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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
5
An elderly couple welcomes their daughter and son-in-law with a baby at a northern railroad station. The scene follows their walk to the bustling street, noting Christmas preparations, a first tree, carriages, and the sense of a new world opening to them.
Mr. Bayles writes of the South and North contrast with brisk winter weather. He notes bitter mornings in Arkansas and Georgia, describes drivers and mules, and recalls farmers with sun bonnets and apples on wagon branches. The piece includes anecdotes about Frank Warfield and local figures observed during a journey north and south.
Mrs Mary S Cutler spoke before the Women's club at Madison Nebraska on The Mills and Textile School of Lowell and was made an honorary member. Judge Samuel P Hadley recalls Rev J Wesley Hanson a Civil War chaplain and poet. The Vesper boat house hosted a dance for Miss Wilder of Vassar and Miss Wright of Radcliffe with many guests and ushers. The Highland club plans a New Year Eve party with a minstrel show and dance. Asa C Russell lectures at St Marys College Dallas. Mrs Jacob Rogers hosts a New Year tea.
A listing of Sunday services across multiple towns with church names, street locations, pastors, and service times. Includes morning and evening worship, Sunday schools, and youth groups with occasional notes on special services and seasonal programs.
Dilts the pastor conducts Sunday services at 10.30 and 6.30, with a morning sermon on "Effects of Bin" and evening topic "What is Worthwhile" followed by baptism. North Billerica church holds 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. services, Sunday school at noon. Hadley Street Freewill Baptist features a Christmas concert by the Sunday school and a fellowship hand to new members. Mount Vernon church hosts a baptismal service led by Rev. Lewis Dexter with a 6.30 p.m. pastor’s service at Hadley Street.
Morning and evening services listed for multiple churches with pastors named, including Rev Nathaniel W Matthews at First Primitive Gorham and Rev Geo B Dean at St Pauls. Sunday school at noon, Christmas sermons and concerts noted, Epworth league addresses, and special sermons by Rev John D Pickles D D and Rev Alfred Woods. Street corners and locations named for Centralville, Highland, Berean Primitive, and Wesley Church listings.
Rev P E Asilevy pastor holds Sunday school at 9 am parishioners invited to morning service at 10 30 am and evening service at 7 pm on Swedish Meadowcroft Street near Moore Street with details from the local church notices.
First Merrimack street opposite John Street lists Rev Chas T Billings pastor with regular morning service at 14 45 and Sunday school after. Morning theme Applying Our Hearts Unto Wisdom with an evening union service at First Universalist on Hurd street. Free Midaesex street between inter and South streets with Rev George C Weight pastor holding morning service at 19 45 and Sunday school at Wm Morning at 10 45 God’s Call to Decision, union service at 7 at the First Universalist church.
The notice lists church events with Rev Caleb B Fisher leading a morning service at 10 30 and Rev G M Holcomb at 6 evening service. It mentions a Sunday school at 12 noon and a union service at First Church. Details reference South Canton Street and Ransom A Gene as pastor.
Church notices list Holy Communion and morning services at St Anne s Merrimack St on Sundays with sermons at 10 30 a m Sunday school and a Christmas carol service at 7 p m No Sunday school session. John s Gorham St morning service at 10 30 a m Sunday school at noon evening service 5 30 p m Communion schedule first and third Sundays and on festivals. House of Prayer Welker near Grova St services include matins 7 15 a m low mass 7 00 litany 10 30 high mass and sermon 10 43 vespers 7 00 All Saints Chelmsford evening service 7 0 0 July Communion 10 a m first Sunday 10 45 a m.
Morning service at 10 45 in Palmer street venue. First Spiritualist Society of Lowell holds services in Old Odd Fellows Hall at 2 20 and 7 with speaker Mrs Annie L Jones. Seventh Day Adventists meet at Highland hall Saturday at 3 with Sabbath school at 2.
Sabbath services at Coburn Mission on Varnum avenue begin at 3 pm with prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 pm. St Anes Mission Service 8 pm at Union Free Baptist Mission Post 185 G A R hall. Morning service 10 30 am praise 6 20 pm preaching 7 30 pm seats free all welcome. Other missions listed include Paige Street W C Westcott leader Central Mission First Street Sabbath 3 pm West Sixth Street French Baptist Isaac Lafleur pastor sermons at 10 Sunday school noon and 7 pm Wigginville Plymouth Wood s Corner.
A Sunday December 21 church program features organ preludes and anthems by Foote Stainer and Guilmant. Performers include soprano Mrs George H Spaulding contralto Mrs Mortimer Darby tenor Mr Edward E Adams bass Mr William M Foster organist Miss Anna L Melendy and violist Master William E Adams with choirmaster Edward Everett Adams.
