Solon W Stevens Reacts To Lowell High Banquet
Nearly a hundred members from the Lowell High School classes of 1901 and 1902 gathered at the high school hall for a joint banquet. Solon W Stevens acted as toastmaster, praising school spirit while alumni like Carl D Burtt and Orrin Wing praised teachers and the plan for an alumni association. The program featured toasts, speeches, and a six-number dance, with plans for future gatherings and an Annex social to advance alumni efforts.
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Lowell High School
High School
Page
Solon W. Stevens
Tama
Carl D. Burtt
Lowell
Co. F
Carl Staples
Boston University
Orrin Wing
Athletic Association
Herford N. Elliot
Dartmouth College
Alice Bean
Gi Had Made Such Great Progress Under Difficulties, and Moniion
Edna Thompson
Cambrid
Willard AL Parker
Annex
Amy G. Bent
High School Review
Baby farming scandal claims 300 infant deaths in Osaka
A Yokohama telegraph report to Victoria outlines a brutal baby farming conspiracy in Osaka. An elderly woman, her daughter, husband, and two others are under arrest, with 300 infants killed since operations began this year. Also noted are a widow bride and a political cabinet peril in Tokyo and the passing of Count Sano.
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Victoria
B. C
Associated Press
Yokohama
Osaka
The
Japan Times
Kochi
Ancient Ute Snake Dance Captured On Film In Denver
Denver Times reports photographer H. H. Buckwalter filmed the Southern Ute snake dance at City Park. The event links rains and harvests, with Crow and Shoshone participants also appearing. The film aims to aid Smithsonian and government anthropologists studying the legends and dances now changing with white contact.
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West
Red Man
H. H. Buckwalter
Denver
City Park
Crow Agency
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Quin-chuck-a-chaw
Buckwalter
Quin
Denver Times
Unpopular water fountain at Commerceal monument
An Atchison Champion note describes a silver water monument to Councilman Ben Early at Commerceal that began with activity but closed as wind shifted north around ten at night. Patrons staying late had to visit billiard halls for drinks, and it is urged the fountain be kept running even if it requires sustaining a fire inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben
Commercelal
North
Hallie Erminie Rives
New York
Broadway
Waltman
Miss Rives
Joshua Reynolds
Unclear Claim on Identity Sparks Social Satire Abroad
A provocative remark questions how the Castellano youths perceived Americans in New York, suggesting such misrecognition supports a harsher, more aggressive stance of Anglo social groups toward foreigners. The line uses irony to critique cross cultural assumptions and aggression.
Book World reviews and literary notices mix classics and new works
A survey of January issues and reviews across The St Nicholas, Atlantic, and House Beautiful highlights Castleman stories, Alcott sequels, and various articles. It notes editorials on labor, crime, and urban facts, with fiction by Rabin, Sigsbee Small, and Wright. The piece praises the periodicals for rich verse, tales, and cultural essays.
Jim and Joe by Edward S. Ellis
Edward S. Ellis writes of two city boys Jim and Joe who endure poverty and danger. Jim saves Rosa at the circus and later helps ward off burglars. Joe leaves home for Chicago and returns when Rosa is abducted. Rosa marries a rescuer as the boys’ hardships end. Published by Henry T. Coates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward S. Ellis
Jim
Joe
Rosa
Chicago
Henry T. Coates & Co
Philadelphia
Underground History and Other Pearsons Features in January
Pearson’s January issue opens with Underground History a Secret Service series about the Kaiser telegram that sparked the Boer War. Other highlights include A Derby Day in the Snow and Freezing Caverns a ride through Stockholm’s mid winter horse race and subterranean ice caves. Features cover Cowboy Songs and Dances The Greatest Dredge in the World Limited Free Trade Rider Haggard's Roman Triumph and sale as a slave Indiana in Stories of the States and a Southern sketch How the King Came to His Own plus financial notes Tables Turned ghost stories and women’s club discussions by leading authors and organizers.
