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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1947
Page
8
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions a church meeting and weekend visits. Names and details are garbled with references to a Stephen Davis, an older sister, and a Mr and Mrs at East Street. Contents are partial and unclear.
Mr and Mrs Richard P Sullivan and family of Sudbury road vacationed at Scituate. Two high school youths David S Robinson Jr Bedford street and Ralph Adams Baker avenue returned home after ten days at Boys State Massachusetts State College. Firemen answered 155 alarms so far this year. Parishioners will attend ly Communion at Our Lady Help of Christians Church West Concord on Sunday July 13 at 7 o clock mass. Patrolman John T Foster of Potter street refused duties on Fourth of July after a week at Cushing General Hospital under observation for an operation.
Dolores Benoit, supervisor of the Springfield telephone office, enjoys ballet after work. She keeps her feet on the ground during the day and pursues ballet at night clubs in Boston, Springfield, and Hartford.
The Maynard Home Center on 33 Main Street opened recently and bills itself as a Mecca for fine home items. Exclusive Keystone paints and Imperial Wallpapers are offered, with Westinghouse products in the electrical department and Mr Kané available to assist customers.
Edward Van Lathan returns to duties at Bedford Center market after a week off. Ruth V. Ryan leaves Bedford for Greensboro to visit sister Mrs. Jack Miller and son Richard. Miller to join in September. Mrs. Edward F. Pike confined by illness. Fred M. Gertin and family travel to Maine and Lawrence Town Nova Scotia to visit relatives. Trevant family vacationing in Maine. O'Dowd family hosting grandson James S. O'Dowd. Large crowds attend three day Fourth of July carnival in Concord. Mrs. William E. Brennan travels to Gettysburg to visit her mother.
Oklahoma City reports a radio recovered months ago shows up again as stolen goods. An April theft at a department store matched the pawnshop find, linking the two incidents. Cambridge scholars credit Homer as author of an ancient ghost story in the iliad per Harvard professor I A Richards.
One of the Pacific Northwest's largest climbing roses, a 25 year old Cecil Bruner, covered the home of Mrs. Xura Case in Seattle with thousands of blossoms. The plant reaches 14 feet high and about 45 feet across the front porch area.
Madison Wisconsin witnesses two teen age boys reel in a 52 pound sturgeon described as the largest Lake Mendota catch. The battle lasts over two hours before the fish is brought to shore but a game ward says the sturgeon is a protected species and was released.
Bedford police head Frederick H. Sullivan caught four alleged thieves from a nearby town after they stole a truck and abandoned it in Bedford. The group ran, but Sullivan located and apprehended them.
Gary Indiana report says A J Bradley of Cedar Lake found a rusty World War I grenade among souvenirs. He alerted authorities who pulled the pin and tossed the grenade into the lake. Moments later it exploded.
Washington senators clash over blood tests for drivers suspected of drunkenness. Sen Umstead mocks scientific tests, proposing a poetic measure of intoxication while district officials seek a clear test. The committee declines the commissioners bill, leaving police to judge who is too tight to drive.
The New Orleans area operates the only international free trade zone in the United States where its own activities are managed locally. The arrangement positions the zone as a distinctive model for cross border commerce and regional economic activity.
Sudbury welcomes Mr and Mrs Thomas H Edmonds as new residents occupying the Barn on the estate of Mr and Mrs Robert Co Hall on Maynard road. Two rose displays from Goodnow Library visitors brighten the weekend book exchanges. Rose bouquets from Mrs George J Raymond and Mrs Arthur V Howland appear in blue containers.
Relief for shoeless Vienna Austria will total two million pairs this year enough to give every third citizen his first pair of postwar shoes. Productions during the two previous years had been halted.
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