01 Mar 1894
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Newspaper
Lowell Sun
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
1
The barometer rises and falls along the middle Atlantic coast with the mercury high but dropping. Fair weather prevails except in the gulf and south Atlantic states where rain has fallen. Forecast for New England calls for fair skies with slight temperature changes and south winds.
The remark stresses hiring sufficient reporters and paying promptly to publish fresh news while it is hot, asserting this approach ensures a good paper. Comparisons are drawn with rival papers publishing at the same hour to highlight competitiveness and urgency in getting stories to print.
A batch of town items covers a state almshouse roll call, a sermon on Work, a downtown club house proposal, sleigh rides on Eighteenth Street, portable carbide dealers, and inquiries about John Maria Claffy. March registration sessions are set, a river drownings update, and Benevolent Society aid to South Carolina. A display of a $75,000 organ for Grace church in San Francisco, water usage during the cold snap, and a historic fly wheel disaster are noted, plus a Caledonian Club sociable with speeches, music, and readings at the new hall.
A Boston scene reports the Massachusetts special committee on distress hears Merricon J Swift and Preder ink N Casson urging social and economic reforms to aid 16,000 to 24,000 idle workers. They argue the state must feed the people and seek its own elevation, while other items note public works, school studies, and municipal bureaus in proposed reforms.
Walter Guy Farnald, a Manchester native about 30, linked to fraud and a $3500 diamond theft from Mrs Katharine Post of Chicago, is under arrest in San Francisco. His father, David O Farnald, previously warned banks and the Murray Hill firm about the check and a later elopement with a married woman. Farnald’s past includes a Boston stint at the Quincy and a marriage scandal, with a series of legal troubles culminating in robberies in Chicago and a San Francisco arrest.
Mumbled notices echo a handsomely ad hoc page featuring Old Hundred smoke guidance, wallpaper shop at 1S Church Street, and a fire insurance name. Social gatherings include a Wells class assembly until 11 30 and a Kirene Lodge initiation while a Boston grand lodge convention looms. A photo studio at Marion's offers portraits, and coal price promos run for a few days. Local musical selections include Miss Susie Tillotson and Mr Georgy Gilman among an amateur program.
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