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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1900
Page
6
The Courier-Citizen, Lowell's daily newspaper since 1826, operates from Merrimack Street Courier-Citizen Building. It delivers citywide 12 cents a week or 50 cents a month, publishing every day except Sundays and holidays.
Boston and Maine Railroad operates trains between Lowell and Boston providing regional service. The service connects Lowell with Boston's core stations, offering commuter access with frequent trips and standard fares.
The piece mocks sensational journalism and local politics while discussing public sentiment toward Devery and the Broadway hotels. It questions the Klondike rush and the fruitless pursuit of profits from advance subscriptions, noting the stock market's tame response and dividend bookkeeping.
The piece notes a 3 percent regular and 17 percent extra dividend on capital of 100 million, compares it to Carnegie earnings, and mentions figures like Mr Knox seeking Congress and the Lowell/Massachusetts political scene. It then shifts to warnings about anti Christian sentiment in Turkey, the looming European tension, and distrust of frauds like Francis Truth alias William Bemis, called a Divine Healer.
The death of Dr William Mac Neill Whistler in London leaves his only brother, a well known painter, and notes his friend's evidence of surgical skill in the American army. Cronje’s property near Potchefstroom spans over 6000 acres with a simple one story manor. The owner is a sportsman who rejects city life and the Pretoria presidency.
A collection of quotes discusses workingmen’s talk of politics and Bryan McKinley nomination, noting July 4 as a possible date. It also cites a Lowell Courier editorial urging public engagement in sound insurance, risk management, and fire prevention to protect property and reduce losses amid rising fire hazards and electrical risks.
The piece notes 270 boys registered at the Thorndike street Boys' club with an average attendance of 85 nightly, and 24 boys applying for tickets in one day. It contrasts quiet youth discipline with fewer crowds at cheaper city amusements and reports on the evening high school's book purchases, essay results, and a church protest against saloon licensing. It ends with a reflection on civic street drainage and two boys who cleared slush into drains, showing self-help over municipal action.
Satisfactory entertainments were given by the Walford-Sheridan company with A Soldier of Africa at matinee and The Brand of Cain in the evening. Tomorrow they close with The Smugglers and The Pulse of New York. Miss Ethel Barrymore, from a long prominent theatrical family, appears with Frohman at the Opera House on Monday, March 19, in His Excellency, the Governor. The illustrated Jeffries Sharkey bout at Coney Island will be shown Tuesday and Wednesday March 20 and 21 with vivid living-picture effects and audience participation.
The Big Sensation again packed Music Hall last night and earned high praise from patrons. Two shows today, matinee at 2.00 and evening at 8.00. Manager W H Boody announces a surprise if a top vaudeville company appears daily for the full week of March 19, billed as the best vaudeville act ever shown here.
A flash photograph captures a venerable gentleman on the wrong end of a gun who appears amused. The ironic humor stems from his valuables being securely locked away at the crucial moment.
The notice states a daily matinee in Lowell with admission priced at 10 and 20 cents.
This afternoon and evening the Savoy hosts final acts by Boulden and Griffin and William Cahill Davies. Next week's headline is George Wilson, famed minstrel, arriving from a top vaudeville house on a record salary, with many acts promising one of the city’s finest bills. Matinee daily except Monday at 2.30, evening at 8.15.
The Indianapolis Daily Press argues that true newspaper value rests on voluntary readership and honest paid circulation. It condemns fake figures and bait offers, urging transparent guarantees showing readers choose the paper for daily family use.
A Baldwin apple monument in Wilmington near the Woburn line will be shown in Paris. The Washington Pomology Department requested a photo of this granite eight foot pillar topped with an apple carving. Erected in 1895 by the Rumford Historical Association, it marks the estate where Samuel Thompson found the first Pecker apple tree later named Baldwin.
The piece recalls Tommy Tucker’s social circles and a Cambridge visit tied to an evening high school and a young mill girl's education. Tucker recounts encounters with friends, a nervous suitor waiting at a high school doorway, and the irony of workers studying by night while maintaining regular day jobs. The tale underscores education’s pull among working-class youths and a journalist’s amused reflection on social pretensions.
Globe system card indexing is presented as complete and up to date for lawyers teachers physicians and business men. The ad notes agents for Remington typewriter and a large line of cabinet free card indexes and typewriters available at Lowell addresses and phone numbers.
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