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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1900
Page
6
The Republican committee promotes McKinley speeches from 1897 to 1900 and highlights a hardbound 388 page volume. Catalogs list educational geography and various 19th century works by Crowell, Macmillan, and Theosophical publishers with prices and format notes.
The Sioux are portrayed as the premier mounted scouts, more vigilant than the Apache, using horses for fighting and reconnaissance. The piece details their stealth, signaling, flank observations, and concealment tactics observed during the 1876 Crook campaign, emphasizing discipline, timing, and security in advance guard roles.
A guide proposed by M. E. S. to host a Halloween party with a young lady dressed as a palm-reading witch. It suggests a bright skirt and shawl, head scarf, light makeup, and personal histories to engage guests. The plan includes a mirror fortune reveal, dim lighting, chalked names, and a final egg-shell salt token promising future brides.
The County Fair with Neil Burgess in Abigail Prue opens at the Opera House for tonight and Saturday matinee and evening. The revival tour promises strong crowds and receipts. The plot centers on Abigail Prue aiding waifs, freeing her farm from mortgage via a racehorse win. Cast highlights include The Rounders with Irene Perry and Thomas Q. Seabrooke. Also featured are The Parish Priest with Daniel Sully, and burlesques The Gay Modiste and The Water Nymph.
A review notes George H Broadbent’s What Happened to Jones opens at Music Hall to a fair crowd with nonstop laughter. The farce follows professor and family misadventures as a raid, bishop mix ups, and Jones evading police unfold through three acts with strong comic performances. The upcoming Social Maids burlesque by Hurtig and Seaman is announced to boost box office.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions held a Chinese day in St Louis with talks by Rev. Judson Smith and other missionaries. They expressed hope to resume work in northern China after persecutions and discussed the forward movement's primary aim. Peter Cushnoll Jones of Honolulu brought Hawaiian greetings linking Hawaii's mission history to the board's broader story since 1819.
Three and four room foe men near the Northern depot in perfect repair rent low. Tenements in Belvidere Centralville and on the Highlands offer three four and five rooms with monthly rents from 6.50 to 8.00 dollars. Apply to T. Dls 64 Central Street. The woman who thinks anybody can wear brown walks about as a visible ugly contradiction of the thought.
A dense price ledger from Buttrick and Co. and partners lists numerous groceries and provisions with unit prices. Entries cover butter tea cheese kerosene eggs molasses coffee syrup sugar oats salt pine maple and more, alongside meats, fowl, fish, coal and various grains. The column preserves names of supplying firms and street addresses, reflecting a broad urban market snapshot.
The vestry of St Anne's Mission Church in North Billerica filled with parishioners and guests as Rev A A V Binnington leaves after over two years to become rector of St Mark's in Fall River. A reception followed with a present of a traveling suitcase, and St Elizabeth's Guild provided refreshments. Dr Chambré of St Anne's Lowell attended the early part of the evening.
North Chelmsford town hall hosted the Ladies Aid fair of Second Congregational church with large attendance. Tables offered crafts and scripture cakes, fishing pond, art by Mrs. Harry C. Trombly, and Lowell guests enjoyed an evening of music by the Ladies Symphony Orchestra of Lowell as profits mounted.
Rev J W Carline returning missionary from Hong Kong will preach Sunday morning at the Baptist church. Baptism at the pond Sunday after Sunday school with candidates Lyman Chase and Hattie Metcalf. Mr West and Mrs West have removed to Roxbury. Mr John Scoboria visiting Concord Campton and other NH towns. Arthur Mansfield of Pelham visiting town. Galveston relief gathering postponed due to storm. LB.
Stoneham mourns James F Moulton 74 a longtime resident and former Boston policeman who served about 18 years retiring in 1879. He belonged to station 4 most of his career and helped lead local sports clubs. He leaves a widow and a daughter.
Estimates detail the needed machinery and equipment for a Wullion Dollar cotton mill project at the Joplin Missouri facility, with address P. O. box 773. The document outlines itemized costs, quantities, and specifications for mills, spindles, looms, and related gear.
The Stony Brook Valley Electric railway directors filed a location petition with the selectmen. A hearing is scheduled at Westford town hall on Wednesday October 24 at 2 p.m. Voter registration meetings follow at Moore's Mill Brookside October 18 7 30 to 9 p.m Music Hall Graniteville October 22 7 30 to 9 p.m and Westford Centre Town Hall October 27 12 noon to 10 p.m. This is the last meeting before election.
Mrs Julia A R Barrett of Lexington filed a will and codicil at East Cambridge probate court. One provision leaves $2000 income privately for a woman’s cause in the Commonwealth after the recipient’s death. Another leaves a silver goblet and spoons used at the Ursuline convent to the Boston Historical Society. The Ursuline convent was in Somerville and was burned in 1835.
In Newton Upper Falls a Needham division trolley derailed near Eliot and Chestnut streets and slammed into John Ryan's grocery, wrecking the front portion. Passengers sustained cuts from shattered glass but no serious injuries reported. car heavily damaged.
The notice lists weekly and Sunday train times for Woburn Ayer Junction Nashua Manchester Concord Greenfield Bennington Keene Nashua and Portland areas, plus routes to White Mountain, Montpelier Burlington St Albans Montreal and Quebec. It names D J Flanders as General Passenger and Ticket Agent and H C Taft as General Agent in Lowell, with multiple daily departures and special weekend patterns.
Trustees of the J. W. Fletcher library announce a new weekly collection time for Granville and Forge Village. Books will be gathered Thursdays at 4 p.m and returned Fridays at the usual time. The change begins Thursday Oct 18.
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