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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
4
Readable outline of Christmas music and services across multiple churches including High Street Congregational, First Universalist, Grace Universalist, and Grace Universalist details. Lists anthem titles, solos, organ postludes, and service times for Dec 23 Christmas events and evening vespers with choirs, soloists, and conductor names.
The fragment lists Christmas week church rites with hymns, psalms, readings, and choir details. It notes Solemn Evensong at 7.30 P M with Mendelssohn music and Christmas Day morning and evening services, antiphons, responses, and choral directions under F J Doherty and Adelaide A Sullivan, including a 99-voice choir.
Advertises Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a transparent, safe remedy for catarrh. Praises ingredients Hydrastin blood root guaiacol and red gum. Notes physicians approve antiseptic formula, avoids cocaine or morphine. Claims easy dissolving tablets cure nasal throat and bronchial issues. Sold nationwide at 50 cents for full treatment.
The program lists Anthem There were Shepherds and The Angel's Song sung by a quartet and tenor solo Bethlehem's Star and Christ the Lord pieces performed under musical director J Avison Baker with Mr Oscar N Walch as conductor assisting in the Anthem The Angel's Song and the choir program reflects a Christmas season concert style.
Branch Street Baptist Tabernacle observes Christmas Sunday with a 10:30 morning service and a 6:30 evening service. A large chorus and the Sunday school choir perform the cantata The Hope of the World with organist and director F B Hill leading. The program features Mozart Kyrie and Gloria, a Tennor solo, and a full Christmas concert by the quartette and chorus.
Kirk Street Church plans a Grand Christmas Service with morning sermon The Star Child and a four part Barnby program The Annunciation The Message to the Shepherds Marys Cradle Song Gloria in Excelsis Words by Angela Goetze An evening service features a Woman Who Blessed all Homes series sermon and a engraving and poem by Mrs Browning The music includes Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts and A Christ N’es Carol with full choir orchestra and organ Guests are invited to attend.
Special services planned by multiple churches include Primitive Methodist Morning session featuring The Pre-eminent Star cantata and Under the Palma by the choir. Evening programs include Gospe of Joy and What Corietianity let. Services at Centre Methodist Morning and Baptist venues list sermons and hymns with morning communion.
At the corner of Church and George Streets the mith Thomas Ford D D Pastor offers morning and evening worship with a large chorus choir. The morning sermon is The Care of a King and the anthem All Hail the Morn. Baritone solo Clery to Gea. Quartette Sing 0 2 Mra. Pepin Mise Heider Waileh. Soprano Hethiehem's Guiding Star. Sunday noon service and a Great Christmas service for Sunday evening with sermons and congregational singing.
A long list of Christmas sermons concerts and services is noted for First Spiritualist society First Church of Christ Pawtucket New Jerusalem First Congregational and many others including First Baptist Seventh branches withMorning and evening programs Christmas Sunday school concerts and special addresses. The article also mentions youth and men’s meetings at the Y M C A and local school hockey and sports activities.
Fragmentary ad copy promises leather goods and assorted wares, urging shoppers to visit the store for wake and pecesty features. The illegible text hints at product ranges, price points, and showroom highlights with unclear references to patterns and accessories.
The Harcourt company presented The Pay Train last evening at the Opera House with sensational action and lively humor. Maud Hazel led the cast with strong applause and Eugene Harris impressed in the male lead. Tonight the company offers Blow for Blow as a farewell performance with a matinee for ladies and children.
Two child stars Master Duffy and Winona Winter headline a large vaudeville bill in Lowell. Mr and Mrs Mark Murphy, famed Irish comedians of Our Irish Victor, lead the act. Advertisements promise a grand holiday show with matinee and night performances selling out soon.
A fragmented excerpt extols Lowell General Hospital as a leading local charity and urges continued support. It emphasizes the hospital’s charitable mission, its impact on the poor, and the goal to expand needed services through public generosity. The text reflects optimism about the hospital’s historic role and future capacity to do good.
Kerr, a leading Boston basso cantante, performs Sunday in a recital titled O Thou Sweet Evening Star with Wolfram’s Tannhauser among selections. Beck, a rising violinist, joins. program includes Semiramide Stabat Mater Christmas Heirs and other pieces. Proceeds aid the Ayer home charity. attendance urged.
The L B A 8 A met at Burbank hall last night and elected officers: John H Murphy as president Edward J Webster as vice president Miss Nettle Court as secretary Mies Mamie Gallagher as treasurer Mica Martha Curtin as financial secretary A committee was formed to arrange the annual ball. The largely attended meeting ended with a social and dance around 11 20.
Mrs Letour, mother of Mamie Letour, has reclaimed the child from Mrs Barker of Mammoth Road after Agent Richardson warned the mother to better provide for the youngster. The notice mentions Graves’ Marytend Malt as a remedy for digestive issues, urging readers to buy from licensed dealers.
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