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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1902
Page
6
The Lowell Aly' Courier, oldest Middlesex daily since 1825, established 1845 as a daily. Printed at Courier-Citizen Building, Merrimack Street, Lowell. Daily except Sundays and holidays. Carriers deliver across the city for six cents a week.
Yesterday's heavy snow storm ended around noon and the gas or fuel fire was extinguished after burning in the morning. The afternoon remained dull and gray, but night skies cleared. Today is milder with an overcast sky and a calmer barometer reading.
Boston January 11 forecast for New England expects snow tonight with rain on the southern coast then clearing Sunday. Much colder with light variable winds becoming high northwesterly.
The Lowell Daily Courier analyzes Admiral Schley’s visit to President Roosevelt as a calculated political maneuver. It argues that Schley seeks presidential nomination with Democratic allies, while noting public skepticism and Dewey’s impact on the case. The piece contends the public is increasingly wary of Schley.
In a critique echoed from Governor Crane's message, Massachusetts is urged to abandon nearly 30 tons of old printed books and pamphlets stored at the State House. The piece argues many volumes are unnecessary, costly to print, and prone to errors, urging only essential data be kept and printed in smaller runs.
The Boston Record argues Corbett is unlikely to become corporation counsel, noting the role demands strong bar experience and strict duty in protecting city interests. The piece stresses the position is more than a training post anduchar.
The Morris amendment proposing an alternative for the Panama-Nicaragua canal drew a large House majority, a result I would not have received otherwise. The remark highlights a significant party line split and shifting support for possible canal approaches.
The article notes evolving support for a canal bill, with the senate reviewing the ground and expectations for a larger vote after recent amendments. It highlights two dissenting voices against the original bill, and comments on rural free delivery as debated by Senator Mason, while praising Massachusetts for education funding and proposing Henry L. Higginson as a trustee choice for a new university in Washington funded by Carnegie.
The Transvaal leader Kruger maintains silence though Boer successes show they are far from defeated. World opinion shifts toward Boer republics and British statesmen now see the loss of victory looming as Kruger waits for a ripe moment before speaking again.
Dist Atty Jerome argues the engineer bears the fault if the tunnel disaster occurred despite all safeguards. Boston Record notes papers claim the road did not prevent it. Public view mixed, with calls for better evidence from direct witnesses.
The Daughters of the Confederacy oppose presenting Uncle Tom's Cabin as an insult to the South in Kentucky theaters. The sharp petition condemns a modern travesty with two Topsies and two Little Evas and other blackface acts, likely to be met with strong public derision.
The speaker criticizes Mr Kipling for recent utterances printed in London newspapers. They doubt the literary value, noting the verses, though well paid for Kipling, add little to literature and seem signed to works that may live long despite the weak quality.
The excerpt questions what purpose William Jennings Bryan has for his current nationwide travels and why Massachusetts should honor him. It ends with a sharp rebuke urging Bryan to “go way back and sit down,” signaling strong opposition to his prominence.
A campaign by Col Waller’s troops moves through Samar amid a dead calm, facing considerable hardship as forces press forward. Local observers note the advance continues with limited resistance and significant supply difficulties for advancing units.
A mosaic of facts notes hotels in London host 18 400 guests nightly doctors in Sweden accept patient gifts without bills Norway has Europe's smallest population relative to area with vast land per person Jupiter and other planets compared in size and a note on Polo as an ancient sport traced to 690 B C Buffalo sports fans strive to save the Pan American stadium from ruin
A compact miscellany notes census debates, bank explanations, naval orders, and social tidbits. It mentions Euclid bank scrutiny, a naval officer’s secret orders, Southern black labor, Boston Park Square amateur circus, Prof Darling on alcohol as food, Stuart Robson’s Senate pages past, a Boston gambler, checkers as pernicious, musty State House books, and a Turkish bath night commander.
In Lowell, locals praise Captain Joe Eaton assigned to the famous ship the Oregon. Debates at High Street Lyceum discuss consolidation in business and religion with Clarence W. Whidden affirming and Joshua Clark opposing. Miss Bessie Hadley will read the Gazette and a young singer will perform.
Evans F Marvel an enginer at White's tannery died at his home after a protracted illness. Survived by a wife four brothers and three sisters. The funeral will be held Saturday at 2 30 p m from his late residence 102 Perry Street with friends invited.
A string of funeral services occurred yesterday across several addresses including 28 Bye street 77 Crosby street and 4 Broughton avenue with burials at Edson and Catholic cemeteries. Clergy Rev L E Bell Fr Walsh Fr Mullin officiated with choirs and floral tributes. memories were shared for Ellen Carney Mary Ann Dempsey Patrick Brown and others.
Quotations note Henry Villard bequests to New York institutions total 102000 effecting 38000 under new tax on public and charitable wills. Critics say the state taxes charity, while others blame broader issues such as tunnel safety and urban grime.
The measure divides consuls into six classes with salaries from ten thousand dollars for top class to eighteen hundred for bottom. It promises improvement over the fee system which awards lavish pay for some posts while most get only enough for decent support and risk corruption.
Winthrop M. Daniels critiques statistical lit erature in the January Atlantic noting librarians find little demand for it and that well known works omit statistics. He cites Sir John Lubbock’s list, denies blue books offer practical help, and warns methods like weighted averages and index numbers seem cruelly obscure to readers.
A Pennsylvania Quaker argues in the January Atlantic that Quakers were not pacifists or non combatants. They favored reason and force to stop criminal methods, resisted invasions of rights, and supported non importation and Dickinson style protests. During the Revolution many aided the American cause despite ecclesiastical disapproval.
Frederick Macmonnies the sculptor sails to America to pursue painting and possibly stage an exhibition later. Horace E Scudder, famed author, remains gravely ill with a sinking spell after a month of danger. He lives at 20 Buckingham street Cambridge. Actor William Faversham, performer in A Royal Rival, is bedbound at the Crown hotel Providence with lung congestion and possible pneumonia.
A local retailer offers a moderate sized lot of new juvenile suits described as serviceable and dark in color. The sale aims to reduce on hand stock ahead of an upcoming stocktake.
A wholesale robber in Boston offers bargain lots in the shoe department basement. Men’s shoes valued at 3 dollars go for 1.98, women’s shoes 1 to 2 dollars priced at 0.98 or 1.49, boys and girls shoes 0.79 to 0.98. Ladies’ rubbers and other items shown in the window on Merrimack Street. A G Pollard & Co advertise the sale.
John J. Foye a clerk at the Franklin house married Olive M Morton of Branch street Wednesday evening at six nine at Pete as parochial chapel residence. Rev Saunders officiated. Miss Margaret Foye attended and Denis M Carthy served as best man.
A vintage ad urges readers to try Cafebrin for headaches and offers a money back guarantee if it does not help. It directs sufferers to write to the Cafebrin Co. in Boston with case particulars and notes that all druggists carry the product. The piece ends with a nod to a trolley line to Mecca transforming the pilgrim into a daily tourist.
A New York druggist notes that filling quinine into capsules is skilled labor and costs two cents per dozen capsules.
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