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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1902
Page
5
The Middlesex Women’s club in Lowell hosts a series of meetings in January with a special business session and a musical afternoon. The article traces the club’s beginnings, its sewing and dressmaking classes, exhibitions, and moral impact, noting a Christmas gift program for 100 children and the club’s role in empowering young women through education and work.
The Boston Herald notes the Great and General Court will focus on gypsy moths brown tail moth elm leaf beetle the San Jose scale capital punishment and woman suffrage as annual legislative issues. It adds measures restricting hours of labor for women and minors. A London dentist argues advanced education reshapes jaws affecting teeth, suggesting a debate over higher education for women and potential societal consequences including a toothless race and reliance on spoon vittles.
The Salt Lake City News editorial lauds fair-minded support for women voting, denounces antis as inconsistent, and questions anti suffrage rhetoric. It notes the Anti-Suffrage League and the Daughters of the American Revolution as sources of opposition while arguing women can be both voters and virtuous citizens without harm to home duties.
In Lowell the People's club born from Col James Francis and Samuel Cabot aimed at intellectual improvement and recreation for all. It opened reading and amusement rooms, later added a women’s branch, with lectures, concerts, and charitable support from local mills and Boston visitors, fostering education and better lives for workers.
By invitation of the Heptorean club of Somerville the Massachusetts State Federation will meet at the Sycamore Street Congregational church in Somerville on Friday January 31. The programme centers on Civics with a morning address on The Training of American Citizenship by Professor Edward Howard Griggs and an afternoon session featuring Mr. Richard H. Dana of Cambridge on Civil Service Reform and Miss Sarah L. Arnold, Supervisor Bos-
Dr Robert E Bell presents a second physiology lecture at Colonial hall on breathing. He stresses nasal breathing, full chest expansion, and regular exercise to prevent disease, criticizing tuberculous relocation to dry climates and urging school-based physical training to develop lifelong good respiration habits.
President Roosevelt and family saw Stuart Robson in The Henrietta at Columbia tonight. Robson was presented with flowers by Senate pages and has invited them to his show next Friday. He marks fifty years as an actor this week, with a loving cup presented by his company. He first appeared in Baltimore in 1862.
Chicago authorities assert a Paris banker named Lebaudy will provide a commerce school at the University of Chicago for French youths, with a gift totaling at least 1 million dollars. They acknowledge no firm funding for equipment but claim his promise justifies the announcement of the endowment. A separate note mentions Pollard & Co.’s large advertisement drawing buyers to a department store sale in Lowell and nearby towns.
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