Concord News Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
Old carriage shop on Ames Street will be converted to a home for the late Lewis Monument Street homestead, while a New Hampshire family occupies a Lexis road summer lease. J J Flannery offers local services, Mrs. Minerva B. Tobey speaks on Home Sanitation, and Co C Sixth Infantry marches through town to Framingham camp. Weather turns hot with 90s noon temps. Memorial Day flags decorate graves of Concord patriots. Apple harvest looks light with canker worm and tent caterpillar threats. Bordeaux spraying advised and kerosene nests cleared with cloth tips.
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Lewis Monument
Lexis Road
New Hampshire
Ntion
J. J. Flannery
Minerva B. Tobey
Boston
Unitarian
Co. C Sixth Infantry
South
Framingham
Lowell
Concord
Hosmers
Buttricks
Barretts
C. E. Burk
James A. Bowery
N. A. Can
E. F. Conant
Frank Camp
N. A. Davis
Miss Carkin
Dr. Kirby
Preacher Collyer Sermon Highlights Religious Freedom
Rev. Robert Collyer of Brooklyn preached at the Unitarian church last Sunday to a large congregation. The discourse championed rational religion and spiritual freedom, contrasting Puritan era beliefs with modern liberal thought and noting how the seeker who wants to know can free himself from fear through truth.
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Robert Collyer
Brooklyn
Unitarian Church
Eleanor G. Crandall
Tye
Collyer
George William Curtis
New England
Calvin
Brimstone Corner
Dr. Briggs
The Universal Call to Liberty in Religion
In Washington observers note opponents praised Dr Channing and Henry Ward Beecher as leaders of religious liberty. A broad, inclusive faith invites all denominations to expand toward universal spiritual truth, with Methodist Baptist Presbyterian and Catholic figures converging in this view. The speaker honors these pioneers and their friendlier stance toward unity.
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Washington
Methodist Baptist
Presbyterian
Catholic Church
Dr. Channing
Henry Ward Beecher
Christ
Concord May 1893 Weather and Local Notes
Weather summary for May 1893 in Concord Massachusetts with mean temperature 55.47 mean humidity 772 percent and total precipitation 5.16 inches. Notable events include Aurora frost thunderstorms and a World’s Fair sculptor group Quadriga and Republic works by Daniel C French. Local notices advertise goods and services with deliveries and sales from Hastings Co Concord Elevator Whitcomb’s Hunt’s and more.
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Concord
Mass
Aps
Aurora
Fred A. Tower
Daniel C. French
America
DeE and Lizzie Kennar Wed in St Bernard’s Church
Joseph Dee and Miss Lizzie Kennar married on Tuesday at 10 in St Bernard's Catholic church. The bride wore white silk trimmed with lace and was given away by her sister Miss Martha Kennar. Groom was attended by Michael Dee. A reception followed at the bride's Lincoln home.
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Joseph Dee
Lizzie Kennar
St. Bernard’s Catholic Church
Martha Kennar
Michael Dee
Lincoln
Church Services Schedule for Unitarian Trinity and Episcopal
Among the churches a Unitarian service led by Rev. B R Bulkeley is at 10 45 a m with an evening service at 7 40. Trinitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury offers 10 45 a m service and Y P S C E at 6 30 p m with 7 30 evening service and Friday prayer at 7 30. Protestant Episcopal Trinity Church is led by Rev Walter Russell with services announced.
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Union Church
Association Hall
Concord Junction
W. W. Campbell
B.R. Bulkeley
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Walter Russell
Breed Rector Services Schedule Through June
Morning prayer Litany and sermon at 10 45 a m on Sundays. Sunday school at noon. Holy communion on the second Sunday of each month. Services continue through the first Sunday in June.
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Breed
Concord Junction Local Notes and Marital News
Mustering this week W W Blossom serves as hospital steward. Miss Maud M Burt and Harry S Marrs announce engagement. L N Fowler buys a fine horse from George W Worster. Church plans are out for bids. Water quality prompts health board attention. Mrs Peter Fraser dies in Charlestown after three days with malignant diphtheria. Concord company sails to Framingham encampment. Edward Murray and John J Fitzgerald join camp week. Joseph F Scott departs for Chicago. he serves on seven commissioners at the anti trust convention June 5 and 6. Mrs Jerry Shehan injured in carriage collision with Chaplin team. A Charlestown death, Eva Smith, after a brief illness, described in heartfelt terms. Susie A Wetherbee and George G Russell wed at I W Flagg’s East Acton home with Mendelssohn’s march. Bride in white faille francaise with duchesse lace.
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Board of Health
Peter Fraser
Charlestown
Concord Company
Framingham
Edward Murray
John J. Fitzgerald
I. W. Flagg
East Acton
Susie A. Wetherbee
George G. Russell
J. W. F. Barnes
Fred Wood
Winslow
Bennie Russell
Allen Wetherbee
Mendelssohn
Faille Francaise
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Concord Fife and Drum Corps
Reformatory
G. A. R. Post 180
Co. I. Sixth Regiment
Paris
London
Hastings & Co
H. L. Whitcomb’s
C. E. Brown's
C. E Brown's
Russia
Dempsey’s New Shoe
Hunt’s
Hunt
Nealey
Fitchburg Station
Phelps’ Billiard
Phila
Hunt's
Miss .E. A. Buck’s
P. W. White
Toles
Thoreau and
Hubbard Streets
Inquirer
D. C
G. W. Gardner
Riverside Park
Clara Chaplin
Susie Abbott
F. E. Tower
Winslow Russell
Myra Pond
L. N. Fowler
Bucklin’s
Arnica
B. F. Johnson & Sons
Maynard
Dee
Kennar
W. W. Blossom
Maud M. Burt
Harry S. Marrs
George W. Worster
South Acton
Joseph F. Scott
Chicago
Mr. Scott
Russell
Jerry Shehan
Chaplin
Eva Smith
Lestershire
N. Y
George W. Holyoke
Marlboro
T. R. Huntington
J. T. O'Brien
Peader W. Fitzgerald
Julia J. O'’Connell
J. O. Genest Raphael
Ron
Emma Fortier
C. R. Powers
Abner Parker
Ema Florence Leare
F. 8. Rice
Harry Leon Goodwin
Jessie Mabel Duff
Brookfield
Fred B. Morse
Janie C. Davis
Freeman Parmenter
Lovell Diamond
Waltham
Express
T. F. Parker
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Ww. Cc
Robbins
Canada
Old Colony Railroad
Real Ie
Whitcomb
Lexington Street
New Wheeler & Wilson
Sanford
F. J. Hastings & CO
Concord Elevator
G.W. C. H. Towle
Paris Green
Hire’s Root Beer
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