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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
10
June daylight rises at 4.07 with a length of day 15.17 hours and sunset at 7.24 in the evening. The moon sets at 3.12 a.m. indicating night continues after the early evening hours.
Burns Wilson, coal dealer, notes the annual meeting of the Lowell Orchestral Society will be held this evening at the D. L. Page Co. dining rooms. Derby & Morse display modern electrical chandeliers at their Middle Street warerooms and invite estimates for work.
E S Dunne returns home after a Springfield visit. Mrs Josephine Carroll returns from Brookline visit. Mrs J McMorrow visits Mrs Michael Corbett. Miss Katherine Cawley attends Boston Latin graduation. Bertha J Davis earns Doctor of Dental Medicine at Tufts. Mrs C H Heywood invites old friends to 331 Walker St. Miss May Cumings hosts 18th birthday at Dunbar and Varnum. Edith Maker and Gertrude Eastman host a lawn party at Long Pond with lanterns and 75 guests.
A well attended party hosted by the Ladies Aid Society of the North Tewksbury Baptist church raised about 70 dollars for the church improvement fund. Lowell Electric Light supplied free electricity and the National Band provided music. attendees included many from Lowell. Various tables were run by local volunteers and a Lowell lady offered fortunes at the gypsy tent.
The newly formed Varnum Avenue Athletic club met at Whitcomb's grove last night for an ice cream social and games. Emil Hartman serves as president and Everett Whitcomb as treasurer. Membership is composed of boys.
The regular meeting of the Primary Teachers' union will be held at the Dracut Centre church Friday at 4 o'clock with members invited to attend.
Virginia woman recounts years of indigestion and weakness blamed on coffee. After trying various remedies, she switched to Postum Food Coffee, boiled it 15 minutes, gained 25 pounds, regained strength, and now promotes Postum as the cure. She claims never to drink coffee again and offers to print her name for others.
Fifty Doukhobor families from near St. Petersburg and Moscow camped at Indian Orchard near the city en route to Manitoba. Led by Michael a tall one-eyed Russian, the band numbers 26 children and 4 families. They claim they are Russians not gypsies and plan to travel by wagon with 16 horses, while practicing Greek Catholic faith and alms begging along the way.
The Girls' Friendly society held a pleasant strawberry festival and entertainment at St Anne's parish rooms with supper of strawberries and cream ice cream cake and coffee after 5 30. Committees ran the fancy table candy table and supper with many young ladies assisting. Entertainment featured songs duets piano solo readings and an accompanist Mr Baldwin.
Last evening Miss Efie L Palmer presented pupils in a recital in Associate hall with sixteen numbers including solos duets and trios. Performers included Marie Bolton Louise Johnson Florence Milner Ethel Salmon Alice Palmer Katrine Jeanette Glendoline Wilson Ethel Wetton Marion Whittaker Mrs Eugene G Russell Mrs H E Symonds Mrs O A Gelino and Louis H Masson. A Masson Salmon duet from Don Giovanni and a trio from William Tell were highlights.
The closing number sung by Mrs Symonds and Mrs Gelino was Quis est Homo from Rossini Stabat Mater. The program remained strong throughout with all numbers well performed.
An appreciative audience attended a benefit concert at Odd Fellows hall in Middlesex street to aid New England Kurn Hattin Homes. Rev Dr Dickinson began the movement for homes for homeless children, with Westminster VI sites later found. The Lowell event followed prior successes, with George Bartlett Cutter and Lucy O Oliver Thacher performing humorous songs and readings to entertain throughout.
Chicago News notes anthropologist Frederick Starr argues modern wedding and engagement rings are relics of past barbarism. The piece mocks the theory, cites long standing social value of rings, and predicts rings will not be abandoned despite claims of primitive origins.
Isaac Townsend Smith recounts classic Navy tales from the War of 1812. Commodore Hull rallies sailors with a $500 payoff joke as the Constitution faces the Guerriere, then jokes with Capt. Dacres about a hat and a sword during surrender.
The annual lawn party hosted by the United Helpers of the First Universalist Church was a warmly lit, well attended affair at Mrs. M. M. Scripture’s lawn on Livingstone Avenue. Music by McIlroy’s quartet accompanied social tables, while a famed astrologic palm reader drew crowds. the event’s success credited to manager Mrs. Thomas C. Entwistle and a large corps of volunteers.
Mr Robert Hartley hosted about 50 friends at his home 410 Walker street last night. An 8 pm Cadet orchestra played light opera and medleys, followed by songs by the Mohair quartet and soloists Miss Etta Rutherford Mrs Horace Hanson and others. A lunch was served and the evening ended with more orchestra selections.
A Chicago doctor rebuilt a missing nose for a twelve year old girl at Cook County Hospital. The girl donated her left little finger, cutting off its tip to implant as building material for the new nose, which now bears a flesh and blood bridge and nostrils and functions normally.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sustained Judge Dewey’s ruling in Commonwealth vs John and Michael Regan, holding that a hotel guest who orders substantial food while seeking liquor is within the statute. The decision rejects treating the meal as mere subterfuge. if a guest makes a substantial food purchase and eats, the innkeeper’s license remains valid and not voided by motive.
Tremont Theatre in Boston continues the summer run of Prince of Pilsen with Countess Bianca de Jeanneppe making a striking debut as a violin virtuoso on a 300-year-old Guarnerius. The cast features Ransone Donaldson Anderson Coleman Peebles Montrose Heron and a strong chorus. New costumes and another price cut target 200 first balcony seats and the second balcony. Wednesday matinees will be abandoned for the rest of the engagement due to warm weather strain.
The BENJ. FRANKLIN CLUB met at its rooms with President O'Donoghue presiding and transacting business. Members praised O'Donoghue and Murphy for their C. Y. M. L. debate showing. An outing is planned at Baptist pond Chelmsford. Papers included Our Philippine Policy by D. J. McCann, life of McKinley by N. J. Higgins, and a Shakespeare recitation by M. J. O'Donoghue. Five new membership propositions were received.
Steinert and Sons Co guarantees to sell a better piano for less money than any dealer in New England. All leading makes are available at Steinert's and can be bought on easy monthly or weekly payments.
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