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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1896
Page
8
All copy must reach the office by Tuesday night to appear in the same week issue. Earlier receipts avoid condensation or delay. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Acton notices record Sunday sermon by Rev Buxton on Christ Forgiving Sinners. Local societies hold sales and entertainments, weddings in Roxbury, and phonograph concert praised. Reports include bank prospects, post office mail, and ongoing church schedules at Congregational and Universalist churches. A December lodge resolution honors Grace M. Cole of the New England Order of Protection. A cider mill accident injures Mrs Whitcomb. medical details and status provided.
West Acton news recounts Peter J. Foley's lumber draw to rebuild his barn and F. W. Gray's 15 month house of correction sentence for adultery. It highlights a Shirley Dramatic Club performance of Hick’y Farm and lists standout performers. Also reports on Mrs. Susan S. Brigham, 86, a Revolutionary daughter, and various local notices including sales, rentals, and millinery bargains.
Washington notes that the House moved promptly to business and passed three important bills including a pension measure and three postal bills. One bill allows private mailing cards with 1 cent stamps, another caps indemnity for lost registered mail at 10 dollars, and a private carrier service can operate where no free delivery exists. The pension bill passed with little opposition. Grow urged higher tariffs. Senate briefed on Cuba. ex-Speaker Crisp death observed. Turkish mission denies reports that the American flag was torn down in Hasken and Armenian villages.
A riddle from St. Nicholas explains two elderly apple sellers and how they split 60 apples. One sells two for a cent and the other three for a cent. Merged into one basket the same pricing yields 24 cents, though separate sales would have yielded 25 cents. The puzzle explores the arithmetic of combining baskets versus separate sales.
I Wyman Jones of Englewood bought the Wilder estate at Bol ton and now owns additional properties in town from J B McDonald and C H White. A aurora borealis display signaled a temperature rise breaking the cold spell. Mrs C W Eddy visits her father Rev H P Cutting at Harwichport after his paralysis and a second shock. Oakdale locomotive cinders spread in the B and M yard driveway between Church and Pope streets improve the area. A warrant item for a special town meeting seeks abatement of betterment taxes on South and Houghton streets property. J H Madden returns from absence and relocates to the room under the stairway at the west end of Houghton factory and hopes for old friends.
Sudbury closes term as Miss Lillian Parmenter retires for health. Eliot Rogers to wed in Kennebunk Me. Lyman Gilbert attends the Massachusetts state Grange session in Springfield with wife. Framingham Grange visit features a minstrel show. Highway hearing at East Cambridge backs road layout. A W Rogers ends his meat and provision business. Marlboro party expected to buy stock. Professor George H Barton to lecture on A Summer In Greenland at the Goodnow Library and school committee event early January.
I have made arrangements to sell the chair wood formerly sold by Loring Bros. All orders will be promptly delivered in Concord or Acton at the usual prices. Have you bought your winter supply of coal. If not yet, my prices before doing so. I have hay and feed of all kinds at extraordinary low prices.
Washington December 9. Chairman Hanna declines to discuss cabinet picks and says news must come from McKinley. Reports suggest Senator John Sherman may join the cabinet, but friends doubt his departure from the Senate. Hanna favors an inaugural ball in the new library building, facing opposition from Senator Morrill. Silver Republicans refuse caucus participation and signal independence on tariff policy, declining public statements while implying they may not attend future caucuses.
Albany reports Hon. John Boyd Thacher former World’s Fair awards committee chairman has received a letter from Germany praising his services and offering a gold medal in recognition.
Gladstone will spend the winter at Cannes. The plague does not spread outside of Bombay. Consul General Lee will sail for Cuba this week. American money has relieved 66,100 Armenians. A new athletic club organized at Hull Massachusetts. The Canadian Pacific railway accused of bribery. The alleged Von Gneist library is not wanted by Yale. Railroads in the Pacific northwest tied up by floods. Canada prefers preferential trade relations with England. Carnegie Steel Company under government fire again. Rockefeller will not engage in iron manufacturing. A contest for New York district attorney has begun. General Blanco resigned as governor general of the Philippine Islands. Massachusetts regiments unlikely to be ordered to Washington for the inauguration. The American schooner James G. Swan forfeited for sealing-law violations. Anarmory project under way for Cambridge military companies. Boston union station to handle suburban business by electric trains. John H. Sullivan vs Isaac B. Allen councillor contest before court in Boston. Captain James C. Billings of Ledyard, Conn. dies suddenly at 80. Death by heart disease. Melrose schoolhouse loan awarded to Blake Bros. & Co. of Boston at 105385. Charles F. Loomis of Derby dies at 61 from brain hemorrhage. Pittsfield mill purchased by George E. Kent. 200+ workers, 3,000,000 yards yearly. Burton Johnson & Son assign to Dennis T. Kennedy. liabilities about 30,000. Dr. Caroline Brown Winslow dies. advocate for women’s suffrage and ally of Susan B. Anthony. Schooner Marion Draper towed to Portland after leaking. crew exhausted after grounding.
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Acton Centre reports Albert Tuttle's trip to Winona Minnesota. Otis Forbush makes house alterations while a driven well project proceeds. Local jurors were drawn. A Perkins Institute entertainment and church fair are announced. New teachers arrive, cattle and swine inspections conclude, and gifts to the Memorial library are unveiled. Auction sale for Dr. Chapin estate set for December 14 in Lincoln and Acton.
C H Mead & Co advertises Isaac Davis monument and Wilde memorial library souvenir china now on sale with new styles. Limited stock expected to disappear quickly. call early for Christmas gifts. Location West Acton shop.
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