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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
6
The Courier Citizen dates to 1825, began daily circulation in 1845, and is Lowell's daily paper except Sundays and holidays. Published at Courier Citizen Building, Merrimack Street. Carriers deliver across the city for six cents a week. COURIER-CITIZEN COMPANY.
Boston December 26 forecast shows fair conditions tonight and Friday with light variable winds. The brief bulletin notes calm weather across New England as a mild pattern persists.
The Havana health report shows a drop in yellow fever and a death rate in line with a city of its size. The piece argues sanitation and American oversight reflect well on civilization and Platt amendment policy. It predicts possible Cuban annexation support as the United States continues to influence Havana and Manila.
The Texas Tech incident drew attention from ministers as President Pritchett confirmed some beer was consumed by 97 men at student talks. Estimates ranged from 56 pints, provoking debate over university policy and emulation of German life. The outcome remains unresolved amid arguments about harm and tolerance.
The piece weighs in on temperance contrasts between German and American attitudes toward beer nights, then shifts to Latin American debt tensions with Germany involving President Castro. It critiques Roosevelt’s stance on Miles and the Monroe Doctrine, notes Miles’s court of inquiry claim as unauthorized, and comments on leaders Shaw, Daw son, and Dewey while joking about vaporous political alignments and personal decorum.
A playful note mixes names and events from politics and society. It mentions Shaw Swift a near, Christmas stockings, a snap in match trust, Iowa appointing a treasury secretary, Lester Reiff’s marriage to Miss Rowell, King Edward gifting Sir Thomas Lipton a cigarette box, and a Abington policeman’s failed suicide tied to police raid disappointment.
Quotations praise American locomotives and industry as they power global railways from the Ganges to Siberia. A governor and other officials are noted for finance and policy positions, while foreign tensions and diplomacy loom over Nicaragua, Germany, and South American crises.
Beauford A. Mason outlines Andrew Carnegie's plan for a Pittsburg based polytechnic institute. The school aims to educate over 100 000 students in industrial science art and commercial law with a vast endowment and world wide scope. Carnegie pledges 38 million dollars to start the institution and framework for a leading center of practical instruction.
A nostalgia filled column recalls a green Christmas, a sled bearer labeled Snow King, and urban observations. An honest glimpse at railroad ticket contracts hints at limited liability, while a Highlands man helps a shoeless girl only to face a fraud moment. The piece ends with Dartmouth traditions and a study of its graduates.
A glance at curious notes records white flowers as highly odoriferous and notes a full grown elephant can bear three tons. It also mentions a London church still holding an income once meant to buy fagots for burning heretics.
The review lauds a small volume on Samson Occom colonial days Wheelocks and Dartmouth traditions. It praises typographic quaintness and creditable work by Dartmouth Press, hoping for ready recognition of the book.
At St John’s Hospital Christmas day, Rev Fr Michael J Phelan led mass for convalescents while Sisters of Charity and nurses, aided by the choir, celebrated a nativity feast. The entire house was decorated with evergreens and gifts poured in from many friends and benefactors supplying candy, fruit, cakes, turkeys, wreaths, and flowers for the chapel and patients. The 1901 celebration remains memorable to the hospital community.
A pruning sale of imported China bargains bound to move quickly. Tea and chocolate pots once 1.50 to 2.50 now 47c. Cups and saucers once 50c 75c and 1.00 now 25c 35c and 50c. Fancy plates Bouillons Celery Trays shaving mugs and other items marked down. Friday papers list further marked down goods.
Lowell Massachusetts November 27 1921 notice to Thomas C Rutiano that mortgagee intends to foreclose for breach of condition on a May 14 1891 mortgage of personal property recorded in Lowell. Foreclosure to occur sixty days after affidavit of service is recorded. right of redemption to be foreclosed.
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