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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1922
Page
2
The item notes a 1922 Ford sedan purchased by Maynard Prank and Hardy White plans to be back in town after two weeks. Mention of Mrs Grace Whitney of Weston and Mr and Mrs George Whitney appears in the fragment. Regular February Middlesex Central meeting postponed due to poor road conditions.
Maynard Grange hosted neighbors from Stow Wal tham and Concord for a Maynard Grange night with entertainment by Mrs. Arthur Puffer Miss Eleanor Fletcher Raymond Barnes and the Wilson Tebbetts Lynch quartet. A business session appointed a general fair committee headed by Orville Tucker with William Hayward Mrs Flora Macurda and Albert DPrechaler. The group will meet Bedford March 13 and State Grange proceedings will be available at the next meeting.
A tribute from Concord and Junction honors a departed physician admired for his clinical skill and lofty ideals. He was beloved as an elder brother to colleagues and patients, providing guidance, strength, and humane care in private practice and public life.
A heartfelt tribute to Dr Annis praising his enduring influence and moral example. The piece emphasizes his lasting impact beyond time, describing him as a fragrant, life guiding figure whose memories remain with those he touched.
Helen Dickenson of Medford visited Concord Junction to see her brother William Dickenson and attend the Masonic ball Friday night. William Weeks and Harold Wetherbee resumed studies at Brown University in Providence on Tuesday after a short vacation.
Friends surprised Miss Olive Lyons with a farewell reception on Wednesday evening. She received a purse of money as a token of affection and thanked them gracefully. The event featured a social program with games, songs, and refreshments of ice, cake, and punch.
Dr Christie longtime physician, born April 17, 1854 in Philadelphia, died after years of illness. He moved from Elgin to Massachusetts in 1880, worked as a dial painter in Waltham, married Ida Dear in 1882, had several children, and spent years in South Acton before settling on Maynard Street.
Fred Randell remains on the sick list at Maplest. The UPSL hockey team of Maynard will play Fitchburg at Fitchburg on the afternoon of February 22. Miss Claudina Killerby recovering after appendectomy at Deaconess hospital. Finnish Congregational church annual meeting set for next Sunday. Dr Emdrich of Boston will address the church Tuesday evening. Legion Auxiliary meeting at Odd Fellows hall Thursday Feb 25. members urged to attend and bring new members.
A reader asks about a wife’s complaint of her husband’s brother reading the morning paper at breakfast. The reply argues paper reading is common but should not disrupt conversation, especially at table or during lectures, urging politeness and attentiveness to others.
William M. Wood of the American Woolen Company asserts at his home that wages will not be reduced this season. The statement to workers at Lawrence mills says rumors of wage cuts are unfounded and urges confidence in directors, noting price increases would be more justified than any wage reduction.
About 52 friends and neighbors surprised Mrs Ethelyn Whitney with a farewell party at the Calvin Whitney place Fernon section. She will move to a new home on Concord Street near her sister’s residence by early March. A chifforobe was given as a gift, and the gathering featured an impromptu music program and dancing with refreshments.
Sheridan's orchestra, led by Frank Sheridan, announces it has reformed after a disrupted Co H dance in Concord Tuesday night. A Maynard delegation attended, and Sheridan denies rumors of disbanding while claiming the group is bigger and better than before.
Fragmentary verse asks about trains and rails and sympathy messages. The text cites a misheard lyric style with garbled names and phrases, revealing a puzzle of speakers and meaning while lacking clear events or dates.
A brief cryptic exchange in Life magazine features Tal'Em Away asking daughter Wis-l'agu about taking sine lessons. Papa Willis responds indifferently, suggesting permission hinges on others taking the lessons.
Jujiro Wada, famed lone adventurer, has crossed Klondike and Hansen Creek trails, staking claims near Peace River. Now backed by a New York syndicate he plans a perilous voyage to Herschel Island in the Arctic to seek rich deposits despite extreme cold and isolation.
A Cremona solicitor Gandelfi and a communist Lodglini faced election drama as jokers entered Gandelfi on ballots while Lodglini was spirited away by fascist forces. Gandelfi received only his own vote. Lodglini was coerced to stay quiet amid tension over the Third Internationale.
Kansas City Star notes a resident recalls Uncle Dunk nearing eighty one with visible signs of aging. The account describes a morning trip to the county seat ending around five in the afternoon as Dunk talked with locals about trivial matters and appeared noticeably aged.
A peanut based substitute mimics cow milk so closely that it sours when churned and can yield buttermilk and cheese. Developed in an American university lab, peanut proteins expand to four times milk volume with fat content ranging from four to eight percent.
A scout executive notes interest sparked by plans for a yearly good turn event. The effort focuses on building a house and engaging scouts themselves in the project within the puble hérks and other reserves.
Secretary Hoover reports that a January census is rejected due to severe winter weather. He supports delaying to April or another suitable year and exploring methods to speed publication. He notes proposals for consolidating federal statistics bureaus and avoiding duplicative inquiries.
Excavations reveal a theropellum bar where Pembellians were served drinks, with terra cotta amphorae and a furnace at the end of the bar. A vast fresco of the twelve Penates appears among newly uncovered treasures from the buried ancient metropolis.
The essay traces how Columbus opened global expansion, noting low pre contact populations in the Americas and the dramatic white population growth in the United States Canada Argentina and Australia. It emphasizes how European spread dwarfed regional boundaries and created a single world economy.
A veteran sea captain develops a four-signal fog system using two sirens a ship whistle and a steam gong each tied to a compass quadrant and operated by foot levers. Signals vary with the ship’s course creating quadrant indications and a recording mechanism preserves evidence of handling for later questions.
Boston officials ban cats from bakeries citing animal removal as a method to control rats. Deputy health commissioner Dr. P H Mollowney says proper plant construction can achieve the same pest control without animals.
Mrs. Lillie Gross of New York City is held without bail pending investigation on allegations that she abused an eight year old granddaughter. The complaint states the child was hidden under the house all day and forced to sleep on a coat beside a dog as she was beaten and driven to beg in the streets.
The Eightieth Carnatiess, prewar regiment raised at Tanjore in 1777, has been ordered to disband. It served long in active duty, held Tippu Sultan’s black marble cup from Seringapatam, and its cup is offered to the British Museum. The corps was famed for its shooting record before the war.
A Gainsborough youth caused a disturbance by cutting a light and claiming things would have gone better if someone had not sounded like a policeman. The report appears in London TipBits.
Readable lines hint at Mercops signals and a question over their meaning. A New York Sun reader wonders if the messages aim to rally Earth to join a league of planets.
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