West Acton Social Notes and Events
Tremor men s dance set for Thursday at OOF hall with Newell orchestra. West Ames elder mill owner visited last week. Mrs Rachel Haynes and Townsend attended Friday night. Rebekah lodge officers elected. Annual guest night of West Acton Women s club postponed to March. date to follow. Robert Starbuck of Acton spoke on The Missing Link of Civilization at GAR hall meeting.
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Nellie Norris Stone
Virginia
St. Petersburg
Fle
Civic Federation
GAR_ hall
Robert Starbuck
Acton
Burial for Mrs Mary Wood of Lowell
The body of Mrs Mary Wood widow of Eben Wood of South Acton was brought to Mt Hope cemetery for burial. She lived with her daughter Mrs Sheldon Littlefield in Lowell and formerly ran a millinery business here at Maplest. Funeral services were held in Lowell on Thursday January 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wood
Lowell
Eben Wood
South Acton
Mt Hope
Wood
Sheldon Littlefield
Maplest
Annual Parish Meeting at St George's Church
Maynard reports show parish flourishing with excellent financials and active societies. Officers elected include senior and junior wardens, vestrymen, and treasurer Easthope. a capital fair committee is formed for an April event.
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A Maynard
ST. George’s Church
Ince
Iatak
Astrope
Ottor Mh Brown
Wilson
Marsden Waterhouse
Chares Edney
South Acton
Easthope
Bridge inspections seek repair or rebuild decision
Selectmen had Walnut Street and Main Street bridges inspected by J R Worcester engineers to test strength durability and condition. They will report findings and cost estimates for repairing or replacing, to inform town meeting on future policy.
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Walnut St
Main St
J. R. Worcester Bridge Construction Co
Live Bait for Sale by H. F. Gibbs Acton ad
For sale live bait by H F Gibbs located in South Acton. Price varies from 11 to 2 cents each. Contact W Acton 27-2 for details or orders. Advertisement notice from the local page.
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H. F. Gibbs
South Acton
W. Acton
Concord Junction Social Happenings and Staffing Changes
Mr and Mrs Francis Ahern visited relatives in Marlboro on Sunday. John Maguire and son from Shirley spent the day with Mr and Mrs C X OCon nell. Leonard Warden left his job at Freeman Robbins. Preparations begin for the Concord Catholic club banquet on Tuesday evening February 7. Jean Humie, lately with her sister Mrs Ernest Pringle, has gone to New Bedford to take a new nursing instructor position.
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Francis A’hearn
Marlboro
John Maguire
John, Jr
Shirley
C. X. O’connell
Leonard Warden
Freeman Robbins
Ual
Concord Juneion Catholic Club
Jean N. Humie
Ernest Pringle
New Bedford
Siperinwit
Birthday Party for Age Edge at Pine Street Home
Saturday evening January 14 a group of young folks joined Mr. and Mrs. George Manter on Pine street to celebrate their 21st birthday. The surprise occasion featured music vocal selections and cookies, with gifts and cheerful good wishes, as the guests enjoyed the lively party before departing. Garrity attended the Boston color senior dance Wednesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Manter
Pine Street
West Concord Woman's Club Sings With Blind Musicians
Friday evening January 13 the West Concord Woman's Club held the postponed December 6 entertainment due to a storm. Performers included Antonio Martone a blind violinist and singer C Spiken a blind cornetist and trombone player Herbert Cullen reader and drummer and Mrs A B Lovejoy pianist. Families attended and praised the event.
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West Concord
Maynard Trust Company Report of Condition Pace Near Close
The report shows assets including U S and Massachusetts bonds, real estate, vaults, and furnishings. Liabilities list small items with revenue stamps and notes a thirty day average reserve around currency and specie four percent, in reserve banks six point six percent, and U S bonds four percent.
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Sia Feogg - Lyne Crom
Aia
U.S
Savings Department Officials Named in 1922 Notice
A historical notice dated January 17 1922 lists Prank K Taylor G o H Creighton Prest K Came I H Gutteridge and P J Sullivan as directors of the Savings Department under the Irae Trust Company with referenced custodial and supervisory roles noted by Frank Us Sal Denison N res Saker of the F.
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K. ,Taylor
G .O H. Creighton
Prest
K. Came
I H. Gutteridge
Cousblan
P. J. Sullivan
Irae Trust Company
Foregeing Atenient
Sal Denison
Res
Blood to Entertain At Jed Legion Meeting
The first 1922 monthly meeting of the Mansfield post opens at the Walden Legion headquarters with a short business session followed by an entertainment by S. Thompson Blood. The Post orchestra provides music and refreshments and smokes will be served.
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Legion
Walden
S. Thompson
Post Orchestra
Union Church Program Guides Week of Services
Rev Alfred Wheeler Stone conducts Sunday morning service at 10 30 on Teachings of Jesus with a Sermon on the Moon. Evening lecture on Life of St Paul at 7.00. Church School at noon. Intermediate Endeavor 2 pm Junior Endeavor 3 30 Senior Endeavor 6 pm. Monday entertainment at Association hall at 7 30. Ladies' Union meetings Tuesday 2 30 and 7 30 midweek service. All invited.