Christmas service scheduled Sunday December 27 includes organ voluntary invocation doxology responsive psalm 147 hymn 79 Christians Awake prayer and anthem Hark What Celestial Sounds lesson notices hymn 8 Angels From the Realms sermon Unto You anthem There Were Shepherds W R Spence Christmas offering hymn 39 Before Jehovah's Throne benediction evening service The New Born Hope songs recitations quartettes chorus with special duet A Little Christmas Song address chorus choir Albert Leith leader Eddie Leith organist
Chelmsford Street Free Baptist Church presents 10:80 A M organ music and Christmas anthem with soloists Mrs A E Kenyon and Mrs E Dodge, then sermon Birth of the Christ by Pastor. 6:30 P M Armas Cantata The Coming of the King performed by Sunday school members with solos duets and recitations led by Curtis Johnson and others.
First Appleton street at Davis street lists Rev James M Craig pastor with morning service at 10 39 o clock and Sunday school at 12 1, evening service at 7. Morning Christmas exercises and junior league. Westminster United Tyler street led by Rev H B Foster with morning service at 10 30, Sunday school at 12, and evening service at 7.
In Atlanta Georgia a diverse greens display will decorate the choir loft and pulpit. Sunday school at 12 m. features Review and Christmas Lesson. 6:00 p.m. Y P S C EB Roll Call hosts An Optimist's Missionary Meeting. 7:00 p.m. Pleasant Sunday Evening Service with Princely Men in the Heavenly Kingdom. Special Christmas Vesper Service follows. Church orchestra performs Vraumerei and In Slumberland. The mixed Chorus offers selections from Schnecker s The Hope of the World. 8:00 p.m. Senior S C E concludes the day.
Morning service at 10 30 features Christ the Unifier and an extensive vocal program with solos and choirs. Evening at 6 30 presents Heavens Gates with a festive decorations and electrical effects, plus opening choral and organ numbers and multiple solos and duets. Weekly events include Junior Y P S C E, Bible study, a Miss Spofford recital, and a preparatory lecture on peace and blessing for the new year.
J Avison Baker conducts the Morning Service at 10 30 with sermon Some Essentials in Life The Christmas music from last Sunday to be repeated Offertory solo by Mrs Sherburne Sunday School at 12 10 Union service at 7 Sermon by Rev G M Holcomb of Tyngsboro Musical programme Magnificat in B flat quartette I Cannot Always Try The Golden Threshold Anthem Then Shalt Thou Love The Lord Klein
Highland Congregational Church presents a Sunday afternoon Christmas program at four with processional songs gift offering and congregational singing. The program features readings by Grace Robertson Bernice Driver Hazel Morgan Paul Stickney Jane Flemming Gladys Going Cecil Palmer and others with choruses and solos including The Wonderful Story Away in a Manger There’s a Wonderful Star and The Angels Song. Benediction closes the service.
Catholic churches on Merrimack and adjacent streets list multiple masses. Immaculate Conception led by Rev Dorgan offers 6 and 7:30 a.m. first masses, with additional services including children's mass at 9, high mass with sermon at 10:20, Sunday school at 2, and vespers at 3:30. Other parishes include St Josephs, St Peters, Sacred Heart, St Michaels, St Patricks, St Jean Baptiste, and St Anthonys with varied mass times and sermons.
A list of church services and activities across multiple congregations. Times include morning and evening services, Sunday schools, concerts, and special programs at First Freewill, Mount Vernon, and other streets with pastors such as Rev. T Ford Rev Stephen Miilin Rev. DL B. Martin Rev Orville Coats Rev Robert F. True Rev Albert E. Kenyon Rev Isaac Fleur and Rev Asa Reed.
The First Trin Congregational Church on Dutton Street offers a morning service at 10 20 with the sermon Standing Before the Judgment Seat of Christ and Christmas thoughts. A fifty-voice chorus will perform Blessed Be the Name of the Lord and a fifty-voice children's choir will sing The Wonderful Child alongside Christmas decorations from Central Congregational Church of At-.
Centralville M E Church hosts a Christmas program with organ pieces, hymns, and anthems led by Rev. F M Pickles and Rev. John D Pickles Ph D of Boston. The program features soloists Miss Cora Titus, Miss Lena Luce, and a children’s vested choir with orchestra directed by Mr Henry Worth.
The fragment lists services at A M B Zion Middlesex street with Sabbath school at 8 and preaching at 7. Grand Street Adventist C KH Crosastt 19.50 and 4.80 with the Suffering of Christ theme. Church of Scotland service at 6.20. First Pentecostal at Engineer's hall with 10.80 a m and 6.29 p m. Christadelphian and First Church of Christ groups also mentioned in a partial list.
The Young Women's Christian Association holds a Sunday memorial gospel service at 4 PM with Frances Card presiding. Mrs Meg Whittle Moody sings As Gold Is Tried by request. Twilight service at 7 PM and Junior Sunshine Club meets this afternoon. All girls and women invited.
Exposure to a sudden climatic change reduces cold in the head and catarrh is apt to follow. Ely's Cream Balm offers immediate relief without pain or irritation. Priced 60 cents, available from druggists or Ely Brothers at 86 Warren Street New York by mail. It soothes irritated surfaces and cleanses to relieve inflammation and the cold.
A health product notice describes a remedy marketed to relieve headaches caused by colds. It lists usage steps and cautions, naming the brand and ingredients while advising consult of a physician for severe symptoms.
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