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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1898
Page
5
Rev. S. T. Ford’s October sermon series at the First Baptist church centers on “Making a Home” with “The Itch en” as the night’s text. He urges dignity in service, urges better support from husbands and wives, and calls religion to strengthen home life.
Rally Sunday filled Kirk Street Church with Sunday school and congregation members for a noon service. An orchestra of three played as Rev W A Bartlett led hymns and four short addresses reflected on the church past and public school ties. The evening featured John Knox and the Scottish Reformation with Scotch music and a large, cross-town congregation.
In Michigan this week the American board meeting is noted as John Street Church marks missionary Sunday. Rev Geo H Johnson shares the tale of Anschar, first Scandinavian missionary, following sermons on Augustine and Boniface. The account covers visions, Viking resistance, toil and the slow spread of Christianity, noting Anschar’s death in 865 and the gradual Christian shift among Northmen.
The article notes Cyrus Hamlin, famed missionary once with Constantinople, is expected to preach at John Street Church next Sunday. It recalls the era of Canute and the saintly martyrdom shaping the northern missions, highlighting Hamlin as an apostle to the Northmen and the prayer for grace to make a good man.
Solomon Bachman prominent Merrimack Mills owner and Dracut manufacturer died suddenly of apoplexy at his High street summer home in Newburyport aged about 72. Born in Bavaria, he lived in New York, Newburyport, Paterson and Dra cut before establishing the New England woolen mill. Survived by a widow and daughter Mrs Bernheimer of New York. Funeral private. Also notes Boston condensed milk factory close at West Brookfield with 70 cent on the dollar settlements hurt farmers and local industry.
A quip from the Detroit Journal contrasts a book and a newspaper as to color. The book claims age, while the newspaper cites competition as the real factor.
Edwin Emerson Jr recounts the Rough Riders at Montauk Point after taps a bonfire gathering with Sioux and Apache dances. Pete and Jones lead ceremonies as soldiers from four troops join a lively night of rain-dance and Moqui smoke rites before an early dawn train to New York.
Lieut Parker analyzes the Santiago campaign praising the Fifth corps for capturing a fortified enemy city with 28 000 troops in twenty days and gaining a land area comparable to New England while driving a strong fleet from a harbor yet notes failures in feeding troops and timely reconnaissance. He argues for better administration, supplies, and rest periods for exhausted troops.
Financial briefing from Bright Sears & Co covers current actions in the Boston and New York markets with notes on price movements and trading activity. Key firms and indices participate in the day’s session, reflecting intraday shifts and market sentiment.
A Chicago Record account narrates Caney siege scenes with vivid fire and shell imagery. Veterans and Rough Riders are praised for steadiness amid relentless Mauser and Krag fire, while Brazil’s coffee and tropical exports are summarized with figures and trade links to the United States and Britain.
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