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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
6
Barometer readings and temperature outlook for New England. Forecast calls for fair tonight and Saturday with cooler temperatures. Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Western Maine experience lighter north to east winds.
The Lowell paper argues against universal coal miner action, warning that a nationwide strike would halt rail, ship, and factory operations, deprive millions of livelihoods, and threaten national industry. It contends that union aims must not trample others' rights, and urges noncoercive solutions while respecting all workers' interests.
A Rhode Island judge issues a sweeping injunction against strikers preventing them from picketing and invading homes or boarding houses to stop residents from working. It aims to curb coercion while preserving workers' rights to persuade others not to walk out.
The article condemns a mob in Paterson and urges decisive, blunt action against its leaders. It notes assaults on workers and property destruction, then shifts to Boston where districts may vote on liquor licenses under local option. It also cites New Hampshire’s debt, state costs, and a sensational San Francisco interview with Major Waller.
The column quips about authenticity doubts from a navy matter, Wilkesbarre lace mill strikes over relatives in coal towns, British cabinet talk with Balfour and Chamberlain, King Edward’s health rumors, veteran benefits bill debates, expert witnesses, steel wages rising with brisk production, coal shortages looming in famine forecasts for India, and mock rain-making.
A miscellany notes Panama fashion in canals and hats, mid June heavy snows in France, and a neck-and-neck finish between Legislature and Congress. It mentions Mont Pelee versus Montpelier, Dr Mustard on plaster work, and a Pullman car cleaners strike with a call for higher wages.
A long feature recalls Judge Hadley's boyhood home built circa 1927 with original clapboards glass made in Middlesex Village and a maple tree he planted. He criticizes Hadley Street’s sand ballast from fence to fence as a desert, laments the family’s diminished street honor, and recalls local history and neighbors including Rev George E Lovejoy and Dea W H White.
A mix of quotations critiques labor unrest, a Kansas murderer’s reaction to a lenient jury, European diplomacy shifts noted by the Vienna correspondent, and Washington inauguration woes. Also a New York Telegram jab about a pool-room owner profiting from real estate amid racing at Gravesend.
Congressman Conry accepts invitation to deliver the Boston Fourth of July oration in Faneuil Hall. Colgate University awards LL D to Sereno E. Payne and Edward M. Grout. Dr Parker’s substitute pleads prayers for his health. Judge Pennypacker, Harrisburg governor candidate, noted historian. Polo youth Kingdon Gould shines. Healy donates Daubigny painting to Brooklyn Institute. Learned, NY journalist and editor, dies aged 64. career at World, Tribune, Evening Post. Weser library gift to Columbia. Mayor Low to take three week yacht vacation starting August 8. August von Ende, Wisconsin pioneer, dies. noble grandfather’s estates seized by Napoleonic invasion. Rev L W Munhall讚 higher criticism as un-Methodistic, un-Biblical, un-Christian.
Harper's Weekly reports landscape expert Parsons claims Central Park has thin soil and poor capacity for hard use. He contrasts it with Prospect Park's rich soil and argues the park should be covered with two feet of good earth and re planted, costing about a million and a half dollars, to restore vitality and protect plantings.
Josh Wink lampoons summer humor across five familiar targets from soda jerks and sea maidens to the heat myth. The quips critique jokes about heat and flirt with vintage scenes from Naishapur to Murphy's Farm, praising honest labor and noting no new wit under the sun.
The schedule lists funerals from 30 Common Street for Miss Cora Pelletier and from 64 Highteenth Street for Rufus Norman, with services at St Josephs and Worthen Street Baptist Church. Pauline Ola MacDonald, Ann Lynch, and Charles H Holmes also honored, with burials in St Josephs, Edson, Riverside, and St Patrick’s cemeteries.
In this city, Raymond Collins died at his home at 181 East Merrimack street aged 1 year 4 months. Also James R Carter aged 9 months died at home of his parents June 19. The body will be sent to East Kingston New Hampshire Friday for burial by Undertaker J A Weinbeck.
A historical note contrasts popular belief about bloodhounds with their actual use and origins. It traces cross bred English, Cuban, mastiff, bulldog and hound lines, discusses their roles in the West Indies and England, and explains water scent theory as seen in hunting and tracking practices of past centuries.
The Cycle Whirl act from the Keith circuit will headline all next week at Lakeview theatre under manager Joseph J. Flynn. Three bi cyclists perform at a mile-a-minute pace on a 74 degree angled track, defying gravity on the smallest steepest cycle track. Pierce and Mazee, May Evans, Jones and Walton join in a varied program with a new Yankee sketch and stage cycle act, with two daily showings.
The State supreme court reversed Judge Lawton in a Lowell case but followed Dewey’s view that buying food permits liquor service on Sunday. The court says a “substantial purchase of food” validates the rule, leaving whether a hotel sandwich qualifies as substantial.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court issues citation to all interested in the estate of Henry G Cushings late of Lowell to appear July 8 1962 in Cambridge to show cause why the trustees second account should be allowed publication in Lowell Daily Courier and service by mail to known interested parties at least seven and fourteen days before the hearing signed June 18 1902 by Judge Cuartes J McIntire and Register H Folsom 120-2758
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