founded in 1825 and published since 1845. It notes daily publication except Sundays and holidays, with delivery by carrier at six cents a week from the Courier-Citizen Building on Merrimack Street in Lowell.
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Middlesex County
Acte
Courier-Citizen
Merrimack Street
Lowell
Courier-Citizen Company
Boston Weather Outlook Amid Cold and Windy Conditions
Vip NECTES Boston reports a cold, windy day with temperatures staying below freezing. Forecast for New England calls for fair weather tonight and Wednesday, with warmer readings in the northern portion and light to fresh westerly winds.
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Boston
New England
Discrepant Mill Valuations Spark Abatement Debate
A recent ruling by Judge Sheldon in the Lyman mills case contrasts with a Lowell mills decision, showing two superior court judges applying different grounds to mill property valuations. The debate centers on valuing mills as real estate versus treating each plant as a fixed “model mill” with a set worth regardless of location, raising questions about consistency in tax abatement cases and leaving Lowell cases to be revisited.
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Sheldon
Lyman Mills
Lowell Mills
Lowell
Superior Court
Bether
Holyoke
Mason
Corporation
Superior Bench
Debatable valuation views surface in court and war reports
The piece contrasts two superior court judges on value appraisal, hints at a model mill theory clash, and questions Wood and Manila postings. It condemns falsified reports about Wood hearings and discusses Major Rathbone’s charges, promotion versus retirement, and merit in military leadership.
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Root
Wood
Cuba
Manila
Estes Rathbone
Rathbone
Gen. Wood
Socialist mayoral candidate touts class struggle and profit theory
The essay argues two hostile classes under wage labor with capitalists controlling terms. It questions the socialist profit premise, notes wage dynamics, mocks Yale students and a New Hampshire piggery analogy, and suggests profit sharing as a solution through worker-capitalist partnership. Carroll D Wright’s view shifts toward shared profits.
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Boston
Incendiary Fire Destroys Defiance Clothing Plant
Louisville reports a major blaze destroying the Defiance Clothing company plant. Authorities believe an incendiary torched the building after two prior attempted arsons within a week. Loss estimated at $60,090.
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Louisville
Defiance Clothing Company
Fire destroys Braidwood market and home killing three
Braidwood Illinois December fifteenth a fire razed the meat market and residence and the dry goods store of J Simon. Mrs J Messersmith a daughter and Frank Smith a clerk were burned to death. Flannigan's Singing orchestra will play at Prescott hall tonight.
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Braidwood, Ill
J. Messersmith
Frank Smith
J. Simon
Flannigan’s
Prescott Hall
Notable Remarks and Rhetorical Riffs From a 19th Century Chronicle
A collection of quips and asides on local politics and society. Notes touch on education and training, postal and trading stamps, Washington Colombia war talk, Mayor Howe and Col ling, bets on high sums, Harvard medical abbreviations, and a Christmas holiday mood. Edward Hale aids public figures while Johnny Catchall opines on gendered telephone operator skills.
Quotations on tariff controversy from Bryan to Asquith
An American letter in the New York American discusses England's tariff debate. Bryan praises English statesmen Chamberlain and Rosebery as orators while Asquith is called a master of logic. The writer doubts forecasting outcomes and notes labor unions push to maximize employment, warning that slowest workers set the pace in workshops and that union shops may lower overall output.
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Mr. Bryan
Mr. Chamberlain
Mr. Asquith
Lord Rosebery
New York American
Bryan
England
United States
Springfield Republican
Boston Herald
Deaths of Vermont politician and several notables listed
Recent deaths include John H. McGeary a Vermont Democratic figure who helped at Chicago 1896 and served Burlington in 1898. Henry Wexel a German born jewelry maker and Civil War veteran died in Attleboro aged over 70. Fred T. Ulmer retired from lime business after Rockland Maine sale. Other obituaries note Colonel Henry P. Bosse Davenport Iowa and Leopold Mayer Chicago banker with 1827 birth in Germany. Mayer active in Chicago finance and firm Leopold Mayer & Son survived by widow.
