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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1912
Page
5
London Tit Bits notes luxury gear for great racehorses including toilet sets labeled with names and locks, plus basins, brushes, towels, blankets, and jewel cases. trinkets from admirers stored in a casket. The piece also mentions easy money and a tale about peacocks feathers and superstition linked to Osiris myth.
Notes from Concord include Miss Buck’s corset ad and social rounds. J M Keyes attends Mass Electrical Contractors luncheon in Boston. Mrs Addie Garfield and Miss Bertha Foss visit Cranston Rhode Island. Viola Foss and Bertha Love frequent Brookline Shirley visits. 12 boys ride to Lexington in J W Raymond sleigh. Ladies Sodality hosts whist in Monument Hall January 31. Concord Woman's Club discusses public opinion and civic improvement led by James P Munroe with emphasis on parks schools and housing. February 12 Georgie Bacon to speak on club movement value.
A humorous quip from the New York Sun defines fire insurance folks as returned colonials who lived abroad and committed every crime, then aged into six years of painful piety to “square up.” The tale, shared in a New Yorker conversation, labels a town’s residents by their business and behavior.
The Seychelles Islands form an archipelago of 114 coral islands located about 1400 miles east of Aden and 1000 miles from Zanzibar. They rise from the sea with the isle of Mabe near the center, about 3000 feet above the ocean. Houses are built of colossal coral blocks resembling white marble.
In a playful barbed note, Puck laments that the lodge elected him grand high most worthy ex alted imperial plenipotentiary but finds the title sounds cheap. He asks Coopah for a dictionary to craft loftier wording for Ali’s cession ceremony last night.
Generous Baron tells valet Johann he has received numerous replies to a matrimonial advertisement and has selected one offer, sharing the rest for possible use. The note reflects a German origin and a formal, commentary tone.
A Washington Herald note recalls a dad promising Tommy sawdust for a circus trick if he helps cut wood. A Philadelphia Record quip has a boy recalling illness and school. A Ford aphorism says titles don't add to merit.
The First Parish will hold a vesper service on Sunday January 28 at 5 o clock. Richard Henry will be the soloist presenting organ pieces a pastorale and a cantabile and a benediction sequence. The program includes scripture prayer sermon and selections from Mendelssohn and Guilmant with organ interludes.
The pastor will preach near Sunday morning on The Anniversary of St Paul’s Conversion. The children’s sermon topic is The Boy Who Knew How. The Friday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. will discuss The Hidden Source of the Power. Mrs C H Taintor will speak on Heroes and Heroines of the Frontier in the evening. All are invited.
Assessors Selectmen and Road Commissioners plan a joint meeting to address the oil tax billing uproar. Counsel reportedly says broad commissioners cannot spend more than the $1000 town appropriation from the last town meeting for road upkeep and dust control on public ways.
Town meeting debates Sprinkling costs on Ways abutters with assessors seeking $1000 cap while road commissioners cite a $3800 expense. Officials clash over whether town funds plus abutter assessments cover the total. Tonight's session may resemble a lively Quaker gathering with outspoken abutters in attendance.
Bridgewater announces the engagement of Sara Bennet Dunphe to Rodney Wheeler. Miss Dunphe is active in Bridgewater society and church circles. Wheeler, class of 1911 MIT, Theta Chi, works at Stanley Iron Works in Bridgewater.
A Concord Junction notice recalls Rev David C Torrey sermons Sunday services in Bedford and an illustrated lecture on Thackeray’s First Poem. It notes a speech by Lalor Sheil on Penendon heath was blocked by the crowd and his draft reached journals, inspiring Thackeray’s Irish Melody mocking safe in Times and Morning Chronicle.
A fussy man seeks help to advertise missing spectacles in a London paper. The clerk writes the notice for ten shillings. The man discovers the glasses atop his head, and the clerk quips business before pleasure.
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