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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
4
Marlboro weekly newspaper outlines pricing with a 1903 registration. Subscription one year costs one dollar. single copies three cents. Office listed as 161 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts. Advertising rates include seventy five cents per inch for one week plus twenty five cents per additional inch.
Wm H Boyd visited Acton Friday while Miss Hattie Tuttle stayed in Waltham and Moses Taylor returned from Lowell. Miss Sarah Wood takes a week off school duties in Hudson as Mrs Luke Smith and daughter spend winter in West Acton aged 88 on the 19th. A supper and entertainment were enjoyed by Acton villagers who went to South Acton Friday night. Minnie Gamble and Sarah Wood saw Way Down East at the Boston Theatre Saturday. The primary school held Washington Lincoln exercises postponed to Thursday. Funeral services for Mrs Chas Wheeler were held at the church Thursday afternoon Rev F P Wood officiated. Mrs Wheeler lifelong Acton resident. She will
In Raleigh Feb 27, Congressman-elect Hackett clashed with Representative Bryant on the house floor. Hackett struck Bryant who drew a pocket knife and was disarmed. Bryant then tried to strike with an ink stand and a chair but the blows failed. He later apologized for his harsh words.
Promotions read at the weekly drill include F N Prescott and Fr J Varley to sergeants and George L Prescott C B Coulter to corporal with Harold Tompkins promoted to musician. Social events feature visits, a memorial service, Roosevelt’s travel through Concord, and a Ladies charitable society sociable with entertainment.
A Concord Massachusetts letter from F W Devoe & Co argues exclusive regional sales boost profits and customer loyalty. It claims Devoe paint uses fewer gallons, costs less per house and job, and offers long wear with lower annual expense. P S Towle & Kent are listed as sellers.
An advertisement offering reliable, efficient results with a guarantee of satisfaction. The caller promises prompt completion and high quality in the requested line of work.
Lastie M. Shaw secretary of the treasury was elected president of a New York trust company to take effect March 5. When asked about effects on his political future he said he had never sought honors and would not decline appropriate tasks, adding any presidential sentiment had sprung up spontaneously.
In Boston on February 27 Arthur K. Odlin former Philippine judiciary member spoke on the Philippines. He said it is too late to debate withdrawal and that the United States will remain there as a fact. Odlin added he dislikes the Japanese and views them as the most dangerous in the Orient.
The senate approved the sundry civil appropriation bill for 114 million dollars and the Aldrich Currency bill to authorize 19 thousand dollar gold certificates to break up ten dollar notes. Rear Admiral Evans reports the Connecticut will sail from Guantanamo for the north with a typhoid outbreak of 35 cases aboard. Chester Peyton, 31, a laundry driver in Greenpoint L I, was murdered and robbed last night, shot in the head and with his pocket emptied.
The Commercial clubs from Boston Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis arrived in Ponce Puerto Rico on their way to Panama aboard the Prinze Tonchim. They were given an enthusiastic reception in the theatre with festivities lasting until 3 AM.
Seven firemen were overcome by smoke during a night fire that lightly damaged a provision store on Eighth avenue. One firefighter Albert Dann died later and Henry Baker remains in serious condition.
The Girls' Basketball club held a Saturday evening dancing party in the town hall. A decorated hall, stage screening, and a reception area set the scene. A committee organized the event and an usher team assisted, with numerous attendees listed among friends and members.
The largest crowd yet gathered in Concord for snow trotting watched three quarter mile races Friday afternoon. Starter was Charles G. Davis with finish judges Harry E. B. Tuttle Walter A. Gardner and Hiram G. Kilkenny. Frank E. Cutler won the trotting class with Con by, Bona Ventura, Lady Wilkes among the top finishers in Class A. Class B pacing saw Bedelia, Agnes Eve and Black Belle place, with times around 36 seconds. Class C pacing featured Frank B. Berg, Dick K. Cig, and Bill Bailey with times in the 33 to 38 second range.
The advertisement promises instant relief from eczema tetter salt rheum and other skin diseases with Skin Dict ment. It claims many bad cases cured and notes use for itching piles sore nipples chapped hands chilblains frost bites and chronic sore eyes. Free advice offered at once.
The Middlesex Christian Endeavor union held its 19th annual convention at the Trinitarian Congregational church in Concord with large attendance. Rev. George A. Tewksbury led devotional and praise services, with officers elected for 1st and 2nd districts and a basket dinner for local societies. The next semi annual meeting is set for Boxboro on Sept 2.
The Trinitarian church announces a bi monthly communion next Sunday at 10 45 am and a preparatory lecture by the pastor this Friday. The pastor continues a Lenten sermon series on The Parable of the Prodigal Son as the Parable of Humanity through Easter. The third sermon titled In the Land of Famine will be preached next Sunday evening at 7 30. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
A fire alarm from box 34 in Concord Junction failed due to extreme cold. The signal read 12 instead of 34 and responders searched Barretts Mill and Lowell roads with the temperature at 20 degrees below zero but found no fire. Box 34 was reported to be in proper working order when checked Saturday.
Local notices offer hay for sale price eight dollars per ton by F R Knowlton West Acton lost February 21 between West Concord School and Concord Library belt buckle found reward offered to Miss Katherine Read Concord two tenements for rent near Fitchburg railroad station apply to J J Byron Monument street cottage for sale E Garfield Jr Concord Massachusetts also one first class local representative wanted for the oldest Massachusetts Insurance Company address P O Box 2834 Boston Block of Concord bonds municipal light loan three percent due 1932 property framing Vanderveer Concord post office ad space and a note on advertising from American Gardening
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