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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
6
Local notice states the Lowell Daily Courier is published daily except Sundays and holidays at the Courier-Citizen Building on Merrimack Street in Lowell. Delivery by carrier within the city costs six cents per week.
Yesterday afternoon was gray and gloomy with light rain. Night brought more and forenoon rain continued with some heavy showers. The entry notes rainfall and timing, indicating persistent wet conditions through today.
Editorial rooms and departments listed with numbers 31-3, 31-4, and 31-5 for the Courier Citizen Company telephones.
The fuel shortage drives wood and coal prices higher while dealers in other cities push farmers to withhold wood for higher later profits. Locals warn against such actions, noting ample wood to the north and the risk of price declines once northern shipments arrive. Prices around ten dollars per cord are seen as perhaps peak for the year.
The piece reflects on Republican strategy and factionalism in Congress races, urging unity behind the leading candidate in each district. It condemns Carrie Nation's recent city visit and lauds the Courier's own coverage. It notes Bishop Potter's salary raise, Hale's comments on coal fields, and cites upcoming Republican club dinner with Shaw and Root.
A collage of terse remarks covers diverse topics from President Baer to Paderewski and Promoter Young. References to a missing Beverly policeman, a Manchester firemen’s convention and a Rochester fair draw brief attention to civic life, entertainment, and public concerns.
John Saint Lee Strachey of the London Spectator plans a November visit. Mississippi Congressman Candler engages religious work in Washington and at home. Ernest Brancken resigns as Philippine forests inspector to run George Vanderbilt's North Carolina estates. German doctors protest Schweninger’s Berlin chair appointment. Jonathan Parker, wallbearer at Harrison's funeral, lives in Rockport Indiana. Prince Rosa, heir to the Maharaja of Rajputana, will study at the University of California after Calcutta. Rev Thomas Bone has served 30 years as a sailor missioner via the Welland canal, where over a thousand ships pass yearly.
The Tam many delegation will travel to the state convention in Saratoga in separate cars with each delegate paying his own fare due to a poorer exchequer. The move, praised by observers, aims to reduce risk of conflict and keep delegates in a steady frame of mind for the trip.
During repairs the gas office moved to 87 Shattuck street corner of Market. An advertisement quotes a testimonial from C. W. Lenhert of Bowling Green praising Dean's Ointment for a running itching leg sore, claiming permanent cure.
A reminiscence recalls Arthur Sherburne Hardy a Dartmouth mathematics instructor turned diplomat in Switzerland and Madrid. It notes his strict discipline, quaternions writings, and a Hanover visit with a famed author whose hospitality tests amused Hardy. It also reflects on public insults to Roosevelt and local reminiscences of Rev. N W Matthews, Bud Brier, and Captain Tyler M Shattuck, linking them to past community figures.
Washington reports Elwood Mead’s inspection reveals large tracts along Great Falls slopes where crops thrive without irrigation. He notes many seasons require little water and that government cooperation will study these arid lands in Montana Milk River valley and the Dakotas.
New York drivers of the grocer trade report a sharp drop in canned goods including corn salmon sardines and tomatoes. Maine and New York state packs are down with prices rising as buyers seek replacements. Iowa and Ohio pack pricing noted. fears of tomato shortages loom despite no firm news.
Princeton professor Dr. Willard Humphreys head of German at the university died yesterday afternoon after taking an overdose of chloral hydrate to ease a toothache. Physicians and assistants labored to save him, using artificial respiration for 36 hours, with a relapse after several days of care before death.
Twenty inmates at the New Jersey state prison in Trenton struck work in the brush shop citing meat shortages. They reportedly ended up chained in the dungeons. The report notes a shift from liberal meat rations to rice as a staple alongside high rates.
A poem by Frederic Lawrence Knowles quoted from October National depicts a young woman as a butterfly with radiant wings fading from joy to despair. It follows her lively youth, hidden desires, and a later heart betrayed, ending with a cold, memory-haunted image of love forgotten.
A Huntington reader laments empty coal bins and water-filled mines. He urges city government to act on Ramsay's idea by buying wood in New Hampshire and coal from Nova Scotia, hoping for cheaper supplies if government runs the coal business. He warns delay could worsen shortages.
Stoneham Sept 27 The funeral of Padilla Beard pioneer stage driver and railroad man was held at 230 pm at the family residence corner Maine and Wright streets Many railroad men attended including a large Boston and Maine conductors delegation Beard had worked there over 30 years Rev James Reed of Boston officiated with music by a First Congregational church quartet Odd Fellows of Stoneham formed last rites with Fred Chase as chaplain Interment was at Lindenwood cemetery with many floral tributes.
Catarrh and hay fever sufferers increasingly favor Liquid Cream Balm, rivaling Bly's solid form. Packaged for atomizers, it includes a spray tube and costs 75 cents. Widely used by physicians, it contains all the medicinal properties of the original Balm. Available from Ely Brothers at 66 Warren Street in New York or by mail.
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