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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
6
Owell Daily Courier Citizen Company publishes daily in Middlesex with roots back to 1845. Serving Lowell from Merrimack street, it delivers by carrier at 6 cents a week, excluding Sundays and holidays.
Forecast for New England after a muggy afternoon and cloudy forenoon, with a few rays of sun yesterday. Tonight and Sunday expected to be cloudy with occasional showers, light to fresh east to south winds, increasing along the southern coast.
Editorial Rooms Counting Room Job Department Patrons are asked to use care when calling. Communications about advertisements non delivery of papers changes of address and business inquiries should be addressed to the business office at 31 5.
The Lowell paper condemns widespread issuance of honorary and fake degrees. It cites a Nashville “college of law” issuing LL D letters for $10 by mail, with a single dean and no real attendance, and notes Tennessee and other states permit such degree shops. It questions criteria for true merit and praises stricter standards.
Long discussion on LL D qualifications and professional scopes, then criticism of public labor regulation including an 8 hour day bill veto by Gov. Bates. Also notes on union respect, Middlesex spinners strike, Andrew D. White homecoming, and press views on the New York Postmaster General. Philadelphia faces smallpox and a major strike.
Bits of chatter swirl about marriages finances and society in a bustling era. Mentions divorce romance swings between individuals and public figures. references to Harvard Miss Roosevelt and June brides mingle with prices and events as the Fourth of July approaches.
The Leader reports pending changes in Vanderbilt railroads to form a unified New York Central west of Buffalo. Michigan Central president Ledyard to retire August 1, W H Newman to head Michigan Central. Westward system to include Lake Shore, Michigan Central, Pittsburg Lake Erie, and others with Cleveland named as headquarters.
The passage notes that conferring honorary degrees is a valuable academic asset and that colleges build influence through such honors. It also comments on cotton economics with a warning to raise prices while production lags, and a warning against internal threats to the republic, urging unity and preparedness.
The denomi national year book shows gains in ministers and churches but rising absentees and many small churches with limited membership. Fewer than half report new converts, while gifts decline though legacies rise. overall call for renewed courage and outreach. Public worship attendance and conversion rates show discouraging trends amid national opportunity.
A breezy column opens with a child's tiny writing about her precious baby, then shifts to Gov. Long's visit to Westford and memories of Academy graduation. It recalls a Danvers Sunday at Ferncroft Inn, a lost party later found by a textile whistle, and French communion day with many photos.
Children who received their first communion at St Jean Baptiste's church gathered for a 2 PM benediction service. Rev Fr Lefebvre OMI led the ceremony with renewal of baptismal promises, as music by St Joseph's College pupils and Marist brothers filled the church.
Lowell Gas Light company at 67 Merrimack Street offers gas stoves two dollars below actual cost for all sales during the rest of June. Price includes setting up and applies to both cash and installment purchases.
A continuation of the Harpers purchase of R H Russell’s publishing business leads to the creation of a Metropolitan magazine company with Russell as president and editor, succeeding John Kendrick Bangs who has run the magazine. Barnabas S Kimura, a Japanese student at Episcopal Theological School Cambridge, wins Harvard Williams Fellowship worth 400 dollars for next year to study at Harvard Divinity School.
Mr. Adelard Boisvert, son of Mr. Jacques Boisvert, returns tonight from Fitchburg where he has studied medicine under Dr. Babbit for six weeks after graduating from Ottawa college. Misses Henriette and Eva Boisvert return Tuesday evening from D Youville Academy in Plattsburg New York.
Immanuel Baptist on Blossom Street led by Pastor Rev. Robert F. True holds services at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Morning topic is Jonah’s Message to This Age and evening topic Life Marred and Made Over. A large chorus choir and soloists will perform.
Oldest dental practice advertises full set teeth from five dollars and up with silver and gold fillings and crowns. Extra dental work priced from one dollar and up. One of the city’s oldest offices promotes very low charges.
The maquette for a Emile Zola memorial depicts the writer moving toward Truth and Justice, shown as Verite, with a mother and three children symbolizing Fecondite and a blacksmith for Travail. Bronze statues rest on a granite pedestal twenty feet high in the Tuileries Gardens across from the Alsace statue by Mercia.
The Plant Line will run double service to Halifax Awkesbury and Charlotte town starting Saturday June 20 with the Olivette on Saturdays and the Haines on Tuesdays. Each round trip covers about fourteen hundred miles weekly, promising a pleasant ocean voyage in Eastern waters. For details request the booklet Lights Along the Shore from J A Flanders Passenger Agent 2 Atlantic Avenue Boston Mass.
A brief cure advertisement claims Dean's Ointment relieves itching piles for all ages and social classes. It asserts the product is absolutely safe and effective with no sadness or risk. The copy emphasizes universal relief and quick comfort.
Prof. W. J. Hussey of Lick Observatory selects Mount Wilson near Mount Lowe in Southern California as the site for a permanent astronomical station. He will install a nine inch telescope there for further experiments. Harvard once ran an observatory on Mount Wilson noting near perfect atmospheric conditions.
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