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Pearson
Stockholm
Grace B. Ward
Sandy Hook
New York Harbor
Captain Kettle
Rider Haggard
Test Daton
Indiana
Martha McCulloch- Williams
Emmet C. Hall
Wall Street
Embryo
Phebe Hanaford
Miriam M. Greeley
New York State
Federation of Women's Clubs
New York
Harriet S. Blatch
Woman's Department
Lippincotts New Year fiction and sketches highlight
The January Lippincotts issue presents The New Heloise by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield and Edgar Fauncett’s The Resurrection of Edith as featured stories. It includes Western tales by Er Boltwood and H Giovannolt, plus Grace Rhys The Man with the Shoulder and Ina Breveort Roberts The Decision. Also Jernice C Caughey contributes A Fair Fee, J G Rosengarten writes on Frankslin in Germany, and Mrs M B Leicester Addis surveys English Wives and American Housekeeping.
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Lippincott’s
Lippincott
Judith
Mackford
Grace Rhys
Ernest Rhys
Ina Breveort Roberts
W. A. Fraser
P. L
Harriet Clay Penman
Jernice C. Caughey
J. G. Rosengarten
Frankslin
Germany
M. B. Leicester Addis
Invasion of Canada and future war themes featured
The January issue of World's Work highlights Robert H. Montgomery's piece on the American invasion of Canada with striking pictures, Lewis Nixon's predictions on the Battleship of the Future, Mosely's views on industrial conditions, Morgan Robertson on wreck salvage methods, and Hamilton Higday's Day's Work narrative, all richly illustrated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Montgomery
Canada
Lewis Nixon
Mr. Mosely
Morgan Robertson
Hamilton Higday
January Popular Science Monthly offers a wide scholarly mix
The issue lists works by Trelease Haddon McLaughlin Ellis Benedict Woods Spillman and others on topics from botany and data preservation to immigration, heredity, and education. It features fiction by Carryl Forman Cabell Livingstone Saltus Egan Napier and more with notes on Helen Gould Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson.
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Popular Science Monthly
Missouri Botanical Garden
William Trelease
A. C. Haddon
America
A. J. McLaughlin
Havelock Ellis
J. C. Sutherland
A. L. Bénedict
Frederick Adams Woods
W. J. Spillman
Carnegie Institution
Ogden N. Road
Naples
New York Aquarium
Hunting Over the Great Ice in Leslie's January
Commodore Robert F. Peary returns from the Arctic and leads Leslie's Monthly with hunting over the polar ice. The issue features Peary's musk ox trophies and photographic storytelling alongside eight short stories by Robert Barr Ralph Connor and Anna Hamilton Yeaman. It includes The Amethyst Box by Anna Katherine Green ending with a $100 reward hunt, plus articles on the U S poultry industry and a study of Joseph Chamberlain with brief pieces on Dr Lorenz and Irish MP commentary. Marginalia offers lighter verse and sketches.
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Robert F. Peary
Arctic
Leslie's Monthly
Robert Barr
Ralph Connor
Anna Hamilton Yeaman
Anna Katherine Green
United States
Dr. Lorenz
Joseph Chamberlain
Crocodile and Alligator Hunting in January's Country Life
Country Life in America for January highlights wide reader appeal with features on hunting and hounds, camping in snow, greenhouse and home making, plus illustrated stories. A. Radclyffe Dugmore portrays wintry woods life in North Woods with pictures. The Cook Estate at Lenox and practical windows and greenhouse series add guidance for country households.
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Country Life
America
North Woods
A. Radclyffe Dugmore
Cook Estate
Lenox
Berkshires
Wilhelm Miller
L. H. Bailey
Turning of the First Sod and Catholic World Contents
A December Catholic World issue highlights include The Turning of the First Sod from the Apostolic Mission House of the Catholic University in Washington, plus articles on Leo MII, the Basis of a Catholic Novel, Unitarianism in Education, and Evictions in Brittany. Other notable pieces feature A Pen Picture of English Life in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, a practical talk on church building, and The Saint of Lindisfarne, with several illustrations.
