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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
4
The Enterprise Company presents The Paterprise with manager H F Wilber overseeing post subscriptions. Single copies six cents. three months 2 50. one year 1 50. address 161 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts.
Public advertisement rates listed for one inch one week at 760 each with 26c yearly option. Includes bus pay notices and local column insertions. several line entries per week appear in the listing.
Concord Junction residents need not travel for holiday supplies as local dealers stock a full range at fair prices. The Union Christmas and entertainment event, held December 24 at the association hall, promises musical and dramatic features and a mysterious Christmas tree. Nonmembers pay a small admission at the Sunday school event.
Concord Junction Woman's club met with Mrs J W Ford and Mrs Mary Southwell to discuss Robert Louis Stevenson. Mrs Southwell presented a detailed talk on Stevenson's life, travels, and literary traits, noting his persistence despite health issues. Tea followed the program.
Mrs Marla McNulty wife of James McNulty died at her home from heart failure following the death of her son Frank Medully three months earlier. She leaves James and a daughter Myre ane, plus a large family including her mother Mrs McCarthy Graniteville and four McCarthy siblings. Floral tributes included a large pillow from her husband and daughter.
We extend sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for their kind words and acts during our time of sorrow. Mr. James McNulty and Miss Myra McNulty express gratitude for support shown after the loss. The bouquet includes chrysanthemums ferns and a wreath with ribbon inscribed sister niece and daughter.
The speaker extols honest labor from dawn to dusk, praising gardening and wood cutting as healthful toil. He contrasts manual work with modern comfort, imagining pressing a button to work from an armchair, while affirming the virtue and endurance of those who toil.
A historical piece describes how southwestern Indian tribes observe Christmas with ceremonial dances and gifts for papooses, highlighting rain prayers and a baby with a brave, colorful set of presents. It also notes Christmas Island’s climate, location southeast of Java, British control since 1888, phosphate beds, and a visitor’s account of a perpetual summer Christmas.
A man questions health permit rules for smoking cigars. a torch is lit as curiosity grows. The other party remains guarded, noting he is wondering if a health officer permit is required to smoke.
Fragmentary OCR lines note phrases about courts being powerless and a character named Lisa. The readable bits suggest a quip about truth and dentistry without clear events or people.
A speaker proposes a rural escape to enjoy Placid cows and a milkmaid with a pail, contrasting it with city life. A character responds that time is lacking, then suggests visiting a butterine factory in the city as a substitute to observe production.
A Boston area column reports on a tobacco pledge story in Athol, an appendectomy for Dr. George S. Adams at Westboro asylum, a dog killed by a train near Hudson, a charity Christmas tree event in South Barre, a funeral in Newark for Carrie Hager, a Clinton fire sparked by a cigarette, Natick’s 25th anniversary ordination plans, and other small town items from Leominster to Milford including Captain James Coffey’s centennial wheelbarrow feat and obituary.
David G. Lane, told he was a free man, refused to leave his cell for a minor offense. He declared he did not want to go into the cold world and stated he would be arrested as a vagrant if he stayed. He answered, I remain.
Hopedale report says George Arthur Knight of Harvard College class of 1907 died Sunday from consumption.
Concord reports a holiday dance at the town hall under the OK club, about 45 couples, with an arranged reception room and hidden orchestra. Winnie O’Neill’s surprise gold ring party on Brooks street. Christmas music at St Bernard’s with Miss Katherine Gleason at the organ. Funeral for Howard Mulholland in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. Harmony lodge elected officers. long list of attendees and members from Concord.
The Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the Concord National Bank of Concord will be held at their banking house on Tuesday January 14 1908 at 345 oclock p m for the choice of directors and the transaction of any other business that may legally come before the meeting Fay Heywood Cashier Concord Mass December 10 1907
Concord buyers can view a black pacing gelding foaled 4901 sired by Prentender son of Dirreator 2.17 dam by Spinx 2.20. Owned by Mr. Allen of Maynard and driven recently before his death the animal is described as smooth moving and likely to go fast. Prospective purchasers can test drive in till roads and public areas with assurance of safety. Charles Davis Concord. address Box 35 Taxington M
Richardson’s Pharmacist order mass details a remedy named Embrocation causing pain claims. The fragmentary notice references a pharmacist and a mass order related to Richardson.
The Boston Transcript highlights Gen Fred D Grant as a total abstainer opposing beer in army post exchanges. Brig Gen Aaron Daggett cites Grants retirement in 1881 and 1901 appointment, noting canteens existed only in peace. Weeks discuss opposition by Miles Ward Shafter and others, with Congress funding post exchanges and temperance groups pressing repeal. Local notices mention Concord meetings and a 25th wedding anniversary.
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