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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1921
Page
7
A reflective excerpt urges readers to bury past missteps of 1900, 1920, and beyond. It counsels leaving regrets behind, embracing forward momentum, and renewing moral effort as the new year arrives. The piece lauds persistence, resilience, and personal responsibility to shape a better future.
The poem invokes ringing out the old year and ringing in the new, condemning falsehood and strife while praising justice, virtue, and peace. It urges shedding pride, civic slander, and greed to welcome truth and humane laws for all mankind.
A vintage recipe describes making a very cheap molasses foam candy by mixing sugar and molasses, adding a few drops of flavoring and baking soda, then stirring briskly as it foams. The mixture must be poured into prepared buttered tins immediately and not exposed to sudden cold during cooling.
The fragmentary OCR reads as a cryptic item noting a father’s action to conceal a tie linked to a person named Chan. The text lacks clear context, dates, or a complete event structure to identify a reportable incident or outcome.
Four Christmas Masses were held at St. Bridget's Church with full attendance. The 7 AM service. 8:30, 9:30, and a solemn high mass at 10:30 drew large crowds. Sermons preached at all services. Assistants included deacon John J. Sweeney and subdeacon Rev. Edwin W. Walsh, with master of ceremonies Tobin and other aides.
St George's church held services at 7 and 10 30 on Christmas morning with full congregations. Rev Arthur B Papineau preached the Christmas sermon at the 10 30 service.
Large congregations attend morning and evening services at the Finnish Congregational church on Walnut street. The Christmas sermon was by Rev. John Vaananen, pastor, with the text The Light of the World. The church featured greenery and Christmas trees. A Christmas tree and entertainment were held at Alka Temperance hall Saturday evening with Santa Claus and Rev. John Vaananen delivering a Christmas address.
First Universalist church Rev. Clark L. Paddock pastor conducts Sunday service at 10:90 oclock with Sunday school at 12 noon Y P C union meeting in the vestry at 615 oclock.
The Congregational church offers a Sunday service at 10 30 with organ preludes a 12 noon Sunday school and an evening service at 7 The program includes Mozart Mass and Handel Hallelujah Chorus with Fletcher soprano Mrs Herbert Pratt and Rev Ralph Barker preaching and communion planned after services A prayer meeting in the vestry Friday at 7 30 precedes communion
The report lists numerous families in Acton and Cambridge sharing Christmas at home or with relatives. Names include Gibbs, Fletcher, Wells, Fairbanks, Charles, Christie, Taylor, Reed, Chapman, Canelle, Stiles, and others, with tree lights and festive scenes noted. The piece highlights family reunions and visits of students and soldiers during the holiday.
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