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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
4
The Concord Enterprise issues weekly notices with 1903 publication details. It lists editor Rudolph W Currier at 9 Main Street Concord Massachusetts advertising rates for legals and classifieds and subscription prices for varying periods.
Dr Thomas Parran reports 1938 U S death rate at 10.6 per 1000, the lowest since records began, surpassing 1937 and 1933 figures while noting declines in many causes and continuing automobile fatalities. Also discusses French and European demographic trends amid war era policies and birth rates.
Passage fragments reference Napoleon Bonaparte and Grande Armée. Mentions pacifists and continental dominance, implying a historical discussion of French supremacy during early 1800s.
The article notes a New York fashion show titled Fashions Out of Test Tubes showcasing products from industrial research over the past five years. It highlights uses of glass, coal, tar, soy beans, milk and more in apparel and the hope for more jobs and wider American production with farmer industry cooperation. It also covers a Buenos Aires view on international law amid war, and a humorous exchange about a woman’s hats comparing two hats to a wife’s remark on fashion.
In a frank diary style, a student recounts a rough week of flying with poor takeoffs and landings. A two hour slump ends with renewed confidence as mentors praise progress and staff share flight field updates and club news.
Quotes extol the value of books as constant guides and counselors. They contrast books with oral instructors, note libraries do not replace professors, and praise the Bible as the supreme catalyst for thought.
Marlboro Allan Otis of Quantico Virginia has completed his enlistment in the United States Marines and is visiting at his home on Bolton street. Mrs Patrick Tracey of High
Marlboro report states Louis Swartz owner of Louis Fashion Shop will relocate from 229 Main Street to 193 Main Street. The lease with A. T. Nelson Boston secures a larger site formerly occupied by Chicago Beef, with remodeling underway for a grand re opening before February end. Bessie O Toole oversees a removal sale at the old shop to clear stock ahead of the move.
Rev T A Bridges of Marblehead will conduct services at St Mark's Church on Sunday replacing rector Rev Robert F Cheney who is resting in Florida for a few weeks. He will return before Ash Wednesday. Bridges will lead Fay School pupils and parishioners at 9 15 and administer Holy Communion at 10 15 with Sunday school as usual.
Marlboro resident Mrs J B Buzzell of 223 East Mainstreet will display three young cats from Arrevale Cattery at the Boston Cat Show in Horticultural Hall starting tomorrow. The 35th annual show promises bigger crowds. Exhibits include Babbette a nine month old smoke Persian Blue Star an eight month old blue Persian and Glamor Girl a six month old copper Persian.
The weekly charity whist party held Tuesday afternoon in the St Marys church auditorium drew a large crowd. Mrs Zenon Desjardins led the event and prize winners included Mrs William Beaulac Dora Lapierre Mary R Brigham Celina St Esprit Harold Belmo Beatrice Goulet Mary Luz Leon Auclaire Anna Hutch Miss M Donovan. Beaulac received the attendance prize and Alphonse Bonin won the special prize.
The Portales aging men’s club known as the spit and whittle club moved indoors for winter after a council dispute over funding. Faced with a new lawn barring their summer shade, they argued the city should provide a building as it does for parks and roads. The committee prevailed and the gentlemen over 50 now meet in a rented city space, continuing their quiet confabs.
The Weather Bureau punches over 10 million observations from 200 airports into cards, recording temperature wind direction barometric pressure wind velocity visibility fog rain snow and dust. WPA workers in New Orleans process 30 000 cards daily using 10 tabulating machines to plot weather curves for improved forecasts.
At Rome a well drill site on the Circus Maximus grounds struck a muddy river bed once carried by the Tiber 18 centuries before its current path. Fossilized river clay indicates ancient Tiber deposits and legends say Romulus and Remus were saved there. The find sits beside Augustus Caesar era ruins, contrasting with the modern derrick built for the self sufficiency exposition.
Workmen uncover the crumbling skeleton of a long dead Indian buried in a sitting position while laying a pipeline for the Terra Bella irrigation district in Porterville California. A shell ornament lay with the skull and leg bones and the teeth remain fairly well preserved.
A Hartford report states 18.5 percent of 503,618 Connecticut automobiles registered in 1939 date to 1930 or earlier. The oldest include a 1904 Ford Model F and a 1906 Locomobile, with many familiar names from a half century ago such as Chandler Davis Flint Jordan Kissel-Car Marquette Moon Velie Westcott Windsor Haynes Jewett Metz Rambler Pope-Hartford Columbia Toledo Thomas and others.
Advice stresses that books and companions equally influence habits and character, warning to choose both with care. A reflective note links literature choices to personal development and social circles.
Newly elected officers of Progressive Lodge Knights of Pythias were installed at a public ceremony in Masonic hall Dep uty Grant Chancellor Fred N Simpson of Somerville served as installing officer Assisting were John A Daniels Grand Vice Chancellor Walter P Lamb Grand Prelate Willard E Martin Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Frank A Howard Grand Master of Exchequer George Humphrey Grand Master at Arms and Victor C Godfrey Grand Inner Guard Officers installed included Harry F Bumpus Chancellor Commander Thomas F Fox Vice Chancellor Benjamin Gruber Prelate Frank A Colombo Master of Work William V Cameron Keeper of Records and Seal Charles J Spence Master of Finance Hy crett H Davis Master of Exchequer Nelson Jacobson Master-at-arms Ernest W Larson Inner Guard Charles H Shearer Outer Guard William V Cameron Representative to Grand Lodge for two years Charles J Spence Alternate The ceremony drew a large crowd with many guests from area lodges Prominent visitors included C Frank Nelson Will Currier Wddy and John F Magee After the installation Grand Lodge officers spoke A Past Chancellor Jewel was presented to retiring Chancellor Commander Thomas F Fox by Deputy Guard Chancellor Fred N Simpson Local talent provided entertainment and a buffet luncheon followed arranged by Teresa Lox with scores of attendees and lodge members in attendance
First Lieutenant Ernest M. Allen of Marlboro is appointed armorer at the Marlboro armory by State Adjutant General Edgard Erickson. Allen, previously with Company K of the 11th Infantry and long employed by Waltham Watch, will replace Harrie C. Perry who retires after 34 years as state armorer and 40 years in militia service.
Mrs. Mabel (Barnard) Wright of Hartford CT, former Hudsons resident, died Monday. A note left by the deceased requested cremation, prompting a change from Rocklawn cemetery Marlboro committal services tomorrow to honor her wish for cremation.
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