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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1901
Page
4
Rail service along the Boston and Maine line operated trains between Lowell and Boston, providing regular passenger runs with schedules and stopping points. The service connected regional centers, offering commuter access and travel options for local residents and workers.
The census totals show 76,303,387 people as of May. Government receipts beat expenditures by about ten and a half million, with a large yearly surplus. Commentary touches on Cuba, the Platt amendment, Supreme Court Cuba cases, and possible effects on Philippines policy. Also noted are Dooley, J., Governor Crane’s subway referendum stance, and public debate over governance.
An order bars entry of tuberculous immigrants, arguing consumption is communicable and contagion a risk. The piece notes migrants with diseased minds and corrupting influence, and mocks city budget practices using orders instead of resolutions for Memorial Day and Fourth of July funding.
The piece discusses concerns over legislative funding and the value of political titles, questions the wisdom of militia control in labor disputes, and critiques Dowie’s religious rhetoric. It argues lawmakers should enact laws and that referendums threaten representative government, warning against overuse of direct democracy in major matters.
Statistics show six month trends in bankruptcy filings across states with Illinois New York and Massachusetts leading in voluntary petitions at 1312 1263 and 1000 respectively while Nevada Arizona Hawaii and Delaware show the fewest. Involuntary filings peak in New York 230 Pennsylvania 132 Illinois 70 Massachusetts 52 Kentucky 50 with Kansas Nevada and some sparsely populated states reporting zero or minimal cases.
David B. Henderson speaker of the House has joined the Mystic Shrine in Dubuque Iowa. William Barrow Gillow cabinet works Lancaster England marks 66 years with the firm and is over 80. A bronze statue of Gen Phil Kearney called the one-armed devil by Confederates has been mounted.
An old advertisement offers a bottle for $1.00 and invites readers to write for full case particulars. Address given is Dr. J. C. Ayer of Lowell, Massachusetts, promising prompt replies.
France marks Victor Hugo born in 1802 with a joint centenary event on February 26 1902 and M Meurice offers 20000 francs plus a large collection of portraits autographs engravings to Paris for a Hugo museum. The condition requires the museum in Hugo’s former Place Royale residence in Place des Vosges.
A New England drink called stretch is cited with a jab at the Democratic party. Massachusetts curfew laws face lax enforcement as cities struggle to implement them, while railroad stocks show strong post election gains and a brighter economy, per Globe-Democrat and Wall Street Journal summaries.
The piece reflects on outdoors days as people yearn for air amid mill life, recounts walks along the river, and notes blossoms of arethusa and pitcher plant in favorable aquatic conditions. It discusses salmon versus trout stock debates, coastal fishing, Boston elevated transit delays, legal injunctions, and Chelmsford murder coverage with calm local tone.
The narrator depicts a Northwest upland in late May, where six months of winter yield a lavish spring. Purple lupin blooms appear in broad, irregular belts across ridges, with Gunder Peak looming as a distant, pale sentinel. the wind signals the season's arrival.
Public auction to sell a Lowell parcel on Wentworth avenue after breach of a mortgage dated 1889. The deeded land lies on the westerly Wentworth line, plan 48, bounded by lots 47 to 49, with prior assignments from Shepard Russell Fuller to Sarah Reed and Susan Perkins. Sale July 5 1901 at 2:15 pm. $100 down, balance in cash within ten days. subject to unpaid taxes and restrictions. Executor Jesse H. Shepard acts as assignee of the mortgage benefiting Susan Perkins estate.
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