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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1896
Page
5
Miss Norcross hosted at Miss Andrews home as Cambridge jurors focus on a case. Mary Sheparthers seniors of the primary Sunday school plan a noon observance with songs recitations and addresses. attendees invited to stay for the program.
The Concord Artillery held its annual exhibition drill and dance to a lively crowd. The event featured precise company evolutions, sabre exercises, extended order drill, and a grand march led by officers and guests, followed by dancing and social mingling with Colonel William Barrett as guest of honor.
Henry H. Chapman died at his Hubbard Street home after a long illness. He served as Fitchburg railroad depot master for many years and was Unitarian church sexton for 20 years, never missing a Sunday. Funeral held Monday at the church with a quartet and Rev. Loren B. Macdonald leading services. A Corinthian lodge delegation attended in tribute to his faithful service.
Boston proprietors advertise a range of medicines including Antidol Wheeler's Cough Balsam Wheeler's Plaster Adams' Troches Wheeler's Liver Pill Wheeler's Carbolic Ointment and Wheeler's Toothache Drops. Antidol claimed to cure headache and indigestion with druggists selling at 25 cents.
P Prentiss is listed as a teacher of violin piano and organ with an address at Concord Home School, indicating a local music instruction offering.
An 19th century advertisement touts a salve claimed to cure cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and 25 cents per box. The ad is credited to H. E. Richardson in Concord.
A historic Thursday night and Friday morning storm flooded the mill brook system. Water overflowed across farmland and roads including Cambridge turnpike and Sudbury road, with cellars and the post office basement inundated. Debris blocked the brook and a 15 foot square section in front of Pierce’s store collapsed, undermining adjacent roadwork and promising extensive repairs.
A man claimed a liver regulator for world control as a druggist offered DeWitt's Little Early Risers. The scene lists B. F. Johnson & Son in Maynard, C. H. Whitney in Concord, and H. A. Littlefield in West Acton.
At Concord Massachusetts on February 11 1896 a list of names includes Wm Buttrick P M Wim A Cunningham Edgar L Fisher A S Goodnow W A Jackman E O Leary T F McKeen N C Nelson F E Nelson Frank Hale Stearns Murrell Sears F E Smith Jr Dr H C Valen tine Henry O Wilson Mrs S P Holland Mrs L Lomasney Mrs Sarah C Pratt Miss Marion Tobias.
The table shows weekly temperatures and precipitation. Max 45, min 22, weekly range 23 degrees. Weekly mean 32.8. Total precipitation 2.68 inches. Snowfall 2.68 inches. Observer: Frep A. Town.
A Canajoharie resident attests to Dr King’s New Discovery as a trusted household remedy with consistently strong results. Catskill druggist endorses it as the best cough remedy after eight years’ use. Trial bottles are available free at local drug stores with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
First Parish Unitarian lists sermons at 7.40 p.m. December 1 and the first and third Sundays each month, with morning service at 10.46 a.m. Protestant Episcopal Church notes services at 10.45 a.m. and evening prayer with Sunday school. Unitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury includes Y P S C E at 6.30 p.m. and Friday 7.30 p.m. prayer. Scandinavian M E Church led by Rev J P Anderson holds 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. services with class meeting Friday at 7.45 p.m.
Local merchants in Concord list fresh deliveries from Concord Cream and farm direct orders. Properties for sale and rent appear, with notes on trades, services, and goods such as lanterns, walnuts, lambs wool mats, ginger, soap, and carriages.
A brief advertisement extols a cough remedy promising rapid relief. The copy highlights timing and effectiveness for coughs or colds, mentioning distributors B. F. Johnson & Son of Maynard and C. H. Whitney of Concord, plus H. A. at Little Field West Acton.
In Lincoln the south town post office was entered Thursday night. Miss Mary Welch, acting clerk for Postmaster Martin Welch, secured the office at 8 pm and found the rear window open Friday morning. Mail in boxes ransacked and several items missing, plus cigars and tobacco stolen from the store.
Quick in effect heals and leaves no scar. Burning scaly skin eruptions cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Applied to burns scalds old sores it is magical in effect. Always cures piles. B. F. Johnson & Son Leonard C H Whitney Concord H A Littlefield West Acton.
In Middlesex County Massachusetts a probate court at Cambridge on January 28 1896 decreed that Horace Francis Watson of Concord shall hereafter bear the legal name Frank Horace Watson. Public notice must be published weekly for three weeks in an approved Concord newspaper and a sworn return filed with the court. Judge Gao F Lawton presiding.
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