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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
8
Notices must arrive by Tuesday night to appear in the same week's issue. Early receipt helps prevent delays. News items and ads can be left with T. F. Newton to ensure timely processing and subscription handling.
Reform club watering trough now in service. Notices of visitors, property updates, and minor accidents fill South Acton items. Church notes list services at Congregational and Universalist churches with timings and activities. One Minute Cough Cure advertised as quick relief for children.
West Acton Schools reopen September 8. Local businesses resume after vacations and community members visit relatives in Somerville Fitchburg Stoneham Woods Hole. The annual reunion of Co E Sixth Massachusetts volunteers is planned for Labor Day at West Acton. An Ingersoll lecture on the Foundations of Faith is set for Lake Pleasant with Fitchburg Railroad offering reduced rates and special train service.
A promotional note highlights a fall term offering practical business education. Courses cover essential subjects with an up to date actual business from the start approach, emphasizing usefulness and real world applicability.
Town gossip reports residents returning from trips to Winthrop beach and Maine. Circus dates and bicycle race entries are listed along with a camping party, a carriage accident, and a wheel puncture incident prompting calls for punishment. Public services and an Absalom the Conspirator talk are announced.
George J. Hopkins, who fled Massachusetts reformatory on August 4, was arrested in Coney Island New York last Thursday as a suspicious character. Deputy Hart brought him back after confirming the arrest. Hopkins, 23, escaped while working outside the walls and served as a street shouter during the time. His accomplice remains at large and police say they are pursuing him.
Run rises at 5 04 a.m. and sets at 6 27 p.m. Length of day 138 hours 23 minutes. Moon rises at 7 30 p.m. Full sea at 1 a.m. 1 15 p.m. Forecasts for New England show generally fair and warmer conditions with easterly winds.
The World reports the betrothal of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands to Prince Bernard of Saxe Weimar with announcement planned for September. Wilhelmina turns 16 August 31. Bernard is 18. The Times comments on the Blue Book disclosures regarding Schomburgk missions. Hamid bin Thevain dies. Kalid seizes the Zanzibar palace and British sailors guard assets. Crete governance proposals accepted by the Turks with Christian governor and European officers.
Boston police seek an extra 100000 for expenses. A series of brief items notes Ireland, Canada, accidents, reunions, and local commerce. Highlights include the Colrain reunion, a fatal hanging in Concord New Hampshire, and a train accident injuring two Boston painters.
Edw. Taylor formerly of Hudson now in Los Angeles suffered arm injury when caught in an elevator. meanwhile Middlesex county commissioners outline how 32 districts will be reduced to 28 while adding four new representatives, with detailed ward town allocations and voter counts for Cambridge Somerville Medford Everett Malden Winchester Waltham Newton Bedford Concord Lincoln Weston Natick Ashland Holliston Hopkinton Sherborn Marlborough Sudbury Wayland Acton Ayer Littleton Shirley Westford and others.
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