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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
6
A brief weather summary records light rain yesterday afternoon with a fine evening, today hazy but fair with a northerly breeze. Barometer readings show 29.86 yesterday, 29.90 today. Temperatures list 76 yesterday and 66 today.
Counting Room and Editorial Rooms list telephone numbers and routes for Courier-Citizen operations. Patrons are urged to use care in calling and to address all advertising, non delivery, address changes, and business inquiries to the business office at 31-2.
The column riffs on President Roosevelt’s policies, the pace of urban transit, and social notes from 1905. It puns on political might, warns about rapid trains and tolls, and questions the earnings rumored for vaudeville performers, all with a wry regional newspaper voice.
The Lawrence Fourth of July committee redirected the feature to contests with $1000 for winners. Races in horse and automobile events, baseball, whip pet races, pegging and quoits were planned while Lowell had no feature. A Chicago train wreck followed a high speed run with alleged malice. The line was crowded despite a $10 surcharge. Patronage and profitability are questioned.
New York authorities crackdown targets fraud in dairy sales seizing defendants and bringing them to the Tombs jail. The operation follows complaints about mislabeling and supply chain misdealings affecting consumers and local markets.
The piece argues milk quality is vital to public health, condemning impure milk dealers including large depots. It notes 101 army openings for 114 West Point cadets and a naval officer shortage, urging more cadets and officers. It discusses Chinese exclusion laws evolving to admit higher class Chinese and the need for clear legal changes.
The New Jersey statute banning live pigeon shooting is upheld as constitutional. The article argues the clay pigeon provides a humane sport and notes England may ban pigeon shooting due to cruelty, urging an end to killing for sport.
Local commentary faulted the mayor for his terse redistricting veto and disputed abstentions citing political risk and lack of clear reasoning. The piece argues personal disapproval explained the action, predicts political weakening, and calls the veto on precinct subdivision inexplicable and needless.
The Equitable investigation reveals that many insurers charge about double fair premiums. Excessive rates fund lavish salaries and insider perks, not core business needs. Policy-holders deserve greater share of profits, and the industry may lose agents without reform.
A stream of varied reflections references local figures and events such as Mayors vetoes, ward lines, and legal suits. It notes moral judgments, political personalities like James B Casey and Hack, and critiques Roosevelt and idealism while musing on accidents and commentary style.
Quotations reflect public opinion on Admiral Clark portrait display and Mrs. Rogers hanging, with Vermont law cited as silly interference. The Milford weather boosted summer boarding houses and hotels, drawing guests to seek elsewhere during a heat spell.
A Boston Herald summary notes Mr. Haines of Waterville stated to the State of Maine Club that Maine railroads would be run on water power, eliminating coal needs. The piece observes ongoing legal pressure on Maine residents to drink what is described as a valuable liquid with a bright future.
Ebony trees may be planted in California with Mexican stock to introduce the cultivar. Spain restricts Hebrews from houses of worship and civil rights, living as aliens. The new Illinois Central Missouri river bridge at Omaha is active, longest drawbridge, cost two million dollars. Japan hosts a large steamship company serving the U S and England via Suez. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims to energize vigor. 35 cents for tea or tablets.
After a personal test of the rolled steel refrigerator we are offering it for sale this season with no reserve. The all metal construction resists swelling warping and impurities and its round shape has no sharp corners. It features two adjustable revolving shelves and front accessibility. It promises money savings by cutting ice bills by about four dollars per season versus wooden units.
A. E. O'Heir & Co. Merrimack Square serves as sole agents in Lowell for the White Frost Steel Refrigerator. The listing emphasizes durable construction and exclusive regional representation by the Merrimack Square firm.
A reader notes the brisk vigor of crimson rambler bushes this spring with a neighbor boasting a two to three yard long trellis of red blossoms. He counts 30 to 40 blooms per twig, praising the plant for yard displays and late June elegance.
In Victoria British Columbia on June 24, about 6000 Chinese residents are mobilizing to support a boycott of U.S. goods. A fund is being raised to reimburse workers who lost wages at Chinese ports due to refusing to unload steamers carrying American cargo. The community plans to boycott U S goods and decline work for U S citizens.
The Ringling Brothers circus wowed readers with figures on its size and splendor. It uses 1280 employees, covers fifteen acres of tents, and features 650 horses, 108 cages in the menagerie, and the Field of the Cloth of Gold production on the largest stage yet. Bab Boo the baby elephant and a rare rhinoceros highlight the menagerie as five long trains, each 85 cars, transport the show for two performances in Lowell on Wednesday, June 28.
Benozzo Gozzoli is honored as Jurme Masters in Art with plates and a life sketch tracing his early 15th century years. Plates include The Procession of the Magi Paradise St. Francis Expelling Devils from Arezzo Celebration of the Nativity at Greccia and more. The artist’s self portrait hangs in the Ricardi palace chapel in Florence.
The June Cosmopolitan showcases Alfred Henry Lewis David Graham Phillips John Burroughs Octave Thanet Josiah Flynt Richard Le Gallienne Acton Davies and Broughton Brandenburg among its contributors. It features Phillips on What He Could Do With It Rockefeller Jr and Lewis on What He Will Do With It. Other topics include Society Amateur Actresses Town Life in the Indian Territory The World's Competitor to Be Clowns and Clowning Butter Cheese and Condensed Milk as Factory Products From a Lover's Note Book and A Beavers Reason. The fiction is by Octave Thanet George Randolph Chester T Jenkins Hains and Wil Levingston Comfort. The serial The Occulation of Florian Amidon by Herbert Quick continues.
Indianapolis June 24 2854 athletes at the North American gymnastic union festival report no serious illnesses or accidents. The closing day features mass exercises directed by Hugo Fischer as about 25 000 visitors watch. Prizes are laurel wreaths and diplomas for top performers.
The wrecking of the Twentieth Century Flyer shows the need of accident insurance. Apply to Nicholas G. Norcross, 53 Central Street.
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