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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1937
Page
5
On March 3 Chairman Sumners urged that aging Supreme Court justices retire to allow younger leadership, saying they would cooperate with government if they step down. The move was tied to President Roosevelt's judiciary proposals as the controversy continued.
Pittsburgh March 3 Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp, a major United States Steel unit, ended the threat of a spring general strike by an agreement with the steel workers organizing committee. The deal guarantees a minimum wage of 5 dollars per day, union recognition, an eight hour day and a 40 hour week, valid for one year.
A newspaper food column provides step by step instructions for mastering oven temp and mixing, with recipes for Master Butter Cake, Chocolate Layer Cake, Fudge Frosting, Refrigerator Cookies, Jam Filled Cookies, Baking Powder Biscuits, Fruit Shortcake, Veal Loaf, and Individual Veal Patties. Readers are invited to send questions to Miss Forsett for help.
South Acton reports a bowling contest where Henry Tolman defeated John G. Maguire to settle a skill dispute after months of informal play. Tolman, a local businessman, emerged as the better bowler in the match.
Acton schools resumed Monday after a vacation week. Local residents move to George Parker place at the corner of Illington and School streets. Boston paper contest awards go to Mrs. Ralph E. Whitcomb Boxboro for $5 and Mrs. Norman Marsh and Mrs. Dorothy Davis each for $2. Mrs. F Stuart Gorton undergoes appendicitis surgery at Imerson Hospital.
A Literary Digest piece explains the thyroid as a prominent internal secretion gland causing goiter when enlarged. It sits in the neck above the windpipe and releases a hormone that regulates energy production. It notes four rice sized parathyroid glands near or behind the thyroid, once overlooked by early anatomists.
The Christian Science Monitor notes that recognizing God’s ever presence transforms thought beyond mortal limits. Jacob’s Bethel vision marks a turning point toward faith, unity with divine Love, and leadership of a nation through angelic insights guiding seekers today.
South Acton guests gathered at Mrs. Hobart Mead's Nashoba road home for an evening event. West Acton Sunday services at the Universalist Church drew strong turnout with Norman L. Kellett preaching on Sin and Its Results. Mrs. Leonard Godfrey led the organ and Mrs. Caroline Derby sang.
Walter Hampden brings Henrik Ibsen’s militant comedy An Enemy Of The People to the Shubert Theatre, Boston, for a two week run starting March 8 with matinees. The cast includes Mabel Moore and Marjorie Jarecki among fifty actors.
Hickory ranks among the heaviest common woods in the North with a dry cubic foot at 52.17 pounds. Early settlers found its strength and elasticity ideal for tool handles, while second growth hickory offers compact, close grained fiber in demand.
Concord schools reopen after a week long vacation. Residents attend Middlesex County hearing on Bedford and Main streets relocation. Elks hold Past Exalted Rulers Night. King's Daughters host a benefit bridge at the First Parish vestry.
Arizona houses the famed Petrified Forest with fossil pine trees from the Age of Reptiles about 200 million years ago. The logs washed into a sand bank, buried under sand and clay, and later became exposed as stone trunks like wall logs along the bed.
Funeral services were held at the family home on Central street for Mrs. Sarah Kitfield Sanborn who died Tuesday morning at 81. Rev Arthur M. Jeffries led the service as mourners filled the room. Interment will be in Magnolia Massachusetts in the family lot. She was born in Manchester by the Sea and married Philamon Sanborn 60 years ago. They celebrated their wedding anniversary last May. She had lived in the village over 20 years and leaves her husband and others missing her home and family.
A fragment notes Mrs Albert Stone’s hospital visit and a health update for Wednesday March 9. It mentions a supper at M 1 with a youth group, a Lincoln drama at the chapel on Sunday March 7, and a Memorial Communion service. It lists visitors over the weekend including Mr and Mrs Adams of Keene and Mr and Mrs Roger George Adams of Jaffrey.
The text states consubstantiation holds that the body and blood coexist with the bread and wine in the Eucharist while the elements retain their forms. It contrasts with transubstantiation where the substance of bread and wine becomes the body and blood of Christ.
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