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Newspaper

Lowell Daily Courier

Location

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 29, 1898

Page

7

The Kleptomaniac Chapter in a New York Case

A physician recounts a case where Miss Alice Milton seeks help for her father a wealthy merchant whose erratic acts, hidden thefts and sudden violent episodes blur lines between kleptomania and deliberate theft. The tale follows his memory lapses mood swings and a dramatic night when forty thousand dollars go missing triggering a tense clinical inquiry into his true condition.

Alice Milton New York Miss Milton Ergraved

Inside a Siberian prison dormitories with free movement

Stephen Bonsal reports from Nicolaieff describing a Siberian prison where inmates live in large dormitories with 30 by 20 foot rooms and no cells. Prisoners move freely most of the day, few are manacled, and a small daily outdoor period is allowed. Meals are basic and consistent with soldiers’ rations.

Siberia Tath Nicolaieff Sakhalin Khaberovka Stephen Bonsal Pers Magazine

Dean's Kidney Pills endorsed by Lowell resident

The Daily Work praises Dean's Kidney Pills as a trusted remedy and prints a Lowell citizen's endorsement. G S Emerson of 512 Westford Street reports long grocery-driving work with kidney issues improving after using the pills. He bought from Ellingwood Co. and urges others to remember the Dean's name. Pills sold by all dealers for 50 cents.

Lowell Dean G.S. Emerson Westford Street Ellingwood & Co Col. Merrimack Central Streets Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N. Y United States Dean’s

From a West Hartlepool Draper to a Shipping Magnate

The life of Sir William Grey started in a small West Hartlepool draper shop and grew into far larger ventures in shipping. He built a respected estate, employed vast wages, and remained humble in demeanor. The piece contrasts his rise with the costly failures of many British peers in joint stock ventures. It urges nobles to verify promoters’ honesty and investors to doubt guaranteed reputations, citing Hooley’s associates.

Sir William Grey West Hartlepool Grey Sir William Hartilepool Great Britain Hooley

Three Doctors in Consultation Offer Best Advice

Fragmentary OCR shows a staged scene with three doctors Dr Inga Dr Experience and Dr Reaschold advising on a cough remedy Crain's Cough Remedy. It mentions scientific grounds for the remedy and a local shop at Merrimack and Middlesex Coffee’s corner. A stray line about a museum and a child appears.

Scond Inga Experience Reaschold Csaken Crain Exp Reason Nature Food & Co Merrimack Ar Middlesex and Coffee

Agassiz Visits Oken and Potatoes Theme

A friend of Agassiz recounts Harvard professor Louis Agassiz visiting German naturalist Lorenz Oken. Oken proudly shows his zoological library worth about 7000 and explains he avoids luxuries to sustain it. He notes potato days, using meals of potatoes and salt thrice weekly.

Agassiz Harvard Lorenz Oken Monsieur Agassiz

25 Cent Carter's Cough Balm Ad

A brief 19th or early 20th century ad stating a bad cough and cold can be treated with Carter's Cough Balm costing 25 cents. It notes Carter & Sherburne, low priced druggists located at Merrimack corner Bridge Street, as the retailer.

Carter Carter & Sherburne Merrimack Bridge Street

Real estate bargains on Highlands streets and nearby towns

Advertises multiple properties on School Street Centralville and near Middlesex Street depot with eight and ten room houses, cemented cellars, furnaces, and large land lots. Prices range from 2000 to 5600 dollars, with easy terms and estate sale notes. Also lists Lowell and surrounding area offerings with acreage, cottages, barns, and mortgages. Offices Shepard Fuller 40 Central Street and J Howe & Co. Courier-Citizer Building.

Modern Mt Vernon Street Residence Seeks Quick Sale

A 16 room modern residence on Mt Vernon Street offers attic bath pantry hot and cold water furnace heat cemented center granite steps and a well graded lot. Neighbors are described as the best and the property is pitched as a first class opportunity for a doctor lawyer or business person of moderate means to obtain a 66 place near the city business center at a low price and easy terms.

Milford I. H Pee Posade Fish & Plumma Central Street Lowell Fish & Plummer Mass Imer Fleh & Ulummer Lawrence Sh & Plummer Cenrall Street

For Sale of Burgess Real Estate Shaw Hastings Area

Auction notice lists sale of the late Thomas F Burgess estate on So Hastings Shaw Burgess Grace Spaulding and E streets by administrator M L Hamblet. Sale may cover all or any part of the property per court authority.

Thomas F. Burgess So. Hastings Shaw Burgess Grace Spaulding E Streets M. L. Hamblet

WANTED Positions and staff referrals at Central street bureau

Old Relame employment bureau at 104 Central street lists multiple help requests. Proposals include Protestant girls for general housework, coachman, meat cook, pastry cook, all round cook, Swede as Good TMan, cook for six miles out, and general house and kitchen help. Mrs. Geo. W. Cummings notes many positions are filled through the office with monthly referrals.

Old Relame Employment Bureau Central Street All Round Man Geo. W. Cummings

New Haven Railroad Schedule Changes for October 1

Eastern District timetable lists limited departure times from Lowell to Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham with connections at South Framingham to Boston and Albany for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west. 4 25 pm connects with the Stonington line for New York and the south. Sundays include South Mansfield Pawtucket stations with 7 16 pm and 5 33 pm returns. Officials Peter Clark A C Sendall Isaac N Marshall George W Miller note Middlesex street ticket office.

Lowell Qgmi Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtuci Marlboro South Framingham Boston Albany Worcester Springfield Concorde Junction Fitchburg Stonington New Yorkity South Mensfeld Pawtucket Wary Peter Clark A. C. Sendall S Pass Isaac N. Marshall Geo. W. Miller Middlesex Street

Boston and Maine Timetable Revised for October 3, 1898

The Boston and Maine timetable lists train departures from Merrimack Street Depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Station Lowell to Boston and many destinations including Lawrence Salem Mass Somersworth Saco and Portland with numerous weekday and Sunday schedules, prices and notes. It cites corrections dated October 3 1898 and attributes details to General Agent H C Taft with notes on express and bedford/Wilmington routes.

Merrimack Street Depot Lowell Boston Middlesex Street Station Lawrence Salem Mass Mésbury Portsmouth Exeter Dover Rochester Alton Bay Augusta Bath Waterville Lewiston Bangor Belfast Skowhegan Rockland St. John N. B Halifax Montreal Quebec Eastport Portland Castine Deer Isle Sedgewick Bar Harbor Jonesport Munchinsport Frank Jones

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