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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
4
The Lowell Daily Courier-Citizen Company advertises as the oldest daily in Middlesex County founded 1825 and a2 daily since 1845. Published daily except Sundays and holidays from Merrimack Street with carrier delivery at 12 cents a week and 50 cents a month.
Train service links Lowell and Boston via Middlesex Street Station. Schedule details show daily runs with stops at key city depots. Ridership notes indicate commuter use and possible timetable variations.
Readers planning a summer absence may arrange for the Courier-Citizen to mail issues to mountain, country, or seashore addresses for any period by notifying the counting room.
The Lowell Daily Courier notes Yale’s 199th commencement and quotes light verse about Harvard. It discusses Mr. Lawsons yacht ready for racing and hints Bryan may or may not seek office. It laments the Lusitania wrecks and praises experienced ship captains. It notes Philippine volunteers returning home and expects reforms to reduce rebellion. It suggests wireless signals from headlands could warn ships far offshore.
J Pierpont Morgan offers a large gift to Harvard Medical School, boosting the university’s medical department and aiding the creation of a clinical hospital. The plan elevates Harvard’s prominence among leading medical schools, reflecting a major philanthropic move by Morgan. Italy unveils a new battleship with armaments reminiscent of recent design trends.
The piece ponders Greece, Italy, and Spain as fading powers while praising American wealth. It contrasts Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan with philanthropic pledges. Ward 3 residents argue for streetcar fare cuts to three or five cents, and Rev Francis H Rowley cautions on high school demands.
The piece argues that monopolistic trusts arise beyond tariffs, pointing to an international salt trust including American, Spanish, Canadian, and England's Salt Union. It contends free trade England harbors a trust, and that protectionists sometimes seek tariff relief, but notes tariffs are not the sole or essential cause of trust formation, which can occur in free trade as well.
Families leaving the city for a term are advised to place valuables in a safe place beyond thieves or fire. The Middlesex Safe Deposit and Trust Co., on Merrimack Street at Palmer, offers fire proof storage in Lowell. No extra charge for yearly safety box holders. reasonable rates for others.
The article argues that trustlike combinations can form in England as well as the United States and that tariff policies may influence industrial groupings without necessarily implying their inherent badness. It rejects the idea that protectionists alone inspire trusts and cautions against sacrificing domestic welfare to foreign practices under free trade.
A compilation of editorial quotes discusses Lowell’s char ter fever before the Allied Third party and its diverse strands. It notes Bryan Democrats in most factions, warns against a trade war, and cites Mr. Bryan’s claim of twenty years in politics amid the presidents’ race chatter.
Mrs Lavinia Porter returns to the city after a year in Providence R I where she was active at West Fifth Street Baptist church. Miss L Belle Hard is at Clifton Springs New York. Mr Herman C Rowell of Lowell Machine Shop leaves for Rutland Massachusetts State Sanitarium for health rest after a fishing outfit gift from friends. Rev Eugene A Dorgan leaves for Buffalo to attend a provincial council with notable church leaders. Mrs William A Barr Lillian Gladys Barr and Alfred Thompson Barr depart for a ten week vacation to Ottawa Ont and nearby areas.
It notes that coal mines in England average about 800 feet in depth and that working coal below 2000 feet is rarely profitable. The statement emphasizes increasing depth makes mining uneconomical under typical conditions.
A reader reports on Osmunda regalis a regal fern found near brook sides and marshy woods. The column then recounts a Merrimack street horse rescue, a Royal G. Porter and Henry A Hazen memoirs note in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, a monkey mercury mishap at a dental office, a Brooklyn donation to Smith College, bird study by schoolchildren, Belvidere bird losses, and a Vesper Country Club golf incident involving two young women.
The funeral for Hannah Welch proceeded from 495 High Street to Immaculate Conception Church with a high mass of requiem led by Rev. P. J. McGrath OMI. Large church attendance, floral tributes, and a five-son bearers group plus a son-in-law from Providence marked the service. Burial followed in the Catholic cemetery. burial rites were read by Rev. Fr. McGrath. Funeral directed by Peter H. Savage.
Death notices record Margaret Fenton Amanda Plante Ellen F Scales and Charles L McKenney, all named residents. Scant details note locations, ages and dates in city area obituaries.
Renowned Congregational defender Joseph Cook dies in his hometown of Ticonderoga at age 63. Born January 26, 1838, he excelled at Yale and Harvard, lectured globally on religion and reform, produced the Boston Monday Lectures series, and earned LL D from Howard University. His prolific career included extensive travel, popular lectures, and multiple published works across philosophy, science, and theology.
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