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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1893
Page
5
The page lists weather data with a maximum 450n and minimum 4, weekly range and humidity at 83-7 percent, and wind directions S W and W with a greatest velocity of 31 mph. It then details services at Unitarian, Trinity Congregational, and Scandinavian M E Church, including service times, Sunday school, guild meetings, and prayer meeting notes.
Reports note Mrs. Samuel States preparing for winter in Altoona. Corporal George C. Howkins seeks discharge from Co I after leaving for Yuma. Marlboro figures weigh in on new corporal and militia staff, with captains and colonels receiving praise. Funeral for Captain Bowers held at Unitarian church. Loyal Legion and Nationalists attend. Taps performed at Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
Captain Charles E. Bowers of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Volunteers died at his Arlington home of blood poisoning after a brief illness. Born in 1844 at Concord, he served at Gettysburg and earned a captaincy for bravery. He later worked in boot and shoe sales and was active in Loyal Legion and the Nationalist club. He leaves a widow. Boston Nationalists planned a meeting to act on his death.
A dramatic musical program will debut next Wednesday at the Concord lyceum featuring the Temple quartet of Boston with Miss Daisy Carroll Hoyt. The group includes E. M. Spears, E. F. Webber, Robert Bruce, and L. B. Merrill. Hoyt is noted as a dramatic reader and studied with Leland Powers, while Concord also highlights the dramatic club and Shaksperian lectures this season. A portrait in The Anchor and Shield profiles Frank Pierce of Concord, a longtime Harmony lodge financier and active local official.
In Boston the leather firm Edwards & Barretts faces uncertain liabilities after the collapse of Abe Stein & Co of New York. Converse, in New York, says a firm assessment of Edwards & Barretts affairs hinges on reviewing Stein & Co accounts. The Stein & Co settlement progresses slowly as details and dates remain unsettled.
A collage of holiday shopping notes lists Whitcomb Hunt C E Browns N S Daniels and H L Whitcomb with toy goods clocks soap linens books and clothing deals. It mentions furniture and laundry delivery hours and a call for 1000 neckties plus various local shops offering gifts and seasonal wares in Concord.
Rev Coppin preached at Acton Centre last Sunday Superintendent Edward Dixon visits this week Eugene Johnson trains in Boston Cyrus Hale begins juror duty Tuesday Miss Carter of Salem visits Miss Noyes at Monument House Lady church vestry fair had poor turnout due to illness Dr J A Steadman Georgetown Me rooms at Monument House consultation free Littleton Driving Park holds benefit hall and concert at town hall Acton Centre December 1st concert and ball tickets one dollar
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