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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1936
Page
4
In Marlboro Massachusetts the Enterprise notes post office and postage rates for Liberty Street and nearby towns including Concord Sudbury Acton and Harford with references dated March 38 1879 and 1903. The item catalogs local postal locations and rate notes under the period’s post office framework.
Chie George W Booth of the Fire Department urges prompt reporting of fires and installation of alarms and sprinklers. Delays can cause greater damage and life safety risks. do not attempt to extinguish gasoline or oil fires with water. Call the fire department immediately.
New York postmen logged shoe wear and miles over three years. One tracked 363 worn pairs, the other 35 000 miles, about 375 miles monthly or 14½ daily. The figures illustrate the practical effort of postal workers and underline their important public service.
A three month review of the profit and wage sharing scheme at Procter and Gamble Co. of Cincinnati shows wages rise with profits and fall with them. Workers see gains as profits rise and fear downturns will cut wages. Waste elimination already benefits each employee.
The report notes that trial experiments are ongoing and that both livery employers and every employee may closely observe them. This suggests widespread attention from labor and management to the developments and potential outcomes of the experiments.
State law changes raise first offense speeding fines to 100 dollars with up to 30 days in jail. Second offenses within 18 months carry 90 to 100 dollar fines and possible 90 days. third within 18 months may reach 100 to 500 dollars and 180 days in jail. A three year operator license may replace annual renewals, with activation between September and January 1938, reducing administrative costs.
New England shoe production climbs to record highs with gains led by Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine for seven months ending July. Massachusetts posts 16 percent July rise while overall regional gains outrun national growth as demand strengthens aided by a Boston shoe fair boosting fall orders.
The essay weighs the rise of travel trailers and auto tramps in American life. It notes potential risks to building trades and tax revenue, while arguing trailers offer cheap mobility and wider country exploration. It predicts limited long term upheaval despite seasonal popularity.
AL COWLES recalls Waino Saari, nicknamed Speed, a 230 pound football forward famed for joy and resilience. He and Joe Ramesh died in a game in a tribute to fallen players as inter-town hoops season looms with Rangers and Buttons signing up. Maynard girls field hockey candidates report, Middlesex League girls sports proposed to boost interest, while Massee coach Bill Fingard works with Bob Du at.
Mrs Angeline B Mattioli was elected commander of Leo L Bagley post American Legion Southboro at its annual meeting making her the first woman to hold the post head. An overseas veteran and former auxiliary president she served as a nurse with early hospital unit deployments and has been the posts finance officer this year.
Marlboro residents report yesterday's Brookton Fair attendance by Marlboro Mr and Mrs Frank Cross Mrs Charlotte Belser and Mrs Ruth Cadieux. Harry A Litvack of 72 Howe Street heads to New York City on a business tip and is registered at Hotsdison. Blair Curtis Warren Arenn depart for Ann Arbor Michigan to enter a junior college. Attorney Samuel Xmen will attend Harvard Tercentenary events and stay until Saturday for the reunion. Alpha Phi club plans a Thursday covered dish supper at Mrs Andrew Bigelow’s home Fisher Road Southboro. A Marlboro Electric Co store food sale is planned for next Saturday led by Mrs Bigelow and Mrs Annabelle Girard. Marlboro Woman's Club directors meet Thursday at 3 in the High School Teachers' Room for final Winter program readings before printing. Mrs Elwyn Spinney, president, will preside.
The Auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Eagles starts fall activities with a public card party at president Mrs. Della Grie’s home in Southboro next Friday night. Assistants Mrs. Catherine Tobin and Mrs. Flora Millman will help.
Colts line up in fashion headlines with prime coats from princess and Directoire styles to mannish tails and balmacaan outerwear. Detachable capes, fur trims, belts update swaggers for warmth and silhouettes, with furs growing lavish across collars sleeves borders and yokes.
Collier's Weekly recalls a bygone practice in London where orchestral players could excuse rehearsals by sending substitutes. The custom faded after a famous foreign conductor fiercely condemned it following four substitute groups attending four rehearsals for a key concert.
The article stresses tact as essential for popularity and warns that well intended words can hurt if spoken at the wrong moment. It argues timing matters as much as intention and that unkind comments cause harm regardless of good motives.
Carrara, a northern Italian city three miles inland from the Gulf of Genoa, is famed for its marble quarries. The valley surrounding marble hills houses most buildings made of marble and a museum of statues and Roman antiquities.
Col. F N Wentworth of Armours notes early meat drying was high pressure. After slaughter meat was cut to thin strips and dried in trees or huts. Dried meat became pemmican, either powdered or kept in skins, a winter staple for moving tribes across the northwest to Canada southward.
North Carolina State College expert Roy S. Dearstyne outlines key inheritable traits in poultry. Early maturity, steady daily egg production, large egg size, sustained laying, hatchability of fertile eggs, and early feathering drive profitability for brooders and commercial flocks.
A Missouri Farmer writer notes poults a few weeks old may develop slipped tendons from improper mineral balance in the feed. Excess minerals or imbalanced phosphorous and calcium cause the condition, which commercial mashes usually prevent unless additives upset balance. Slipped tendons render poults unfit for show though still edible. litter absence or slick floors may contribute, but proof remains unclear.
The Montreal Herald notes chicken leg weakness stems from vitamin deficiency and lack of sunlight. Feeding cod liver oil at 1 to 2 percent of mash can reverse symptoms even indoors. Internal parasites may also cause weakness, suggesting post mortems by a pathologist to confirm.
Poultry jottings discuss lice control for hens in heat and recommend tweezers for pin feathers. It notes the Hebrews and ancient Irish used the hen egg as a capacity unit. The Irish Free State earned over 3.5 million dollars from eggs shipped to England last year. Canada’s poultry and eggs added over fifty million dollars to farmers’ income. Caution against coarse green feed for young turkeys due to potential digestion issues.
At the Ladies Auxiliary A O H whist party held Monday at the Maynard Cooperative Club rooms prizes went to Minnie Campbell Elizabeth Reid Amy Ryan Mrs Nixon May Schw ab Eva Merrill Emily Lever D Anderson Mrs Fitzgerald Linnia Hogdon Gladys Taylor Bertha Fearns Sarah Green and Elizabeth White Another party is planned for next Monday.
The Parish Aid Society held its first fall meeting in the parish hall and St Hilda s Guild will meet in the sacristy tomorrow at 7 o clock. Choir rehearsal is tonight at 7 and church school at 9 30 Sunday with service at 10 45 and Young People Fellowship at 7. A health forum at George Washington auditorium on Sept 29 will feature talks by Dr Charles B Mack Dr Wales and Mr Pranklin on disease testing and water quality.
The letter ridicules Prohibition Republicans and Democrats while discussing unemployment and relief jobs. It mentions Kansas Governor Landon and debates about the economy, Townsend plans, and political figures like Jim Farley and Bill Scully Sr. The writer indulges in satirical hopes for reform and a blue December field, signing off as Or an.
The Wayside Inn in South Sudbury hosted a debutante luncheon Tuesday presenting Miss Edith Chase daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick Chase of Milton and Miss Alice Lyman daughter of Mr and Mrs Harrison F Lyman of Winchester. A reception in the ballroom upstairs preceded the luncheon.
Anthony Rogers aged 38 of Lane road Bedford died last night at Sunnyside hospital Somerville from injuries after falling from a milk truck. He was a helper on the milk wagon and was struck by an empty milk case as he fell from the rear on the early morning pull to the street.
The article traces Governor Alf Landon’s lineage as a mix of English Scotch Irish and Dutch ancestry highlighting his diverse heritage and roots.
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