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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
8
AU tens of news for the Enterprise left with A. A. Wheeler will be thankfully received and promptly attended to. Also subscriptions received for the same.
Congregational church lecture praised and church activities announced. Betty Willis returns to work at a dry goods store after illness. Local residents facing illness, legal cases, and travel notes. Funeral of Mrs. Corliss noted. accident near the post office prompts traffic cautions. Faholo society hosts concert for Concord Junction church. Local business ads and a South Acton lunch room promotion.
Friday night saw hotel guests celebrate as Birch Street hosts a festive scene. G W Swainey visited Mawhinney shop Saturday and Heymann Bros plan to install an arc lamp in Wood Square as a test. Firefighters from various departments attended Hooks masquerade, while George A Blythe started work in Boston and will stay with his family in Malden. Mrs Tarbell and Mae Merrill sang at M E church in response to prayer. T S Carter showed how opening a street boosts lot sales on Cottage Street. Charles W Fisher, former Novelty box shop worker and Bangor seminary student, vacationed with friends in Stoughton and Hudson. Marlboro Rubber, now controlling Eagle bicycle, seeks agents.
An old classified note mentions a New Home Sewing Machine offered at 160 Tremont Street Boston with a call for agents.
Atherton W. Rogers of South Sudbury purchased the Longfellow's Wayside Inn estate from Mrs. Lucy A. Newton of Maynard for ex Mayor S. H. Howe of Marlboro and ex Alderman Homer Rogers of Boston. The inn will be preserved as a relic and opened as a summer resort under new proprietors. Plans include potential electric railway access and possible nearby hotel development, with the inn remaining a visitor site rather than a tavern.
James Samuels of Dubuque a sergeant in the Twenty first Iowa was listed among Virginius victims fifteen years ago but survived being shot in the head at Santiago. He later recovered in Covington Indiana and memory loss faded after an army comrade identified him in Chicago.
W. J. Weeks of Yaphank, age 72, offers a $1,000 side match to anyone regardless of age to write a 100 letter sentence while skating. Judges to assess penmanship as experts. skill said impossible by English writers, Weeks claims to prove them wrong. In a separate report, a Pacific extension snowslide between Java and Essex derailed a snowplow train, killing brakeman A. L. Marden and a line repairer with several injured.
Washington's birthday celebration in Hudson features a flag drill by 24 young ladies in national colors, music by Gad Robinson and Miss Carrie Bond, performances by Mrs. Jennie Salisbury and Miss Clara Hale, Wallie Taylor flute numbers, and patriotic tableaux. Proceeds go to the Congregational church building fund.
In Marlboro a daughter was born Feb 13 to Mrs Geo Griffin. In Marlboro Feb 4 a daughter to Mrs Asa P Longley. In Scranton Penn Feb 10 a daughter to Mrs Theron M Persons. In Marlboro Feb 9 a daughter to Mrs Louis Martel. In Marlboro Feb 12 a son to Mrs Felix Lamothe.
Married entries from multiple towns list couples tying the knot. James Pike of Danvers with Mary Stratton of Hudson wed at the bride's mother's residence. William Muir and Emma Lacouture married in Marlboro. Merrill St. Martin and Delia Duhamel wed in Marlboro. Thomas Smith and Maggie May Archer, both of Maynard, married in Maynard.
In Marlboro on February 10 John H. Donovan aged 28 years 8 months. In Marlboro on February 9 Orin Cadman aged 72 years 11 months. In Marlboro on February 9 Cornelius Hanley aged 18 years. In Boston on February 10 Leslie E. Ellis son of Ira W. Ellis of Marlboro aged 76 years.
Prepared by M. S. AYER in Boston presents concise observations and reflections on contemporary topics, offering insight into the era's intellectual climate and the author’s methodologies.
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