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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
7
A new boarder declares fascination with occult studies while a landlady offers hash, provoking amused smiles from the other boarders. The scene reads as a vivid, if fragmentary, glimpse of a quirky domestic moment in urban life.
A reader praises U S Army and Navy Tablets from New York for quick relief after trying many remedies. The letter claims three days to improvements and urges readers to obtain the product through their local druggist.
Maynard residents travel and visit relatives for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Local clergy prepare classes and sermons. Students and faculty from Bowdoin College visit home. Town clubs meet and plan events while police report minor incidents. Welfare, theater outings, and church activities fill the week.
The Pomposit ticut reading room held its formal opening at a Friday evening vestry service with remarks by Rev. Chas H Washburn and an address by Rev. Mr. Batt. The scene featured duets by local singers and urged steady winter effort and moral reading standards for young men of Maynard.
Maynard 28 Hudson 1 in a lopsided opener witnessed by about 400 fans after Thanksgiving dinner. Axford and Smith starred for Maynard with 9 combined field goals and 2 free throws, while J. M. Porter refereed. Time two 20 minute halves.
Local business leaders back Dr Curvier s plan to form a board of trade to attract new industries and improve street lighting. A mass meeting is likely within days to discuss organization and reforms, with signers pledging attendance. The town boasts water power, good schools, and a high quality of life.
About 80 Maynard citizens attended the December 2 hearing at Co Operative hall with Selectman Abel G. Haynes presiding. Rep Charles H. Persons and Chas W. Shippee spoke for electric roads and crossings questions were addressed. Other speakers included W H Gutteridge Abel G. Haynes James J. Hilferty and Julius Loewe all favoring an electric road through Maynard. The meeting voted to leave the matter for final action.
Mr and Mrs 8 G Brown celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary with a small gathering of friends including Mr and Mrs Forest Holt, Miss Sadie Davis, John Ward, and Archie Ward who recently returned from the Philippines. After a bountiful Thanksgiving turkey dinner the group shared in social enjoyment and extended best wishes for many happy returns.
Willie Jones son of Wm H Jones Elm street fell into an open cellar while playing Saturday. He struck his head on a stone and suffered a two inch gash. Dr F P Flagg attended and dressed the wound with three stitches.
The ad credits Dr King’s New Life Pills with building iron nerve and indomitable will through strong health. It claims they improve brain and body power and lists Johnson’s Drug Store in Maynard and J C Friend’s in Concord as places to buy them for 25 cents.
The American Woolen Company petitioned the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court seeking a decree to quiet title to three parcels in the westerly part of Concord Massachusetts. It cites undischarged mortgages dating back to 1846 1858 and a 1899 deed chain with a long occupancy and possible satisfaction of debts but no recent action. The petition lists heirs and executors across Chicago Lynn Concord and Somerville and requests publication notice and recording of the decree to bar future claims.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts orders the petitioners and all interested persons within the Commonwealth to appear before the Justices in Cambridge on the first Monday of March. Attested copies must be served and mailed thirty days prior, with publication in the Concord Enterprise for three months.
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