Concord notices and local life highlights of May week
Local items list residents and events from Concord and surrounding towns. Mentions visits by Mra Mary Kelly and Maude Tompkins, a pistol shoot appearance by Patrolman Sam Beattie, new births at Emerson Hospital, a police car ignition drive, and a World Poultry Congress judge from the Tompkins party. Also notes Grange outing, a Tompkins motor trip, and Northeastern Timber Salvage securing water storage sites in Chelmsford Boxboro Tewksbury Westford and Merrimac with hurricane timber purchases.
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Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration
Stow Street
Massachusetts
Russell Pond
Chelmsford
Spofford Pond
Boxboro
Round Pond
Tewksbury
Brookside Pond
Westford
Sargent Pond
Merrimac
Local Girls at Camp Virginia
Marlboro visiting day at Camp Virginia the summer health camp of the Southwestern Middlesex Public Health Association held Sunday at West Pond in Bol ton. Parents attended from two to five, enjoying songs poems and a history read by the girls, who modeled camp costumes. Exhibits included swimming rowing and baseball with weight gaining contests. Arlene Perry and Irene Madden noted for gains this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlboro
Virginia
Southwestern Middlesex Public Health Association
West Pond
Bolton
Arlene Perry
Lincoln Street
Irene Madden
Past Presidents of VFW Auxiliary Meet at Marlboro
Marlboro meeting of the Past Presidents Association of the Sergeant J P Colleary Auxiliary 638 VIW set for Thursday at 8 30 PM in their quarters. Mrs Anna Delaney, president, will preside. A social with refreshments follows.
Saints Fall To Ste Marie In High Scoring Game
Ste Marie defeated Marlboro 6 to 2 as Downey led the attack with a homer and four RBI. Lamy, Renard, Dion and C Lamy added key hits for the visitors while Staplefield and Gudzinowicz matched early offense before Downey sealed the win with a long homer.
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Maynard
Ste. Marie
Marlboro
Sex Cleaners
Aeta Zinowies
Eerie Staplefield
R. Lamy
Ed Kitowicz
Ben Gudzinowicz
Laponte
George Downey
Bnfield Woods
Saints
Scott
Turio
Renard
Lawrence
Count Scott
Johnny Gudza
Dion
R Lamy
C Lamy
Doub
Staplefield
Kitowicz
Benard
Downey
STE. Marie Rhi
Chia Cieas Serecisteee
Sansanetateesnes
Heer
Ainccde Ie
Lamy Tia Aoa
Ecue
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Cecierensoner
Wustesesteck
Dion Dion
J Gudzinowicz
rrors—Haapanen
J. Gudzinowicz
Lamy Renard
B Gudzinowicz
G Downey
Gudzinowicz
Downey Strutk
Family trip to Canada and notes on local residents
Marlboro Arthur Emery and Robert Des Rochers plus Mrs Banche DesRochers and Mrs Aimable DesRochers depart for a week long motor trip to Canada. Mrs DesRochers aged 87 will visit her sister aged 84 in St Hughes Quebec. Attendees at Fenway Park saw the Red Sox win 3 to 2 and 6 to 5 in two games.
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Arthur
Emery
Robert DesRochers
Banche DesRochers
Aimable DesRochers
Canada
DesRochers
St. Hughes
P Q
Robert Riccuitti
Joseph A Bouvier
Fred Bouvier
Andy Anderson
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox
Fenway Park
Boston
Red Sox
Wellesley Man Returns From Vacation to Worcester Electric
Douglas Leighton of Wellesley has returned to work at Worcester Suburban Electric Company after an annual vacation, which he opened at the New York World's Fair.
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Douglas Leighton
Wellesley
Worcester Suburban ‘Electric Company
New York
Misses Cleanor Chamberlain Dorothy and Marion Cadieux Visit Oak Bluffs
The Misses Cleanor Chamberlain Dorothy and Marion Cadieux, nieces, have traveled to Oak Bluffs to spend two weeks.
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Dorothy
Marion Cadieux
Oak Bluffs
Boy Lost in Maine Woods Rescued After Eight Days
Sherman Maine 12 year old Donn Fendler of Rye New York wandered 35 miles through Mt Katahdin wilderness for eight days and was found by a log cabin owner Nelson Moran and ferried to safety by rescuers. In Watertown New York a 250 pound lion escaped a carnival cage clawed two attendants and was recaptured about ninety minutes later.
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Maine Woods
Sherman
Donn Fendler
Rye
New York
Mt. Katahdin
East Branch River
Fendler
Nelson Moran
Watertown
N. Y
Tax plan faces party split in legislative showdown
A revised sales tax proposal stalled as Republican leaders found a solid bloc of Democrats and enough GOP defections to signal defeat in the current session amid cautious canvassing.
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Boston
Author Identifies Wife Found Dead in Morgue
Ralph Henry Barbour, noted juvenile author, identified his wife as the woman whose body lay in a King's County morgue since June 16 after death by her own action. The remains were sent to Northampton Massachusetts for burial.
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New York
Ralph Henry Barbour
King’s County
Northampton
iMass
Bates Charges Taxes Diverted From North To South
Washington congressman George J. Bates asserts in the House that New Deal subsidies shifted heavy federal taxes from the Northeast to Southern states. He argues this policy helps lure northern industry southward and promises long term tax exemptions.
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Bates
Washington
George J. Bates
Salem
House of Representatives
New England
Soviet Submarine Sinks After Collision Off Murmansk
A Soviet submarine carrying 34 men sank after colliding with an unidentified object off Murmansk in the Barents Sea. Rescue efforts were announced but no further details were provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Murmansk
Barents Sea
Five Struck By Lightning In Massachusetts Storm
Severe electrical storms drenched Central and Eastern Massachusetts with heavy rainfall and hail. Five people were injured in Marlboro as lightning sparked several fires and damaged buildings. Framingham reports golf ball sized hail cracking windows and roofs.
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Massachusetts
Marlboro
Framingham
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Sapolin Speed
Assabet Institution
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I. Eee
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Mary Kelly
Bedforn Itreet
Wisin
Lyman Wiles
Lexington Road
University of Washington
Sam Beattie
Concord Barracks
Auburn
Maine
Edmund J Waldron
Monument Street
Emerson Hospital
Hot Howard
Christmas Cove
Frances Dee
Michael Dee
Concord Reformatory
Boston University
William G Ryan
Frank J Googins
Thoreau Street
Beth Adel
Googins
Concord High
Concord
West Concord
Acton
Joseph A Macone
Strawberry Hill Road
Anna Macone
Helen Croft
John Flannery
Harold Tompkins
Mr. Tompkins
Lester Tompkins
Akron
Cleveland
Ohio
Tompkins
John N' Simmons
Harold
VFW Auxiliary
Corey Slag ‘Marlboro
Middlesex Laundry
Smith If Haapanen
Creighton
Ween Tenes
Eee Cf P
Sims Rf
Nowicz
Downey P Cf
Leon M. Wheeler
East Main Street
Deerfoot Farms Dairy, Inc
Leona Wheeler
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Sherman Laundry
Rudolph W. Currier
Hket
Apia
Dremel
Chill Wills
Marijorie Reynolds
D. Ross Lederman
Bert Gilroy
Oliver Orato
Lion
Sun
Eeees
Wes
Peg - I In
Mie
Randolph
Vestal
Beewood
Salon DeBeauds
Marlboro Legion
Bing
Jak
Onan Ptypis
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