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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
8
The advertisement promotes women shoes with two dollar and two fifty grades. It claims customers can avoid paying three dollars or higher for similar goods and urges a try to experience the value and comfort of the affordable lines.
Monday forenoon Fred Davis suffered a triangular wound on the back of his hand when a barbed wire tore his hand while untieing a hitch rope near a stone crusher. He was treated by a doctor, dressed, and returned to work. Local gossip notes rainfall, visits, graduations, and community events including a theater performance by West Acton people.
The pastor preached on The Home with guidance on ideal family life and a later evening talk on The Young Man Who Left for the Great Cities. A Friday prayer meeting is set for vestry at two o clock. Next Sunday June 18 the morning sermon is The Sovereignty of God and the evening will revisit The Home with The Young Man Who Found Himself.
The Independents beat West Acton 17 to 14 in a wet, loosely played game. Hayes pitched six innings with 11 strikeouts and three hits allowed, while Dadison and Kempton had strong contributions at bat and in field.
Acton Centre residents hosted visitors at Charles Edwards home over Sunday. Town elms sprayed with arsenate of lead, Grange meeting held in town hall with children’s night and music. Tufts class day features Harold Phalen. James Coughlin sang at Dorchester 281st anniversary with Mayor Fitzgerald. Senior class day at Concord High June 17 with Aurin E. Payson valedictorian. Philathea class hosted Farce An Old Maids Convention in town hall. Florence White and others starred. Proceeds fund church organ renovation.
The Sunday school plans its annual children's day concert next Sunday at 10 45 with a girls choir recitations and graduation to the main Sunday school room. The church notice also lists a C B meeting led by Mrs H F Robbins and a prayer meeting on Friday evening 730 with The Joy of Believing. The newly formed choir sang two anthems and Harold Phalen offered The Lost Chord as offertory. Otis H Forbush of Acton Mass is the auctioneer for a real estate sale on Thursday June 15 1911 to settle an estate.
Notices describe public auctions for James Kenna and Edward McManus estates in Medfield Junction South Sudbury and Concord Junc Mass. Sale items include antiques at Medfield location and farm stock at South Sudbury plus household goods and furniture at Concord Junction with mahogany and walnut pieces and art objects. Another sale listed near Central Mass R R B M line features tools hay carts and farm gear.
Arthur W. Puffer of Maynard Massachusetts announces availability of mobile party services by the hour or day at reasonable rates. R. F. D.
Maynard residents attend visits and host guests at Fitchburg Normal School and with Cambridge friends. Nurses hired for Floating Hospital begins June 28. New Hose 1 captain named Albert Coughlan. Local ads highlight coal shipments and early July rentals and sales including wagons and land.
Stockholders enraged by board action at Riverside Cooperative ask for manager James J. Hilferty to resign. After 17 years his leadership grew annual business from 38000 to 80000 and $90000 in profits returned to stockholders. A special stockholders meeting may be called as rumors swirl over the move.
The fragment suggests optimism about better times ahead and implies disapproval of current actions to reach that outlook. It mentions concern for interests and a belief that warmer times may follow, without specific names or events.
Lerer's advertises sensational values in ladies and misses’ goods while a Lake Boon Catholic association meeting is planned for early July to discuss erecting a church edifice. Also noted are travels of Fred McCleary and Sidney McCleary in Hydeville, merchant hours change to Wednesday afternoons, Pearl Bean’s wedding to Alveretta Oxner, Spence sisters visiting Worcester, and rail directors to meet in Boston for consolidation talks.
A reflective note on a woman approaching age thirty and the weight of choosing when to begin new life chapters. The line suggests inner struggle and societal expectations tied to turning thirty.
An excerpt describes ocean waves and a shoreline with a strong graded structure. It notes elasticity and a finer outer fiber than the center or roots, and mentions a measured sign of transformation within the languid lines of the sea.
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