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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1911
Page
7
Fragmentary notes describe the first American patent for a pan granted to a Baltimorean in 1810 and mention a rare metal osmium alloyed with iridium, osmiridium, used for pen tips due to hardness and resistance.
A fragment discusses the air a person breathes daily and compares it to food and drink intake, noting a figure of about thirty four pounds and six sins.
The Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City is described as the most perfect whispering gallery in the world. A pin dropped into a silk bat at one end of the friage structure is distinctly heard at the other end.
Bryant's Thanatopsis draws on a Horace fragment as its core idea. The note highlights the poem’s classical inspiration and its meditation on death and nature.
The study notes equal arm strength in men and women is rare with women often showing stronger right arms. It finds men tend to have greater left arm weakness and that overall arm strength equality is uncommon across both sexes.
Albert V. Jones of Natick Mass reports long standing back pain and kidney troubles eased after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He credits relief to the treatment and notes renewed strength and permanent improvement. Sold by dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's.
Marlborough Savings Bank states deposits earn interest on the third Wednesday of January and April July and October with dividends payable on the third Wednesday of January and July. Banking hours are 9 to 3 weekdays and 9 to 12:30 Saturdays. Also ad offering live fowls and chicks with special broiler prices, plus fruit and breeding stock nearby Geo A Dyer Marlboro.
A streetcar story of a lonely, abused child who seeks belonging. A kindly woman adopts him, illustrating sympathy as action. The piece vouches for Jacob Riis as an exemplar and urges daily practice of kind words, urging thoughtfulness and service to others.
Master Bachelder announced 5000 new members and record subordinates, with strong farm policy calls. Treasurer McDowell detailed receipts of 20737.70 and total resources of 118125.85, noting extensions and state allocations. The National Grange Bulletin was discontinued and a new monthly bulletin planned within a 5000 annual limit. Next meeting slated for Columbus with F N Godfrey re-elected to the executive committee.
The national Grange adopts policy resolutions denouncing the 1909 tariff law as unjust to farmers and urging tariff revisions that cap duties at the labor cost difference between domestic and foreign production. It also favors immediate amendments to reduce excessive executive protection for staple manufactured articles.
A historical document urges controlling trusts and monopolies, reducing duties on low priced goods, negotiating new commercial treaties, and extending federal regulation to railroads. It argues farmers bear freight costs, rails seek rate hikes, and government action is needed to ensure fair value and prevent exploitation.
The Washington state grange discusses forming a permanent national organization a central bureau of information and research and annual state confabs to handle state matters. New Jersey New York and Massachusetts granges are cited with member totals and tax positions as part of the debate.
Corrected time table for Concord Maynard and Hudson Street Railway dated November 13 1910 outlines start points from Car Horn and Concord Junction. Lists Sunday evening and Saturday limited services with special theatre car to Maynard connecting at Concord Depot with Boston express and connections at Hudson with several lines for Marlboro South Framingham Worcester Clinton Leominster and Boston via multiple junctions.
Schedule details listing Lowell Acton and Maynard routes with A. Vernsons as superintendent Maynard Mase referenced in timetable notation.
In Washington Sunday afternoon the House heard eulogies for the late Congressman Charles Q Tirrell led by Representative John J Mitchell. Attended by relatives and members from multiple states, speakers included Greene of Fall River Park of New Jersey McCall Washburn Weeks Gillett Lawrence O Connell Mandell Tilson Sheffield Howland Morgan Hawley and others. Resolutions honoring Tirrell were offered by Mitchell and adopted as a mark of respect.
Mrs Bardie Watson of Hudson woke to flames at 2 30 Sunday morning and fled with her two children to a ground near snow covered fields. She saved a bureau as the home and barn burned, the family losing clothing. The fire, likely from an overheated stove, destroyed the house at O W a teen’s property near M Patterson.
Sunday blaze at Whitman Crossing destroyed a bay house belonging to Lyman F. Priest. Fire started in a shed next to the residence. Glensondate volunteers could not respond due to no horse for the truck. Capt. G. F. Tanadge, a former Brooktine assessor, occupied the house and lost a valuable library.
In Westboro police court Judge W F Powler discharged Andrew W Fitzgerald on larceny charges for three calves from Adame P Lanois. The Foster versus Sampson $25 sale dispute was continued after evidence. Joseph Flynn to move barber business from 129A Main St to the Downey Building on March 1.
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