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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1900
Page
4
The item lists the Courier Citizen Company notice detailing Lowell Daily Courier’s long history in Middlesex County. It notes publication since 1826 with daily status since 1845, delivery terms at 12 cents a week or 50 cents a month, and the Merrimack Street Courier Citizen Building address.
No two cent newspaper in Low ell has a larger or more influential circulation. Each day adds to its List. Circulation Books open to all.
Boston and Maine Railroad runs trains between Lowell and Boston via Middlesex Street Station and Bedford on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. Western Division route also offered. Ticket office not open for this train.
The Lowell Daily Courier notes Senator Lodge will deliver an address worth hearing. It hopes a fine Shamrock yacht season for the America’s Cup. Topics include coal miners’ strike, a fatal steeple chase fall, and storm on Pike’s Peak. Observes banks and charity boards, with focus on the American Board’s finances and missionary work.
The piece argues that tolerating natural pests like snakes in Jamaica is wiser than eradicating them, as extermination creates new imbalances. It also questions New York University hall of fame judges for undervaluing physicians and surgeons, noting that only Gilbert Stuart gained entry while many artists and scientists are overlooked.
Ten days of silver jubilee celebrations for the Sultan of Turkey end on Sept. 9. He urges benevolences and outlines grand plans including fountains in major cities, a Damascus to Mecca railroad, a Hedjaz telegraph line, and a Turkish navy rebuild costing 60 million dollars. Mrs Ti Di of Idaho City will vote in the fall election as an American citizen, while her Chinese-born husband is barred from the franchise. Ti Di, born in Idaho, has common-school education and is an avid reader of American dailies, closely following the Republican national convention.
Quotations note the marble work over the Governor’s palace entrance cleaned after a long period of dirt buildup. Havana Post says the alabaster marble is among the finest known. A remark on Roosevelt and Bryan’s pleasant Alton meeting suggests political manners as a lesson Chicago might need.
Sheridan P Read argues in The Chinese as Businessmen that the mercantile class and native producers will lead a restoration of order in China. He says the coolie and merchant factions will push for a preserved status quo, pressuring officials as trade hubs at treaty ports stay paralyzed until stability returns.
Merrimack details show Palmer Street as a location for the local safe deposit and trust firm. The note mentions the company in connection with the Palmer Street address in Merrimack, outlining its role in storage and fiduciary services.
Senator Lodge cites a Western shift to the Republicans. He reports Colorado back in Republican ranks and a town growing a 400 member club after 26 votes for McKinley four years ago. He calls the main issue coinage 16 to 1 with expansion secondary and McKinley’s win seen as assured.
In this city Mrs. Hobbs Miss Shedd and Miss Foster join Miss Dean of St Louis traveling to Porto Rico for Miss Bertha Allen’s wedding to Lieutenant George Wood Logan USN at the executive mansion on October 25. The gown is made in New England. Governor Allen warns progress is closely watched amid a riot incident. A Maine fishing retreat at Lake Mooseluck is described with a six room log cabin grove scene.
A new state law bans purchase or sale of birds taken in the state for three years, sparing only self-hunted partridges. The piece details camp life, hunting and fishing outings, social weddings of Mr and Mrs Charles Frederick Hard and Mr and Mrs Samuel C Horn, and various local residents traveling or residing away.
John Connell died October 12 in Hudson New Hampshire. He leaves two brothers and two sisters including Thomas H Connell contractor Philip Connell Mary Ford and Nellie Ames. He was a G A R member with funeral planned Sunday from his Hudson home. Versailles Josephine Versailles aged 40 in Newburyport died October 12 at 32 Rock Street. Thomas J Conway age 11 months died October 11 at 33 London Street. Anne Hogan aged 46 died October 12 in North Billerica.
Rev A B Wilson will deliver the address at the laying of the cornerstone of the new Free Baptist church at South Lawrence this afternoon. Dr and Mrs E L Averell of Sudbury VI have been visiting friends in Maine and called on their sister Mrs A G Titus of Barclay Street on their way home. Asa C Russell, just back from a three months trip abroad, will lecture at Chelmsford Street church tomorrow night recounting incidents from the journey and describing the Passion Play. Several excursionists join the 13th annual Railroad Agents' Association of New England outing to Gettysburg Luray caverns and Washington, including Mr and Mrs C W Miller and Mrs S B Hunter of this city and Mr and Mrs H J Garland of Lowell Junction. William H Sheehan hosts a visiting boy at 148 Cross Street. Miss Hanna Adams of Pittsfield NH and Mrs Susie Robinson of Concord NH are guests at Miss Fannie McGovern’s Merrimack Street home.
Middlesex Probate Court hear petition by Edward B Holt administrator to license sale at public auction of three parcels of Hannah W. M Teel estate, Lowell, to pay debts and admin charges. Citation to heirs to appear October 23, 1900 in Cambridge. Publication in Lowell Daily Courier for three weeks. Judge Caries J Molntixe. Register H Folsom.
An excerpt describes a girl’s entry into a Sandy mark rank tattoo, then years at a school run by older women who teach singing plays and dance. She memorizes songs, learns to cook and perform domestic duties, knits nets and fishes, visits parents only after toilet rites and white clay body rubs, and palmyra leaf aprons replace cotton.
Scrofula is an ancient blood disease cured by purifying the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to eradicate impurities and heal sores pimples and skin ailments from scrofula taints. The ad urges immediate treatment with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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