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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1903
Page
5
The advertisement lists numerous garment markdowns including corduroy and flannel waists discounted from regular prices to sale prices such as 2.50 and 1.98, fleece lined, silk waists and Monte Carlo coats with substantial reductions. It notes prices for coats from 5.98 to 27.50 and jackets up to 22.50, highlighting wholesale bargains.
Hundreds of ladies skirts priced for clearance with discounts across walking and dress styles. 200 walking skirts from $1.98 to $0.75, 200 dress skirts from $1.98 to $12.50, plus 100 young ladies walking and dress skirts 30 to 37 inches long now reduced to $1.25 to $3.75.
All our Fur Scarfs Muff s and Sets are marked down much below cost. You will never have a better chance to get bargains in furs. The ad lists prices for Ladies and Children's fur items with quantities and discounts.
Misses and children's coats priced from $2.25 to $7.98 with 43 items including reefers gretchens automobile and box coats. Ages 2 to 12 years. Marked down from higher prices.
Advertises ladies fancy figured dressing sacques with ece lined priced at 1.00 now. swans down sacques latest 1.50 reduced to 2.25 for striped eider down best fancy sacques previously 3.00 now 2.25.
Mrs. Martha A. Lawrence improves from illness as musical and social events fill Concord. A second rural delivery route is planned, and Eliza Munroe dies at 80. Flora and church activities color the week with concerts, dances, lectures, and a successful Dramatic club performance.
Wanted Girl for general housework Mrs Walter Wood Main St Concord. FOR SALE Bone Cutter for hen keepers. W A Blaisdell Thoreau St Concord. Mrs 8 L Chaplin experienced dressmaker located in old red house Sudbury St. Miss Etta M Mason ready to go out dressmaking Repairs done especially Old Wheeler House Sudbury St A good cook and fair laundress can find desirable position apply to Mrs George D Subier Main St Concord Mass Massage by Swedish method Mrs C G Johanson 134 Commonwealth Ave Concord Junction
A second hearing on charges of cruelty at Lusquehanna Valley Orphans' Home in Binghamton NY revealed new abuse claims. Inmates testified of beatings with horsewhips by caretaker Watson and of ignored wounds. witnesses supported the brutality reports while staff denied unsavoriness.
Springfield legislators passed a bill appropriating 9000 for a life size statue of Frances E. Willard. The work will join the Statuary Hall collection in Washington.
A large farmhouse at Berwick Maine owned by B J Lamb and all outbuildings including the barn were destroyed by fire with a loss of about 4000 dollars. Sparks from the house started the blaze in the barn igniting the hay. Louis F Gomez claiming to be brother of General Maximo Comez died at the Odd Fellows home in Worcester Massachusetts aged 56. Captain Jeremiah Cottrell named master of the new lightship No 74 to be stationed off Cape Elizabeth Maine about 5 miles southeast of the East Cape Elizabeth light. Philip Brown second secretary of the US legation at Constantinople is gravely ill from pneumonia. Colonel James M Cutts who spent 21 years in the war department died in Washington. He served in the Civil War on General Burnside s staff and was twice breveted and received a congressional medal of honor.
Miss Rose Fitzgerald visits relatives in Concord Junction. The Isolated Minstrels premiered for YMCA and L A at the reformatory Saturday night. Miss Elizabeth Tobey spoke at Union Church Sunday under local W C T U auspices. Ladies' Union plans a food fair at Union Church February 25. William Merrill left Adams & Bridges for George G Russell's wholesale house in Boston. Marriage cards issued for Washington Whitcomb Marts and Alice Higgins of Orleans Massachusetts for February 21. Glee club from Boston entertained at the reformatory February 28. Miss Lacy A Perkins died February 20 at her sister’s home Commonwealth Avenue. Interment at Mechanics Falls Maine. Roney’s Boys concert company from Chicago gave a fine program at Association Hall Saturday.
Local notices at C. J. Wait's promote Butterick patterns and Peats wallpaper. L. N. Fowler & Co. act as Concord agents for a Prairie Incubator and raise chickens. The fragment advertises products and services in Concord Junction.
A man from Ansonia is held in Seymour as authorities investigate the death of Henry Resnett a wood chopper whose burned body was found in a hut ruin in Oxford. Officials consider foul play as the cause and note a recent quarrel between the men involved.
Frank W Stevens died four hours after plunging from a Salem water tower during repairs. A bystander failing to aid promptly described injuries as the worst seen. The accident occurred as another man stood nearby near the tower.
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