Lowell General Hospital Opens New Model Building
The Lowell General Hospital dedicates its new wing with graduation exercises for five nursing students Mary Dunning Helena Guy Lillian Reyner Amanda Gordon and Tirlah Dewhurst. Frederick Fanning AYER’s gifts funded the project and the dedication highlighted community support and historic donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell General Hospital
Frederick Fanning Ayer
Mary Dunning
Helena Guy
Lillian Reyner
Amanda Gordon
Tirzah Dewhurst
Jacob Rogers
Board of Trustees
Charles T. Billings
George B. Dean
St. Paul's M. E. Church
James G. Mumfod
Harvard Medical School
Rogers
Charles H. Stowell
Young Women’s Guild
Ladies Aid Association
Lowell
Jatpers
Mi o Na display draws crowds in Falls & Burkinshaw window
The Mi o Na display features a lithograph of Mrs Kern of Cincinnati to promote a remedy that supposedly regulates digestion strengthens the nerves and aids sleep. Falls & Burkinshaw’s window attracts hundreds as the prominent advertisement uses Mrs Kern’s image to demonstrate health benefits and a 50 cent Mio Na box guarantee.
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Falls & Burkinshaw
Today Annual Silk Sale At Pollard & Co
Remnants of fine silk and dress goods offered at 39 cents, with $1 and $1.25 qualities, suitable for waist patterns and dresses. Includes figured foularis and pure silks in the silk department of A. G. Pollard & Co.
Dick's One Tea Store Feature at Merrimack Street
An advertisement notes seasonable bargains on ham mocks and ice cream freezers with cut prices to save customers money at Dick's One Tea Store located at 68 Merrimack Street.
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Dick‘s
Merrimack Street
Special Sale on Women’s Waists at The White Store
Weather delays bring a Friday sale on lawn and organdie waists. Regular one dollar styles feature pin tuck yokes, embroidery panels, tuck fronts and full sleeves with decorative cuffs. The White Store at 114 Merrimack Street offers varied pretty waist styles on account.
Vermont the Place in the Summer Time
Vermont offers ideal vacation scenery with hills and valleys and hundreds of country homes suitable for visitors seeking rest and change. The Central Vermont Railway promotes a 100 page illustrated book Summer Homes describing first class hotels and homes for visitors, available by mail for 6 cents.
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Vermont
Central Vermont Railway
T. H. Hanley
Washington Street
Boston
Traveling at Night on The Lake Shore Railway
The Lake Shore line promotes nighttime travel as safe and restful with well built roadbeds and sleeping coaches. It highlights large dressing rooms on through trains and courteous service by ladies' maids on Limited trains, stressing employee care for traveler welfare. Wise travelers are urged to choose tickets reading Via The Lake Shore.
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Lake Shore
Pure love match between duke and heiress
A sharp quote from Brook lyn Life frames a society tale of a duke and an heiress, highlighting a marriage driven by status and wealth rather than romance. The line contrasts genuine affection with transactional attraction in a high society setting.
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Brooklyn
Lawyer Jokes About Breaking a Will in Cleveland Leader
A Cleveland Leader quip features a lawyer claiming to break a will and a client countering with inability to pay unless it can be broken. The lawyer escalates, proposing to break the will even if it takes a leg, satirizing legal bravado.
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Cleveland
Lecture on Canadian northwest draws large audience
Fr. Vachon spoke at St. Joseph's college hall on the Canadian northwest before a largely male audience. He compared himself to Premier Laurier, described climate as buoyant and dry, noted cattle pasturing in winter, and cited government homesteads and rapid regional growth from Winnipeg to the Pacific coast. Rev. Fr. Blais added remarks on colonization and both clergymen planned further New England lectures in support of naturalization efforts.
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Fr. Vachon
Canadian Northwest
St. Joseph’s College Hall
Vachon
Laurier
Northwest
Dominion
Winnipeg
Pacific Coast
Great West
Fr. Blais
Manitoba
West
New England
Mounted cavalcade chosen over French division for July 4 parade
French American leaders plan a 300 cavaliers mounted cavalcade to replace a French division in the Fourth of July procession. Chief organizer Joseph Harvey was named marshal as organizers push the plan, backing away from patriotic society turnout seen as undignified.
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Joseph Harvey
Kope
Elzear B. Choquette
Courier-Citizen
Lowell
Choquette
Returning Canadian college students fill town as trains arrive
An influx of students home from Canadian schools fills streets as families greet them. Melville Delisle from St Cesaire commercial college leads arrivals, followed by Omer Boisvert and Horace Boisvert from Berthierville college. Edgar Bellefontaine returns from St Joseph's college Memramcook with other Ottawa college attendees arriving on the morning train.
