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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1893
Page
8
T. F. Newton invites readers to subscribe to the Enterprise, promising prompt attention to all requests and thanking supporters for their timely responses.
South Acton items report several residents in frail or improved health, new staff at Captain Handley crossing, and a photographer taking over Mrs. Butelle's property. Local moves include E. F. Woods family returning home, A. A. Wheeler's job change, and changed driving duties. Community chatter covers weather, lights in the sky, a building boom, mill work injuries, post office status, and a Universalist church lecture with a concert and thanks to relief corps supporters.
Mr Barker succeeds Andrew Hapgood at the crossing and Rev Bryant McLellan leaves the Baptist pastorate April 30. Miss Nellie Whittaker of Leominster visits Mrs Nellie Wheeler, while Miss Mary Spalding returns after weeks away to stay with G W Davis. George Marsh catches a brook trout near Amasa Knowlton’s weighing just over a pound. The drama After Taps is set for Union hall Thursday April 26 under the W R C. S R Burroughs moves his barn beside O W Meads and plans a residence there. Letters advertised at West Acton Mass April 18 1893 Chas B Stone P M.
Wasps thawed but inactive as spring croakers appear. residents move, build, and attend local events. J Collette and F Jacobs improve property on Jimmey road. many Hudsonites attend a ball in Berlin. fences enclose the Hudson House lot. crews straighten and fence the Berlin road. A liquor case fines John Murphy $50 on a Saturday trial. fire victims seek damages from Boston and Maine. another People's dance proves popular with Brigham's orchestra. A reader commends Hudson town hall dances as orderly affairs under Tucker and Pierson.
A massive blaze at the Clinton Wire Cloth Company tower ignited drying waste, threatening the town. Worcester and Fitchburg sent aid as sparks set fires across Clinton, with two hours of firefighting ending the blaze. No injuries reported. 200000 sq ft building. 400 to 500 workers. Insurance pegged main building at 450000. loss estimated around 250000 by Boston papers. The company plans immediate rebuilding.
The election laws committee sent a petition on registration requiring proof of one year in state and six months in the registering city or town. Bills passed to engross the Boston and Maine railroad lease of the Concord and Montreal road. A Haverhill Georgetown Danvers Street Railway bill proposed capital of 3 million with non steam power. Suburban railroad construction time extended provisional. Milk can and bottle protection bill debated. third reading rejected 44 to 77. Weston park area limits and local health bill amendment discussed.
Detroit reports Lansing's financial strain as the Lansing Iron and Engine Works and Lansing Lumber Company mortgage Barnes for 1.8 million to shield local banks. Barnes is reportedly worth 500000 above his liability as endorser.
A New York Commercial Advertiser note describes a class of quarrelsome individuals who constantly take offense, write letters to air grievances, and provoke feuds. It laments the unhappiness and public disruption caused by their persistent disputes and suggests restraint.
A Boston newspaper notes that certain gentlemen filed a remonstrance to the proposed widening of Chestnut Hill Avenue with the Brookline selectmen. This action signals formal opposition by local residents to the planned road project.
Cuicago April 19 A Tacoma based wrecking firm has offered to recover many ships sunk in the Great Lakes. The plan relies on placing air barrels in holds and pumping air to raise the vessels for salvage.
Three Dundee whalers voyageed to the Antarctic Ocean last autumn and returned with reports of an enormous fur seal harvest. One vessel is said to hold about 60,000 skins, while the skippers guard the sealing grounds' location.
Montreal reports say grain shipments from the port will exceed those in any previous May and June. A Cincinnati court convicting John P. Elderkin for mail fraud sentences him to 18 months and a $500 fine for peddling non existent insurance schemes.
Washington dispatch notes April 19 forecast for Maine New Hampshire and Vermont calls for fair weather with northwesterly winds and slightly cooler temperatures. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut expected to be fair with northwesterly winds.
A writer notes that when young figures face sudden acclaim the governor of Massachusetts becomes the familiar reference point for public judgment and political stance. The remark frames how state leadership anchors discourse about youth and celebrity.
Fire damages Hohenzollern palace and air line barns in Middlefield. Drought continues in Mexico risking crops. J K C Sleeper, ex mayor of Malden, dies. Anti Semites win Vienna elections. Jason sails to Calcutta, Mauritius. Marcedita arrives in New York. Briggs West Virginia boiler explosion kills two, injures two. Weather service notes abnormally cold spell delaying farming.
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