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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1905
Page
3
This season features feminine daintiness in ladies footwear with comfortable fits. The display highlights pretty Oxfords and pumps as examples of beauty and style in three price points: $3.50 $4 and $5.
A strawberry crate with six white hens and a wheelbarrow drawn by a tall rawboned man named James Beney drew attention in Middlesex street on Saturday. Police, including Inspector Maher, arrested Beney at a tailor shop for larceny, later charging him with breaking and entering. The farm at Tyngsboro reported the missing items, and Beney, described as over six feet tall and resembling an Indian, has prior court appearances and a jail escape.
Rev Fr Fitzpatrick of the Missionaries of Ireland spoke at A O H hall in Lowell before the United Irish League. The lecture traced Irish music from its origins and featured illustrations of martial, joyous, plaintive, and pathetic airs by a noted orator and musician.
Helen Miller Gould, among the world’s wealthiest women, was carefully protected during her Lowell visit. Police kept crowds in check at the YWCA building on John and Paige streets, with guards outside and inside and special duty officers at the Middlesex Street station to escort her to the train.
A Lowell reader touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney caused ailments. Mrs Susan J Melvin credits lasting relief after seven years of use and urges others to buy the product from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Price is 50 cents at all dealers.
W E Lougee congratulates on the opening of a most complete and useful building. He notes it as a model, asks for copies of Lowell papers, and extends appreciation to Mr. Pollard. He recalls the well arranged opening and memory of the trip, sending regards to Mrs. Stowell and others.
Two well dressed Nashua men aimed for Lowell but rode to Canobie Lake and backtracked to Lowell, refusing to pay. Officers took them to Market Street House of Justice where after a talk with Captain Kew and Superintendent Sayers they paid a dime, driven by principle over money. The Boston and Northern disclaims responsibility for mistakes at the far end of the line.
Mrs. Manuel Medina of 13 Elm Street became a godmother for the twentieth time yesterday. Born in St Michael Azores she follows Azorean custom of providing baby clothing and money. The four days old girl of Mr and Mrs Manuel Silva, living next door, marked Mrs Medina’s milestone. She has spent hundreds for god children, yet says she does it out of love for the little ones.
Police hunt a man who broke into Highland Hall market on Branch street Saturday night. He stole one dollar in coin and several small articles after entering through a side window.
The Butler Vets voted to enter the big hand title tournament in Lawrence on July 8. Their first practice squirt will be held on Ford Street Tuesday night at 7 15.
Tickets to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo offered with return options via Nickel Plate Road. Readings cover sale dates return limits routes sleepers and all details. For full information contact L. P. Burgess N. D. A. Old South Building Boston assistant.
Fragmentary article notes a spring water source hidden within a granite ledge. It mentions Myo Batsound of Health and references El Azhar as the first of all spring waters in the Common. Context and specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
The J C Ayer Company employed 75 Lowell women who held a weekend bazaar raising 600 dollars. They aimed to furnish one room but will fund 20 to 25 beds in the new hospital building funded by Frederick Fanning Ayer. Attendees included clergymen and hospital trustees. prizes and food, like 30 gallons of ice cream, fueled brisk sales.
In a Sunday morning proceeding nine drunks were released from the police station after testimony to the probation officer that they had no prior arrests within a year. Seven others remained jailed to appear in police court. Among the unreleased was Edward Allen known as Boxer, arrested from Doyle's alley for drunkenness and profanity. Felix Zambella, an Italian, faced an assault and battery warrant from a month prior.
A general alarm was raised today for a fire in Taunton on Main Street. The two story building owned and occupied by S. R. Higgins & Company, dealers in men’s clothing, was destroyed. Loss put at $30,000, insured. Origin of the fire unknown.
French church authorities announce that plain chant will be sung at high masses with male voices only at St. Joseph's and St. Jean Baptiste. Women singers are barred from high masses and vespers though they may sing at weddings and certain devotions. An appeal for men with good voices will form new choirs, with boy choirs likely. Changes follow the pope's motu proprio.
Local druggists Frye & Crawford and others advertise Hindipo the kidney cure with a money back guarantee. Ellingwood & Co Davis Square Drug Store and A. E. Moore promote seven additional outlets offering free trials and refunds if no benefit, urging customers to try Hindipo immediately.
Abel Wheeler, chairman of Lowell's board of assessors, says census results may push the city's population to at least 105000, noting rapid growth and Lowell as a bright industrial center. He adds the assessor work in mills is pending and will not reduce the Boott property assessment.
San Francisco confirms the identity of D. W. Ross, a noted local contractor who disappeared in August 1903. A photograph of an unidentified man killed by a street car in September 1903, linked to Ross by his sons including Dr. Frank C. Ross, astronomer and Carnegie Institute assistant director. The buried body in Potter's Field will be exhumed. Chiropodist at Young's.
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