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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1895
Page
10
A scanned ad lists various goods with prices including price per barrel four dollars fifty cents and many canned and soap products. Items span California raisins corn apple canned goods salmon soap and household staples with multiple pack sizes and discount offers.
Concord society reports visitors and Easter plans with Misses Hosmer Kerns Garland Walker and the Pratts leasing a Lexington street house. Local clubs and church events include the Eureka card club, a W C T U fair planning, and St George’s mission taking shape with Easter services.
On Wednesday evening several boys, idle for lack of occupation, set fire to brush behind Garfield’s on Hubbard Street and in Blanchard’s field. The blaze rose high producing dense smoke and neared Garfield’s fence risking his barn. A number of men stood by to control it.
Morning Service at 10 45 a m and Sunday School at noon for Protestant Episcopal Church. Guild meeting April 14 led by Carleton C Butters. Unitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury with Y P S C E at 6 30 p m and prayer Friday at 7 30. Scandinavian M B Church under Rev J P Anderson with services Sundays 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m and a meeting Friday 7 45 p m.
The river clears of ice as Wilkie Crossley studies in Boston. The Howard quartet plays River side hall on April 24. Mrs. M. Sweeney hosts visitors from Hudson and Boston. Fr Doody preaches at St. Bridget's. Templars plan a concert and mask hall on April 18. Luke Brooks reports orange trees ruined, 6000 left to bear in two years. Selectmen swap fire engineers. local sermon on rising drunkenness linked to March license vote.
From all accounts the remedy is a godsend to the afflicted. No advertisement, just reader endorsement. For sale by B F Quenon & Son in Carrollton Kentucky and pharmacists in Byward Mass Concord Junction Mass and Concord Mass.
George Wheelock issues challenge echoing rivals doubts about a player’s status. He offers two matches in New York cushion and balk line with 400 and 800 point games, each $1,000 by the challenger, to be played within a fortnight. Ives Schaefer and Catton tied to California, not playing today.
Delaware claims a 120 year old deed from the Duke of York to William Penn for land near New Castle. J Henry Rogers of New Castle Pa asserts family possession after rescuing the parchment from British soldiers. The document is held by Henkels in Philadelphia awaiting settlement and may trigger up to 1,000,000 in damages. Attorney General Nicholson has moved to secure the deed.
Stories of the day note a Utah constitutional convention debate where a proposal to ban cigarettes drew objections that smoking would break the constitution. A delegate, calling the body “Gentlemen of the jury,” sparked laughter suppressed by the chair.
A biographical note in the Prince ton Bulletin recalls a visiting clergyman ending an evening chapel service with an elaborate prayer listing college officers from president to trustees, professors and tutors. Dr McCosh then quipped that the man should have had more sense than to pray for the tutors.
The New York World reports Elizabeth New Jersey has a organized gang of girl shoplifters led by a 14 year old arrested girl. The writer warns the coming woman will display troubling phases while the ordinary bad boy is less likely to figure in.
In a comment reported by the Omaha Bee the costly weapon used by Japan against China is described as potentially the most expensive piece of war machinery employed in the Japanese war effort. The remark underscores the high stakes and financial burden of modern weaponry in the Sino-Japanese conflict.
The New York Press notes Li Hang Chang would deter Chinese laundrymen from striking against American collars and cuffs, a move the paper says would bring relief to a long suffering community.
The Chicago Times-Herald notes an eminent Indian prince visiting Chicago might revive interest in vegetarianism by lecturing on Buddha. The piece links rising beef prices to a push for plant based diets.
A Chicago Tribune line argues that the United States must invoke the Monroe Doctrine now, or abandon it, signaling a call for decisive foreign policy stance. The quotation frames a pivotal moment in national doctrine discussion.
Quote from the Omaha Bee notes officials who dodge voting on contentious questions. The line mocks such reluctance as cowardly in a political context.
The Chicago Times-Herald asks if it is near time for Spain to be placed under a receiver, signaling concern over the country’s financial or political stability and inviting readers to consider the potential outcome.
A partially legible verse fragment contemplates watching bitterness pass by and angels surrounding, yet the speaker notes that what is unseen remains unknown. The lines convey a spiritual meditation with symbolic imagery of heaven and unseen presences.
A traveler and a keeper discuss the myth that Kenilworth ivy grows at Kenilworth Castle. The keeper explains the ivy there is not the famed Kenilworth ivy but common ground ivy found elsewhere, disappointing the American visitor who hoped for rare slips.
Ed ward Bellamy argues in The Ladies' Home Journal that Christ's mission sought peace on earth through mutual aid and that the gospel centers on the golden rule. Belief in Christ without embracing this rule is morally inconsistent, a stance our ancestors openly adopted.
Napoleon, thin as a shadow, quips to a burly fishwoman in a crowded square. She urges the crowd to ignore epauletted elites who hoard wealth while the poor starve. He answers by asking who is the “latter,” prompting confusion and a dispersal of the mob.
A mix of quips and curiosities including a child prayer with racial insult, a mummy fraud claim about an Egyptian princess, a royal breeches garment worth $700 with pearl embroidery, and Darwin noting maize grains on a shoreline 85 feet below sea level.
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