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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
10
A copied record from Cambridge dated May 20 1913 shows the County Commissioners meeting on the first Tuesday of January 1913. The Bedford selectmen petition to extend a Main Street route to Concord for common convenience. Clerk Dillingham and Deputy Sheriff Edward W Clark certify the true copy.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court issues notice to next of kin creditors and all interested in the estate of Edoward Mac Hugh late of Lincoln Massachusetts intestate a petition to grant letters of administration is filed and a court date is set at Cambridge on June 4 at nine in the forenoon to show cause why letters should not be granted to MacHugh of Lincoln.
A partial OCR shows a string of personal names including Frank E. Taylor Emmi Deane David J Loewe Cornelius J Gee Clifford J Orring ler Nelson H Wenney Samuel H Garland John H Kate C omew J Coughlin Ben ice Archie P Simpson Henry H Halladay Pat Z Sullivan William Casey Ar.
The article notes boxboro towns annual children night at Boxboro with entertainment and a joyful tone. It mentions Baptists Bible school activities at the Baptist church and a water district project by James Fitzgerald. A deep sea fishing trip departed with Capt Joe Horton and Davis King Co. and Mr and Mrs Everett Sanborn welcomed a baby boy.
A chaotic scene unfolds as patrons react with fear while a manager evacuates the area. People shout and scramble toward exits as smoke or alarm sounds fill the air. The crowd, described with frenzied urgency, stalls the event and forces a quick curtain pull.
A report notes a simple meat free diet maintains longer endurance than a mixed diet with fresh foods. Dr Anderson of Harvard directs the test showing the Buffman brothers lost weight while starting their diet, and Warren H. at Denver eats similar foods as his brother.
A Somerville fisherman hooked a big trout in a local brook but the line snapped during release. The next day Mrs Sid ney Laffin landed the same fish with the original Somerville hook still in its mouth, measuring about fifteen inches and weighing roughly one and a half pounds.
Midweek prayer meeting Friday night at 7.80 o'clock. Sunday morning sermon by the pastor at 10.30. Sunday school at noon. C. B. meeting at 6 o'clock sharp. Florence Merriam. Preaching at 7. p.m. by the pastor.
Local brief notes mention the Universalist church strawberry festival scheduled for Tuesday evening June 17. Other items report illnesses including scarlet fever in Fur bush and French, family visits from Boston and Brookline, and residents driving out after illness.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a memorial service at Acton on a Sunday at a specified time with missing details.
Large audience attends memorial service where Rev. C L Pierce delivers a highly praised sermon titled The Journey of Life. Afterward, attendees procession to the cemetery for a wreath and geranium on departed lodge members.
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