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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
5
Local shop markets a sweeping markdown event with numerous garments on sale. Corduroy, flannel, and satin waists drop to fractions of their regular prices, while Monte Carlo coats and electric seal jackets slash to bargain levels, attracting shoppers seeking value. Several items list specific old vs current prices and savings, highlighting a citywide clearance push.
Wide selection of ladies skirts marked down with prices from 1.25 to 12.50. Includes walking and dress skirts in lengths from 30 to 87 inches, offering discounts across the collection.
All our fur sets marked down with ladies and children's furs on sale. Prices range from 1.98 to 16.50 for fur scarfs muff sets and children's fur sets, with multiple quantities listed and a note urging bargain hunting.
Ladies and children’s outerwear selection includes 43 coats and reefers for Misses ages 2 to 12 years. Gretobia shop promotes new styles in a local catalog notice.
Prices for ladies dressing sacques and eider down pieces reduced from higher rates to sale prices. Figures show garments such as Figured Dressing sacques once $1.50 now at fifty cents, and Best Fancy Striped Eider Down sacques once $3.00 now discounted to a lower price.
Ladies hats and dress hats trimmed and untrimmed priced from 1.50 to 5.00 first of season. Walking hats 1.50 to 3.00. Children's trimmed hats 1.00 to 2.50. Don’t miss this opportunity to buy goods at less than half regular prices. We need money and room.
Concord items report Frank Barker returning from Canada to town. turnout for church and social events. new members add to the Christian Endeavor. illness among residents. Adams sailing for Egypt. local lodge activity. upcoming concerts and lectures. fire and explosion incidents. a death in Nine Acre Corner. rural free delivery box controversy clarified.
The Concord W O T U will hold its annual food sale Friday February 20 at 3 30 p m in Mr Black s vacant store on Waldenst to raise funds for its treasury and support local welfare work In Concord the society aids the Frances E Willard Rest in Boston which houses and trains working girls earning under five dollars weekly about 20 girls live there for eight dollars a week with lessons in dressmaking cooking millinery and other skills A physician speaks weekly on health and character and boys are now taught shoemaking and carpentry in the neighborhood effort
On Sunday evening February 22 at 7 30 a service will be held at the Trinitarian church to mark George Washingtons birthday with a sermon on The Puritan and the Cavalier their relations to each other in our Colonial History and patriotic music. Citizens and all young people are invited.
FP B Sanborn questioned citizenship and a Concord route remonstrance noted $125 000 of opposing property versus $10 000 in favor. Residents argued over a Junction to Reformatory route with concerns about public safety and rates. Prescott Keyes mocked the proposal as promoter driven. After objections from multiple property owners and townspeople the selectmen denied the petition citing lack of town benefit.
The Democratic town committee is formed with T. F. Giblin as chairman, J. M. Collins as secretary, and P. J. Sullivan as treasurer. Other members include E. McKenna, G. B. Withington, D. J. Sullivan, J. W. Byron, W. E. Rand, and J. M. Russell.
Mrs L Chaplin offers dressmaking and repairs in Sudbury near Mine Etta Mason. A good cook and fair laundress can seek work with Mrs George Sohier in Concord Main. Concord Junction lists a theatre cast for Mrs Walthrop s Bachelors as the second Dramatic Club performance this week.
F J Green of Lancaster New Hampshire credits Electric Bitters with curing years of chronic indigestion and nervous debility. He and his wife report lasting health improvements and call it a grand tonic for women. Sold for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed by local pharmacists.
Mrs Adams of Jaffrey N H mother of Mrs Waldo Stone has died. J C Howe spent a week at his daughter Mrs Sidney Bryant’s in Newton CO. A Cutter endures a painful foot with earlier fear of gangrene but now improving. Mrs Wm Jones—previously listed as ill—shows slight improvement. Mrs H G Burr improving slowly. Ladies Mission circle to hold a supper Fri Feb 20 in the chapel with baked beans brown bread pickles salads fancy pies and coffee.
Public library shelves welcomed a diverse mix of 20th century titles on Saturday. Notable works include Aunt Abbie's Neighbors by Annie Trumbull Sleason and Castle of the Carpathians by Jules Verne alongside biographies and juvenile adventures from authors such as Frederic Harrison and George B. Grinnell.
Melbourne reader credits Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption to save his life after a doctor said he had little hope. The testimonial notes a free trial bottle offered and claims the medicine cured throat and lung diseases with guaranteed results. Available through J C Friend Concord Johnson’s Pharmacy Maynard druggists. Price 50c and 1.00 with three bottles free.
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