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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1900
Page
8
Reading shows an October calendar snippet with weekday labels Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri and dates 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 and times for sunrise moonrise and sunset. It notes Lengshof Day and moon rise in the morning.
Yesterday afternoon and night were mild and pleasant. Today is ideal with a high for the season and a blue sky. Barometer readings show 29.78 yesterday, 29.68 today, 29.47 at 5pm with temperatures 64, 50, and 73 at indicated times.
City council confrontation sparks public dispute as officials clash over budget and policy measures. Local residents watch closely as debate intensifies, with calls for reform and implications for municipal operations expected to endure into next session.
The notice announces a sale of fresh heavy milk cows at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the stables of C. H. Hangan & Co. Also mentions a Workingmen's Republican club meeting at Barristers' hall Wednesday at 8 PM and Prof. Frederic H. Wilson offering violin instruction from Room 32 Swan building on Thursdays.
Real estate sales include George L. Hubbard to Daniel Barry on Keene Street land with buildings for $1 and James W. Gregg to John Briggs on First Street, $1. Other transfers cover Hildreth Street, Starbird Lane, Westford Street, Fourth Street, Agawam, Rea Street, and the Cushing farm on Varnum Avenue for $6000, among numerous parcels and minuscule sums. Towns include Carlisle, Dracut, Tewksbury, Chelmsford, with multiple deed transfers and trustees involved.
An adjourned meeting of the Builders Exchange reviewed the long pending municipal building ordinance. Sections on superintendent duties and permit applications were tabled and sent to a special committee. Amendments moved include qualificat ions for the superintendent to be an architect or builder and changes to posts, smoke pipes, and private storage stables.
A Texas physician says Grape-Nuts food cured his physical and nervous wreck, digestive issues, and neurasthenia after trying electricity baths and medicines. He reports rapid improvement, resumed practice, and praises the product as the most perfectly made food, though his name cannot be published publicly.
In a town meeting held at Billerica Centre last evening, voters defeated the proposal to establish a town owned electric lighting plant by a 105 to 98 margin. The decision ends municipal ownership for at least two years, with private power from Drucker’s Centre plant continuing under statute limits.
In a Billerica town meeting, debates over electric railway pole use ran with discussion of profits. The vote ended 98 to 105 with a two thirds needed, articles 8-10 postponed. Article 11 sought $300 to fund plans for a new North Billerica six room school building, which passed 92 to 1. The town will not own its electric light plant for at least two years.
Sunday school teachers of the First Trinitarian church opened their regular fall and winter monthly meeting. Mrs Stebbins state secretary of the Home Department of the Massachusetts Sunday School Association spoke on Home Department Work.
The Y M C A announces physical culture classes at the association rooms with day and evening sessions. All interested should register at the office to enter.
Patent medicine advertisement touting Hood's Pills as cures for liver biliousness indigestion and headache. Claims ease of use and operation with a price of 25 cents. Includes marketing tone and authoritative assurances typical of period ads.
The High school regiment is now fully officered after three examinations to fill corporal posts. Last night privates from the first battalion passed the corporals tests with strong attendance from officers and friends. Principal Irish and Mr. Sherpurne led the process with a military board including Capt Fairweather Liuts McNulty Worthen and Kittredge. Names of successful privates from the first and second battalions include Killpatrick Sullivan Mather Sprague Sanders H E Gage Gerry Horne Mehan Malony French Bowen Corcoran Sheweil Sawyer Means E G Gage Fleming J N Burns Gilmore Mitchell Goldman Hickson Ela Stevenson Leggat Dows Fay N P Callahan Hills McCarthy Finnegan Burnham Green Crosby Hallett.
The Socialist Labor party held a rally in Jackson Hall ward room last night as Huntington hall proved too large for the crowd. John Youngjohns presided and introduced John Oldham of Lynn who spoke for labor and for Mahoney and Remmel the party’s candidates.
The Bryan club met in Jackson hall ward room last evening with Rev Park A Bradford presiding. He delivered an address advocating the candidacy of Mr Bryan. The club will meet next Friday night and announces several new members.
By J E Conant Co Lowell mass announces a public unconditional auction of nearly new real estate adjacent to St Patrick's cemetery to raise funds for finishing the new Catholic cemetery project. The sale occurs Wednesday October 17 1900 on the premises regardless of weather.
At 4 30 P M a large new two flat at 1065 and 1067 Bridge street near Bridge and eighteenth streets has just been completed and never occupied. Each unit offers five rooms a bathroom and cellar with separate flats. The building emphasizes convenience finish and a home-like appearance on a high site with sweeping views of Lowell. The lot covers 3327 square feet with a 50 foot frontage suitable for the structure.
A large nearly new two flat house at 7 Whitney Avenue, in Centralville, with five rooms per flat, bath, and yard, is offered at auction. Lower flat $12.50 and upper $10 monthly rents, with easy terms including mortgage on purchase money. Open for inspection after 10 a.m. on sale day. deposit required for each lot.
A Beachmont football squad visiting Graniteville on a Saturday caused property damage and disruptive behavior. Constable Healey restrained a leader during a mob scene at a barn and depot, as the youths stole knives and crackers and insulted villagers before paying fines generously deemed insufficient by the victims. The incident ended with the group departing in a subdued mood, learning country residents will not tolerate such rowdyism.
Zachariah Coburn, longtime Dracut resident and large farm owner, collapsed from heart trouble at his supper table in New Boston area last night. He leaves a widow and numerous relatives in Lowell.
Annie O'Neil, 191 Fayette Street, suffered a severely bruised back when a plank she sat on while washing a rear second story window broke. Ambulance took her to St. John's Hospital yesterday afternoon after the fall in the yard.
The Guardian sold the Williams property on Market Street Saturday afternoon attracting a large crowd. Daniel J. Murphy and Robert Bartlett vied intensely, with Murphy purchasing the lot for 2712.50. Auctioneer Keyes supervised the sale. improvements are expected to add value to the property.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts encounters with grizzlies in Colorado and Montana. A mining expert describes an old silver tip as a dangerous foe while a hunter recalls a rock escape, a bear attack, and a close call in rugged mountains. A commercial traveler adds a Montana chase ending with a shouted plea to run.
We opened a new line of me dallions for the holiday season featuring attractive wedding gift items. French water colors framed at 35 cents each and a variety of new goods arriving daily. Visit George Q Maker at the corner of John and Merrimack streets or call 865-4 for bar gains in pictures or mirrors.
An under-secretary hurries a ciphered cable from China. After three hours, the department chief identifies it as a list of needs from Russians wounded in last week's engagement.
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