Concord News Highlights Local Social and Incident Notices
R M Hoyle is confined at home with a light illness. The Frolic club met Miss Louisa Norcross. Walter A Carr of Williams College visiting his parents on Monument street. Winter club met Mrs Wheeler on Nashawtuc hill. Samuel Penniman of Brooline visiting town. Miss Helen G Brown employed at Middlesex Mutual Life. Richard R Barrett Harvard 01 hosting Horace S Brown. Mrs James Whittemore of Cambridge visiting Mrs Eugene Conant on Lexington road. Miss Elsie Phelan visiting aunt Mrs G A Tewksbury. Wm Reynolds, Home for the Aged inmate, died after hospital treatment. E A Bradish in town on business. now with D Joslyn Malden. Martin Finnegan of J W Raymond's market back to duties after knife accident. Enterprise notes death of Concord resident Mrs Simon Brown from pneumonia at 90. A New Year ball described as a season highlight. Purchases offered include Furniture Groceries in stock. J D Murray advertises a wide line with delivery options.
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R. M. Hoyle
Louisa Norcross
Walter A. Carr
Williams College
Monument Street
James Whittemore
Cambridge
Eugene Conant
Lexington Road
Elsie Phelan
G. A. Tewksbury
Wm Reynolds
Home For the Aged
E. A. Bradish
F. B. Chase
Milldam
Mr Bradish
D. Joslyn
Malden
Mart N Finnegan
J. W. Raymond’s
Enterprise
Concord
Simon Brown
Brown
Trinitarian Church Week of Prayer Services and Repairs
The Trinitarian church schedules prayer meetings in the chapel Thursday 3 PM and 7 30 PM, Friday 7 30 PM, and Saturday 3 PM. Next Sunday service is led by the pastor, and the 7 30 PM session hosts the Christian Endeavor monthly meeting. Donations for church repairs total over 6500 with more expected, 3000 due by January 1, 1899, work set to begin after April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor Society
Paul
Christian Endeavor
Timothy
House of Worship
Church Services and Schedules for City Parishes
The notice lists Sunday worship times for First Parish Unitarian Trinity Episcopal and Trinitarian Congregational churches. It includes pastors Rev Loren B. McDonald Rev Henry King Hannah Rev Geo A. Tewksbury and Rev J P Anderson, with service times 10 45 a m 12 m 4 00 p m and evening services on specific Sundays plus YPSE meetings and class timings.
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Loren B. McDonald
Young People’s Guild Meeting
Henry King Hannah
Geo. A. Tewksbury
Scandinavian M. E
J. P. Anderson
Weather summary for week ending January 3, 1898
The report records a maximum of 45 degrees and a minimum of 8 below zero, a weekly range of 53, total precipitation 0.53 inches, and snowfall 4.3 inches. Observed by Fred A. Tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Tower
Lost stock certificate offered for return
A share certificate of the Oregon Rail Road and Navigation Company preferred stock is offered as reward. Return to Old Colony Trust Co Boston or to Lorenzo Eaton Concord Mass. for the reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Rail Road and Navigation
Old Colony Trust Co
Boston
Lorenzo Eaton
Mass
Concord Monthly Meteorological Summary December 1897
The Concord Massachusetts report records December 1897 weather with mean barometer 30.054 inches, high 30.596 on the 3rd, low 29.463 on the 31st, mean temperature 30.0, high 60.9 on the 10th, low 7.7 on the 20th, wind SW predominant, total movement 5194 miles, precipitation 4.34 inches with 12 days of measurable precipitation, 9.2 inches of snowfall, 7 clear days, 7 partly cloudy days, 17 cloudy days, and notes an aurora on the 21st. Local notices advertise sales of buffalo robes, farm properties in Concord, equipment for sale, and community events including new year receptions and church activities with Mr. Shattuck and Fr Moriarty referenced.
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Concord
Massachusetts
N. W
Anches
Aurora
Yearly Climate Summary of 1897 Weather Report
Annual report for 1897 records mean temperature 47.1 with a high of 93.8 on July 5 and a low of minus 7.7 on December 29. Total precipitation 41.42 inches, snowfall 50.0 inches, rainy days 126, clear days 126, partly cloudy days 74, and cloudy days 165.
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Fred A. Tower
Carpentering and jobbing shop open for woodwork and repairs
Chas Sargent offers furniture repair, keys fitted, saw tiling and all kinds of woodwork at his Walden street shop opposite the post office. Orders left at the shop or by card will receive prompt attention. New Year’s greeting included.
