Community Notes From Littleton and Nearby
Sunday service at First Parish Church drew a large turnout including visitors. A fire at F Hartwell’s mill was quickly controlled after Curtis W. Drew alerted neighbors. Local residents report new home work, resignations in the clerk of court office, and several notable visits and travels among townspeople and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. ©. Hartwell
Curtis W. Drew
John Hutchinson
B.S. Hager
Goldsmith St
Geo. W. Sanderson
Ayer
Chester D. Parsons
Shirley
Midsummer fete marks successful Littleton reunion
The Improve ment society hosts the second midsummer fete in Littleton with 1909-like turnout. Bands, an automobile parade, decorated cars, Harvard Littleton baseball, vaudeville, receptions, and a female seminary graduation rites accompanied varied amusements in the town hall grounds and park throughout the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Improvement Society
Sth Regiment
Fitchburg Military Band
Foster St
King St
Harwood ‘Ave
Thomas Moore
Bennett Sanderson
Fred C. Hartwell
A. Eugene Robbins
Harvard
Littleton
F. C. Nash
Unitarian
Jamaica Plain
Leslie Hager
Fannie Sanderson
Mildred Flagg
Chas. A. Kimball
George A. Sanderson
George Heed
Saxonville
J. W. Grimes
Reading
Town Hall
Littleton Female Seminary
Harry Knights
Concord Notes From Local Visitors And Clergy
Charles Hosmer of California visits Concord relatives. Rev B C Hayes of Acton Centre preaches at the Trinitarian on Sunday. Berkley Wheeler has been in Washington DC as Percy’s guest. Misses J and Caroline Leavitt of Wimstead are in East Gloucester for August. Elizabeth Brennan returns from a three month European trip amid praise. Rev U G Tewksbury returns from England arriving in New York Monday and reaching Concord Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hosmer
Concord
B. C Hayes
Acton Centre
Berkley Wheeler
Washington, D. C
Percy
Caroline Leavitt
Wim St
East Gloucester
Elizabeth Brennan
UG. A. Tewksbury
England
New York
Ex-Senator Hoar Draws Front-Page Spotlight Again
A political squib notes Hoar shifts back into public view after recent remarks at a 1911 Woman Suffrage meeting. The column warns a circus missed a chance to hire him as press agent given his knack for lime light in multiple papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.me Circus
Hoar
P. T. Barnum
The
American
Lnst
Senate
Capitalist Class Emphasizes Health and Strength in Character
A published line asserts that a man possessing health and strength and good character is a capitalist. It frames personal virtues as defining capitalist worth rather than wealth alone.
Gypsy Band In Night Attacks Routed Near Hunfeld
In Pulda area of Prussia, a group of raiders hunted by locals and troops conducted nocturnal incursions into farms. A battle with Baron Schenk’s party wounded a gypsy, who was carried into the forest as the rest fled, and the countryside searches for the band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pulda
Prussia
Vilages
Baron Schenk
Water works mishap in Dunoon ends with soaked worker
In Dunoon an experienced municipal water cart driver suffered a dramatic spray when a hose detached from the tap. The man waded into the rising water to shut it off and emerged soaked. A bystander quipped that the salt water won’t harm him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunoon
Scotland
Dona
Children's Apparel Prices? Hose, Overalls and Blouses
A small ad lists children's items with price markers including 10¢ for hose, 8¢ per pair for overalls, and 19¢ for blouses, indicating a bargain sale or store layout.
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Jersey
Fearng
F. S. Fearns
Maynard, Mass
Robert M. Prentiss
Concord Junction
Mass
Wilf
ID Wheeler
Hanley & Goulding
Grant Street
Concord, Mass
George D. Elson
C. D. Holmes
Main. St
Concord Jet
Florence Bartlett
Marie Parry
Roxbury
Orr's Island
Helen and
Louise Warren
Manchester
N. H
C. A. Kimball
Eifie Stevens
Peter C. Edwards
Dorothy Blodgett
Wellesley College
Canada
Alice Chapman
Brant Rock
John Kimball
Beddoe
Charlestown
KE. F. Chamberlain
Josephine Newhall
Stow
Carl Dodge
Gloucester City
UD. G. Rougetons
K. H. Hall
Ralph
Lifeton
Hill
Maud Mitchell
Tim
Casey
Groton School
Ashland
Judge Sand
Beachmont
Lexington
Revere Beach Parkway
Barcain Pianos
C. H
Main St
the Undertaker
John Jones
wWe
Carter
M.F. Mullin
Trinidad Lake
Bedford Hardware and Plumbing Company
Lucas
Bedford Hardware & Plumbing Co
Bedford
A. G. Ziegler
South Acton Coal and Lumber Co
Coal & Lumber CO
Fletcher
Gen
South Acton
Assabet Institution For Savings
Concord Junction, Mass
Econ
Ing Trade
E. H. Davis
Nason Street
Maynard
the Wilson Lumber CO
R. L. Wilson
Prop
T. A. Wilson
Mgr
Fitchburg
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