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John H. McGeary
Vermont
Burlington
McGeary
Chicago
William J. Bryan
Henry Wexel
Attleboro
Germany
New York Zouaves
Loyal Legion
Fred T. Ulmer
Rockland
Knox County
Leopold Mayer
Mr. Mayer
Abtenheim
America
Leopold Mayer & Son
Lowell Mills Stand Fast in Winter Labor Policy
A Lowell trade note reports cotton manufacturers plan to keep mills running all winter with no wage cuts and reject Southern curtailed production. The piece argues this protects city employment, preserves skilled labor, and contrasts with rival mill centers while recounting local industry sentiment and related social vignettes.
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Lowell
Sothern Stars In The Proud Prince A Longfellow Drama
E H Sothern brings King Robert of Sicily to the Hollis Street stage in The Proud Prince a McCarthy drama based on Longfellows poem. The limited engagement begins Monday Dec 14 with a Saturday matinee and features Mary Hall and Cecilia Loftus among a large cast and orchestral score.
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Longfellow
Robert
Sicily
E. H. Sothern
New England
Sudbury
Boston
Robert of
Pope Urbane
Valmond
Allemaine
Woman Attacked by Burglar in Salem Home
Miss Mary A Narbonne, long resident of Salem Massachusetts, faced a brutal burglary when a man entered her bedroom just after midnight. She bit the intruder’s fingers bleeding, then he violently battered her before escaping. The piece links the crime to rising robberies in Boston and urges securing valuables in a Middlesex Trust Company vault.
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Mary A. Narbonne
Salem
Mass
Miss Narbonne
Lowell
Middlesex Trust Company
Worcester
Sylvanus B. Roy
Lovell Street
City Hall Notes on Tax Dispute and Sanitary Plans
The city committee on claims heard James G. Butrick for Pauline Durant regarding five years of overtaxation on land in Durant street seeking 90.25. matter deferred to next meeting with city engineer and assessors to confer. The committee on public sanitaries, led by Alderman Derby, discussed sanitary building plans with architect Willard F. Davis and recommended a sanitary in Paige street and possible site near Bridge street and Merrimack square, aiming for year-end action.
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Committee On
Burns
James G. Buttrick
Pauline Durant
Durant Street
Board of Assessors
Committee On Public Sanitaries
Derby
City Hall
Williard F. Davis
Brooklyn
Worcester
Hayes
Paige Street
Bridge Street
Merrimack Square
Davis
Rumor of Provisional Troops Attack Near Monte Cristi
Report from San Domingo says provisional government troops attacked revolutionary forces at Monte Cristi. government forces were repulsed and now besieged in a fort in Santiago City. The area is quiet but tense and the U. S. gunboat Newport left port yesterday.
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San Domingo
Provisional Government
Monte Cristi
Santiago City
U. S
Newport
Building Trades Dispute Moves to New York
The AFL executive council ordered President Gompers and Vice President Duncan to New York to attempt an adjustment of the building trades dispute. The council also pledged support to the Alabama State Federation of Labor in testing the constitutionality of the state’s anti boycott law recently enacted.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor Today
Gompers
Duncan
New York
Alabama State Federation of Labor
Alabama
Christmas Sale at Paige Street Free Baptist Parsonage
A Christmas sale is held at the parsonage of the Paige Street Free Baptist church located at 109 Methuen Street on Wednesday evening. Items include manicure sets priced from 73 cents to 1465 dollars, advertised by A. W. Dows & Co. Also noted is a quoted exchange about marrying for money.
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Paige Street Free Baptist Church
Methuen Street
A. W. Dows & Co
Burke to Open New Coburn Street Store in Lowell Area
John I. Burke, long time grocer on Coburn street, invites residents of Lowell Dracut Chelmsford and nearby towns to the opening of his new store at 2k 30 and 32 Coburn street opposite West Third street on Friday evening next December 18 with Bank's full orchestra performing.
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Coburn Street
West Third Street
Bank
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