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Walden Street
Post Office
Chas Sargent
Local farm listings and Brown's bargain sale notes
Classified items advertise farms for sale in Concord Acton Carlisle Wayland and Shirley with contact C Fay Heywood Concord Mass. Also C E Brown announces a sellout with dry goods clothing furnishings trunks hats smallwares marked down at Brown's store and department.
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Concord
Acton
Carlisle
Wayland
Shirley
C. Fay Heywood
Mass
C. E. Brown
C. KE. Brown
Sleighing Fine and Local Notices in Concord Junction
Local items include sleighing praised after a Sunday improvement by multiple residents. Miss Ethel Wood visiting Andover and Pittsfield. J. C. Jensen relocating business to Main street. Willow degree lodge D. of R installation Wednesday. election of officers. post office list of ads letters. and upcoming meetings of the Pearl Wayne council Home Circle.
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Willow Degree Lodge
D. of R
Concord Junction Church Notes
Union church led by Rev. W. W. Campbell with services Sunday morning at 10 30 and evening at 7 Y P 8 0 E at 66 p m Sunday school at 11 30.
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Union Church
W. W. Campbell
Concord Junction Classified Notice
Concord town notices advertise eight room house for sale on Main street near harness factory sold by Jeremiah Sheehan. Also promote Mrs Joyce exclusive sale of self adjusting leather suspenders for wireless men. Call to examine. O L Darts sells rock salt coarse salt saltpetre and sulfur for cattle. Officer Sweet noted as more comfortable.
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Tolet
Main Street
Harness Factory
Jeremiah Sheehan
Officer Sweet
Electric Bitters Promises Relief for Elderly Needs
Advertises Electric Bitters as a safe tonic for old people needing bowel and kidney regulation. Claims gentle stomach and bowel action, strengthens organs, aids digestion, with prices fifty cents to one dollar per bottle at local drugstores in Maynard and Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Jnc. C. Friend
Concord
Old friendship testy advice ends nine years of silence
A Chicago Record excerpt recalls a plan where two friends agreed to reveal each other’s faults. The result: they stopped speaking for nine years, illustrating how candid confrontation can backfire and fracture relationships.
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Chicago Record
Claim cites 55 dogs per 1600 people in UK
A claim states there are 55 dogs in the United Kingdom for every 1,600 inhabitants. The figure reflects canine population estimates versus human population, but no official source is cited to verify the ratio.
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United Kingdom
Mliterate Turkish Women in Constantinople Observation
Ruskin quotes on conceit versus support. Turkish literacy among Constantinople women is very low with about 5,000 literate out of nearly 1,000,000 residents.
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Constantinople
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Wwe
Essa
Royal Baking Powder CO
New York
Wm Wheeler
Nashawtuc Hill
Samuel Penniman of
Brooline
Helen G. Brown
Middlesex Mutual Life Ins Co
Richard R. Barrett
Harvard
Horace S. Brown
A. O. Moreau
Hunt
Coluin Barrett
J. D. Murray
Chase & Sanborn
FIRST
Unitarian
Trinity Church
Trinitarian Congrega
M. L. Hatches
E. KE. Hunt
Erastus H. Smith
J. W. Raymond
Towle & Kent’s
Towle & Kent's
Butters
Winter St
H. L. Whitcomb
Noyes Brothers
Ing
Lyceum
M. M. Noyes
Westvale
Butterworth
Elmer E. Shattuck
Laura A. Batt
Florence Young
Musketaquid
Assabet Council
Royal Arcanum
Clarke
Andover
Shattuck
Reformatory
Moriarty
Europe
Reformatory Chapel
Catholic Sunday School
Rogers Moriarty
Slattery and
Fitzgerald
W. J. Batt
Archbishop Williams
Concord Junction
White
Maine
Musketaquid Club
Ethel Wood
Pittsfield
J. C. Jensen
Association Hall
U Cadwell
C. B. Rogers
Pierce House
Harry Marrs
Wm Chaplin
Pearl Wayne Council
O. L. Dart
Whstvale
Porto Rico
Citron
L.N. Fowler & Co
Concord Junction, Mass
Rockford
Iowa
Depot
Galters
Maurice McWalter
Concord, Mass
Ben. W. Brown
Sbury
New Democrat
F. A. RB
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Martin Farrington
Thomas B. Farington
Concord Enterprise
Charles J.mcintire
H. Fousom
Register
BLACK
Chaplin
Thos. H. King
Middlesex Mutual
Middlesex Muaual Fire Insurance Company
KC Ferns
William Barrett
Lefraisre
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