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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1902
Page
6
Oldest and best daily paper in Middlesex county, established 1825, daily since 1845. Published seven days except holidays at Courier Citizen Building, Merrimack street, Lowell. Carriers deliver across the city for 6 cents a week.
Boston report notes fair weather tonight and Tuesday with colder air and fresh west winds sweeping the region. No precipitation indicated as temperatures drop across coastal and inland areas.
The Lowell Daily Courier notes Sunday sermons by Bigelow and Billings responding to Professors Griggs and Moulton. It argues the modern Christian ideal includes Greek influence but should not abandon moral content, urging balance between literature and theology and warning against overemphasis on literary critique.
The article notes the puzzle of whether Senator Frye of Maine is president of the Senate or president pro tempore as he presides continually. It cites the U.S. Constitution stating the Vice President shall be president but vote only in a tie, with further provisions to follow.
The article discusses the presidential line of succession and whether the pro tempore title remains needed as Frye presides, noting there is no Vice President and Roosevelt’s status. It also covers Lord Rosebery’s leadership bid, Prince Henry’s visit, and rail labor tensions with strikes and wage fairness shaping public opinion.
Lord Kitchener’s reports praise the blockhouse system as highly deadly against the Boers. While some enemy escape the line’s fire, the killed and captured numbers are small. Returns show a shift in tone, but many more such actions are needed to end the quasi-guerilla warfare now dominating the campaign, a campaign of annihilation.
The passage questions who decides language rules when scholars like John Hay and grammarians clash. It cites Secretary of State phrases such as The Congress are assembled and I beg to apologize to those who may differ with me, noting the doubt such expressions may provoke.
The New York Evening Post notes a banquet where 1200 guests were served at the highest quality without delay or accidents. It recalls a Boston Home Market Club banquet honoring President McKinley three years earlier with similar dispatch and a larger guest count.
The piece contrasts European dishes like h huitres and pates de foie gras with American staple fare. It suggests the prince should try baked beans corner beef and cabbage and souse to experience everyday independent farmer fare.
The Ancient and Honorables push for continued exemption from jury duty, arguing a form of military service at the trenchers could incapacitate them, a claim seen as absurd by opponents.
A string of wry observations touches on Wall Street anxiety, military figures, a Texas ex governor, a traveler named Miss Stone, a City Farm pest, a Paterson flood, and Tillman family quips, all delivered in a terse, satirical newspaper tone.
A school incident ends with a child Mildred back for a rubber shoe and a puzzled teacher. The column shifts to current weather, river rise, and speculates on freshets, then notes a church minister’s stock speculation, Harvard students seeing Prince Henry, and a Boston charity debate over heating a city farm cottage with a boiler costing 300 to 400 dollars.
Spain's paper money slides 43 percent below gold standards while Aurora Ohio electric light towers, built in 1883, are dismantled. Argentina adds two ounces of sugar to army horse rations to boost endurance. Chinese laborers first arrived in large numbers for the Central Pacific railroad, then many sought work as laundry workers in California after completion.
The Albany Journal and Providence Journal weigh Tillman’s protest against a mild penalty as boorish and insulting. They note he is nominally restored as a senator but held in contempt by colleagues. An incident with Prince Henry in Pittsburg is described as mor tifying, with calls for decency and warnings against demagogues stirring anti royalty sentiment.
Boston Journal reports that Charles H. Allen of Lowell, former governor of Puerto Rico, is seen as the natural pick for the Navy Secretary post after John D. Long. President Roosevelt is said to hold Allen in high esteem, with local observers expecting a Massachusetts escape for Long’s replacement.
A poem about a fool who loses big at bluffing in a card game. The tale contrasts his luck with others and ends with his realization he could never understand the game. The verse, attributed to Boardyard Stripling in the New York Herald, frames risk and ignorance.
Chicago reports opposition to the Wax Paper trust, controlling about 100 million yearly. A new Union Wax Paper and Parchment Company plans a 5 million capital, with factories in New York, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati, and customer stock ownership. Charter to be filed in South Dakota within 30 days.
Chicago March 3 A train crew 400 miles from Chicago tested the railroad telephone by linking Fulton Kentucky with the Illinois Central depot in Chicago. Chief Operator Parsons heard every word despite parallel wires and concurrent telegraph signals proving the system works over long distances.
Drudgery drives men daily on the Grand Banks as dories fan out from the schooner. Trawls hold hundreds of hooks baited for cod and halibut, with nights spent tending lines and rebaiting. The work is exhausting, sleep scarce, morale buoyed by shared profits and a stout crew ethic amid mist, seas, and constant peril.
A local shop reports sold out of $1.25 comforters and slashes a surplus line to $1.28 each. The 72 by 78 inch comforters are covered with silkolene, filled with white cotton, fancy stitched, and widely popular at the new low price.
M LeRoux advises American women to extend time with husbands. He suggests women should influence husbands to stay at home, effectively lengthening the hours of companionship and strengthening domestic ties.
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