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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1924
Page
4
A former prisoner writes from a big city paper about the difficulty of finding work after punishment ends. He notes the stigma of a single crime outweighs his efforts to reform and obtain honest employment. He urges society to provide genuine equal opportunity and support for rehabilitation.
Experts challenge standard weight tables as misleading for height and age. They advise weighing five to ten pounds above average until age 30 to guard against infections, then normalizing to ten to twenty percent above average after 30. Regular exercise and wise eating keep weight balanced.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York promotes religious freedom and a self defined ideology. Bishop George Alexander McGuire rejects a white God, urging a black God while warning against narrowing deity by color. The piece frames this as part of Marcus Garvey era racial movement and contrasts with traditional views of the God of all mankind.
NEA Service reports in Washington that government staff on recess follow a plan of expansive free time facilities. Parks, pools, golf, tennis, cricket, polo, archery, riding stables and more are offered across 72 square miles of the District with proposals to add riding stables using surplus cavalry horses to widen access and boost productivity.
A reader from Maynard sends a letter praising Camp Phil Sheridan at Sand Hills Mass. He describes travel by 18 autos, camp inspections by relatives, beds, meals, ocean swimming, and daily routines led by Fr Donahue Doc Flaherty and three seminarians. Boys rise at 7:30 Mass at 8, then recreation and meals with a noisy mess hall, ending with taps at 9:30.
Private letters between the Board of Selectmen and Miss Celia Moynihan discuss relocating the Rafferty Memorial fountain from its square corner at Main and Sudbury to the Main Street shade near the curve. Moynihan objects to the move while noting prior memorial significance and traffic safety concerns.
Mr and Mrs Charles Coolidge and daughter Florence plan a two weeks trip to Nova Scotia. Mr and Mrs Joan Maguire of Watertown visit Terence Maguire’s home on Manning Street. James Jo Feeney builds a garage for Everett Cox on Green Street. Mrs Herbert Stratton is a patient at a Boston hospital. Mr and Mrs Carl Hodson enjoy a two weeks vacation at their former Vermont home. Mrs Annie Gannon of Cambridge visits the Ferguson household on Manning Street.
Miss Mercedes Des Rochers daughter of Mr and Mrs Emery Des Rochers of West Main Street is Wilfred Plante. Martin Street reports a Maxwell sedan purchase. A resident vacationing in Springfield and nearby beaches. Mrs John Dionne has returned from a visit to relatives.
A story follows a flock of wild geese and songbirds departing their winter marshes for spring and summer homes. Leader birds guide newcomers through a seasonal voyage with songs about the call of spring and plans to visit a girl named Dolly who loves them.
Mrs Howard Foster of Park Street has accepted the factory nurse position at the Firestone-Apsley Co factory and began her duties yesterday. Levi H. Boudreau of Hoboken, a well known former resident, was a guest the past few days at the home of his sisters and brothers on Pope Street. Mr and Mrs Joseph Bugbee of Lincoln Street motored to Ocean Bluffs yesterday with Mr and Mrs Silas Smith to visit Mr Bugbee's sister Mrs L R Lovering.
Mr and Mrs Frank H Chamberlain returned from a motor trip visiting New Hampshire resorts. Mr and Mrs William Davitt of Manning Sr returned from two weeks in Atlantic City. Rev and Mrs Herbert B Francis and family left for Newport RI for two weeks. Charles H Baker formerly of Firestone-Apsley now Akron Ohio is visiting friends. Miss Marion Clark on Houghton St is taking a two week vacation at Winthrop.
A mortgage foreclosure sale will occur on August 23 1924 at 3 pm for parcels 1 2 3 and 4 in Stow and Maynard Massachusetts. Parcels include 97 acres near Lower Village and several described tracts with bounds to Winthrop Puffer Mary Teasdale Nagle Amory Maynard and others. Assignee Maurice A Kamm Esq acts as sale agent. a $500 deposit is required.
On August 10 a reunion of the Ewell family met at Mrs. E. W. Sylvia’s South Acton home to honor the late Mrs. Emeline B. Ewell on what would have been her 13th birthday. Forty-one attendees included five surviving children, twelve great grandchildren, and six grandchildren, with ages from three to seventy-five. The event featured socializing, games, and refreshments beneath pines, with many relatives from Acton, Framingham, Arlington, West Acton, Rockland, Hingham, and beyond.
Classified ad seeks a married man for farm work with tenement milk wood and good wages. Apply EJ Ximball South Acton tel W Ac ton 111 2._READ the classified ads and laugh at failure.
Sunday's service disrupted by storm as Dr Haggard began a sermon. The church planned an ad meeting to launch moving picture programs with films and stereopticon lectures free on Sundays. Anticipation grows for Kaliko Karnival on Parker’s lawn with a new bulletin board for the church.
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