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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1902
Page
5
The Women's Club Bulletin announces a lecture by Miss Helen A Whitter Thursday March 6 in Lowell Massachusetts. The event will feature stereopticon illustrations detailing French cathedrals and related art and architecture topics.
Historical tale recalls Jennie Creek of Muncie Ind who saved a White City express by flagging the train and earning the Legion of Honor from France. The rest discusses Massachusetts and Georgia federations debating a reorganization plan to resolve color questions within the General Federation and state rights, with Massachusetts resisting the compromise plan and defending its own approach.
The Middlesex Women’s club executive council met in special session to form a committee after the sad death of Miss M. Ella Russell. Founding member and former president of the literature department, she served as correspondent secretary and club historian for years. Her literary club sketches and the Lowell Daily Mail column earned wide esteem among friends.
A column discusses Lowell women joining the board of overseers of the poor and the value of female civic service. It notes Miss Alice Roosevelt's language skills, Chicago mayoral salary cuts, Harvard honors for Prince Henry, Bernhardt’s insurance, Kipling’s women in poetry, and Burne-Jones paintings.
The executive board presents a clarified summary of a compromise between Massachusetts and Georgia plans to settle the General Federation of Women's Clubs color question without broad reorganization. It outlines amendments to the constitution and state-rights approach proposed after a New York conference in 1902 and backed by St Louis women.
Dr Edmund von Mach of Cambridge spoke on Early Grecian Sculpture at a club lecture for high school history classes. He contrasted portrait likeness with representing thought, noted Greek drapery liberties, and urged discernment between good and bad sculpture to raise standards. The talk featured Greek costume specimens on a student model.
A Detroit lecturer of the WCTU, Marguerite St Omer Briggs, lauds Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing more women than any other, urging sick women to try it for irregular menstruation, weakness, and female troubles. She notes widespread endorsements and invites letters for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
New York Gloak and Suit Co proclaims every garment must be sold to make room for new spring goods. It urges buyers to act now and notes it will pay to purchase a garment for next fall.
The gathering enjoyed hospitality as Master Ray Gordon performed a banjo selection. Attendees discussed wearables that could transition from girdle to storm skirt, noting versatile styling for the season.
The Lydia Darrah chapter with guests from Lowell Wakefield and Cambridge met Mrs Samuel Young at 62 Sixth street on March 1 A bountiful collation followed Master Arthur Cole provided musical selections Rev Charles Z Billings reviewed the life of Abraham Lincoln James F Savage shared reminiscences Miss May Donnelly read readings Regent reported on the 11th Continental Congress held in Washington Miss Antoinette Farnham read the president general Mrs Fairbanks address which opened the Congress Feb 17 and satisfied attendees
Inventory liquidation advertises men s fleece lined olive underwear at 29 cents per garment and 50c quality at 29c. The boys line of fleeced garments drops to 20c each. Basement department promotes remaining stock with limited quantities and bold price cuts.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Butter Thin Biscuit as made good by an Inter-seal Patent Package that shields from dust moisture and odors. It warns that small colds can grow into serious illness and promotes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a remedy.
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