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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1899
Page
4
No two cent newspaper in Lowell has a larger or more influential circulation than the Courier. Each day adds to its List. Circulation Books open to all.
Train service on the Boston and Maine line runs between Lowell and Boston, detailing routes and frequency. The excerpt notes passenger schedules and potential timetable adjustments for commuters traveling between the two cities.
The Lowell Daily Courier outlines international tensions as England France and the U S may be drawn into China and Cuba. It lauds General Wood as Cuba governor and warns Lowell aldermen against granting a telephone franchise, urging a full inquiry by the incoming government.
The Boston clearing-house committee faced scrutiny for offering the Globe three million dollars and half an accommodation in a single date while denying Broadway, suggesting rocky treatment though insiders may justify the move. The committee yesterday appeared to revise its stance.
The article discusses speculative inflation fueling bank risk and the government’s cash surplus. It argues wild cat ventures surge when money is easy, but reform and cautious banking can avert deeper collapses. It warns against greed and urges prudent, conservative business practices to prevent disaster.
The column muses on Christmas as a shared holiday beyond sects, notes a past moon eclipse from 6:45 to 10:07 with nine tenths totality, jokes about green cheese, and previews a May sun partial eclipse while detailing mail delivery issues and local observations on street signs and clerical debates about dancing and theater in Methodism.
The Jere McAuliffe stock company opened a week at the Opera House to a full house with a strong cast in Under Sealed Orders. James J. Ryan and Fred Malcolm led a capable ensemble. Miss Merritt and Miss Bowen also impressed as the cast delivered a polished performance.
A fashion driven incident at a matinee reveals Miss McKenzie’s fawn coat named as made at Park & Tilford's while a New York theatre presents Dad in Harness for three nights. The bill also touts Barr & Evans Frank Clayton Usworth Burt Edwin H Deagon Wormwood acts and a dogs and monkeys act with low ticket prices.
A lively ad notes Gibson passe partout and photo frames with Life magazine artist reproductions at C. B. Coburn & Co., 63 Market Street. Also promotes Dr Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets as a vegetable pepsin remedy sold by local firms including Carter and Goodale.
A Lowell reader extols Father John's Medicine as a quick cure for coughs colds and preventing pneumonia during winter. The ad claims 50 years of local use by Carleton & Hovey at 927 listing and offers bottles at fifty cents and one dollar with a guarantee.
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