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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1903
Page
6
The item notes the oldest and best daily paper in Middlesex County, Lowell, established 1825 and daily since 1845, published at Courier-Citizen Building on Merrimack Street, delivered by carrier for six cents a week, by Courier-Citizen Company.
The previous day brought a cold northwester that made conditions uncomfortable with freezing water on sidewalks this morning. Daylight brightened forenoon, while the night remained cold and a forecast for New England calls for fair weather with warmer temperatures tonight and Thursday, except eastern Maine, and fresh westerly winds.
Editorial Room 313 Counting Room 315 Job Department 114. Patrons are asked to use care in telephone calls. Communications about advertising non delivery changes of address and business inquiries should be addressed to the business office 315.
A Lowell editorial savages William A. Gaston and his reform bid for governor. It denounces his campaign as fake and notes Bates's honesty against Gaston’s tariff and trust rhetoric. The piece warns Democrats to repeal prior measures while highlighting national issues as a distraction from local failures.
The Billerica counsel doubts the town’s standing to seek an injunction against building powder magazines. A local solicitor shares the view that the city council cannot abolish magazines on Andrews street. The piece weighs regulation versus banning explosives and notes local fear after a July incident.
The piece weighs on Sir Henry Durand as a veteran diplomat and contrasts American and British diplomatic training. It notes Montana’s copper mine closure harming 20,000 workers, mocks Massachusetts politics, critiques Gaston managers’ debt posters, and mentions British, Canadian views on Alaska and local political figures like Thayer and Bryans, with a closing line on the Armenian editor murder.
A Boston Globe excerpt catalogs nine principal inland canals including Suez Cronstadt St Petersburg Corinth Manchester Kaiser Wilhelm Elbe and Trave Welland and Great Lakes links. It cites 1901 freight tonnage for US Canada canals at 24,626,976 tons and compares with 1900 9,378,152 for the Suez and 4,282,904 for Kaiser Wilhelm. Also notes Boston Cloak and Suit store ad.
A mosaic of caustic observations on figures like Fred Brier and Sagount, the Lowell Training school, Armenian/Turkish matters, and election satire. References to Governor candidates Cobb and Holden, the Democratic aldermen, Peary’s pole reach, and Diaz corruption hint at a caustic 19th or early 20th century newspaper voice.
A fishing day near Tyne pond yields a 28 inch pickerel, said to be the largest in a dozen years. The note touches on local fishing, library improvements, and a series of quick anecdotes about city life and upcoming elections.
F Augustus Heinze rejects Thomas W Lawson bid for his Butte copper holdings telling Associated Press that Lawson misrepresented him. He says the claim of a 7 million price is baseless and he has refused twice that amount in the past.
Worcester area obituary notes former 42nd Congress representative from Massachusetts 10th district John E. Russell dies at his Leicester home after a long illness. A prominent Democrat, he twice sought the governorship and served on important political bodies. Born Greenfield in 1834, he leaves a widow.
David Weisenberg of Allentown Pa the salesman who surrendered to police over the Bech tel murder was placed under arrest by Det Kane of Allentown. He asserts the girl Mabel Bechtel told him of a quarrel with Alfred Eckstein and claims he was in a Bethlehem barber shop when the body was placed in the alleyway by two men.
A mob of men thought to belong to a law and order league burned the residence of F F McReynolds in Dodson Missouri after surrounding the frame building armed with rifles shotguns and pistols. McReynolds was not inside having been warned of the danger.
At last night's meeting the board issued licenses for common victuallers to Mary Marion 119 Cheever street Philomene Pleas 21 Pearl street F E Harris Gorham and Middlesex streets Jessie A Cumming 430 School street Herminie Desjardin 260 Aiken street Innholder George H Barrett 186 Central New American house Express wagon William J Carroll 61 Pond Junk collector Morris Schwartz 115 Howard street Hawker and Peddler Clarence Sprague Chelmsford Harvey L Downs 12 Seventh street J R Blake Hudson NH Hackney coach Cleophas Heroux 19 Austin street The hackney coach bond for Cleophas Heroux was received accepted approved and ordered on file Licenses revoked for Herminie Desjardines 284 Aiken street Philomene Press 28 Pearl Leonine Marion Marion 119 Cheever street Leave to withdraw granted Thomas Harrington pool table license 102 Lake view avenue Common victualler license for Alice Frost 220 Middlesex street was revoked.
Berlin dispatch reports Emperor William and the Czar will first meet in Darmstadt with William visiting his brother sovereign. The Czar will then return to Wiesbaden for another royal visit.
Washington October 27 The preliminary hearing for Leopold J. Stern of Baltimore indicted for complicity in postal frauds concluded in police court. Stern was held on $5,000 bail to await the grand jury action, which was furnished, and he was released.
Public attention centers on the Amalgamated company as its Montana court loss and ensuing mine shutdown threaten 20,000 jobs, over a third of the state’s active workforce. The essay criticizes secrecy and aggressive monopoly tactics tied to Standard Oil affiliates, noting vast stock ploys and surging copper prices amid consolidation efforts.
A Springfield Republican editorial condemns secretive corporate practices paralleling a French syndicate, citing Amalgamated stock collapse from 130 to 35 and a 145 million dollar valuation loss. It warns Montana production stoppage hurting copper and calls for open business operations under law to curb monopolistic methods.
Gen Nelson A Miles arrived from California where he looked after property interests and said he will leave for Washington He denied reports of heavy investments in Texas oil fields and stated he has no interests in Texas
Boston on October 28 reports Francis Cline aged 31 killed himself at 22 Green Street after distress over business affairs. He leaves a widow.
English Mosely educational commission visits Boston touring public schools library Museum of Fine Arts and state normal school. Grafton D. Cushing and Maurice P. White lead school committee hosts during day of examinations and observations.
London reports Major Arthur Hamilton Lee and the Marquis of Hamilton, both Conservatives, re-elected without opposition. Lee holds civil lord of the admiralty post while Hamilton becomes treasurer of the household. In Hampshire Fareham, no contest confirms parliamentary return. Also mentions Thompson Hardware Co. selling a 10c gas mantle as a lower price option.
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