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Alfred Wheeler Stone
Jesus
Benjamin Derby
St Paul
Church School
Association. Hall
Ladies’ Union
Wet Concord Woman's Club Dressmaking Class Starts
On Wednesday January 18 at 3 p m the Wet Concord Woman's club will start a dressmaking class in the domestic science room at West Concord School Miss Anne Graverson instructor. The class has twenty-six enrolled. Harry McCormick of Milton formerly proprietor of the Rextall store called on friends in town earlier this week.
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Wet Concord Woman's Club
West Concord
Anne Graverson
Waltham
VFR
Clil
Harry McCormick
Milton
Rextall
Sleigh Ride Planned by South Acton Association
A committee of the South Acton Improvement Association organizes a sleigh ride for this evening. All participants should meet early at the association rooms. An oyster supper will be served on return, promising a jolly good time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Acton Improvement Association
Congregational Church News and Personal Update
Rev Ralph A Barker invites worshipers with morning service at 10 30 Sunday Sunday school at 12 afternoon evening service at 7 and midweek prayer on Friday at 7 30 in the vestry The topic Faith Rev A B Peebles long serving pastor for ten years has a son in southern California visiting Ray K Peebles at Carl C Flint home on Stowrd Peebles heads to Salem NH to lead a new church after accepting a call
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph A. Barker
A. B. Peebies
Geoprocetien Ieegie
Lifornia
Ray K. Peebles
Carl C. Flinton
Peobles
Salem
One Act Comedy at First Universalist Church Supper
The L.8 circle held a large vestry supper followed by an eight oclock performance of a one act comedy Lovebird's Matrimonial Agency. Cast included Dick Harrison Philip Lowden Obadiah Buncher Kiwin Harris Dugald McTavish Theron Lowden Mrs Mudge Ida A Harris Selina Smithers Clara L Lawyer Alice Everton Hertha Merriam Maria Caroline A Taylor with musical solos by Mr Madigan on guitar and harmonica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.8
Pastor Speaks on Industrial Unrest and Its Cure at Universalist Church
Rev Clark L. Paddock addressed a Sunday evening gathering at the First Universalist church on industrial unrest and its cure. He urged applying the Golden Rule in business, studying conditions for labor and capital, and cited Arthur Nash of Cincinnati as a model for mutual concessions and avoiding strikes.
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Universalist
Clark L. Paddock
PC Union
Herbert w.Merriam
England
Arthur Nash
Cincinnati
Margaret Collins Returns to Waltham Watch Factory
Miss Margaret Collins has returned to work in the Waltham watch factory, resuming duties after a period away. Her return marks a restoration of staffing at the plant and reinforces the workforce.
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Margaret Collins
Waltham Watch Factory
Miraculous Escape From Vehicle Crash
Arthur Allen and Roy Woodworth escaped serious injury when a seven passenger Pierce car toppled down an embankment into a brook on a Waltham hill. Allen, driving, leaped onto a running board as the car skidded and rolled over. both men were uninjured or only lightly hurt despite the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Allen
Roy Woodworth
Pierce
Waltham
Allen
Allin
Concord Scouts Form Red Life Saving Corps Teams
An event organized by Dr William H Barrow aims to form Concord crews to join a Middlesex school team and race for a silver cup at the Cambridge YMCA. Girls and women compete for points and medals while boys and men compete at the Boston YMCA with speeches by W E Longfellow Fred C Mills and local figures.
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Toe Road
William H. Barrow
Sex School
Red Life Saving Corps
A. Ace
Concord
Towing
Canes
Elmer Ridley
Gordon Maid
Lorraine Cloyes
Priscilla Webster
Middlesex School
Cambridge Ymca
YMCA
Boston
Rogers Building
Commodore W. E. Longfellow
Washington
Fred C. Mills
New York
Mayor Peters
Arthur G. Roche
Cheney Jones
Miss Bean
Girl Scouts
Brown Family Home Sold At Public Auction
Mr J R Brown and his wife moved in during the week with Mr Rob erts of New York visiting. The Loring house on Main Street, recently occupied by Mr Mahar and family, was sold by public auction Saturday. William Rogister was the purchaser.
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J. R. Brown
R. Brown
Mr. Roberts
New York
Loring
Main St
Mr. Mahar
Wes
William Rogister
Will Lecture Before Woman's Club January 20
Wr. Walter E. Fernald the Massachusetts School for the Feeble Minded at Waltham will lecture to the West Concord Woman's club on January 20 at 3 p m Mrs Carrie Derby will sing a group of songs in her own delightful manner
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Woman's Club
Walter E. Fernald
Massachusetts School For
Waltham
West Concord
Tragedy at Cape Cod Lighthouse Revealed in Till’s Tale
A Brockton Enterprise account portrays Till a Cape Cod lighthouse keeper who sought solitude but became entangled in a tragedy. Bill, former railroad conductor, now guides women up the lighthouse stairs amid constant tourist traffic and shared duty at Highland light near Provincetown.
