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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1905
Page
5
A local merchant pledges growth and customer service as a store aims to become the go to shop for miles. They plan to self manufacture ready to wear items such as waists underwear suits skirts and aprons to save middlemen profits and sell direct to customers.
Advertisers seek about 60 young women in the Concord Junction area to operate power sewing machines at a local factory. Call at the store or send name and address for service engagement.
A local sale advert announces new waists and suits with a great variety of the latest styles. It notes several special lots secured at unusually low prices and urges readers to view the selections.
A wholesale napkin sale offers 265 dozen Irish linen napkins in four lots. Lot 1 has 56 dozen at 98 cents, Lot 2 has 73 dozen at 1.15, Lot 3 has 84 dozen at 1.39, and Lot 4 has 52 dozen at 1.85. The sale emphasizes limited time and slightly soiled condition.
Members of the Goncord council, R. A., condemn the latest rate increase adopted by the Supreme council at Atlantic City. Longtime members fear the higher cost is prohibitory and blocks chances to obtain new insurance, prompting strong protests against the autocratic decision.
The Union Church Outing Association gathered at the church Monday evening. Miss Almira F. Pickard presided in the president’s absence and directed pantomime on how boys prepared and ate their meals aboard The Asia. The program included readings from last summer’s cruise, a W. A. Hart poem, a bicycle trip report to Lake Champlain, and remarks by Rev. Mr. Batt Rev. Mr. Campbell and Mr. T. Oguri of Japan. The event proved very interesting.
Miss Maude Blanche Franks and Ralph B. Petersen married at the bride’s parents home, 162 Commonwealth Ave, Saturday afternoon June 10, with Rev. W W Campbell officiating. The couple left for a week in Maine and will reside at 162 Commonwealth Ave after returning.
The annual gathering of the Middle sex Northwest Temperance union will be held in Association hall Concord Junction on Thursday June 15. The program lists devotional exercises at 9:30 a.m. led by Rev W W Campbell reports from towns at 10 a.m. a morning topic The best way to carry no license into effect with a paper by Rev C C P Hiller read by Geo M Howe of Groton. Committees appointed at 12 p.m. and reports at 1:30 p.m. followed by an address by Rev A H Wheelock of Repperell at 2 p.m. and discussion at 3 p.m. Adjournment.
Advertised letters listed for Sidney Aker J B Gould H L Ireland Andrew Johnson Master Oliver Lynch Herbert Slade. Concord Junction drawing classes offered by Misses Blossom and Whittier at 172 Commonwealth Ave. Also notes on sale of 300 wood cards and sale of Jap a lac Sherwin Williams paint iron beds mattresses couches divans art squares rugs mattings at L N Fowler Co. Buy and save.
Almanac notes fair weather across New England with warmer temperatures expected in New Hampshire and Vermont. Sun rises at 4 07 a.m. and sets at 7 22 p.m. Moon sets at 3 04 a.m. High tide times are 0 15 a.m. and 9 45 p.m.
June reports from Washington note cautious optimism over Russia and Japan resuming talks via the US presidency. Ambassadors Jusserand and Takahira discuss possible meeting points and the need for a common basis while Paris and The Hague are floated as options. A separate item reports jockey Hactor killed and Jockey Morris seriously injured at St. Louis steeplechase.
Advertisements promote Hyomel as the best scientific treatment for catarrh. Buyers are instructed to put twenty drops in a pocket inhaler and breathe for three minutes four times daily. The full outfit costs one dollar with longevity for the inhaler, and extra bottles are fifty cents. The seller claims a strong guarantee and calls for H. B. Richardson to demonstrate it.
Lake Memphremagog spans northern Vermont and Canada, about thirty miles long and two and a quarter miles wide, with two thirds in Canada. The steamer Lady of the Lake runs Newport to Magog in four hours, offering views of cliffs forests and valley land. The region is praised as the Switzerland of America and the Geneva of Canada, with reader booklets available for two cents.
The program lists Schottische Marion Missud Q S H M B I P Morse Coon Song Moonlight in Dixie Clement McKinley Selection Anona Medley Maryland Andante and Waltz Violets Metronome Prize March Calliope of the Wild Lazey Finale. The rustic theatre opens for summer season Monday afternoon June 19 under Marlboro Westboro Street Railway Co management with pianist Harry Russell of Worcester.
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