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Melville
Arthe
Edward Delisle
Eli Delisle
St. Cesaire Commercial College
Omer
Horace Boisvert
Jacques Boisvert
Berthierville College
Edgar Bellefontaine
Miller Bellefontaine
St. Joseph's College
Memramcook
N. B
Lowell Firms Offer Fol Nerve Tonic Sale in 5 Cent Trial
Local merchants Frye & Crawford and Falls & Burkinshaw advertise a sale on Fol Nerve Tonic and Kidney Cure. Customers pay 5 cents to try a bottle with a 50 cent refund if it fails to work. Other outlets listed include Co E Carter and Ellingwood & Co with addresses on Merrimack Middlesex Westford Streets and Davis Square.
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Lowell
Frye & Crawford
Merrimack St
Falls & Burkinshaw
Middlesex St
E. Carter, 48 Branch and 3% Westford Gsts.; Ellingwood & Co
Davis Square
A. E. Moore
Large Contingent of Students Arrives From Iberville
The report notes Francois Cayer and Hergi Filion of St Hyacinthe college among delegates, with ten boys from the Marist college at Iberville, Que arriving tonight after graduation exercises held yesterday. Lowell party members include Ernest Dupont, William Vincent, Alphonse Dyer, Edgar Brautigan, Horace Lemay, Wilfrid Cognac, Ernest Vezina, Samuel Robitaille, Honore Robert and Armand Boucher returning home today.
Students to return home from convents for vacation
Mr P Z Hebert plans to bring his two sons Romeo and Alfred from Berthierville college as many Lowell misses prepare to leave convent schools for summer. Miss Florence Mongeau and other daughters of prominent locals are listed among those returning from St Anne de Lachine Marlboro D Youville and Iberville convents. Passe Temps Club elects Ludger Coulombe president and a slate of officers. installation set at next assembly with a smoke talk and jovial celebration.
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P. Z. Hebert
Canada
Romeo
Alfred
Berthierville College
Lowell
Florence Mongeau
George E. Mongeau
Maria Albert
Joseph. Albert
Dolores Gaudette
St. Anne’s Academy
Marlboro
Laura
Cora Renaud
Iberville Convent
Passe Temps Club
Ludger _ Coulombe
Charles Loupret
Ildevert Gagnon
Joseph Lefebvre
Zenon Chouinard
Evariste Cote
Joseph Paquette
Amedee Jean
Charles Forget
Golden haired Eva Pelletier found after wandering in rain
Three year old Eva Pelletier wandered from home near Webster street and Jackson Middlesex streets in heavy rain. Undertaker Amedee Archambault found her crying in front of his shop and helped search before police recovered the child and returned her to her mother at 33 Webster Street. A St Louis choir outing is planned for June 3 at Mountain Rock.
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Eva Pelletier
Amedee Archambault
Eva
Pelletier
Webster Street
Jackson Street
Middlesex Street
Archambault
St. Jean Baptiste Church
Jacques
St. Louis's
Mountain Rock
Tragic Massacre: Workmen Rally in Lodz Firefight
In Lodz Poland eighteen workers were killed and about one hundred wounded when dragoons and Cossacks opened fire on a 5000 strong demonstration against the government. The crowd, marching with red flags, gathered in the old market and heard Socialist speakers before police interference began. After a brief pause the march resumed and the mounted troops charged, provoking a deadly volley.
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Lodz
Russian Poland
Piotrokowska Street
Glowna Street
Twenty two killed in riot at Lodz demonstration
Lodz Russia Poland June 22 twenty two persons died after dragoons and Cossacks opened fire on a 50 000 strong workmen procession organized as a government demonstration. About one hundred wounded with ten dying. Two women were crushed in the panic and, in revenge later, workmen shot and killed Cossack and two policemen.
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Lodz
Russian
Poland
Indian nurses corps details for mounted troops pay and training
A staff of mounted army Indian government women receive 29 rupees a month for horse upkeep and free conveyance for their animals to and from service. The corps comprises women of good social position who must undergo three years of general hospital training before qualifying.
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Mounted Army
Indian Government
Ad Service
Fake Hair Preparations Claim to Cure Dandruff
The ad argues most hair preparations are scalp irritants causing dryness and brittle lifeless hair. It claims dandruff is a germ disease that destroys hair vitality, and advocates Herpicide as the only product that kills the dandruff germ to restore growth. Sample offered for 10 cents.
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Newbro
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Lingwood & Co
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James G. Mumford
Harvard
Sara A. Bowen
York
Ayer
J. K. Fellows
Wm. H. White
George E. Martin
Kirk Street
G. Forrest Martin
Chicago
Stowell
Martin
New York
Mass
Née
A. St. John Chambre
Fellows Building
Mr. Fellows
Mr. Ayer
Thimble Club
Pawtucketville
Wil Rounasg
Falls & Burkinshaw’s
A. G. Pollard & CO
Green Hills
Ottawa College
Henry Dubois
Romeo Jalbert
Joseph Gag
Pollard & Gee
Palmer Street
Middle Street
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