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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1911
Page
7
A light, humorous note about a woman named Freddy failing to propose and a worse misfortune a hole in her stocking during a shopping trip. The fragment captures a playful social moment and minor misfortune.
An item notes young Willie McKvaine building an aeroplane and soaring to six hundred feet. It asserts the boy will not die from water on the brain, a line echoing a Chicago Record-Herald report.
Kansas City Journal quotes a bachelor claiming Benedict Milton wrote Paradise Regained after his wife left him. The brief item frames the event as a notable chapter in his life with the telltale humor of the period.
Worcester area testimonial notes back pain and kidney distress improving after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. William Davis of Marlboro Mass describes rapid relief and urges others to try the product, with advertised price 50 cents and Foster Milburn Co as U S agents.
Marlborough Savings Bank deposits earn interest on the third Wednesday of January April July. Dividends payable on the third Wednesday in January and July. Hours 9 to 3 weekdays and 9 to 12 30 Saturdays. President William D. Burdett Treasurer Charles F. Holyoke. Also notices for live fowls broilers fruit stock and pigs from Geo A Dyer Marlboro Mass.
A story on unselfishness shows Alice giving her seat to Sadie on a picnic trip. The piece argues selfishness harms society, urging readers to act with consideration for others and citing Carnegie’s philanthropy and biblical and literary authorities as examples.
An article discusses a steel gray rain and motor coat with a left side closure and attached girdle, plus fur storm collar and Eskimo hood. It also notes New York City schoolchildren unveiling a Fort Washington monument on the 134th anniversary of the 1776 British capture, honoring valor.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and his wife are regarded as an ideal couple by California neighbors. They lead a quiet life in Pacific Avenue San Francisco with a large garden as their chief diversion. Mrs Roosevelt tends flowers daily in a broad hat and gloves, while Mr Roosevelt returns from work to supervise and read to her as she tends the garden.
The Morristown dog show attracted many well dressed women and a larger field of blooded dogs. Miss Mary Winthrop won first prize with her bull terrier Isabel Blue while strong rivalry fueled entries from many exhibitors across New Jersey.
The passage questions whether women are worse at decisions and proposes a method to remove indecision. It suggests judging options before a milliner’s mirror to eliminate conflicts and pick the remaining choice as the one she wants most, claiming a method that seems to work for some.
The piece traces ideas from ancient voice spreading through tubes to later devices. It notes speaking trumpets and ear trumpets aiding hearing, and describes Mr Curtis’s acoustic chair of Queen Victoria’s era. The chair used perforated plates to gather sound into a vase then to ears, with tubes to other rooms for deaf listeners.
A cat arches her back and raises its tail when danger approaches to appear larger and deter threats. The same posture appears when the animal enters a room to attract attention, rubbing against legs or furniture to gain notice. The behavior likely evolved to either intimidate rivals or attract friendly attention through increased apparent size.
A party game description asks players to blindfold and pass six coins in a non sequential order. After two seconds per coin, light returns, players guess the exact coin order. The host fixes the target sequence before the game starts and the closest guess wins a prize. The text ends with garbled lines urging children not to beg.
Corrected to November 13, 1910 listing Saturday half hour cars from 2 PM to 8 PM. A special theatre car for Maynard connects at Concord Depot with Excess leaving Auston at 1 PM. Through service from Concord to Arlington Heights and connections to Marlboro, South Framingham, Worcester lines, and Clinton via various connections.
Time table shows when cars are scheduled to arrive and depart at principal points on the line. The company does not guarantee arrivals or departures or any consequences arising therefrom. A. Persons Supp Maynard Mase.
Bond and associates decide to remodel rebuild and enlarge the Liberty street structure recently damaged by fire. An architect has drawn plans for improvements including two more stories making four stories total with modern systems such as steam heat gas electricity and plumbing to be installed as soon as possible.
Miss Garland has appeared ten times in the program and in other cities with Mrs. Stevens. She is a Powers School of Expression student in Boston and has long been a reader and stage performer. She is rehersing for a prominent role in a Union Club production.
The Marlboro Grange will hold a Wednesday evening meeting with the ladies’ auxiliary meeting in the afternoon followed by a sipper. In the evening a discussion on Shade Trees will be led by speakers Addington Brigham Edward Gelinar Carl Walker David Harris Clarence V. Lee who will address the most desirable kinds.
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