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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
11
A state historian Dr Albert B Cobar states the unusual rock formation near the Cats in village was not an ancient horse racetrack or fort but a dumping ground from colonists clearing land.
About 100 librarians from 30 towns gathered at Concord Free Public Library for the Charles River Library Club spring meeting. Raymond P. Baldwin welcomed attendees, Prof. W. S. Tryon of Boston University urged renewed interest in history books, and Charles Loring read a paper about Ambassador's Daughter at the Court of St James.
Photographers, guests, and relatives all contribute to a wedding album. The piece urges capturing the ceremony, reception, gift days, and showers with prints and slides. John Van Guilder notes that including pre and post event moments enriches the record.
Rhein Main Airport at Frankfurt will be the first airfield in West Germany to install a modern radar apparatus. The radar system is being installed and will be completed soon, marking a technological upgrade for the airport and national air traffic control.
Parks planning consultant Egbert Hans of the Department of Natural Resources argues floods are not acts of God and could be avoided by completed impounding dams. He notes finished dams have reduced floods on the Connecticut River and Merrimack and urges completing the project to conserve dwindling water supplies.
Concord judge Maurice McWalter and Mrs McWalter return from New London New Shire after their daughter Helen Meg graduates with a secretarial science degree from a junior college. They visit Lake George New York as house guests of Mr and Mrs A L Brown with five other couples and their daughters.
The newly organized Carlisle Branch Concord Red Cross Chapter executive board meets tonight at 8 at the brick schoolhouse to elect a slate of officers. Real estate transfers include Everett F. Lapham to Maurice McWalter and back, along Concord road. Annual Bible class began Monday for a two week run led by Lawrence Bearce, Sunday School superintendent.
Members of the Holy Name Society at St Michael's Church Lexington and their wives attended a communion breakfast after the 8 30 mass at a local restaurant. Rev George W Casey pastor of St Brigid's Lexington and author of Driftwood spoke. Rev Kerrigan presented a past president pin to Charles F Murray. The new president Nicholas J Gehetti was introduced and meetings suspended for summer until September 12.
Rev Edmund Higgins heads six week Ireland tour with his brother as Rev John York and Rev James Connolly handle services with Jesuit help. Concord Lions Club directors met Monday at 15 Maid Street West Concord with local officials and members noting relocation of families from West Concord to Augusta Georgia.
Fragmentary OCR text references a military commander and American forces at a camp, with garbled names and locations. Reading suggests a historical note about a commander and troops at a base, but specifics are unreadable.
A group of members and their wives, with spouses, will be guests tonight at the Boots and Saddle Club in Grenton for an event hosted by Reverend Rae A. York, pastor.
Sunday morning services in West Concord are at 9 30 o clock at both the Union Church and the Trinitarian Congregational Church. The rest of the summer schedule follows this time.
Fragmentary text shows Prof John Henry Lawton of Lawton street connected to Loyola College and Sean Peter Crowther Mutty. It mentions a Sunday June 13 date at Rs University and a Society of American Military Engineers medal awarded annually to a senior in engineer training. It lists married names Jane Colby Gill and West Acton formerly West Concord.
Bruce W. Chandler was among the inductees at the Boston Army Base ceremony held last Wednesday morning, honoring local servicemembers from the Coolidge road area.
The Soo Canals at Sault Ste. Marie Michigan handle more cargo than the Panama and Suez canals combined despite four months of ice. Eighty five percent of American iron ore passes through the Soo locks moving ore from Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Ontario to eastern Canada steel plants and Great Lake states.
Local Grange members attended Past Masters Night at Tyngsborough Grange featuring a supper and installation of officers last Friday.
Mrs Kate Clark 86 of Lexington road died Wednesday at Emerson Hospital. Funeral conducted Friday at Trim Tarian Congregational Church by Robert H Barber with burial in Sleppy Hollow Cemetery. A Nova Scotia native born January 4 1868 she lived in Concord 62 years widow of George B Clark. She was active in Concord Woman's Club and Congregational societies. Survivors include sons Myron Clark of Farmington CT and Laurence E Clark of Concord a daughter Mrs Everett C Anna Mnerve of Concord six grandchildren a James Harrison of North Quincy and half sister Mrs Ivan Smith of Bradford NH.
The University of Michigan in 1870 became the nation’s first major school to admit women, marking a landmark shift in higher education access.
Miss Florence Malcolm native of Carlisle and longtime Africa missionary spoke at the Congregational Church worship service last Sunday morning. On furlough she travels to many speaking engagements and was guest of honor at the Ladies Social Circle and the Ever-Ready Class afternoon reception, staying with brothers William and Allan Malcolm on Stearns Street.
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