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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1893
Page
8
AU matter must reach the offices of publication not later than Tuesday night to be inserted in the same week issue. Earlier receipts prevent condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Mercury records frigid morning and pond ice nine inches thick. Warren teacher Miss Helen Bradford. Acton Center dance with Brigham's orchestra. Isaac Ford to drive to Acton Centre for dance patrons. Christmas tree at Universalist church with Old Santa Claus. School drama in Acton High School draws 400 attendees. net receipts $50 toward a piano. King’s Daughters candy pull hosted by Miss Hattie Tuttle. Bicycle season ends. George Daniels continues winter riding. Grammar school sleigh ride to Concord Junction and reformatory visit. Acton Royal Arcanum officers elected for 1894. South Acton locals advertise photography and spoon replating. Miss Hanson millinery sale and prices.
A. A. Wyman has been in town this week Mrs. J. R. Houghton visits friends in Fitchburg Dr G S Dodge of Woods Hall was in town this week Mrs Robert Burroughs of Alstead NH at her father's W H Teele Read what W L Mead says in the locals about his business The landscape Sunday was described as a symphony in crystal Mr and Mrs Will P Hart of Somerville welcome a newborn daughter Miss Viola A Preston begins a course in typewriting
Activities include I C O F lodge entertainment to aid new hall, Christmas services at Baptist church, and children's trees at each church. Obed Davis Post officers elected. Universalist Ladies’ fair features vocal music and Prof Baxter farce. Local ads note sales, gifts, and optics. Reports cover weather, real estate meeting, and civic success stories.
In Seattle an ingenious method moves electric cars up a steep grade. Two six ton counterweights run in a conduit beneath the street, opposing an air cushion and pistons. A dummy car at the top couples to a car below, with counterweights rising as cars descend and electric power assisted for ascent.
The article notes tradition of burying the faithful with feet to the east to greet the Lord and the east wind called the wind of the dead. It cites epitaphs from Epworth Lincolnshire 1807 on the north side and contrasts church customs in Suffolk and Lincolnshire for funerals versus christenings and weddings.
Consul Danforth notes that European highways permit wagon travel across Europe in all but snow, praising firm roads, shared railroad advantages, and the economy of improved highways. He observes careful stone quarrying to protect scenic ledges, urging similar care in American road building to avoid marred scenery while boosting transport of farm produce.
The pilgrimage chapel of St. Maria de Zueit crowns a Swiss Graubunden height of 2434 meters above sea level. It opens only in summer from St John the Baptist day to St Michael’s day and serves Alpine herders with cows and goats, hunters for chamois and marmot, and villagers climbing from Salux for midsummer mass.
The St. Louis Republic recounts Behres account of Easter Island giants, claiming men average 12 feet and could pass beneath colossal statues. It notes recent discoveries supporting these assertions, describing vast burial mounds and stone platforms topped with 80 foot high stone figures.
New York social figure Mrs Wilbur Bloodgood extols fencing as a premier form of physical culture. She argues the sport activates every muscle and demonstrates well developed arm muscles to support her claim.
The Atchison Globe notes two simple health improvements: beware of your diet and sleep well. It contrasts with the flood of other remedies.
Rev Mr Small of Boston preached last Sunday at Acton Centre. Dr and Mrs Barker settle in their new home at the parsonage. The Trotting Park association ball was a success socially and financially. Acton base ball nine to hold annual ball on Monday evening Dec 25 with Brigham’s orchestra. Dr J A Steadman of Georgetown Me has rooms at Monument House and will see patients with free consultation.
Miss Marion Burroughs is home from Bellows Falls where she is engaged teach.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says Dr King s New Discovery cured his wife who was feared to have pneumonia after La Grippe. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa reports it did more for his lung trouble than any previous remedy. Free trials at B F Johnson Son drug store Maynard and J C Friend Concord. Large bottles 50 cents and 1.00.
The piece discusses future aerial travel by balloon and rail style jumping around the globe within hours. It describes rapid world tours with photographic expeditions narrated as a single night journey through England Holy Land Alaska Italy and the Alps while warning of abrupt altitude changes. The Enterprise offers such trips with place descriptions during each stop and advises a leisurely pace with weekly reads.
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