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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
11
The annual spring event presents silhouettes and historical items in Concord with guests and organizers including Mrs Wil ett and Mrs Edward P. Grace. The exhibition runs weekdays and Sundays for several weeks, continuing into the spring season.
Bedford voters will meet in the school auditorium on Friday April 23 at 8 00 p m to consider six articles The articles include suspending rules to accept Hill road as a public way and easement, funding street lighting on Davis road, purchasing water mains, extending and improving several roads, granting use of the Town Hall to veterans and other groups, transferring funds in the Machinery account, and leasing land to the Anthony Hamilton Post 221 Inc for a farm at $1 per year pending relocation of the fire station building.
The Executive Secretary announces a Civil Service examination for permanent Conservation Service posts in Massachusetts and 13 eastern states. Applicants must pass a written test. veterans get preference. Responsibilities include soil surveys, field data, terracing, planting, irrigation, and land prep with room for advancement. College study can lead to a professional conservationist role. summer jobs for qualified college students are noted.
Mrs. Margaret Cullinane representing Sudbury reports on Public Assistance Administrators meeting in Framingham and discusses mass meeting administration in Boston. The group critiques welfare recodification proposals affecting old age assistance and dependent children programs with local funding shifts and districting concerns.
Fragmentary OCR item appears to cite a court matter titled in part of v. A Service Masa of Agi ture, with references to a user and Pennsylvania. The readable text provides insufficient detail on parties or action.
A public guidance piece explains that long season vegetables stay productive from maturity to frost and should be planted once. It outlines sowing timing for hardy and tender crops and uses a table to match space per serving for a family of four, with broccoli as an example.
A catalog style list of vegetable crops with quantities or measurements. It includes Lima beans broccoli cabbage celery collards eggplant kale leeks parsley parsnips peppers spinach rutabaga salsify squash Swiss chard and staked tomatoes in feet and fractions. The entries reflect a planting or garden sizing guide.
West Concord Pack leaders in the Concord Lincoln District met at the home of Melvin M. King to plan the annual field day set for June 19 at Concord’s Emerson Playground. The 1948 event will feature a pushmobile race with public invited. Attending were Fred Benson and Fred Oliver of Pack 33, Henry Warner and Joseph O'Rielly of Pack 27, and Pliny Jewell of Pack 49.
Belmont couple Mr and Mrs Andrew D Arrigo announce the engagement of their daughter Grace D Arrigo to John J Antognoni son of Mr and Mrs Secondo Antognoni of 12 Elsinore Street Concord The bride to be is a Simmons College graduate and the groom elect prepared for college at Concord schools earned his degree at Northeastern University and served in the US Navy now employed by a Boston firm
An article urges saving used cooking fat not only to prevent drain clogs and bag leaks but also because grease can be sold for cash. It contrasts fat with orange peels eggshells and other kitchen waste, noting fat salvage offers a tangible return after cooking value is extracted.
A distorted piece describes a jet plane journey to the state house in under two minutes. Capt. Parrell and President Truman are noted, with a replica of something hung in Old North Church and a Paul Revere figure carrying a lantern to the President, signaling a ceremonial event.
More than 125 New England antique connoisseurs participate in the semi annual Boston Antiques Exposition in Mechanics Building. Daily hours run 1 to 10 30 p m from April 19 to 24. Four thousand articles including furniture glassware china and silver will be shown. The Sheltered Workshop of the Boston Tuberculosis Association will feature items made by handicapped workers. The note adds that the United States produced more food in 1947 than before and consumed more than any year except 1946.
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