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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
1
Cozy up your home for Christmas with blazing fires and warmth throughout. If your coat is low in the bin, call us at once and we will have it in your cellar before you know it, with the usual high grade and prices.
A playful verse imagines the Iron Reindeer replacing the ancient sled and deer with a train of baggage cars filled with toys. The narrator plans to travel across the land to bring joy to children, delivering bundles to each town while bells ring on schedule amid snowy winds.
Concord notices describe the next Concord Musical club meeting at the home of Mrs Lennox H Lindsay on Lowell road January 4. Also reported are Cambridge visitor Charles Carlson mourning his mother, and William Kennedy’s illness improving. Christie's store displays wide Christmas gifts and skates surge in demand as cold weather continues. James G Watson sustains a hand injury at Christies. Red Cross stamps sales urged to fund the white plague fight. Wilk low Rebekah lodge members attend Winona lodge degree work. Santa tops Keyes store window with Christmas decor.
Various local items including Mr King of Somerville at Prank 8S Ferns, Fred Palmer’s England visit, 898 looms at Assabet mills, Miss Helen Veitch aiding at Dahl’s, Christmas baby announcements for Mr and Mrs Sheridan and Mrs Crowley, store occupancy by A Hilden, Miss Eva Tucker aiding Gutteridge’s, John Keegan working in Pepperell store, Miss Rosella Wall visiting Marlboro, Middlesex club dance at Hiver nian hall, Young Ladies Sodality formed at St Bridget’s with 175 members, Mizpah Rebekah members visiting Winona in West Acton, ex Gov Folk of Missouri to speak in Hudson, Mr and Mrs Michael Bander visiting town from Clinton, death of James Parkinson at five from spinal meningitis, George Gutteridge at Masons meeting in Boston, and Christmas carol singing by M E church youth after midnight.
Bedford reports a cold spell with 10 to 15 degrees readings while local dealers push laurel and pine cone wreaths and evergreen trim ming. Leading makers Dudley Hartford EB Skelly Alex McDonald and WM Kelley say prices are good and demand exceeds average. Warren Cutler of the state math commission visited Gaston for a district superintendents conference. Dr Meikleoff Arlington Heights and Levi Williams recoveries noted as well.
Leon Noyes was arrested Sunday by Chief Kelley on charges of a brutal assault on Olive Croft a five year old girl living with her sister Mrs Geo R Skilton near the Bedford town line in South Billerica. The crime occurred Saturday Dec 11 while the child was alone in the house. Dr E B Hamblen attended the child whose condition was serious. Officers took Noyes to Lowell Sunday to appear in court Monday.
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