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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
12
Practical gift ideas for business women include scarves for day and evening wear, ivory toilet sets, leather writing cases, framed prints, calendars, and tasteful accessories. Emphasizes quality over quantity and cautions matching gifts to the recipient’s tastes, noting powder bags and decorative boxes as clever, compact options.
Mrs. Boggs guides a tour of a canal boat cabin turned into a roomy living space. The boat uses clever alcoves, hidden storage, a sliding door for privacy, and a foldaway dining table. Extra comforts include a sewing machine, fruit lockers, and a small cold storage hold. A New Year’s Eve concert on a nearby boat offers a warm invite.
A compact record of Acton notes including Alfred Flint's cattle loss by peritonitis, Christmas plans at churches, family visits to Vermont Hyannis and Biddeford, plus benign town incidents. Also features a 90th birthday tribute to Grandma White and church mission group officers for 1911.
In a Christmas parlor a blindfolded lover must identify which retainer hides in a chest. The scene follows a verse inspired premise with players encircling the chest and the hidden participant answering inquiries to reveal themselves without breaking the rhyme.
Marlboro reports Friday as the coldest Dec 16 in records. A Goulding job press added at Fiske Printing Co. Several social events including Unitarian Covenant club dance and Marlboro K of P box party occurred. Schools mostly closed for Christmas vacation. Local residents attended dances and concerts. several moves and illness updates statewide. An upcoming Company F annual concert set for Jan 27 and a Sons of Veterans minstrel show director hired. About 3000 pairs of shoes produced daily at Mainst factory. K of P election planned Jan 2.
Loraine Miller spent the weekend at home as schools closed for a two week vacation. Miss May Burroughs and Harold Wilson wed in Somerville with plans to host friends at 76 Winslow Ave. West Somerville. A winter storm slowed electric cars with light snow on the rails and a late arrival.
Christmas program at the Baptist church features a morning service with organ preludes and anthems by Merkel Caiger and Schuecker, choir pieces from Hope of the World, offertory by Caiger, postlude Grand Triumphal Chorus, and an evening service with Beethoven Andante from the Fifth Symphony.
Scripture and prayer open with the Song of Ages by Rev. David W. Lovett. The Christmas cantata features the The Adoration augmented choir with a grand chorus and postlude. An old sleigh for sale by W. W. Smith and insurance services note a new agency purchase offering low rates from many companies.
North Acton and South Acton residents visited relatives in D C Harris on Sunday. Isaac Hills of Leominster spent the day with Mrs Cheney. Several locals enjoy a two week vacation at home. A kit of automobile tools was found on the state road. Extra freights on the N H road indicate strong business. The morning train engine failed near the station, delaying passengers about an hour.
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