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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1904
Page
4
Maynard readers get a roundup of local happenings including society notes, church events, school news, and business updates. Highlights mention engagements and marriages, concerts, entertainment, shop openings, church activities, and town improvements with numerous local names and places referenced.
A vintage coupon promotes Mi o Na flesh forming food with a free month’s treatment if weight gain and stomach relief fail. It requires a 50 cent deposit and a refundable receipt if the product does not deliver as claimed, touting generous terms from a major drug firm.
A reader reports relief from distress in the stomach and vomiting after treatment. The brief note attributes the cure to a remedy or method but provides no medical specifics.
M. M. Austin of Winchester Indiana faced a severe stomach and liver trouble in his wife. After doctors failed, he used Dr King s New Life Pills and she quickly found relief and was cured. Available for 25 cents at Johnson s Pharmacy and Willard Pharmacy in South Acton.
Town meeting Monday night occupied three hours and a half as 11 warrant articles were debated. Arthur J. Coughlin was elected moderator, and the auditors recommendations were approved. The revised by laws will be printed for next meeting. Land for school use was tabled until article 7, debate followed over purchasing 19 lots from C. F. Monk for 2000, finally approved for less than half and 800 allocated. A new Mirror lake area water committee was formed. Appropriations for decorations and band concerts were approved, water system work including meters and a conduit to Mirror lake was authorized with 1500 for meters. Adjournment set for May first.
Rev W F Lawford of this town will resign effective April 1 after a record of steady service. Lawford, Boston native, educated at Boston University, has served churches in Belchertown Winchendon Quincy Newburyport Danvers Whitinsville and Roxbury with noted success. A successor will be appointed to lead the local M E church.
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a dramatic recovery using Electric Bitters after a life threatening illness. He credits three weeks of usage with restoring health and asserts the product “robbed the grave” of another victim. Also promotes De Lee's White Pine and local pharmacies selling remedies.
Supt John W Ogden of the C M team outlines steam aided car cleaning methods that cut cleaning time from five hours to thirty minutes. A suction hose and steam convert dust into muddy liquid drawn outside. Steam powered days the first time and may be adopted widely while a separate drying box for sand keeps a ready supply. Other Ogden ideas save time labor and money at the car barn.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the daughter’s Parker Street home for Mrs Janette Naylor aged 79. Interment followed at Glenwood cemetery. A Scotland native who lived in Maynard 30 years, she is survived by three daughters Mrs John McCleary Mrs William McAuslin and Mrs Nettie Rockford a son Alfred two brothers Joseph and John and a sister Mrs Mary Clark.
Selectmen again delayed the appointment of a board of engineers for the fire department at Wednesday night’s meeting. Sullivan backed Thomas Sweeney Cahill and Wilcox. Cahill and Sweeney approved by Coughlin who refused Wilcox. Maynard abstained and the board adjourned without finalizing the picks. A severance on extending the C M and H street railway from Stow to West Acton may occur soon.
Johnson's Pharmacy offers Hyomei to cure catarrh with four daily inhalations. The complete outfit costs $1 with extra bottles at 50 cents each, and includes a portable inhaler. The ad promises a safe, inexpensive cure by destroying germs and soothing inflamed mucous membranes.
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