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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
7
A Boston stockholders meeting of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company increases capital from 759000 to 1250000 dollars and enlarges shares from 7500 to 12500. Stockholders may subscribe two new shares for every three held, at par, with payments due by May 13, 1901, and any unallotted stock to be disposed of by directors.
Officers of the regiment met to decide on a banquet funded by the party proceeds but scheduled school affairs prevented it. Proceeds will partly aid Lowell General hospital. Lowell will send Col. William L. Spalding and Lieut. Ralph J. MacBrayne, gold medal drillers, to the Institute of Technology contest where St. Manlius won the cup last year with ten points and Lowell placed second.
The ad extols Father John’s Medicine as a spring tonic that strengthens the system and builds the body. It claims the medicine cleanses the blood with a gentle laxative action and feeds the tissues, noting that the $1 bottle offers three times the quantity of the fifty-cent size.
Cotton mill managers in Fall River debate new paths beyond the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers' Association. They warn temporary fixes like curtailed production or wage cuts fail to solve deeper problems of supply and demand. Managers cite persistent low markets, competition, and mismanagement as the core need for lasting reform to stabilize business.
Lyman D Morse, noted advertising agent and former general manager with Joseph Barnett & Co, died suddenly at his Brooklyn home. He later partnered with J H Bates. Also reported dead were Grace A Sanderson, 49, Worcester pastor’s wife, from heart trouble, and Albert Blood, 82, longtime Lawrence public figure and industrial builder. Blood helped found Merrimack machine shops and built the first 1000 looms for Everett mills.
Morning stock roundup shows gains in Sugar at 2 percent, Delaware and Hudson 1, St. Paul 1, Union Pacific steady, Amalgamated opening strong then weakening. Trinity stock listing approved with 80,009 shares reinvested, increasing outstanding to 240,000. Mining expert cites 1,000,000 tons ore ready, copper 3 percent, $5 per ton gold and silver value. copper worth $6,000,000 and gold silver $5,000,000. railroad and smelter capacity rising to about $1,000,000 annual earnings.
The piece discusses Lowell's water system in light of Gloucester and compares with Lawrence’s filtered Merrimack river water. It notes questions about pursuing a filtered approach versus a driven well. The discussion centers on how Lowell’s model could influence local supply decisions.
The 1893 shift from Merrimack river water to driven-well systems in Lowell reduced supply issues but drew complaints over water quality. Direct pumping caused algae growth and a fishy taste and odor, prompting public distress despite expert notes that health impact was unlikely. The Cape Ann Breeze cites comparable Gloucester concerns with a similar odor in Wal lace Pond waters.
Seven candidates for the second degree at Lowell lodge I O O F this evening. Highland lodge No 6 I O O F held a well attended meeting. The degree staff initiated two candidates and received one application. Lowell lodge No 24 K P held a large meeting. the rank staff began the first rank for two candidates and voted to work the first rank for William B Gale lodge in Lawrence on Monday evening March 18.
Grace Universalist church women hosted a vestry coffee party last night, led by Mrs J W Stott and Mrs D D Snow. After supper the crowd moved to the church hall for a playlet The Silent Witness starring Miss Bertha M Abbott Miss Alice Livingston and Mr Albert Guillet with Alice E Perham at the piano.
The Glen Echo canyon on the Union Pacific faced a record snow drift in 1893. A seven hour clearing used five large freight locomotives and fifteen hundred shovelers to uncover a thirty to forty five foot bank that stretched three thousand feet. The event remains noted as the heaviest snow depth removed from an American railroad.
During a fierce storm between Rochester and Syracuse several trains faced drifts and icy wires. Locomotives, shovels, and improvised plows struggled to reach stranded passengers, who endured thirty six hours in cars with dwindling food before crews finally freed the line. The 1893 storm echoed past blizzards, with Canadians and locals racing to clear tracks as crews endured freezing temperatures and heavy drifted snow.
Advertising a 12 acre farm for market gardening with new buildings and eight rooms, bath, barn carriage house and hennery, fruit trees near electrics at 2100 dollars. Also a 48 acre farm nine miles out with wood and lumber and fair buildings at 1500 dollars. An 11 acre farm with house barn hennery three acres of wood and poultry potential at 850 dollars. Contact T. H. Elliott at 64 Central Street.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a signature and a date in May. The readable text references an act or document by Casto Bears with a referenced name Thena Fin and a May date. No clear event or outcome is established due to incomplete text.
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