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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
A local shop advertises a large stock of Christmas flowering plants including Azaleas Cyclamen Lorraine Begonias Primroses Pointsettias Hyacinths and roses carnations violets Sweet Peas Narcissus and more. Greens such as Wreaths Roping Holly Box Christmas Bells and related items are also stocked with chiffon and silk ribbons for arrangements. Mail and telephone orders will be carefully attended to.
Sunday and weekday worship schedules for Fairhaven Greenhouses Concord Junction Church notes and area churches. Services listed include Lord's Day sermons at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school at noon Y P S C E and choir activities recurring through the week in Concord and vicinity.
Community notice of lodge schedules lists Foresters and Companions of Forest on different Mondays, Maynard Lodge 131 on Wednesdays, Mizpah Lodge and Eastern Star on Thursdays and Tuesdays, Knights of Pythias and Iola Lodge on various midweek days, St Bridgets C T S Sundays, and I O O F and Q O F groups on specific weeks. Includes I O G T and other orders with recurring week patterns.
Commonwealth probate court cites heirs and creditors of Mark Cronin late of Concord to show cause why administration should not be granted to Prescott Keyes or other suitable person. Hearing set January 6, 1909 in Cambridge Middlesex. notice to be published weekly for three weeks in Concord Enterprise.
A nostalgic review celebrates Dickens's Pickwick Papers Christmas scenes at Dingley Dell. The chronicle highlights the merry hospitality and comic adventures of Pickwick, Sam Weller, and friends as they toast the season with games, iced lanes, and a wet mishap.
Alfred Hammermeister trudged eight miles through snow to rouse a store after lighting the Christmas tree caused a fire that damaged his Cleveland home. Gifts intended for his eight children were destroyed in the blaze.
The passage recalls Mr Pickwick and Weller at Dingley Dell with Dickensian details of the sitting room, mistletoe scene, and playful kissing. It moves to Christmas day skating, gift exchanges, a fire damaged by Santa, and Hammermeister’s store run. It ends with Washington ghost hunting fad and a buccaneer ghost in the Star account.
In the Philadelphia Ledger a speaker asks what a political boomerang is and defines it as a rootback on the return trip while a joke exchange about Blobbs Bjones notes his misfortune at cards and lack of marriage. The fragment appears in the Record column.
Probate Court in Cambridge Middlesex holds December 29 1908 session on the William H Whittaker estate. Mary A Whittaker seeks letters testamentary without bond. citation to all heirs next of kin and interested parties to appear or receive copies seven days prior.
Middlesex probate court issues citation in the estate of Jerzy Czujko of Maynard. Administrator John M. Chmielinski presents the first account for allowance and must notify all interested parties by publication in the Maynard Enterprise for three weeks plus service fourteen days before the hearing.
Estate administrator John M. Chmielinski seeks allowance of the first account for the estate of Wladislaw Matulewicz late of Maynard County. Court set December 9, 1908 at nine o'clock to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Notices to interested parties must run weekly in the Maynard Enterprise and be mailed to known heirs at least seven days before the court date. Witness Charles J. McIntire, Esq.
A compact quote from the Keystone Watch Case Co of Philadelphia urges persistence and belief in the value of steady effort. The motto emphasizes sustaining effort and inspiring others through continuous determination.
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