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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1914
Page
8
The column surveys boxing prospects and spectator policy, praising Reich as a rising heavyweight and noting McIntyres’ display. It highlights umpire policy protections, a notable double play in a baseball game, and profiles athletes like Distmond and Abel Kiviat. It also mentions Freddie Welsh challengers and Georges Carpentier’s training book for amateur athletes.
New York August 12 An accord ends the New Haven system with the Boston and Maine and trolley steamship holdings to be turned over to trustee boards. Elliott elected president of the New Haven. Billard resigns as director. The railroad may accept Massachusetts string bill if ordered by a federal decree to be filed next year.
A 1916 style analysis argues bumper US crops will pressure Germany and Austria Hungary as they rely on imports for most cereals. It details wheat and meat production gaps, Russia's export, and triples entente livestock totals, noting US as rising lead wheat exporter amid neutrality.
Washington reports the peaceful handover of power from the Cabrals to the constitutionalists in Mexico City. Federal troops evacuated the capital and municipal police assumed neutral control awaiting amnesty terms from General Carranza. Officials foresee guarantees and a possible counter move.
William J. Higgins and Jeremiah H. Hall entered not guilty pleas with right to substitute demurrers within thirty days to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States of 400 in organized taxes. They were held on 15,000 bail. The New England Manufacturing Company joined the same defense to a government misname charge.
The Pet Miss Louise Mick, JP, was taken Monday night and found in a cornfield. She died from blunt force trauma after being bound with wire. The attacker is described as a laborer aged 18. The case follows reports of a binding and assault during the crime.
Courts nationwide process a surge of naturalization as war clouds alter allegiance. The Bureau of Naturalization says a new procedure relaxes blanks on papers naming a current sovereign. Applicants may later swear allegiance regardless of future changes in kings or emperors.
Joseph Bergeron was hanged at the state prison in Wethersfield Conn for murdering Mrs Elizabeth R Dowsett in New Haven after she refused marriage. He had pleaded guilty. Meanwhile a quarantine against New Orleans due to bubonic plague was raised by Costa Rica with no new cases reported locally in nine days.
The Weather Almanac for Thursday August 13 lists sunrise at 4 48 and sunset at 6 60 with the moonrise at 9 58 pm. High water at 4 15 am and a forecast of generally fair conditions for New England.
Next Sunday Union church evening services led by Christian Endeavor society with Rev. Eugene Webster of Boston as speaker. Local residents and visitors list includes vacations, travels, and guest stays in town and nearby areas. Also notices of church services, mill layoffs, post office expansion, and acknowledgments of sympathy and thanks to neighbors for recent bereavement.
Diamond Pointed Lexington and Arlington beat Concord Junction with scores 5 to 2, 7 to 2, and 18 to 2 as Reilly homers three singles and a double. Maynard wins 10 to 4 at Marlboro changing local views on the season and the team’s early outlook.
Maynard must win three straight in the best of seven series to claim victory as they visit the Junctions on Saturday. The home team Dee led squad has not lost at home this season and hopes to close the series with four wins. Hopkins Sullivan and Dee anchor the Maynard defense as Junctions field well and seek to prevent base hits.
A quip notes readers buy books for the publisher’s fame or the tailor’s craft rather than the text itself. The crowd’s taste is swayed by names and notorieties more than content, signaling vanity in literary markets.
Ready made correspondence cards popular in France for years feature about forty common remarks to fill a page. Phrases like This is a bad hotel and Very dull here appear, and a simple cross marks the sentiment.
A witty school exchange centers on the question what is the chief end of man and the reply to glorify God and annoy him forever. The remark highlights lively classroom humor in a moment seen as both theological and playful.
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