West Acton Notes and Local Events
West Acton items include family travel plans for a new house in town, church and charity activities, Memorial Day ceremonies with post 138 veterans, processions, and cemetery visits. Local notices promote ice cream events, a refrigerator sale at Whitcomb's market, property for sale, dress fabrics from Miss Knowlton, and health tips from DeWitt's Early Risers.
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H. A. Littlefield
Miss Knowlton’s
H. A. Littlefield’s
Local Gossip From Hopkinton And Nearby
Miss Laura O'Brien visits Hopkinton. Union Sunday school picnic set for Wednesday June 26 at Lake Walden. Mrs. F W Ordway spent Memorial Day with her mother in Haverhill. Otis Packard of Mil lays Last Co in Lynn for weeks, in Hudson over Memorial Day.
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Sosheshooe
YY House
Univérealist Society
Baptist Church
F. E. Wetherbee
Luke Blanchard
A.F. Blanchard
Princeton
L. Blanchard
Lucy A. Rugg
Union
Lake Walden
F. W. Ordway
Mr. Ordway
Haverhill
Otis Packard
Millays Last Co
Lynn
Hudson
One Minute Cough Cure Praised by Missouri Enrollee
J. A. Richardson of Jefferson City testifies to the merits of One Minute Cough Cure in the 38th Missouri General Assembly. He claims almost instant relief and a speedy cure after other remedies failed. Maynard firm K. F. Johnson & Son appears in the endorsement.
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J. A. Richardson
Jefferson City
Chie
38Th General Assembly of Missouri
K. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Seals Protected Area Allegedly Damaged by Trawls
In Halifax on June 5 an account claims a spot on Sable Island where thousands of seals bear young is being harmed by granted trawls. Foxes released years ago to kill cats displaced ducks. the issue to be raised with the responsible department.
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Halifax
Sable Island
Los Angeles
H. G. ‘Rollins
California
Hia
Hyde Park
Maas
New Mexico
Ariedna
Missionary Society Celebrates 60th Anniversary at Saratoga
The Congregational Home Missionary Society marked its 60th anniversary with Major General Howard delivering the principal address. He praised the workers dispersed nationwide and urged expanded support, concluding with a call for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit across the land.
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Saratoga
Congregational Home
Missionary Society
Howard
Illinois Democratic Convention Opens For Money Question Policy
In Springfield Illinois the Democratic state convention convened at noon to adopt a party stance on the money question. Delegates show overwhelming support for free silver with about 80 in favor and little opposition expected to mount a challenge.
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Louisville
Springfield
Isis
State Central Committee
Illinois
Olney Likely Next Secretary of State for Cleveland
Washington notes Attorney General Olney not yet named as secretary of state successor to Judge Gresham but indications favor his appointment. President Cleveland alone knows the final decision as signs point toward Olney while others guess. In Philadelphia Henry P. Schwartz a 31 year old carpet merchant committed suicide by shooting himself.
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General Rollins
Seog Rollins
Groveland, X
Merri- Mac Academy
Topsfield Aca
el Stone
Newburyport
Forth-eighth
Massachusetts
Sherman
Department ‘of the Gulf
California
Nevada
Grant
United States Surveyor General
Arizona
Territorial Council
Territorial Assembly
Rollins
Gorham
Helen Hudson
George Hudson
Springfield
Washington
Olney
Judge Gresham
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Henry P. Schwartz
W. Schwartz & Co
Schwartz
Tarbox school contracts split between two Lawrence firms
The public property committee awarded half the furnishing contract for the new Tarbox school to Buckley, McCormick & Sullivan and the other half to Gately, O'Gorman & Lynch, both Lawrence firms. Sons of Veterans encampment in Weirs, New Hampshire expects a fair attendance. yesterday featured general work and a concert and ball. In Bridgeport, Miss Linsley, an elderly Stratford burglary victim, is very low and doctors fear for her recovery.
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Boston
Cincinnati
Tenney
Vaughn
Oode
Sullivan
Phillips
New York
St. Louis
Lawrence
Public Property Committee
Buckley, McCormick & Sullivan
Gately, O'Gorman & Lynch
Lawrence Firms
Bridgeport
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West Acton
King Building
Pitchburg
Ver Mont
Greenhalge
Wenate
Veterans of Post 138
Acton Centre
Monument and
Harvard
Isaac Davis Post
Sons of Veterans
Mt. Hope Cemetery
G. F. Clark
Stow
Mr. Buxton
Mr. Croaby
Rockbottom
Carrie Warren
Lillian Lewis
Nellie ‘Webster
Bernard Copp Ing
Acton
Luther Conant
Apen
C. B. Stone
Crosby
America
de Witt
B. F. Keen & Son
Laura O'Brien
Hopkinton
THE
Windsor Hotel
Windsor
Chase & Sanborn’s
Chase & Sanborn
Dwinnell, Wright & Co
G. A. Conant
West Acton, Mass
Parry
U P
Chitthcesssreeee
Chicago
Griffith
Kitredge
Taylor and Clements
Baltimore
Hemming
Clarke
Cuppy
Zimmer
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Errora
Hart and Sugden
Kennedy and Grim
New Bedford
Portland
Pawtucket
Bangor
Brockton
Augusta
Fall River
Lewiston
Nashua
Fitchburg
Cofeee
the Mar
China
Formosa
Japan
Berry and Ground
General Howard
Bay State
Buck
San Francisco
Nellie Harrington
Albany
Morton
Charles Giblin
Giblin
Gold Standard
Home Labor
Sons of Veterans At
Weirs
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