Spanish Dance Group and Carmen Highlight Museum Granada Festival
The deCordova Museum festival recreates old Spain with the Cansino Spanish dance troupe performing Sevillanas, flamenco, and Paso Doble at 3 PM. Marilyn Hunter as Carmen and colleagues from the New England Conservatory headline an operatic segment. The Granada program also offers bullfight lore, puppet plays, a mock bullfight, and a full gypsy village with crafts, games, and a Santa Maria replica ship.
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Carmen
Lincoln
Juanita Cansino
Cansinos
Boston
Carahen
Marilyn Hunter
Dolores
Balduga
Michela
John Clegg
Don Jose
Robert Dunn
New England Conservatory of Music
New York
Granada
Columbus
Isabella
Ferdinand
el Dorado
Santa Maria
Seners
Legion Work Program At South Acton Clubhouse
Ed wards Quimby Post 284 held a work program at the new clubhouse on Prospect Street. Lights will be installed this week. the June 13 meeting will be in the new quarters with a collation to follow. Commander Stanley A Nedza notes volunteers from Maurer Company Concord Greenough of South Acton and Butler Construction. The post will attend the state convention at Revere in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Acton
Edwards-Quimby Post
A. L
Prspect Street
Stanley A. Nedza
Pp. m
Legion
Maurer Company
Concord
Greenough of
Butler Construction Company
Revere
Fingold Warns of Rising Rural Crime at State Exchange meet
Concord Attorney General George Fingold told the eighth annual Massachusetts State Exchange Clubs convention in Winchendon that rural communities should watch for more juvenile delinquency while noting urban crime is not unique to cities. He cited an 8.3 percent nationwide crime rise last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
George Fingold
Massachusetts State Exchange Clubs
Winchendon
New Rules Issued for Certified Mail by Local Police
Local Postmaster announces regulations for certified mail including receipt to sender and delivery record. Procedures cover postage, fees for return receipts, insurance, mailing options, and required forms. Delivery rules detail routing to addressee, notices of arrival, rural and star route procedures, and records retention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postal Service
Sudbury Methodist Seeks 150000 For New Church
A fundraising appeal states the Sudbury Methodist church plans to raise 150000 from member savings pledges gifts and fundraisers to build a new church on a larger site with modern Sunday School rooms play area parking space kitchen dining and youth facilities. It urges residents to move children from the town hall to a dedicated church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF Christ
Sudbury
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Winonas Mystery Ride Reported By Rebekah Lodge
Fourteen members of Winona Rebekah Lodge took the annual mystery ride Wednesday evening, leaving the clubhouse for the Howard Johnsons near Lunenburg town line. Norma Smith led the event and the next meeting is scheduled for June 15 at West Acton Woman's Clubhouse. Conservation authorities note 66,000,000 acres of American forest and watershed land lack organized fire protection.
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West Acton
Winona Rebekah
Howard Johnson’s
Lunenberg
Rebekahs
Norma Smith
Guild Dance Friday in Lexington at Old Bel Fry Club
The Rose Hawthorne Guild sponsors a summer dance at the Old Bel Fry Club in Lexington Friday evening June 10. Music by Arthur Dinkinson. Local couple to perform exhibition dancing. Tickets available at the door. Committee chair is Mrs. Frank Yeomans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Rose Hawthorne Guild
Old Belfry
Lexington
Arthur Dinkinson
Frank Yeomans
Chest X Ray Clinics Set for June in Area Towns
Acton Boxboro Maynard Stow and Sudbury residents may book chest X rays for June 16 at Maynard Town Hall before summer closure. Public health nurses from each town will schedule appointments for residents over 15 not X-rayed in six months, part of a Christmas Seal service with local tuberculosis committees.
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Acton
Boxboro
Maynard
Stow
Sudbury
Maynard Town Hall
Eileen Hale
Colonial
Boxsboro
Hazel Vose
Mary’ Ward
Vellomo Ojakihto
Barbara Lounsbury
Hilltop
Middlesex Health Association
Boards of Health
Bedford Notes On Local Graduates And Events
Dorothy J. Freeman recently completed a realty course at Bryant & Stratton School in Boston and resides on Anthony Road. The Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion Post hosted a covered dish supper and monthly meeting at the Legion Hall. Bedford Lions Club ran a successful Kiddies Karnival over the weekend, with a Sadie Hawkins Day dance Saturday night and a Little League game among other activities. Robert Scrymgeour and Edgar Joseph Son served as co-chairmen for the event.
