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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1903
Page
6
The item records the Lowell Daily Courier as the oldest Midlesex paper, established 1825, daily since 1845, published at Courier-Citizen Building Merrimack Street Lowell with home delivery six cents a week status and carrier details.
The report notes yesterday afternoon and evening showers with a heavier morning downpour, a night of partly cloudy skies, and continued raw conditions into forenoon. Barometer and temperatures are logged, with forecasts for New England calling for partly cloudy to cloudy skies, unsettled conditions, rain on the southern coast, and brisk to high north to west winds.
Editorial Room Counting Room Job Department provide telephone numbers and guidance. Patrons are asked to use care when calling and direct communications about advertising non-delivery of papers changes of address and business inquiries to the business office at 31 5.
A discussion on unions features Mr. Conroy for labor and Mr. Wood for opponents. The piece argues the public, consumer interests, and compulsory arbitration matter, asserting unions are here to stay but their value hinges on how power is used and public opinion shapes the outcome.
Mr. A. S. Hayes, amid the Gaston campaign discourse on Bates finances, has offered little new beyond alleging two cheques were received by Governor Bates. The claim centers on questionable payments rather than confirmed misconduct, with no additional startling evidence presented.
The text debates canal choices, attacks on leaders, and a looming election. It mentions Col Gaston, Hayes, and Spooner plan timing, while noting scandal claims around Hayes and Nixon. It also comments on Dowie Carrie Nation, Tamanny misrule, and public health issues as jails eye land grafters. Multiple named figures and locations are cited amid the political controversy.
Major Cicco di Cola of Italy assists United States Consul Skinner of Marseilles in a mission to King Menelik inviting him to the St Louis exposition and arranging an Abyssinian exhibit. Emperor William bogged in a Rommerten mire is rescued by foresters then orders sixty lancers to drain the morass. Captain Charles Barr, returning from the Reliance voyage against Shamrock III, visits Philadelphia and receives a loving cup from local businessmen.
Every voter in Lowell should hear Governor Bates speak in Huntington Hall Monday night. The event aims to inform residents about state policy and upcoming elections.
Notable local remarks poke at Dowie, Spiritualists, and councilors. Roche denies ties to a license issue while the Three Little Tailors case tests fact from fiction. A Maritime christening joke hints at water use and “unlicense plumber” rumors. The court calls it a pipe dream.
A Worcester Gazette editorial argues that New York’s renewal will come from longtime residents and local reform groups rather than spectacular outside incursions. It emphasizes patient, community-driven efforts by Salvation Army volunteers tenement reformers and college settlements.
In Huntington hall on Monday night Gov Bates will address every voter in Lowell urging turnout and civic participation with a focus on state issues and local concerns.
Richmond Pearson once US consul at Genoa and now minister to Persia, was fined $60 and $15 costs for insulting an Italian railway official last December. The government sought a pardon, but Pearson refused to seek the King's clemency as required by law.
In Boston on October 23 the Tremont Temple Baptist Church voted unanimously to call Rev. Poin Dexter Penson from Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn to the pulpit left vacant by the resignation of Rev. George C. Lorimer two years ago.
Advertises a compressed air and rubber vibrator massage as pleasant, effective, and healthful. Invites readers to try the method at Young's in the Hildreth building.
A colorful column notes price quirks in New Hampshire egg and Baldwin apple markets. It recounts a Westford deer hunt ending in a mistaken shootout by many shooters, then a tale of two poor boys admiring wealth by briefly riding in a car. It also cites Harvard President Eliot as an example of choosing vocation over riches and ends with a profile of Donald McCormick of the Kilties, a seven foot tall drum major born in Scotland.
In Savannah Georgia Policeman Charles A Collins was shot in the breast in the mayor's office at city hall by art dealer Henry G Green during a confrontation after Green testified in an inquiry into Collins. Collins was taken to a hospital and Green jailed as officials investigated the incident in front of Mayor Myers and local officials.
Belfast re elects H Arnold Forster to West Belfast seat on his wartime appointment defeating Patrick Dempsey by 245 votes despite his accident. London returns Lord Stanley unopposed as postmaster general for West Houghton in Parliament.
The state board of conciliation and arbitration has fostered a shift in Massachusetts from strikes boycotts and injunctions to voluntary arbitration and trade agreements. In the shoe industry 75 to 80 cases have been arbitrated this year with many disputes settled before suspending work, signaling a more businesslike and stable industrial climate.
Social event at New O U A M hall 100 Middle Street features Music Pease and Griffiths orchestra Saturday evening with dancing to live music.
The Boston Transcript notes that agreements exist among brewers, teamsters, bakers, box manufacturers, electrical workers, steamfitters and others to submit to arbitration rather than strike. It argues sentiment against sympathetic strikes is growing and industrial troubles should lessen with no extra legislation.
Rev. V. Bigelow leads Eliot Church on Summer Street offering a church home for strangers and gospel work. Morning service at 10 30 features a sermon I Must Be About My Fathers Business. Evening service at 7 features solos by Roland Sewell and an instrumental trio next Sunday. The pastor will recount The Other Wise Man by Dr Henry Van Dyke tonight. The choir’s Little Town of Bethlehem closes the program.
Cripple Creek Colorado October 24 C G Kennison sues James H Peabody Sherman Bell John Chase and T G Mc Clelland in district court for 100000 damages alleging wrongful confinement in a military prison W F Davis another union man confined at the same time also sues for 100000.
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