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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
6
Maynard defeated Concord 4-1 in a cleanly played game before a large crowd. Joy pitched strong for Maynard, limiting the locals to five hits while Brennan and Murray led the visitors at the plate with key hits and solid fielding.
Flood of Maynard played poorly Saturday both at bat and in the field. Brennan used an underhand knuckle ball, adapted from Cicotte, to fool many Maynard hitters. Negotiations are under way for a return game next month. Severens notched his fiftieth strikeout in five and a half games. Delaney leads in fielding with a .979 average. Joy pitched Saturday for Maynard and previously played for Bar Harbor. The subserri attendance Saturday was larger than usual.
A trio of notices and local happenings follow a humorous poem on Concord Junction’s baseball mania. The item lists residents away on trips, a grammar school team win, and estate matters including two administrator appointments and public notices for Betsey E. Brown and Mary R. Glover with bond and claim deadlines.
West Acton reports Mrs. Fanny Porter’s child with scarlet fever and Mrs. Earl Littlefield’s diphtheria illness under nurse care. Cambridge visitors stay with Geo Wheeler, while families head to Five Islands Maine and Westport Maine for cottages. Fishermen report a deep sea trip yielding about 50 cod and haddock, largest 7 pounds. Local travel includes Louis Kline opening a dentist office in vacant Mead rooms and Christie’s in Maynard.
A UK and Ireland legal note describes a Dublin court injunction stopping residents from playing cards on grave slabs in Dungarvan churchyard. It recalls historic use of churchyards for games, fairs, and even cock-fighting, noting a prior Hampshire tale of a marble slab built to let boys play marbles.
A Lincolnshire tale recounts Byard the blind horse leaping three seven yard marks to escape a witch who tormented neighbors. A wise man advised a naked dagger and a pond ritual, guiding the horse to carry the farmer to the witch for a final leap that freed the land from her curse.
By virtue of a July 9 1912 probate license a Bedford Mass parcel of land with buildings on South Street lot No 1 plans dated 1875 will be sold at public auction August 10 1912 at 2 PM. Property now occupied by H L Charles. Edward F Pratt administrator invites claims and debts and announces bond trust with Declan D Corcoran as observer. Fitchburg Mass. July 22 1912.
A popular focal belle and her beau quarrelled over a lock of hair. She demanded its return and asked which lock she meant the dark strand or the one given when she was a bienfae.
A short misaimed meditation from Christian Herald warning that true journeying requires action not rest or lounging. moral emphasis on following a proper path rather than passive waiting.
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