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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1901
Page
8
Saturday afternoon brought mist and drizzle with little moisture. The night was dull and foggy, while yesterday was fairly fine, especially in the afternoon. Morning opened dull but forenoon improved. today at 5 p.m. 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. barometer 29.70 29.60 29.58 and temperatures 64 60 73.
Boston reports showers tonight with cooler air and a fair Tuesday. Southwest winds accompany the unsettled northern New England conditions.
The Lowell Daily Courier reports on St Jean Baptiste church mission for boys and girls led by Rev Fr Diss, a Faith Home matron receiving $100 from a recent concert, Drie Telegraph moves to Congress Street Boston, a potential month delay on rebuilding the Fifield Tool building, a $120,000 insurance payment, Busy Bee sewing circle hosted by Mrs Geo E Varney on June 4, and a notice changing the Busy Bee meeting from the second to the first Tuesday inviting attendance.
Miss Beatrice Holbrook of Everett, 14, appeared at Mr Presett's studio in the Central block. She performed from memory including Beethoven Le Chant Du Ruisseau and a Margaret Ruthven Lang sonata, earning praise for grace and musical insight.
Miss Effie L Palmer presented a pupils recital in Boston last Friday with several Lowell singers on the program Mrs O A Gelino showcased in Fa tal Goffredo from Donizettis Torquato Tasso Robert Leatham Jr excelled in an aria from La Sonnambula and joined Gelino in the famous quartet from Rigoletto Florence Milner offered a Tosti song The host plans to close the season with a recital on Thursday evening June 20
Architects report that the New England tar roofing felt outperforms others after tests with fire and water. The brand is only slightly more expensive, and it is recommended for gravel roofing projects.
The Cunard steamer Ivernia sailed on Saturday carrying 826 passengers. A sizable town traveled aboard with provisions and freight to match, reflecting a bustling voyage and busy crossing.
An advertisement touts Hood's Tea Soap as perfectly pure and antiseptic with healing purifying properties for the complexion. It markets a trial size for 10 cents and a full size for 25 cents from Hood Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, with a sample offered free.
In Cambridge on Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Nathan C Lombard celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with about 200 family and friends at Odd Fellows hall. Their son Herbert E Lombard and his wife joined in their silver 25th anniversary, surrounded by four Lombard children and seven grandchildren. The event featured a formal program, gifts of gold, and nostalgic reminiscences from relatives and neighbors.
Miss Sarah Hildreth Ames and Spencer Borden Jr. wed at the Ames home in Andover street Fall River guests from families gathered for an indoor ceremony after a planned outdoor service. The event featured a National band, flowers, a reception, dancing, and a flower-pelting sendoff. The bride, sister Jessie Ames, and groom’s sister Florence Borden participated. Rev. A St John Chambre officiated. The Bordens will reside in Fall River.
Dedication exercises for the new First Baptist church were postponed from June 9 to after summer vacation due to slow organ progress. Rev. Dr. Lorimer of Boston and other participants were notified. Advertisers are urged to mention seeing the notice in the Courier.
Auctioneers J E Conant & Co announce a Thursday sale of prime High Street plots in Belvidere Lowell. Trustees E A Smith and F B Shedd offer up to ten vacant lots with strict building limits, mortgage terms, and a $200 deposit per lot. Sale begins at 4 PM June 5 1901 regardless of weather.
O Sullivan Bros announce a public auction on June 7 1901 at 5 PM for the Modern Renting Property at 324 and 326 Fletcher Street Lowell. The three story block has eight four room tenements a two room store plus a rear passageway from Broadway to Cross Street. Rent is 90 dollars monthly with mortgage option two thirds down at 5 percent interest. A 650 dollar deposit required and deed within thirty days.
Lowell grand jury list for tomorrow includes Thomas Kelly and Benjamin King both charged with larceny with multiple witnesses. Several defendants plead not guilty. others plead guilty as witnesses are called. Names include Charbonneau Waters Graban Barrows Burke Hopwood Mitchell Groban Ducharme Hubert Sloan Cantara Roosey Smith Frawley Cooley Casey Jalbert Goodrow Clem ents Charbonneau Waters Brown Sasseville Thorne Sevignay Cham pagne Fusco and others. Lowell witnesses travel to East Cambridge on Wednesday.
A copy of the second year book of the Columbia Typographical Union of Washington DC, 100 pages on fine calendared book stock, enclosed in an artistic cover. Issued by the union’s printing committee led by John Greene Jr formerly of Lowell, who rose from apprentice in Vox Populi to union member in 1883 and Washington maker-up in the government printing office, also active in B B French lodge and in music as pianist and vocalist.
A G Pollard & Co advertises horse covering summer coolers. Soft fleeced cotton blankets measure 80 by 90 inches, weight 2 1 4 pounds, in colored plaid. Retail price 98 cents, but two bales direct from mill offered at 69 cents each. Basement.
W. Lenhart of Bowling Green reports a running itching sore on the leg plagued him until Doan's United Cures relieved the burning and itching and achieved a permanent cure.
Members of the Associated Press New England Telegraph corps gathered for their annual banquet Sunday afternoon. J. J. Keating of New Haven, longtime Citizen night operator, attended, with J. E. Walsh, Keating’s successor on the Citizen’s night wire, also present as a guest.
Vital statistics list 28 deaths with causes including heart disease pneumonia brain disease and debility. Notable ages range from infants to 87 with entries for Bridget McNamara 76 and Emerance Carmier 76. City Clerk Girard P Dadman signs off on the list.
The Board of Health reports population 94 969 with 31 total deaths in the week ending June 1 1901 including 12 under five and 6 from acute lung diseases. Typhoid fever 1 scarlet fever 1 diphtheria 16. The summer hat line closes the brief note.
A historical critique denounces patent medicines for relying on opium and similar drugs. It explains how immediate relief followed by withdrawal fuels addiction and chronic rheumatism from uric acid deposition. The piece promotes Father John’s Medicine as a safer, nourishing alternative with pure ingredients and no narcotics.
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