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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1900
Page
8
The Sun rises at 4.09 and sets at 7.16 in the evening, showing a day length of 15.07 hours. Moon sets at 11.47 p.m. on Wei preceding days and the following Sun and Mon indicate sequence of sunrise and sunset events.
A report describes a Saturday with oppressive conditions, a cool change bringing gray skies and a light shower, followed by showers in the afternoon and a calm, clearer night. The forecast for Massachusetts predicts fair weather tonight and Tuesday with northeast winds.
In Gorham street the Friday shooting affray led to several arrests. All but two suspects released Saturday night as no evidence remained to hold them, each previously held in $1000. The article notes the broader event and the freeing of those detained.
A cocking main drew crowds from Boston Lynn Haverhill and nearby Dracut. The event occurred at a farm house with little police involvement. One Dracut bird won a food pot. two birds died a Haverhill and a Lowell bird, a Haverhill bird was disabled. Large money exchanged hands.
Lovers of minstrelsy have a treat at Lakeview Theatre as the California Minstrels begin today, June 4, with a varied program of new features. The vocalists are seasoned and perform New York hits, the alio is well staged, and James Gorman leads the production with his famed troupe. The company appears twice daily, afternoon and evening, all week.
Leighton Bros. offers a wide array of wedding gift stock in Lowell with everything included in the sale. Bric a brac sterling silver cut glass statuettes dinner sets fish and game sets candelabra sardineres and other items are offered at lower prices than ever before.
The annual Commencement exercises of Notre Dame academy will take place on Tuesday June 19 with Rt Rev John J Williams archbishop of Boston as special guest. Immaculate Conception parochial school Beloc will close June 25. closing exercises will mark the occasion.
A preacher from Rhode Island shares a long testimonial praising Postum Cereal Coffee. He says coffee worsened nerves and headaches, but after switching three years ago his muscles hardened and strength rose, with daily three cups of Postum. He claims Postum removes coffee’s poison and boosts nerve health and overall vigor.
Worthen Street Baptist Church unanimously votes to extend a call to Rev. Charles R. McNally of Newton Theological Seminary to become pastor. If the society concurs, he will preach next Sunday, with the start date to be arranged. McNally, 25 or 26, heads his class and has served as assistant pastor at Brookline Church.
At the First Trinitarian church last night Rev. George F. Kenngett presented the final talk in his series on Lowell's Educational and Charitable Institutions. He described the city library the county truant school the jail and other civic institutions using views taken for his presentation.
Rev. S T Ford preached on hornets and angels from Exodus 23 20 33 stressing that God uses diverse agencies to build righteousness and advance settlements He cites the Hebrews conquest and compares it to industry and education in cities The sermon warns against judging small things and urges trust in Providence and restraint in tobacco use citing Moody and warnings from temperance groups
Weather affected attendance at Kirk Street church Encouragement Service last night yet music pleased the crowd. Rev Dr Bartlett preached The Victory of Belijah and spoke on Is Smoking a Sin in his prelude. He cited conscience as tribunal where Bible lacks guidance and shared un solicited letters from believers on tobacco use.
The Immanuel Baptist church heard Rev. Brown E. Smith deliver the fourth sermon in a series titled Shouts From the Battlefield. The message, based on the Transfiguration narrative in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, urged volunteers for God's work, likening Peter James and John to faithful workers facing life’s alarms, and urged courage and trust amid clouded trials. Next Sunday’s focus will be The Shout of Victory.
In rainy weather yesterday at the YMCA rooms Rev. F I Kelly urged young men to seek salvation as the one thing needful. He contrasted wealth, knowledge, and pleasures with eternal salvation, stressing Jesus offers free redemption and urged personal acceptance.
The Coburn mission on Varnum avenue Pawtucketville started a month ago with 65 members in its Sunday school held Sunday afternoon and Thursday nights. The mission serves children too far from regular churches and seeks magazines and books. donations can be left at Thompson Hardware store. Old suitable books also welcome.
Miss Ellen Mdgell sustained severe scalds to both forearms on Thursday after slipping and plunging her arms into a bucket of hot water placed in a bathtub. Dr. Huntress was summoned and attended the patient.
Last night a fire in a wood box in a house on Church street near Lawrence triggered box 35 at about 3 o clock. Little damage occurred to the dwelling occupied by John Brady and owned by Robert Bartlett. Fred Church held the insurance. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertises cures for catarrh rheumatism and nervous complaints.
Mortgagee sale of 21 Chester Street Lowell as described in the deed from Atis Osgood to Ethan A. Smith. Executor George F. Richardson offers the nine room house, hall, bath, pantry, laundry, storage, and lawn on 9542 square feet. Auction Tuesday June 5 1900 at 4 pm. Deposit 650 to secure bid. inquiries at J E Conant & Co Office Lowell.
R. Van Bergen analyzes Japan’s growing land and naval power, cabinet changes, and strategic planning with Yamagata as key organizer. It notes rapid armament, foreign support from Britain and the United States, and shifts in Corean diplomacy leading up to 1898 amid Russo-Japanese frictions and a volatile royal succession.
Chicago buyers and butchers unknowingly trade nearly 100000 goats yearly as mutton in the stockyards. Angora goats from New Mexico Colorado or Texas yield meat nearly indistinguishable from lambs but price and profit differ. The Arizona goats with rich fleece can fetch as much as 2.50 for rug use.
A brief item notes Castoria bears the familiar phrase The Kind You Have Always Bought as its signature.
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