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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
5
Community note praises local printer Kick for serving town and keeping readers informed. It argues criticism harms progress and urges neighbors to support the paper and its role in showcasing town events and growth.
Melvin W Sheppard of the Irish American A C won the 800 metres in a new Olympic record 1 52 4 5 and Porter cleared 6 feet 3 inches to win the high jump. Americans dominated heats in other events amid improved weather and bigger crowds at the London stadium.
Henry Codman Potter, seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, died at his summer home in Cooperstown after weeks of illness. He was 74, unconscious most of the final day, with death attributed to embolism following liver and stomach trouble. Funeral plans were not set, likely in Grace Church New York.
The 1200 mile relay race from New York to Chicago finished in City Hall after 119 hours 22 minutes. Hundreds of boys aged 12 to 21 completed the longest relay on record with an average speed over ten miles per hour.
Lynn Massachusetts July 22 Harry Maddox aged 24 English farmhand was arrested yesterday on the Lynn marshes for assaulting Mrs Josiah Low aged 70 of Essex at her home. Maddox admitted the assault and had been discharged from service by Mrs Low on July 10. Mrs Low is recovering well.
Marlboro residents and visitors are noted in a series of brief items. locals like Levi Cuting and Henry Rowe plan vacations. Miss Mildred White and Miss Mary Lynch travel to New York and New York City. families such as the Flynn and Gendron clans visit Marlboro for the week or summer. The highway department begins macadamizing Belmont street and installing curb on Cotting avenue. The annual Co F Spanish War veterans reunion is set for Fort Meadow on Saturday July 26 and ex-city auditor George Charron Jr. visits his father in Silver Street. A broad list of residents, guests, and travel plans fills the community note page.
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