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Bryant & Stratton School
Boston
Dorothy J. Freeman
Anthony Road
Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion
American Legion Hall
Bedford Lions Club
Robert Scrymgeour
Edgar Joseph Son
Miss Lovejoy Engaged to Navy Lieutenant
Concord notices the engagement of Miss Helen Maria Lovejoy of Boston to Lieut. (j. g.) Richmond Gardner U S Navy son of Mr and Mrs Richard P Gardner of New York City and Quogue Long Island. They plan a small church wedding in late August with a reception at Concord Country Club.
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Concord
Helen Maria Lovejoy
Walter E. Lovejoy
Boston
Lincoln
J. G
Richmond Gardner
U. S. Navy
Richard P. Gardner
New York City
Quogue
Long Island
Miss Lovejoy
Concord High School
Endicott Junior College
Gardner
St. Bernard’s School
New York
Phillips Andover Academy
U.S. Naval Academy
Naval Architecture
Concord Country Club
Acton Church Events Highlight Local Week
Sunday school classes ended at St Elizabeth of Hungary in West Acton. Rev Richard Morris will speak at all masses June 12 to appeal for funds. Acton High School graduation plans for June 17 and a class trip to Nantasket occurred Tuesday. Local groups met including the Middlesex Goat Breeders and Acton Garden Club with plans for a June 21 flower show. Reverend Noble preached on worship at West Acton Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
West Acton
Sisters of Notre Dame
Waltham
Richard Morris
Blessed Trinity
St. Elizabeth’s
Silver Springs
Maryland
Middlesex County Goat Breeders Association
Harvard
Carl A. Schontag
Massachusetts Avenue
North Acton
Acton High School
Nantasket
Acton
West Acton Baptist Church
Ronald H. Noble
Massachusetts Leads in Factory Contracts and Bus Ownership
Massachusetts contracted more than 12 million dollars for new factory construction in the first four months of 1955, triple the prior year and above the ten year average. The state also reports 5 548 registered buses last year, with 1 200 school buses and a high private ownership ratio per U S Commerce data.
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Massachusetts
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
Commonwealth
Joseph Walker
Hopkinton
Lyman Reea Black
Abington
U. S. Dept. of Commerce
May Hospital Report from Emerson Hospital
Emerson hospital releases May monthly summary detailing totals for admissions 322 discharges 318 in hospital counts 54 on May 1 and 50 on May 31 daily averages 56.2 in 1954 and 62.8 in 1955 with 519 X rays and 1630 lab exams. The record shows 119 men 203 women 200 adults 50 under 14 and 72 newborns with 32 private 77 semi private and 141 ward patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Hospital
Beals Welcome First Daughter Marcia Carol Beal
Mr and Mrs Harold B Beal announce the birth of their second child and first daughter Marcia Carol Beal on June 1 at the Richardson House Boston. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs F Brute Beal of Rockland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Acton
Harold B. Beal
Shirley Armstrong
Mohawk Drive
Marcia Carol Beal
Richardson House
Boston
F. Brute Beal
Rockinad
Needle removed after 22 years in Hartford box factory
Twenty six year old Frankie extracted a needle from his ear while working for a Hartford box company. The needle had been there twenty two years since a blood accident.
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Hartford
M.D
Frankie
Duty she held experie n building
Fragmentary OCR item mentions a president, July 27, and a list of names including Charles. Context unclear but indicates a formal reading event connected to a president and summer duties in a building.
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iConco
Mrs. Presiden
Charles
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Fingold
County Council
Watertown
Nedra
Edward J. Higgins
Russell Horton
Veterans Hospital
Ever After
Wilson Lumber CO
P. D
Guild
Bedford
Vernon Smith
Central Street
Ronald
Charles French
Wilson Pond
Greenville
Maine
Willow Street
Sullivan Post, A. L. Ladies’ Auxiliary
Cambridge
Eric W. Grimshaw
Evangelical Congregational Church
Acton Center
Carlisle
Littleton
Harvard Boxsboro
Hudson
Wayland
Beals
Experien Building
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