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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1898
Page
8
SPDECEs BER. 4-28 shows sunrises and moonsets with day length and barometer readings. The city enjoyed mild northwest winds yesterday, with rain feared but not seen, and today cooler with a further drop likely. Massachusetts forecasts call for fair and colder tonight, increasing cloudiness and possible Tuesday snow in the afternoon.
The item lists a Dartmouth president lecture at Highsand Congregational church on December 28. It promotes railroad ticket sales from J H Kelley and Fitchburg Hoosac tunnel route at reduced Christmas rates for travel from December 14 to 24 with return by January 12, 1899. It also markets new white aprons from Cook Taylor Co and camera goods from Shattuck & Son along with assorted household items.
The third lecture in Associate hall explored Josephine from her 1764 Martinique birth to her 1814 death at Malmaison. H H C Bingham of Fitchburg led a large audience with a clear, methodical narrative aided by dissolving views by Mr Farnsworth. The course highlighted notable French women, followed by a glove ad from Oak Taylor & Co.
The Lowell corporation hospital board confirmed mills will shut the week after Christmas. Christmas falls on Sunday this year and agents agreed at last week’s regular meeting that operations will pause on the following Monday.
The Trades and Labor council met yesterday afternoon instead of the planned Christmas Day session. Officer elections were postponed to Jan 8, and all unions must elect delegates by then to be represented. The label committee will convene tonight to push for preferring goods bearing the union label.
Races scheduled for Saturday at Long Meadow are postponed to next Wednesday afternoon. A roan colt debuting is among the entrants and his owner expects him to shine.
A surprised man suffered six weeks of coughing and sleepless nights. Two 25-cent bottles of Carter’s cough balsam cured him completely. Carter & Sherburne, Merrimack, Bridge Street, low priced druggists advertise the remedy. Burdock Blood Bitters is promoted as a solution for a lazy liver.
The genuine platinum prints exhibit strong vigorous and life-like effects, showcasing rich tonality and precise detail that highlight the subject with notable clarity and perceptible depth.
A memorial service for the late Councillor Elisha H. Shaw was held at 2 pm yesterday in the Second Congregational church of North Chelmsford. Shaw served as church clerk for twenty years 1871 to 1891 and was esteemed for public spirited acts. Troop F Cavalry attended in uniform with Lt Leighton as a speaker.
Mr. F. K. Stearns led the tribute lauding Captain Shaw for a lifetime of honesty candor and humility. He recalled their lifelong bond and the late captain’s devotion to humane work, ending with Leigh Hunt’s Ben Adhem and the hymn Nearer My God to Thee.
Saturday night patrol wagon driver Fred Davis spotted two men acting suspiciously near Ebert's and Don ovan's harness shops on Market street. One man failed to lift a high hanging blanket, then both attempted to steal a rank of Wankers before officers Hickson and Perkins made the arrest. Names given: Peter T Burke and Thomas Nolan of St Johnsbury Vermont. They face larceny and drunkenness charges. Patrick McLaughlin was jailed after interfering with a police arrest of a woman. liquor inspectors seized hard liquor in a Lawrence street tenement. By 6 PM 13 drunkenness arrests had been recorded, an unusually low total.
George L. Foster of Boston was arrested in Bath on a Hood sarsaparilla fraud claim. He allegedly sold a liquid labeled as Hood's sarsaparilla, implying Hood's manufacture while the label credited C I Hood of Boston. Foster pleaded not guilty. probable cause was found and a December term bond set at 590 dollars.
A feature on Prince & Son's store highlighting holiday gift ideas across departments. The article touts art objects, photo chromes, frames, calendars, stationery, leather novelties, diaries, and line a day books, plus elastic book cases and military service materials. It also notes museum-like book selections and a government service protected by the elastic cases. It ends with a report on Sister Mary Gabriel’s experiences in military hospitals at Huntsville Fort Thomas and Montauk.
Sister Mary Gabriel completed a long tour nursing soldiers in camps. She left Lowell August 19 for Montauk, then Huntsville Alabama, then Nashville Tennessee where she suffered camp fever for five weeks before being discharged from service.
Lowell Y M C A beat Nashua Y M C A 9 to 4 in Elard Street gym. MacFarland starred for Lowell with two floor goals and three from fouls, while Doyle added three. Nashua scorers were Mastic Woods and Ring with one each. referees were Shaw and Flanders. title keeper Gardiner. two 20 minute halves.
The Captain John Ford society Children of the American Revolution met at Mrs. E. J. Neale’s home at 27 Beacon Street for their annual gathering. Special exercises marked the 125th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party with recitations by Miriam Savage and Alice Sleeper, a four year old Dorothy Westes as the youngest member, songs, and readings. About 22 members attended, with 12 mothers as guests, and refreshments followed.
Dr Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets claimed to cure chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. One tablet relieves and persistence will cure. Priced at 35 cents, sold by Ellingwood & Co. at Central and Merrimack and by C E Carter at Branch and Smith streets.
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