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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
5
A local shop advertises Christmas bargains with bargain tables and low candy prices for the holiday season. The note thanks residents of Concord and Maynard for their support, reporting record holiday sales and inviting future patronage in the New Year.
James Powers of Concord voted here Tuesday. Merrill Brown formerly of Concord visited friends this week. Miss Mary Cull limited at home with injuries from a train jump. Miss Isabella Trench of New York guest of Miss Alice Jones. Prof Alfred G. Rolfe of the Hill spent holidays with Mr and Mrs George Emmett. Phillip Walcott of New York guest of relatives in town. Miss Helen Loughlin home from Pascoag Rhode Island during Christmas vacation. Miss Ethel Garfield of Cambridge visited friends in town. R B Rood of Haverhill guest of Miss Harriet Rood. G Kirkham Smith of New York spent Tuesday with Mr and Mrs H F Smith. Miss Ethel Hoyle visited friends in Norwood. James G Livingston Jr home for holiday. Phillip Emmett of Brockton agreed with relatives here. EB VanArnum visited his parents in Smellee Tuesday.
Mrs Jas Conquest and son visited friends in Sudbury before returning to Pittsfield New Hampshire. Miss Louisa Saunders leaves the local high school for a better post in Hudson. Miss Hattie Goodulow of Newton plans holiday travel with A W Godd. Grace Stevens visits from Brookline at her parents home. Dr M T Perry of Somerville visited town. Mrs H R Glasier of West New England timeline. Mr and Mrs H Hit Reming Met welcomed by their family. Ethel Turner of Dorchester visits C B Bent household. The Unitarian Woman’s Alliance cancels its annual fair. The S H S alumni society holds its annual social at the town hall on Thursday evening Dec 27 with expected attendance.
Local notices report visitors and hospital stays including Minas Clara Wright entering Waltham hospital for training and Miss Lottie Smith recovering at home. The Ferden family welcomed a new baby boy. A horse accident near J Minot Harl caused injury. Dr Oviatt treated two stitches for Hall. J F Kenney and family plan permanent residence. several visits between Petersham and surrounding towns noted.
Lindsay Hicks, a miner with alleged Native American heritage, was rescued after 16 days trapped in a Bakersfield tunnel collapse during Edison Power work. Rescuers forced a pipe through debris to him and fed him via the pipe as experts dug a new exit. He stood strong, aided by friends and medical staff, and was released at 11:25 PM lifting spirits amid the dangerous, arduous effort.
A tale recounts a spy cipher and a mission to Basle Switzerland. De Chamilly follows instructions to observe the Rhine bridge for two hours with notes, then reports to a minister sparking a French war maneuver. A night watch quips about street lamps and housing.
A fragment reflecting on Dr. Johnson’s influence in spelling and word forms. It notes Johnson added k to musick rhetorick and phys and observes spelling changes over the twentieth century, asking how many have noticed the shift.
In the sixteenth century Spaniards created a complex cipher to confuse foreign decipherers. The system, comprising fifty signs, aided clandestine communication until Henry the Sixth intercepted some messages and enlisted Vieta to decipher them.
The piece surveys eight years of U S policy in Porto Rico, praising sanitation, roads, schools, and civic integration. It notes mass literacy efforts, the teaching of English, and the shift toward citizenship under Roosevelt, with Beekman Winthrop as governor and a population over one million having grown more cosmopolitan.
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