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Apostolic Mission House
Catholic University At
Washington
Leo MII
D. J. Mace Mackin
D. D
Rose I* Hgan
Brittany
Comte de Coursen
William Seton
LL. D
Charles D. Maginnis
Lindisfarne
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Literary notes on Germany book by Wolf von Schierbrand
Doubleday, Page publishes a major study on Germany by Wolf von Schierbrand, arguing German power implications and expulsion from Germany adds credibility. Edits include Blashfield Italian Cities and praise from Edith Wharton. Lucas Malet writes a new novel Paradise of Dominie Iglesias. Indianapolis schoolchildren favor Frank Dempster Sherman poems.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
Germany
Wolf von Schierbrand
America
E. H
FE. W. Blashfield
Scribners
Edith Wharton
Symonds
Italy
Lucas Malet
Richard Calmady
Dominie Iglesias
New Book News From 1903 Publishers and Authors
Publishers announce forthcoming works by Sherman and Lynde plus translations and fiction from Lothrop, New Amsterdam, Scribner's, Little, Brown. Highlights include A Journal of Voyages, Reminiscences of John B. Gordon, and Hearts Courageous. Also notes Peary’s hunting article and Loti’s Last Days of Pekin.
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Lothrop Publishing Company
Cliveden
Kenyon West
Francis Churchill Williams
George Cary Eggleston
New Amsterdam Book Company
Harmon
North America
Montreal
Pacific
Wedding and Card Engraving Services Offered
A Merrimack street business advertises fine engraved work for calling cards wedding invitations and announcements at home cards and similar items. It promises high quality stock and reasonable prices and invites customers to view samples at Courier Citizen Co.
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Courier- Citizen Co
Merrimack Street
Probate notice to Abby D Gates heirs in Lowell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court cites heirs and all interested parties in the estate of Abby D Gates late of Lowell for probate of a last will presented by James G Buttrick. Court in Lowell to hear cause January 20, 1903 at 9 AM. Public notice must be published weekly for three weeks in the Lowell Daily Courier and copies sent to known interested parties seven days before the hearing. Witness Charles J McIntire, judge, December 16, 1902. Ss H Folsom Register.
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Middlesex
Abby D. Gates
Lowell
James G. Buttrick
Lowell Daily Courier
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
Ss. H. Folsom
Register
Annual meeting of Boston and Lowell stockholders
The Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the Passenger Station in Boston on Wednesday January 7 1903 at 10 a m for electing a Board of Directors and to consider issuing bonds up to 250000 dollars dated May 1 1903 repayable in 20 years at up to 4 percent interest and other business. Per order of the Directors Henry B Cabot Clerk.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad Corporation
Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
Henry B. Cabot
Wamesit National Bank to Hold January Meeting
The Wamesit National Bank of Lowell invites stockholders to its banking rooms on Tuesday January 20 at 2 PM for the annual meeting to choose directors and transact any other lawful business. Attest C E Goulding cashier December 20 1902 Lowell Massachusetts.
Directors Meeting at The Old Lowell National Bank
Shareholders of The Old Lowell National Bank will meet at the bank's rooms in Lowell Massachusetts on Tuesday January 20 1903 at 10 30 AM to choose directors and transact any lawful business. Chas M Williams cashier Lowell Mass December 12 1902.
Appleton National Bank to Hold Annual Stockholders Meeting
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Appleton National Bank of Lowell will be held at their banking rooms on Tuesday January 13 1903 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for the election of directors and the transaction of any other business that may legally come before them. Geo Be King Acting Cashier Lowell Mass Dec 3 1902.
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Lowell Dispensary
Lowell Institution
Wamest National Bank
Wamesit National Bank
C. E. Goulding
Lowell
Chas
M. Williams
Mass
Appleton National Bank of Lowell
Geo
BE. King
Prescott National Bank of
Central Street
Sawyer
Prescott National Bank of Lowell Directors Election Notice
Holders of the Prescott National Bank of Lowell are summoned to a meeting at 40 Central Street on Tuesday January 13 at 10 o clock A M to elect Directors and transact other business. Sawyer Cashier December 12 1902.
