Concord Town Notes April 5 Meetings and Elections
Town meetings for appropriations will be held on April 5. Edwards McKenna was named Democrat representative and F H Rideout Republican on the board of registrars. Registrars will meet at Concord Engine House on the 11th and Town House on the 20th for voter registration and list revision. Miss Eva Moss opens a dressmaking shop at 8 Middle Street with Parisian models on display through March 10.
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Edward McKenna
F. H. Rideout
Citizens’ Caucus
Democratic Town Committee
Young Peoples’ Club
Engine House
Concord Junction
Town House
Eva Moss
Boylston St
Boston
Middle St
Concord
Narrow Escape Aboard Concord River Raft
Elmer Joslin rental sank into danger when a raft sail on the Concord river nearly left him stranded. Friends Thorpe Cook and Wheeler sighted him and rescued him as the current tested the canoe’s balance. They reached safety at the Concord Canoe club house and Joslin offered sodas at Richardson's drug store.
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Elmer Joslin
Elmer
Concord
Thorpe
Cook
Wheeler
Joslin
Concord Canoe Club
Richardson’s
The Magnet as a Detective Across Industries
The article notes magnets in America and England used to detect fraud and aid iron and steel handling. It cites a locomotive crane lifting scraps and uncovering hidden metal, preventing blunders and theft. It mentions bone manure manufacturers weighing bones passed under a concealed magnet, where a hidden iron piece could distort weight readings.
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America
England
Washington Co. Company I Heads to Inaugural Parade
Sixty three men from Washington County Company I leave Tuesday afternoon for Washington D C to march in the inaugural parade. They travel by train from Boston with K Company Lowell and a battalion of the 8th regiment, staying at the Vendome and visiting Philadelphia New York and the capitol before returning.
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Vendome
Capitol City
Philadelphia
New York
Enterprise
Small Post Office Blaze Doused Quickly in Rubbish Pile
A smoke filled the Post Office cellar Tuesday morning but the fire department found only a small rubbish blaze. The incident caused window damage at the telephone office and a temporary alarm failure, yet service resumed with little disruption.
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Telephone Company
Odd Scottish Dinner and the Reason of St Lord Polkemmet
The account tells how Lord Polkemmet and John Hagart dine in an extravagant meal planned around veal dishes. The lord explains their table metaphor: they kill a beast and cook from one head to the tail then back via the other side, symbolizing their dining routine. Hagart is surprised by the odd arrangement and purpose.
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Lord Polkemmet
John Hagart
John
Whistler's Paris Bohemian Days End in River Splash
In Paris Whistler and Ernest Delannoy mop up shifting fortunes from Louvre copying, pawned coats for iced drinks, and a bold act on the Pont des Arts. A replica Veronese goes to the water after a chaotic dealer tour, drawing guards, boats, and public astonishment before the pair return home delighted.
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Trilby
Paris
Whistler
Gleyre
Delaroche
Bohemia
Murger
Poynter
Louvre
Ernest Delannoy
Veronese
Cana
Seine
Pont Des Arts
Sergents de Ville
Pall Mall Gazette
A Hum an Gibraltar and a Crowd Study in Human Nature
A passage recounts Colonel Fred Burnaby in a Windsor cavalry barracks football game where he calmly accepted a collision with a Yorkshire fullback. It contrasts his calm remark with the crowd’s delighted reaction and includes a note on crowd behavior from a New York Globe excerpt about morning versus night trains and human nature.
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Fred Burnaby
Lord Binning
Windsor Cavalry Barracks
London
Bates
Burnaby
New York Globe
The Charm of New York and Her One Ambition
The piece contrasts New York’s beauty and chaos with Venice like imagery, noting the city’s diverse architecture and lively atmosphere. It then recounts a St Louis Republic item about a young woman seeking a job and negotiating pay to include laundry, illustrating ambition and practicality.
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New York
Venice
Heaven
Turner
London
C. N. Williamson
London Chronicle
St. Louis Republic
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ROBOR
Albert Vanderhoof
Main Street
Massachusetts Corporation
Middlesex County
United States
Mass
B. F. Townsend
A. J. Poland & Company
Crawford
Via
Bedford
A.J. Poland &Company
J. B. McFarland & Co
Bedford Centre
Fairhaven Greenhouses
Wilfrid’ Wheeler
Techhone
Concord Mass
Fletcher Carr
Monument St
Howard Flannery
Fox
T. F. Brown
William Kelley
R. W. Kendall
Robert C. Moakley
L. B. Prospen
William Redden
Frank E. Stokes
Thompson ‘Chemical Works
Donald B. Willson
E. W. Waterman
Helga Hansen
Caroline A. Hemenway
Georgie Kimball
Ira Kendall
Kitty McDonough
Prospect Sr
Olive Pike
Wilbur
Hill
Washington
CAPI
Tal
Armory
Gibraltar
the New World
Magee Ranges
I. A. McRae
Thoreau Street
J. V. Gately
Loewe’s Block
Nason St
Maynard
Gately
Warthquake
Italy
Co-operative Hall
Sherman
Henry Gilroy
Fr. McCarron
S .Fowest
James Devane, W. Acton
C. L. King
Maynard Black Maynard
William J. Bulger
Cambridge
Hudson and Vicinity
Main St
F. H. Bryant
Chas. S. Hunt So
Sudbury
P. McColgan
Spencer Ave
Chelsea
Boston & Albany
Boston & Maine
R.R
Matthew Steinman
Grant St
Sacraiice
Annie E. Payson
Acton
Charles Parker Tucker
Chase
Judson
Massa
Am.whitcomer
West Acton
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