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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
5
A Chicago woman named Mabelle L Lamonte recounts a long battle with female troubles and severe monthly pains. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she was cured, endorsing the product and urging other sick women to try it, with Mrs Pinkham offering free advice.
A Spring offering praises the Old Hundred cigar for quality flavor and general excellence. The ad asserts no cigar competes with it and notes it is a general favorite stamped ww. H. IL. Hayes Old Hundred.
Boston April 30. The railroads and street railways committees reach full agreement on a report backing a bill drawn with Senator Apsey of Cambridge. A motion to strike section eight failed. the bill likely passes with the section kept, while possible moves to strike it out remain. Debates also cover state appropriations for sectarian institutions and a heated exchange between Representative Storey and Mr Hayes. The session touched river improvements affecting Saxonville and Talbot mills, the Saxonville mills remonstrants, and Wayland’s stance. The House debated bank matters, constitutional amendments, and a duty to speed justice, with Storey’s substitute defeated and the session adjourned.
In the Senate today a bill authorizing Boston to borrow up to 1 million dollars this year and over 1.5 million annually for school sites was engrossed. It backs Mayor Collins’s push for expanded yard purchases prior to January 1, 1902. Numerous calendar items were postponed to tomorrow including pensions for state workers and a consumer protection bill. The body also debated naval funding and fisheries matters, delaying actions on Evacuation Day as a legal holiday and misrepresentation prevention in merchandise sales.
C. W. Lenhart of Bowling Green reports a painful leg sore that caused running and itching. After using Dodan's Ointment the burning and itching subsided and a permanent cure was achieved, ending the suffering.
Carl W. Grant lay in a dangerous state after a Monday afternoon self inflected gunshot wound at Malden hospital. Annie Pratt claimed gifts from Grant totaling over 500 dollars including jewelry furs and a suit and Chief Emerton filed an embezzlement warrant. Police recovered goods worth about 109 dollars intended for the Congregational Publishing House in Boston.
Pretoria April 30 delegates from the peace talks travel to meet burghers in the field. Gen Botha Delarey Meyer Reitz Steyn and De Wet assign districts to confer with commandos as a general meeting at Vereeniging on May 25 is planned for a final decision. The outlook is viewed as favorable if the delegates present the situation clearly.
An advertisement-style claim touts MI-ONA from the Taro plant as a genuine cure for indigestion and nervous dyspepsia. It argues doctors previously offered only symptom relief and asserts three to four days of treatment restores digestion and gastric function without harming nourishment.
In Washington on April 30 the Senate heatedly debated a Patterson resolution urging the secretary of war to cable Major Gardener from the Philippines to testify before the Philippine committee. Lodge and others defended restricting Gardener’s travel, arguing he would soon be home to appear. The measure, tied to policy questions on the Rosebud and Arizona rail rights, was postponed. The House meanwhile passed the agricultural appropriation bill and moved on district funding, with rules allowing a weather bureau data transfer and new statistics consolidation proposed by Wadsworth.
American Marconi Co reports negotiations to connect Block Island with Providence by wireless telegraphy. The Block Island station will join a chain between Nantucket and New York for signaling ocean liners and aiding passenger traffic. It will also connect with Sagaponack station under construction to expand coastal communications.
London dispatches say Lord Kitchener did not mention any surrenders while peace rumors swirl around the stock market. Reports claim Delarey and two commands may have surrendered, though Delarey’s arrival at Klerksdorp and plans for a meeting west of there are noted. Pretoria reports Reitz met Beyers, but outcome unclear. Officials do not expect firm peace news for about two weeks, with amnesty for Cape rebels cited as an obstacle.
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