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Mary G Webster
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Willard A. Parker
Bertha M. Abbott
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Herford Elliot
Alice Gray
Daisy Farrell
Violet Stocks
Carl Stocks
Grover Fels
Japan
Tokio
Katsura
Count Sano
Japan Red Cross Society
Fine Arts Society
Austria-Hungary
Big Pond
Harry Castleman
Telegraph Company
Harry T. Coates & Co
Arthur Goodrich
Mosely
M. G. Cunniff
Mosely Party
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William Travers Jerome
Rian
Thomas R. Dawley, Jr
General Toral
Santiago
Franklin Matthews
New Hartford
Conn
Frederic Ogg
Herr Krupp
Gia
St. Nicholas
Louisa M. Alcott
Dove's Nest
Miss Alcott
Clara Morris
Roy Benson Richardson
Lewis B. Miller
Zitella Cocke
Austin
Virginia Woodward Cloud
Florence Evelyn Pratt
Sarah M. B. Pratt
William B. McHarg
Wanderers
Atlantic
Arthur Sherburne Hardy
J. T Trowbridge
Frederick J. Turner
Co. E. A. Winslow
W. J. Henderson
Richard, Strauss
R. Brimley Johnson
England
Julia R. Tutwiler
Mary, Austin
Agnes ‘Repplier
Sharlot M. Hall
Kate Mier Rabb
Dickens
Alice Meynell
Howells
James
France
Etters
Marie Antoinette
Richardson and Tennyson
Lewis and Clark
Edgar Allan Poe
William M. Payne
Agnes Lee
S. V. Cole
Circe
Elen Frances Huntington
Grace Florence Reed
Miss Darcy
Danville
Ethel Sigsbee Small
Maud Stepney Rawson
Arthur Stringer
Walden Fawcett
House Beautiful
Hans Holbein
Windsor
Jim and
Pearson's
Seybold
University of
Tubingen
Consul Wetzstein
Damascus
Bessie van Vorst
Juliet Wilburt Tompkins
Helen Gould
Roosevelt
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Justus Miles Forman
James Branch Cabell
Francis Livingston
Alma Adorata
Edgar Saltus
Maurice Francis Egan
Providence
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Rosamond Napier
Frank Leslie
Catholic World
Indianapolis
Frank Dempster Sherman
the Living Age
KEW
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Gilbert Parker
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Ripon
Augustine Birrell
WR. Yeats
Andrew Lang
Katharine Tynan
Maxwell Gray
Sidney JL Herbert Paul
Edwin Arnold
Edmund Gosse
George Jedith
Fiona Macleod
Maurice Maeterlinck
Hilaire Belloc
Sir Wemyss Reid
John Buchan
Rowland Blennerhassett
Eugene Melchior de Vogue
Leslie Stephen
Lord Rosebery
Paul Bourget
W. L. Courtney
Edward Dowden
Kenry Lawson
Arthur Christopher Benson
Max Beerbohm
Janet H. Findlater
Owen Seaman
W. EB. Henri Fhe Hon
J. TH. Asquith
Pierre de Co
P. O. Box
Wing Age Company
Bromfield Street
Robert E. Peary
Scribner's Magazine
John B. Gordon
General Gordon
South
United Confederate Veterans
General Grant
Scribner's
Sydney Brooks
President Roosevelt
Living Age
Monthly Review
Pekin
Pierre Loti
Myrta L. Jones
Little, Browz & Co
Loti
Julian Viaud
Pottier
Far East
China
Francis Lynde
Appleby
Carolinas
Maurice Thompson
Alice
Old Vincennes
Lynde
Bowen-Merrill Company
David Carson
Alice of
Lazarre
the Strollers
F.C. Yohn
Andre Castaigne
A. B. Wenzell
Everrett Shinn
Henry Hutt
Harrison Fisher
Howard Chandler Christy
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
James W. B. Shaw
Lowell, Mass
Lowell National Bank
Appleton National Bank
Prescott National Bank OF Lowell
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