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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1900
Page
4
The Lowell Daily Courier, oldest daily in Middlesex County since 1826, operates as a daily since 1345. It publishes at Courier-Citizen Building in Lowell with daily delivery for 12 cents a week or 50 cents a month, excluding Sundays and holidays.
Train service on the Boston and Maine network runs between Lowell and Boston with schedules, stops, and connection options detailed for riders. Local riders expect improved commute times and added reliability on the corridor as services adjust to demand.
The column riffs on a million-dollar fee for peace making, a bank heist, Puerto Rico tariff debates, Aguinaldo in Manila, and press freedom in the Philippines and Cuba. It praises Hay’s open door diplomacy while noting Otis’s jail for sedition and Moore’s cigarette ban.
The writer asks whether Manila fleet success or exports swayed China toward negotiations, noting Manila fall boosted U S show of force while exports to China rose. They argue Secretary Hay earned a victory by securing terms denied to others, suggesting commercial strength aided by naval power.
The U S special commissioner John A Kasson outlines a reciprocity treaty with France, arguing it would unlock a large French market for American manufactures. He cites 1899 trade gaps, tariff disparities, and flawed U S statistics, noting France’s preferential access hinders U S exporters while proposing broader, ongoing adjustments to boost American exports.
The Manchester Union cites George Fred Williams hinting at his political aim. The Denver Republic questions bird millinery and the “feathered corpse” in fashion symbolism. The London discourse on Kroger and Steyn frames potential capture and escape to a safe asylum. The Haverhill Gazette references John Bull’s reach in political theater.
Dr J H Kellogg explains how cold exposure through window drafts can trigger bodily reactions. A small air leak may chill a body area and reflexively affect related blood vessels elsewhere, linking skin vessel changes in shoulders chest and neck to nose throat and lung responses.
An 1890s column muses on using a water tower for washing wagons to fund a new fire station. It notes the deaths of three Central Savings Bank trustees all named Brown within a year. The piece also covers a local girl’s doll question, Takeo Takimura’s praise of America, a Japanese mill inquiry, and the elm tree at Bridge and West Sixth streets being cut down.
Hoyt's A Day and a Night at the Opera House last night drew interest with songs ragtime and dances rather than plot. Marble Hart and Ada Marr anchor the tale with comic turns by Charlie L Warren and W H Currie, as Jerome Sykes and Erna Wallace Hopper headline the upcoming bill Chris and the Wonderful Lamp and The Man Behind the Gun slated for Wednesday and Thursday.
A fragment notes Lucinda facing trouble for hiding something and suggests many others in Lowell are doing the same. Relatives fault those who leave without admitting it, while mentioning a sum of 35 000.
The article praises Powers as a leading comedian with distinct comic opera style and spontaneous, unstudied humor. It notes his strong stage dancing, good musicianship, long experience, and irresistible laugh. He leads Augustin Daly's musical company in A Runaway Girl, soon to perform in Lowell at the Opera House.
Just Before Dawn a Lincoln J Carter melodrama opens a three night stand at Music Hall depicting miners battles and a massive cave in with strong performances by Hugh Gibson Ed Houghton Will Brandon and others. The Missouri Girl Fred Raymond domestic play runs March 29 30 and 31 with Ozark mining scenery and a lively country life plot delivering broad humor.
The audience cheered a fine voice and a pathetically toned opening song. Lotta Gladstone impressed with eight character impersonations in a unique monologue. War pictures delayed but will run this week alongside Fitzgibbon and McCoy, who drew cordial praise. The superb bill promises matinees and evenings all week.
The charming comedy drama will be presented at the First Universalist church on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, under the auspices of the Murray club, for the benefit of the Humane Society. A fine performance is assured and it is hoped for a large attendance.
An adjourned Arlington town meeting in the town hall approved extensive appropriations across departments including almshouse health survey sewer education and public works. Notable actions included Broadway reconstruction water main extension a 40 000 school in Cutter district and a 35 000 school bond. A building committee was named to oversee the school project and a plan to increase the sinking fund annually was approved. An unrelated Albany dairyman praised Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after his child recovered from croup and the druggist noted rising local demand.
Hood's Pills claim to cure liver ills biliousness and indigestion. The ad promotes ease of operation and stresses natural relief from headaches and fatigue with a proprietary formula.
Inclement weather did not keep a large audience from the Savoy Theatre last evening as Sekiom presents a strong vaudeville program. Albert Koerner and Harriet Rows open with a pleasing sketch, followed by Gordon Bidridge’s novel rope routine and various musical numbers. Francois and Marlon Manola deliver standout acts, drawing prolonged applause in the bustling season premiere.
Fragmentary notice describes mirrors in stock for different rooms including living areas and bathroom. It mentions four full sets and references a brand or series, but the text is garbled and many details are unreadable.
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