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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
6
The Well Daly Courier reports Snow Storm No 10 with overcast skies turning to snowfall up to half an inch. The forenoon is fair with wind from the northwest. Boston indicates fair weather tonight and Sunday with colder temps and brisk northwesterly winds.
Editorial rooms and departments listed with telephone contact guidance. Readers are advised to direct advertising inquiries non delivery issues and address changes to the business office at 31-5 for prompt handling.
The column rails at German plots and Kaiser's moves while lampooning Nelson and the Herald as fantasy. It condemns Standard Oil profits and coal costs in Boston, praises Vanderbilt’s illness battle, questions Bryan in Mexico, notes wage hikes, and ends with a remark on snow storms and the word blizzard.
The piece rails at Mascagni for artistic limits and mocks arbitration by The Hague while hinting Roosevelt could resolve issues faster. It notes Moody seeking ships and sailors, questions guarantees on awards, and jabs at Cambridge and Cantabrigian figures. It ends with a jab at Boston policing and annexation of Canada.
Quotations from leaders and citizens show support and critique across New York school funding tied to flag display, transit service advocacy led by governor mayor and unions, and contrasting fortunes of Mascagni on tour versus Sousa’s European engagement.
The Villa Turgenieff in Baden Baden, built 1865 near Viardot-Garcia's villa, is for sale with talk of turning it into a Turgenieff museum. The Prince of Wales's daughter’s son born Saturday becomes fourth in line. the other children are Edward Albert, Albert, Henry, and Victoria. Arch bishop Tichon officiated at Philadelphia's first Orthodox Greek church consecration. services will be irregular. Mary Scott Harrison McKee sues to force sale of Indianapolis real estate for her share. Miss Eugenia Meneely of Troy to marry Rev Samuel Snelling of Boston. Xenophon Kalamatiano, Russian instructor at the University of Chicago, returns after living incognito with lumbermen. Theodore G. Lemmon seeks improvements for the Indian training school at Grand Junction, Colorado. Elizabeth Ney, sculptor from Austin, Texas, returns from Germany with two statues for the State Capitol, General Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin.
In Italy a scare over the permanence of typewritten documents prompts the justice minister to forbid accepting typewritten papers in legal matters. The piece also notes fish producing musical sounds, including the red gurnard and two ophidium species, plus the malgre and waterfall roar from bubble bursts.
A compact mix of quirky remarks and fleeting news tidbits recounts Lily de Bathe’s stage return, Bryan’s Mexico talk, Marconi’s triumph, Tesla’s silence, old city barges repurposed as coal carriers, and the Hague Tribunal tease for Venezuela, with seasonal jabs at Santa, Christmas trees, and winter’s chill across the nation.
City schools will resume Monday morning with most buildings heated by coal. Superintendent A K Whitcomb confirms rules unchanged for forty years and two schools in need will receive supplies before Monday. Purchasing agent Rourke sourced coal from Boston and Lowell to cover a few days, with cars due midweek and the rest expected by next week.
The Springfield Republican surveys Christmas season siting in New York, noting charity and services absorb space while fuel shortages and cold affect the poor. It describes a coal delivery mixup, evolving press images, and Judge Hadley’s court remarks, then laments street congestion with rising motor traffic and railroad crowding.
Two Polish men who barely spoke English were jailed by a U S deputy marshal for rifling a mail sack at Ospur near Decatur. They admitted the crime but claimed ignorance of the law. They used the mail contents to start a fire on a cold night.
A home gathering at Mr and Mrs James FE Wrights 42 B Street marked Mr Wrights 75th birthday. Attending were Persis FH Mother Lowell Sanford S Wright Elwin Manchester NH George M Wright plus families Chelmsford Centre Lowell locale attendees L M Fuller H L Park Reading and their children. Absentees were eldest son Wm A Wright and family of Montreal. Bath robes priced 4 to 7 50 from H L Batley Co 69 Merrimack Street.
The piece divides dressing into two parts, your part and the tailor’s part. It urges readers to patronize a capable tailor and emphasizes personal responsibility in selecting quality workmanship and attire.
A verbose critique of Manhattan's congestion and transit delays, noting underground rapid transit plans, construction hazards, and the dangers of urban upheaval. It laments the rush to tear down old buildings for steel framed towers while pollution and danger threaten both foot travelers and riders.
The advertisement touts Hood's Lotion as soothing healing and antiseptic with a refined fragrance. It smoothes hard skin and leaves a delicate scent and is offered in large bottles for 25 cents.
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