Red Cross Highlights of 1948 Volunteer Efforts
The 1948 year summary notes 2060 nurses sent to epidemic areas and the Junior Red Cross producing 4 885 900 articles for service men and veterans. It packed 554 000 gift boxes for needy children and helped 1 278 837 people with first aid and water safety programs. The American Red Cross collected and distributed over 110 000 pints of blood and had 303 rehabilitation activities valued at over 300 000 tims and costing 12 171 000 dollars. Substantial food and medicines shipped to India and other areas with total fundraising around 9 015 dollars.
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Concord
Red Cross
American Red Cross
India
Visue
Cngeer
Hudson Twins and Land Use Question in North Carolina
Fragmentary item notes Hudson family twins, a boy and a girl, connected to a discussion on land distribution. The snippet references acreage and three out of every three acres but lacks full context or dates. The readable portion hints at North Carolina land questions or agricultural matters.
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North Carolina
Emerson Hospital Aid Society 1949 Dues Report
The Emerson Hospital Aid Society Concord reports its 1949 dues approach to support hospital maintenance and larger obligations. The society, formed in 1925, seeks active workers and volunteers to sustain fundraising like annual rummage sales, with Samanta as a main member and Mrs Eliza Wallace contributing the first dollar.
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Emerson
Eee Samanta
Emerson Hospital Aid Society
Eliza Wallace
Aid Society
Concord Withdraws From Arlington Meet
Concord withdraws from the Arlington meet as two athletes are in the annual school play and others wish to attend. The team will be ready to face its next rival the following week.
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Concord
Eenen
Arlington
Former wool overseer Frederick Kinch dies in Lowell
Frederick B. Kinch of Middlesex street North Chelmsford died Sunday at St. John’s hospital Lowell after a short illness. He was a former wool overseer at the Hudson Worses company. Survived by wife Etta Cox Kinch two brothers two sisters a son John F. Kinch of Malden and four daughters Mrs Charles H. Gill Mrs Harold R. LaJeunesse Mrs Alfred F. Tucker Jr and Mildred L. Kinch. Funeral from O Donnell’s Lowell home Wednesday at nine with solemn high mass at ten at St John’s Church North Chelmsford burial in St Patrick’s Cemetery.
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Hudson
Frederick B. Kinch
Middlesex Street
Chelmsford
St. John’s Hospital
Lowell
Kinch
Hudson Worstes Company
Etta (Cox) Kinch
John F. Kinch
Malden
Charles H
O'Donnells
Pawtucket Street
St. John’s Church
North Chelmsford
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Sudbury Registration Deadline Ahead of Town Meeting
February 15 is the final day for Sudbury residents who are registered to register again before Town Meeting. The Town Hall will host the registration from 12 noon to 10 p.m. on that day.
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Sudbury
Funry
Lincoln resident Prescott laid to rest at New Lincoln cemetery
Born in Somerville and longtime Lincoln resident Mr. Prescott burial follows his fifteen years in the town. He worked at the Harvard Club of Boston and leaves a wife, three daughters and two sisters. Buy U. S. Savings Bonds.
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Lexington
New
Lincoln Cemetery
Somerville
Prescott
Lincoln
Harvard Club
Boston
Concord D A R February meeting delegates chosen
Old Concord Chapter D A R met at Mrs. Herbert B Smith home with Mrs Victor E Peppard presiding. Delegates to the 58th Continental Congress in Washington DC were Mrs B Cutler and Mrs Charles E Hunt. Spring con gy gy nominees included Mrs Smith Vir A Sanderschi and Mrs Wendell P Raymond with alternates listed.
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B Cutler
Charles E Hunt
Smith
Vir
A. Sanderschi
Wendell P. Raymond
Simmonds
Longtime Town Official Maintains Public Roles
Re l l remains in office as selectman after twenty years and continues as tax collector for fourteen years, signaling steady local governance and fiscal oversight.
Church concert features Seeing-eye dog and trio of song groups
The program includes three song groups led by Mrs Norcross Miss Carol Sreenan and Edward Bean with Carissa the Seeing-eye dog guiding her instructor onto the platform. Mrs Marjorie Johnston Carr of Perkins Institute accompanies and organ piano duos fill interludes. Tickets are handled by C Waldo MacWilliams. A note recalls Beaver Tail Rhode Island as home to the coast's first lighthouse.
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Carissa
Marjorie Johnston Carr
Perkins Institute
Norcross
Carol Sreenan
Edward Bean
C. Waldo MacWilliams
William W. Oliver Rites Held in Maynard
William W. Oliver of Stow died after the early morning incident. He was born in Quincy, son of Matthew and Frances Baker Oliver, a carpenter by trade. Survived by a Sudbury brother, a Hudson stepson A. Fillmore, Washington DC and Somerville, Belmont and Hudson stepdaughters. Funeral service at Fowler Funeral Home Maynard, burial in Brookside cemetery. Arrangements by Fowler Funeral Service of Maynard.
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Belmont
Fowler Funeral Home
Maynard
Brookside
Fowler Funeral Service
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Bedford
Gordon Huggins
Westford Road
Mass
Ogie
Wovally
City Hall
Tel
Mars
Mickel
Jean Sablon
Nannegan
U. S
Pittsburgh Paints
Celer Dynamics
Concord Lowell Road
BUY
U. &. Savings Bunds
Beaver Tail, R. I
Boy Scouts of America
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