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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1901
Page
6
The oldest and best daily in Middlesex County dates from 1825 with 43 years as a daily since 1845. Published daily except Sundays and holidays from Courier-Citizen Building Merrimack Street Lowell. Delivery by carrier 12 cents a week or 50 cents a month.
Trains run between Lowell and Boston on Wednesdays Saturdays only via Redford and Western Division. Ticket office for this train is not open.
The column surveys finance and politics including a music publishing trust, Jacksonville earnings, France gold payments, Gov. Odell vetoes, immigrant arrivals in New York, Boston trade union social club, cup defender secrecy, and Mayor Dimon’s clerical shift on Pawtucket bridge. It reflects cautious editorial tones about Wall Street prosperity, labor, and public works with local observations.
The writer argues for city council action on repairing or replacing an old building. They suggest international finance and American literary promise, noting Russian and German stakes in American securities and the role of global commerce in preventing war, while stressing commercial ties protect peace.
The piece critiques a bill granting park commissioners power to ban signs within 200 yards of parks. It argues the proposal is unconstitutional and impractical, likening it to earlier failed attempts and noting support from the Twentieth Century club. The author urges alternatives like heavier taxation rather than broad public authority over private property.
Readers discuss cotton goods markets and mill curtailments in Fall River and New England. A Springfield Republican editorial notes further price cuts for print cloths and a demoralized market, with threats of wage reductions if curtailments continue. The piece highlights industry anxieties across mills and newspapers.
An advertisement for Ayer s Cherry Pectora claims early treatment prevents worsening colds and offers three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00. It instructs to send one dollar if unavailable locally and to provide the nearest express office address for shipment from J C Ayer Co Lowell Mass.
The text argues that while national business remains prosperous, the cotton industry shows weakness. Overtime mills helped create market stagnation, not by all factories but by some profit driven operators. New southern mills outpace absorption, trusts are condemned yet not inherently evil, and coordinated production could spread work year round to aid workers.
A compendium of brief editorial quotes reviews political tours and commerce. It cites the Portsmouth Chronicle on presidential tours the Lynn Item on Prince Henry De Croy jewelry smuggling and the Boston Journal noting American locomotive exports to India with cost advantages. The items reflect early 20th century sentiment about propaganda geopolitics and industry.
An elderly view on cost of living estimates a weekly diet for 28 cents and extra costs. A Lowell brush fire at Fifield is praised for its dramatic pyrotechnic reach. Debates on bridge patching and transit routes stir local opinion, while school songs shift toward refined language and a minister’s child humorously mislabels engines.
A Lowell city note reports a push to declare the ward two seat of Pierre Brousseau vacant after the death of Councilman Spillane and Brousseau’s disappearance. Republicans fear a reduced council majority once Spillane is replaced.
City notice announces Thomas E Lennon Ella Lennon Lennon Co applying to transfer license to sell intoxicating liquors Fourth Class as Retail Dealer from Moody and Suffolk to Moody street. Public Statutes Section 6 Chapter 100 requires Board of Police approval. Clerk Joseph Smith.
No. 64 A dated May 6 1901 notes a First Class Common Victualler license for liquor at Nos 288 to 294 Moody Street with details about the application and premises in the city docket.
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