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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
4
The Enterprise announces publication in Marlboro Massachusetts with weekly issues and a 1903 postal registration. Subscriptions cost one dollar yearly with smaller options for six and three month periods, all paid in advance. Office address is 161 Main Street Marlboro MA.
An 1907 local column advertises one inch one week space at 25 cents for each additional insertion with special yearly rates. It references business notices in local columns and lists August 21, 1907 as the Wednesday issue date.
Miss Annie S Blossom and Eva Blasdale attended the Hurdy Gurdy Girl show at Tremont theatre Saturday afternoon. Flora J Molyneux has resigned in Boston and will live with her father William Jenness Barretts mill road. The town seeks more tenements amid high demand. A rumor of a vacated desirable lane draws many applicants. Mr and Mrs B F Russell celebrated their golden wedding at Union church. Corn crop outlook grim without rain, farmers face losses on Boston market shipments. Mrs J M Whittier returned from Old Orchard Cottage outside the fire line and avoids repeats of the fire scenes.
Northeast Harbor Maine August 21 Rev Charles Tiffiny D D longtime archdeacon of New York and leading Episcopal Church affairs figure died here of apoplexy retired from active work He was born in Baltimore in 1829 and authored several works.
National League results show Boston, New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia teams with various battery combos noted. American League reports Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and St. Louis matches with scores and listed pitchers. Japan Vatican ties include sending an accredited minister and a permanent apostolic delegate as well as a Tokyo Benedictine church project. Annapolis hazing inquiry finds no substantiation despite pie eating contests among midshipmen.
A roundup of visits and travels across Concord Swampscott Plymouth and surrounding towns. Notable movements include Miss A Maude Hunt Capt Frank Helden and families traveling for vacations, Miss Elsie Hussey visiting friends, and residents heading to Brewster York Beach and Fitchburg. Also reports of a small box eighteen fire at Fitchburg Division and a court case in Medford involving Joseph Meadow and Edmund Webb. John Olsen buried in Sleepy Hollow with extensive Masonic and Spanish War veteran attendance.
New York dispatch says Francis R. MacMillen the 22 year old American violinist born in Marietta Ohio is reported missing in cable advices after attempting Mont Blanc ascent in the Alps.
Plans for the Concord council K of C field day are nearing completion with horse racing including a free for all and two classes offering $500 in purses, a steeplechase, and driving and prize events. Three baseball games feature Medford vs Waltham, Acton vs Lincoln, and Arlington vs Concord, followed by dancing and other amusements.
Town display promotes an excursion to Winnipesaukee aboard the Boston and Maine line scheduled for September 4. The posters urge local residents to join the trip.
The annual report of Major General Greely, commanding the northern division, states the main cause of deserters is the small pay. It cites the absence of the canteen and resulting disturbances around posts and camps, along with the low standards and perceived worthlessness of recruits.
Frances Horner 67 wife of a nearby farmer and Victoria Napoli a servant were killed in their Merchantville area home. Charles Gibbon a Black man was caught in the act of robbery and attacked the women with an axe before being arrested.
In Concord Massachusetts a letter from F W Devoe & Co discusses costs for sowing ten acres with half wheat and half daisy seed and estimates crop value uncertain due to unknown seed prices and bulk. The note then compares whitewash paint to half whitewash mixes, arguing labor and materials make mixed paint costly and recommending pure paint for durability, signed Towle & Kent Bellour paint.
A granite stone from the Battle Ground near graves of two British soldiers at the bridge is sent to Provincetown to symbolize Concord in a Mayflower landing monument. The 2 ft 6 in by 1 ft 6 in by 20 in stone bears the inscription Concord Founded 1635 Stone from the Battlefield April 19 1775 and was forwarded Tuesday.
Local post office figures an advertised letters collection listing Ernest Christian Ray Miéaller John P McPhee Frank Mackenzie Chas Peterson Francis Roberts Helen Drake Mrs Wm Garfield Miss FE Herdman Miss Kathryn Spellman for pickup and delivery.
To Let or for sale a 13 room house featuring bath cemented cellar modern improvements hard wood finish open fireplaces furnace set tubs in a prime location with three or more acres. 15 minutes from two railroads five from trolley stable 36 minutes to Boston. Address P O box 665 Concord Mass.
Rev. John L. Keedy of North Andover occupied the pulpit of the Trinitarian Congregational church Sunday. The Christian Endeavor society was led by Miss Grasa Davis.
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