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Cape Cod
Till
Bill
Lighthouse
Birdrew Highland
Cape
Provincetown
Brockton Enterprise
Ancient Store Destroyed in Historic Fire
A Duxbury Mass dispatch reports the Ford store, America's first department store and a Southshore landmark since 1825, burned. Worth about 20000 dollars, the loss includes priceless relics and heirlooms once displayed by Daniel Webster, with famous saddles, hats, and the first copper measures in America among the burned artifacts.
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Ford
Americ
Southshore
Duxbury
Mass
Nathaniel Ford & Sons
Daniel Webster
Webster
America
Stenographer Josephine Helps Beau with Five Dollar Loan
In a Indianapolis News item a young man, Sterg, visits the office to see his sister and asks for money. Josephine, acting as his stenographer, offers help and lends five dollars after he requests a loan for something sensible.
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Josephine
Sterg
Nellie
Béb
Indianapolis News
Insurance swindle plan in dialect ramble ends in doubt
A speaker details a rough scheme to buy life insurance hoping to profit if he dies. He weighs getting ten thousand dollars versus five thousand, considering risk and honesty, and ends uncertain whether to proceed. He mentions an insurance agent and a friend named Guigsep.
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Pietro
Mika
Nome Adventurer Tries Enlistment After Arctic Voyage
B. D. Seaman, an Arctic traveler from Coronation gulf, sailed to Nome and, unaware the war had ended, attempted to join the U.S. Army. He described Eskimo life, though Coro nation refugees still battle mail delays, with goods in short supply and high prices.
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Nome
France
Alaska
B. D. Seaman
Seaman
Coronation ‘Gulf
Canada
Arctic
Gulf
United States
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Coronation Gulf
Coronation Country
Seeman
Cape
England
Will She Rule Husband St Kevin Cross Legend
A legend at St Kevin's Cross in Glendarow county Wicklow says a woman who can make her arms meet around the cross will rule her husband. The image shows a husband trying to make his wife the ruler.
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Glendarow
Wicklow
Ireland
Kevin
Tax Evasion punishments in Kuban and Don districts
Rostoff on Don Russia reports peasants who dodge the grain tax face the death penalty. A Krasnodarsk peasant and two bribed officials were shot for aiding evasion as the Moscow government clamps down on banditry amid new grain levy enforcement.
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Russia
Rostoff-on-Don
Kuban
Don
al Krasnodarsk
Moscow
Woman Self-Represents in illicit still case wins probation
In Sacramento before Judge Rudkin Mrs Peter elni, an Italian woman with her husband and five children, defended herself in a case accusing her of operating an illicit still near Santa Rosa. She secured three months probation for herself and her husband with promise of dismissal if no more liquor is produced.
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Sacramento
Cal
United States District Court
F. H. Rudkin
Peter Elni
Santa Rosa
Berlin Diet Proposes Fines for Gluttons Up to 100000 Marks
A bill introduced in the Berlin diet seeks penalties for gluttons including fines up to 100000 marks for the first offense and up to five years imprisonment for subsequent offenses. Foreigners would not be exempt.
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Berlin
Gratitude tale from Tokyo bandit turns generous widow fortune
A Tokyo tale recounts a bandit saved by a Japanese general in Siberia who later grants the widow of the general a monthly stipend. The story recalls a Russo Japanese War vow where a bandit spared by Saito to guide troops near Port Arthur later becomes a bathhouse concession holder in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Japan
Siberia
Saito
Port Arthur
Famous old estates go under the hammer in Leicester sale
Historic Bradgate estate in the Charnwood forest district of Leicester sells at auction. Once owned by the seventh Earl of Stamford and Warrington, birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, the old hall burned, with the priory ruins and Augustinian hermits legacy noted for storied hunting and open-house charity.
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England
Bradgate
Charnwood Forest
Leicester
Earl of
Stamford
Warrington
Jane Grey
Thomas Grey
Marquis
Dorset
Unverscroft Priory
Robert Blanchmains
Earl
Writing Styles Change Across School Grades
The Springfield Mirror notes that students shift through vertical slanting and flowing handwriting, creating a patchwork style by graduation. Teachers and students grow discouraged as pupils revert to their personal scripts after leaving school.
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Springfield Mirror
White Caps and Gowns for University of the Philippines
The university will confer April commencement in white caps and gowns adapted for tropical wear. The regents approved the change despite some faculty and student objections recalling masquerade risks. The move shifts from medieval clerical attire to a grove tradition of Academeia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of the Philippines
Tropics
Board of Regents
Academeia
Mozart's Youthful Opera in Karlsruhe Premiere
Mozart's La Finta Semplice, written at age twelve, received a first performance in Karlsruhe in a revised form by Anton Rudolph. After a one off Salzburg staging sixty years ago the work faded until Rudolph updated the libretto while honoring the music's youthful freshness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mozart
Karlsruhe
Anton Rudolph
Salzburg
Cologne Gazette
Rudolph
Cost of Mosquitoes Costly for New Jersey Industry
New Jersey officials estimate eliminating mosquitoes would add more than 500 million dollars to the state's industrial values over the next two decades. The Department of Conservation and Development says spending a million dollars over five years could rid New Jersey of the pest.
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New Jersey
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