Concord notes on funerals sermons and society events
Local items report tributes to Phillips Brooks and memorial sermons at the Unitarian and Trinitarian churches. Dramatist Fay Davis with Master George Pettengill and Miss Bemis draw crowd at Concord Alliance event. Courts and juries noted at town meeting and postal matters mention Columbian stamps and January 31 advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian
Concord Alliance
Fay Davis
Concord Lyceum
George Irving Pettengill
Bessie K. Bemis
Bertha C. Smith
Fannie D. Rolfe
Concord
Miss Davis
Pettengill
Miss Smith
Miss Bemis
Feeland
William Lloyd Garrison
Prof. Churchill
Boston
Evolution of Conscience Highlighted at South Middlesex Conference
The eighty third regular session opened at the Unitarian church with Walter S. Blanchard as president and Rev. Frederic Gill delivering the devotional. Prof. Josiah Royce addressed the group on the evolution of conscience amid diverse opinions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Middlesex
Unitarian Church
Walter S. Blanchard
Frederic Gill
Arlington
Josiah Royce
Harvard University
C. C. Hussey
Billerica
Concord School of Philosophy
George W. Cooke
Joel Metcall
Hoar Speech on Anti-Option Bill Praised by Colleagues
Senator Hoar’s critique of the anti-option measure drew high praise from Pugh Reed and West among Democratic lawyers. Hoar, chairs the judiciary committee, is seen as a key legal voice likely to sway undecided senators toward or against consideration of the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoar
Pugh
Alabama
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Senator Hoar
Judiciary Committee
Concord Artists Shine in World’s Fair Exhibit
The Massachusetts Art Exhibit bound for Chicago features Concord's Stacy Tolman etching The Etcher and Katherine T. Prescott bronze portrait of Emerson. Also shown are a Schoff engraving of Emerson and W. B. Closson engravings of Hawthorne’s Boat House by the Concord river near the Manse, near the historic tree group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Massachusetts
Chicago
Stacy Tolman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Katherine T. Prescott
Schoff
Emerson
Rouse
Free Public Library
W. B. Closson
Boston
Hawthorne
Concord River
Battle Ground
Church Services Schedule Briefing
Unitarian services led by Rev. B R Bulkeley with morning and evening worship. February 5 guild meeting on James Russell Lowell led by Matilda Linder. Trinitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury with morning service and Y P S C E at 6 30 PM. prayer meeting Friday. Protestant Episcopal Trinity Church under Rev Walter Russell Breed with services through March 1 1893. Sunday school Bible class at 3 15 PM. Evensong and sermon at 4 PM. Holy communion the second Sunday of each month at 9 30 AM. all seats free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian Church
George A. Tewksbury
Unitarian
B.R. Bulkeley
James Russell
Lowell
Mies Matilda Linder
Trinitarian Congregational
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Walter Russell Breed
Holy Communion
Qa. m
Local ads offer variety at Concord shops and houses
Towle Brothers markets Concord souvenir spoons and fresh butter in small tubs with weekly shipments. H. L. Whitcomb’s sells daily and weekly papers with home delivery, carries laundry goods, Sleds and skates for children, and branches into Ginghams and Dress Goods via C. E. Brown. Hunt’s, Miss Buck, and others offer tea samples, Hamburg edgings, Valentines, and cough remedies, while Towle’s reports 50 barrels of old wheat flour. Also rental ad for eight room house, Mrs F W Dowd, Box 144 Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towle Brothers
H. L. Whitcomb’s
Hamburg
Miss Buck’s
Whitcomb’s
Hunt's
Richardson
F. W
Dowd
Bedford Street
Concord
Mass
Daniels
A. W. Hosmer
C. E. Brown
C. H. Towle
C. W. Sanford
Rebecca Ames
Bells of auld lang syne evoke memories in East Acton
In East Acton a passing sleigh bell stirs memories of fifty years past. The bells of Billings Brooks Brabrook and Hapgood wooden sleighs recalled old times, winter evenings, and the sound of bells as a signal of visitors. A train whistle later awakens alarm and returns the writer to the present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Brooks
Brabrook
Hapgood
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Praised In Rare Testimony
A Boston fireman recounts a dramatic recovery from severe dropsy after using Kickapoo Indian Sagwa. He credits the remedy for restoring health after multiple doctors failed. The advertisement touts Sagwa as nature’s universal cure and claims broad medical success and easy access at retail price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
John C. Harrington
Boston
Brockton
Mass
J.C. Harrington
Court Av
Emerson Inspired Tablet Proposals at Roxbury Hill
Park commissioners approve a bronze tablet on the great boulder at Schoolmaster Hill Franklin Park noting Ralph Waldo Emerson lived near the spot and composed poems there. They direct landscape architects to consult Eliot Cabot for inscription and secure a tablet design from Howard Walker. The rest of the item notes the Loyal Temperance Legion reorganized with Harriet Clark as superintendent and Fanny Rolfe as music instructor, plus weekly meetings. Weather and local notices follow including temperature highs and winds for late January 1892 and an ad for a New Home Sewing Machine in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Commissioners
Schoolmaster Hill
Franklin Park
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roxbury
Eliot Cabot
Howard Walker
Journal
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Department of the ‘‘Loyal Temperance Legion
Harriet Clark
Fanny Rolfe
Lower Town Hall
H. H. Chapman
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H.W. Chapa
William E. Chandler
Lar
James G. Blaine
Speemns Rolfe
Pennsylvania
Edward A. Horton
Guild of the First
Henry F. Smith
George D. Sohier
Frank Moore
Marcellus Houghton
United States
Phillips Brooks
B. R. Bulkeley
Walter R. Breed
William Buttrick P. M. E. W. Abbott M. D
Arthur Croft
Joseph G. Doyle
Henry Good
R. G. Rice
Dennis Wheeler
L. H. Wheeler
Joseph White
Georgeanna Becker
Carrie M. Nickerson Bryant
Margaret Collins
Winifred B. Greely
Hadley
Emma Koch
James Stoddard
Syrena Stodard
Catherine Sullivan
Martha S. Prescott
Ww. H. Pierson
Julian C. Jaynes
William S. Leland
Concord Junction
G. A. Tewksbury
William Brown
A. W. Jackson
A. P. Putnam
Grindall Reynolds
J. Frederic Dutton
Fred. May Holland
South Middlesex Unitarian Conference
N. S. Daniel’s
East Acton
Spirit Land
Redord
The
Boston Globe
Ayer
Mark
M.S. Ayer
M. S. Ayer
State Street
L. N. Fowler
Tuttles, Jones & Witherbee
So. Acton
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Riverside Co-operative Association
Maynard
U. U
A. Tov
Tremont Street
Enterprise Office
Hudson
Dr. Stetson
Near Depot
Maynard, Mass
E. H. Davis
H. L. Whitcomb
LST
A. F. Bowman
Meat, Game & Poultry
Concord, Mass
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