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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1902
Page
6
Lowell Daly Courier records show a county paper established in 1825 and a daily from 1845. Published every day except Sundays and holidays at Courier Citizen Building Merrimack Street Lowell. Delivered by carrier across the city at six cents a week.
The forecast from Boston on May 19 calls for partly cloudy and generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday with light east to south winds.
The piece condemns anarchists like Lopez and Czolgosz for attempting to kill a king and argues such actions reveal blind ignorance. It links these plots to ongoing threats against government and cautions that socialism suffers when attacked by indiscriminate violence.
The piece argues for preserving Andover Seminary as a landmark while noting purely theological schools are fading. It contends modern life requires pastors trained beyond creeds, blending practical skills with theology, and questions whether a single theology-focused institution can provide that breadth.
The President’s letter to Bishop Lawrence denounces barbarity in the army and vows punishment. Critics label the administration as enjoying carnage, but mainstream opinion rejects this. The piece questions the value of a special embassy to the coronation and notes New York’s plan to spend 76000 on new street signs, praising reform prospects under Mayor Low.
A newly launched steamer in Maine received its christening in a ceremony marked by traditional rites and social attention. The event drew local officials and residents, who praised the vessel’s design and potential impact on regional transport and commerce.
A mixed update discusses Bath's shift from wine to safer christening fluids, American attitudes to foreign ownership of ships and freight trains, rainfall benefits for Western crops, and global affairs. It notes the Waldeck Rousseau majority in France, depictions of rising beef prices, and reflections on canals and volcanic events affecting policy.
The Philadelphia Record sale price shows press power in a major city. Civil service reformers oppose President's move to remove Historian Maclay from the Brooklyn navy yard. Public response favors the President as the nation expands Civil War era style reforms. Porto Rico housing surged with about 850 new schools since U S occupation signaling rapid development.
The article notes Alfonso of Spain was not crowned but had a Saturday ceremony more like an arrival at age of freedom, a royal birthday party enjoyed by all. It pokes fun at a news boy taken as a pet lion by Mrs. Jack Gardner and mocks Rood Smoot’s Senate candidacy as a freak name alongside Dink Botts and Pod Dismuke.
The Ladies' Anti Beef Trust Association among the East Side Hebrews in New York criticizes local conduct as not ladylike or womanly and calls for improved behavior consistent with its title.
Historical note credits 1902 with a year of notable seismic and volcanic activity, marking it in history for dramatic natural disasters and related global impact.
A recent census reports 25,906 British subjects living in Paris. Other notes mention a Tokyo reform school transfer linked to harsh education and a Holland garden record of roses on Mme Regnew's land. A Marechal Niel rose at Whitby blossomed to 3,500 blooms simultaneously.
A morning column paints small scenes from Centralville and Lowell. A hill-holding horse stands out, Billie Merritt’s son cheers him to a hit, and a mother softly calls a child from a trolley. The piece notes rising May travel, forest fires, and the ease of extinguishing with modern gear. It also covers legislative banter between Hayes and Myrthis, plus a Lowell lawyer showing a roan pacer from James Murphy and Billy Hamilton with ties to Clinton and Boston.
A compact collage of wit and opinion from the era. It touches on coal, strikes, Madrid’s politics, the mine, royal upheaval, moral judgments, science, judges, spring weather, Maine customs, Dreyfus quotes, war, and a remark on Shylock amid beef riots. The piece cites assorted voices and references, ending with a Boston Herald remark on prices.
Editorial excerpts reflect views on Mexico under Diaz highlighting orderly progress and prosperity since 1876, while French conditions on the eve of upheaval are described as ominous. Also cited are opinions on Tammany Hall, labor strikes, and the moral weight of labor actions, including the ills of coal shortages and mining disputes.
The Mexican finance department asks Congress to authorize the fifth and final series of interior five per cent bonds worth 20 million dollars to subsidize railways. It also seeks authority to issue bonds in Mexican or foreign coin to fund the National Tehuantepec railway improvements, Gulf port works, Manzanillo port projects, Vera Cruz buildings, a new legislative palace, water and sanitation works. Yucatan capitalists plan a New York to Mexican ports steam line. La Patria lauds U S policy on Cuba, praising Washington’s comparatively glorious conduct.
Hazelton Pennsylvania May 19 Ralph M Bailey secretary of the Civic Federation met with President Mitchell during a late Saturday night visit at strike headquarters. No plan for settling the strike or messages from Hanna or other Civic Federation members were brought or left. The two hour discussion with miners' leader and a brief morning talk preceded his New York departure.
Civic Federation and coal operators hold to no-move stance while clergy urge abstinence oaths during the strike. Masses at St. Gabriel's echo temperance appeals as Lehigh valley sees a week without coal mining. Mitchell awaits two districts to authorize a special convention, unions pledge support to miners.
New York reports details of a consolidation plan for camera enterprises. The consolidated corporation, incorporated in New Jersey, has capital stock of 35 million dollars and will acquire property worldwide. It will combine firms that manufacture and sell photographic cameras dry plates films papers and related materials with factories in Rochester Jamestown Harrow England and Toronto.
A series of incidents across Massachusetts includes Mrs Minnie Hoey badly burned starting a breakfast fire in Cambridge, 14 year old William Litchfield Jr dying from a school injury in Dorchester, Officer Nolan involved in an earlier electric car holdup being knocked down, William Stewart killed by a train in Taunton, George Gaudette drowning at Rockland with 11 year old Robert McIntosh rescued, Lorenzo Poole and his son saving one boy, and Mrs Mary Riley found dead in Roxbury with her husband and a man held for investigation.
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