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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1907
Page
8
Edward Van Alstyne of Kinderhook delivers a Pomona address urging strategic grange expansion. He warns against overbuilding chapters and endorses youth involvement, juvenile granges, and representative delegate selection to the state grange.
An exchange argues there are two views on juvenile granges and success hinges on the appointed leader and faithful matron. Proper start and steady direction aid training in meetings and parliamentary usage, broaden youth interests, and improve social instruction. Meeting times and places pose challenges but can be solved.
Nearly all state granges held December meetings reporting increased interest and membership and broader opportunities to address farmer concerns. Greenes grange stands stronger and more influential, provided it stays free of political entanglements to secure its future.
Clayton Beach is working in Watertown and John Beach repairs at the shoddy mill. Augustus Zeigler installs a residence telephone. The Australian ballot system starts at the next town meeting. A high school dance funds the team. Conductor Bowers is recovering from appendicitis. The Universalist parish plans its annual supper for Washingtons Birthday. A baked bean supper is set by the Ladies Social Circle.
Nor Easter forces Tuesday no school in West 4cton as the town lacks bell notification for storms. Dr L A Christie hosted a Congregational gathering Friday night with games and socializing. The Baptist church held its annual roll call with 156 members, supper, and reports from officers and auxiliaries led by Rev David Lovett.
In early March the county deputies of New York state will meet in Syracuse for a conference. The gathering focuses on organizing and safeguarding the work across districts as the Empire State’s deputy leaders plan coordinated action.
The Maine state grange reports a very strong showing with 75 percent of subordinate granges owning their own halls. Costs range from 2000 to 7000 dollars each, illustrating the permanency and financial strength of the organization in the state.
South Acton local notice lists twenty tons of good stock hay for sale cheap by F. R. Knowlton of W. Acton Massachusetts.
The article traces dormice as a Roman delicacy eaten with garum and cow foot jellies, notes black puddings dating to Tiberius, credits Bambonselvergius with sausage invention, and mentions a lost treatise on fattening dormice. Petronius Arbiter is cited for dormice fattening by sleep and the sleep-inducing poppy seed honey sauce.
Harry Woodward oldest son of Clara Hayward and Charles Woodward died in Providence Rhode Island February 2 from scarlet fever. He had initial tonsillitis but deteriorated, was brought home to be mourned with funeral services held Tuesday afternoon. He was a promising youth near majority. The family receives much sympathy.
Lyman Holbrook came back to the village after a year and a half in Florida. Mrs. C. B. Stone and Miss Clara Stone return to Boston this week after staying in Boothbay Missouri since Mrs. Susan Lewis's death. Mr. Stone remains in Florida with poor health. Rev. D. W. Lovett opened a series of Sunday evening talks at the Baptist church on vital subjects. Topics include Ruin of Redemption and Degeneration or Regeneration set for February 10. Widespread sickness from colds and grip is reported, with Mrs. Augusta Whitcomb recovering and Mrs. George Reed helping care for her.
Miss Sarah Wood and Mrs Ida Tuttle are featured in neighborly tidbits along with several visitors and illness notes. The Acton Grange plans a February meeting, and an area auction sale is announced for Old Concord with Otis H. Forbush as auctioneer.
The article notes the largest postage stamp a five cent U S stamp for newspaper postage sized 4 by 2 inches and the smallest a twenty five pfennig stamp from Mecklenburg Schwerin issued in 1956 at one quarter the size of an ordinary stamp. It adds that about 13 000 different kinds of postage stamps have been issued by various countries.
The lives of Ipsen and Bjornson diverged by politics and time but fate brought their families together. Bjornson's daughter married Ibsen's only child and the two writers finally met again at their grandchildren or children's wedding after 25 years apart.
In May 1775 residents of Tyringham and Sheffield signed a pledge to ride for swift intelligence from Boston. Jacob Van Deusen would ride first on May 8 with Mark Hopkins alternating weeks, except Sundays, to report to Josiah Smith's house and fund Springfield reports biweekly.
Boston February 5 The legislative committee recommended allowing fishing and outdoor games after 1 pm on Sundays while banning most Sunday entertainments except sacred or classical events. In Rostop John Wright 64 a Civil War veteran was killed on the elevated railway within an hour of his navy yard appointment.
The Herald reports a large amount of morphine was mailed to a prison official in Boston. John Knights a trusted inmate with access allegedly intercepted packages and sold the drug to many prisoners within the facility.
An old Freiburg legend tells of a murder where the ghost of a shoemaker points to a nail in his grave, the wife confesses and is executed, with skull relics kept as a warning. Nearby a pet dealer touts the Chinese brush tailed goldfish, noting prices from 250 to 700 dollars for fine specimens.
A lighthearted quip from the Milwaukee Sentinel recounts a scene where a woman defers a kiss with a rain check as her father enters the room. The exchange hints at social tact and household color in a concise comic aside.
A customer agrees to have alterations done on a suit and negotiates a price drop from £4 to £2 before taking the garment. The tailor confirms the service will be provided.
A dialogue fragment shows a doctor affirming necessity of an operation. The patient voices urgency about life and securing payment through life insurance as the only possible way to collect the bill.
A brief excerpt notes Mrs. Elderly tightly wrapped and her son deemed not much of a wrapper. The fragment, part of a column by Johnson, hints at employment and hardship impacting mood.
A carnivorous corpse plant entices a Natal colony with a bell shaped motith and a hollow stem. The black aliepet surface secretes a thick pungent substance and emits a foul odor. Carrion birds are attracted and become snared by the secretion as the bell mouth closes and swallows them.
Nathaniel Thayer of Lancaster and his three brothers plan to donate a town hall as a memorial to their father the late Nathaniel Thayer. The project aims to serve the community and honor the Thayer family's legacy in Lancaster Massachusetts.
Bertha M Harris daughter of Mr and Mrs David C Harris died Saturday January 26 at age 14 3 19. Funeral at home January 29 with Congregational minister Rev Miles. Burial in Woodlawn beside her mother. First death in a 12 child household. Includes in memoriam verse and card of thanks from the Harris family dated February 4 1907.
Advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Pills to cleanse the stomach regulate the liver and bowels. Dose suggested with a 25 cent price. Samples offered free at H J Dwinell's drug store in Maynard.
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