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A damagedOCR grocery advert lists closeout prices on beans tomatoes corn copper and extracts with various unit, can and pack sizes. It notes freebies with purchases and multiple price points per item.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1913
Page
10
A damagedOCR grocery advert lists closeout prices on beans tomatoes corn copper and extracts with various unit, can and pack sizes. It notes freebies with purchases and multiple price points per item.
James P Brown and his brother visited Worcester Eighteen then Cambridge for a C B convention. A P Bean funeral in Cambridge attended by Will Warren. Albert Evans nursing a hand abscess from a baseball bruise. A Congregational mission paper read by Mrs Waldo Tuttle impressed readers. Two bicycles stolen near the schoolhouse and not recovered. Assessors active since month start. Maynard street project continues by Sidney Laffin and Waldo Braman. New baby for Mr and Mrs Amadon on School Street. Conductor Charles Clark away on Washington trip for two weeks.
The Congregational Church announces Sunday worship at 10 30 a m and 7 p m with Sunday school at noon The C B meeting starts at six The Rev Mr Goodwin of Brookfield preached in exchange with Rev Mr Crossland Also John A Rote of Cambridge visited town Monday to call on friends.
Neighbors held a Grange gathering last Tuesday evening. A church committee meeting is planned for May 2. Geo Bramah and family visited from April 19. Josie Wood left for Boston after visiting Rev F P Wood. Mrs A L Noyes visited South Weymouth with her daughter and family, then returned to East Acton for the summer. Ethel Loomis, a state child, left the Dr Allen home. her location is unknown. Rev E C Hayes resigned as pastor effective May 31 1913 after serving the Congregational church. Hayes has accepted a call elsewhere. locals bid him good wishes. Geo W has bought property and begun work in Bboro sawing barrel staves.
In a Kansas country town a minister funded garden contests with business donations to curb weeds and idle youth. July yielded a flower show and September a vegetable fair as jubilant youths nurtured home plots. The project drew praise from the Kansas Agricultural College and plans to publish a free leaflet to expand garden work for youths.
A federal bulletin discusses Driver Virginia pupils in a school farm program where twenty two children earned profits from cultivating market patches. It notes earnings of 25 to 100 dollars per student and a total farm profit of about 200 dollars after expenses. The director aims for a seventy five acre operation to let boys earn a living while attending school.
The Salem Civic group offers prizes for the greatest improvement of vacant lots. Improvements include cleanup and planting. The contest does not require ownership. any person who can obtain use of a lot may enter, promising broad participation in beautifying the town.
Miss Ruth Foster entertained company over Sunday. Rev. C L Pierce will deliver the ordination sermon at Union church Stow this Wednesday afternoon. The West Acton Woman's Club meets April 28 at 3 pm. Several residents illness notes and local visits are listed along with a drama fundraiser netting a good sum.
The L T L presents a Tuesday evening program at the Congregational church on April 29 at 7 30. Orra Fletcher and Elma Leavitt provide music while Louis Dean recites. A Temperance Bird is sung by girls with a whistled chorus and Chas White recites.
The program features Hazel White, Hope Kimball, Gladys Lawrence, Carrie Franklin and others with Song "Wanted, a Boy" by Fritz Burns and Martha Munson. Recitation "My Dolly" by Mildred Deane. Drama "A Lark at Manstruck Hall" with Misses Hodgen Nagle Fletcher Leavitt White and Mrs Sameel. Ice cream and home made candy sales accompany the event.
Desirable tenement with 10 rooms in good condition cemented basement town water large store rooms and proximity to steam and electric lines two minutes from the station Opp Baptist church Central Square West Acton Apply on premises for key Littlefield Brothers 94 Hillside Street Roxbury Mass
George E. Tulis of Winthrop spent Sunday with his people here and a large village turnout attended a Woman's club entertainment at the town hall regarded as one of the best home talent shows. W H Fairbanks won a narrow majority for selectman after a March town meeting recount request.
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