Concord Temperance Proposal Promotes Coffee Instead of Spirits
J D Murray endorses a one day temperance compromise in Concord urging citizens to trade liquor for good coffee. He cites local products like Appollinaris and Hygeia Lithia and aligns with S T L W C T U and I O G T to prevent drinking while preserving town pride and temperance ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S
Ity
Nobscot Mountain
Appollinaris
Hygeia Lithia
Londerry Lithia
Poland
Lafayette
S.T. L
J. D. Murray
Thoreau House Fire Destroys Office Area
Fire alarm sounded Friday afternoon at the Thoreau House. Insurance men arrived with extinguishers but flames overwhelmed the front office, gutting the interior and damaging Surrett's adjacent room. The blaze spread to the stairwell and reached up to the third story with heavy water and smoke damage. damage estimated at $2000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoreau House
Surrett
Eagorn
Musical Program at Unitarian Church Tea Event
Thursday evening at the Unitarian church featured a well received musical program. Miss Gertrude Todd and Miss Margaret Blanchard led vocal solos and duets alongside William Barrett and Charles E Brown. After performances, refreshments and social time followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unitarian
Gertrude Todd
Margaret Blanchard
William Barrett
Charles E.brown
Frank Jackson
Miss Todd
Mr. Barrett
Delightful Party Honoring Miss Ellen Emerson at Garland Home
A Friday evening event at the Garland Home school honored Miss Ellen Emerson. The arrangements were led by Mrs. James S. Garland with five committee members. About 75 couples attended as townspeople joined in a program of plain gavottes and old-fashioned contra dances. Supper followed at 11 o'clock with Henry J. Hosmer as floor manager and assistants C S Richardson C Brown J L Gilmore R F Barrett and B W Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Emerson
Garland Home School
James S. Garland
Henry J. Hosmer
C.S. Richardson
C. Brown
J. L. Gilmore
R. F. Barrett
B. W. Brown
Proprietors advertise Wheeler remedies in Boston paper
Boston druggists announce Antidol and Wheeler products including Cough Balsam Plaster Troches Liver Pill and Carbolic Ointment. Antidol claimed to cure headache and indigestion while many items are priced at 25 cents.
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Boston
Mass
Wheeler
Druggists authorize warrant for Ball’s Piustena cough cure
The Druggists named below are hereby authorized to warrant that a 50 cent bottle of Dr Ball's Cough and Lung Syrup Piustena the great Consumption and Asthma Remedy cures your cough ver severe if curable or pay you back the money Small size 25 cents B F. Joh Son.
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B. F. Joh
Express Decision on Express Business Rights
Mr Kidder seeks a mandatory injunction to allow him to use passenger trains of the Fitchburg railroad with equal facilities as other companies. He was barred to freight trains due to a contract with the National Express Co granting exclusive passenger train rights until 1903. The case advances through courts with final terms to be set by the superior court.
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Fitchburg Railroad
National Express Co
Igor
The
National Co
Kidder
Supreme
Concord Notables List Names Residents and Attendees
At Concord Massachusetts on March 3 1896 a list of attendees is recorded including Wm Buttrick P M J K Bailey W J Clark Dr E French Thomas Keefer E H Littlejohn Christian Simerson and several ladies and Mrs Emily Hunt Hattie Jackson Cassie Kinneny Miss Hulda Anderson Miss F M Abbott Miss Mary Coffinberry Mrs E W Converse.
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Concord
Mass
Wm. Buttrick P. M
K. Bailey
W. J. Clark
E. French
Thomas Keefer
E. H. Littlejohn
Christian Simerson
Hulda Anderson
F. M. Abbott
E. W. Converse
Mary Coffinberry
Emily Hunt
Hattie Jackson
Cassie Kinneny
Weather Summary for The Week Ending March 2, 1896
The report notes a maximum temperature of 54 on February 28 and a minimum of 3 on February 26. Weekly range reached 51 degrees with a weekly mean of 30.9. Total precipitation measured at 2.29 inches. Frep A Tower served as observer.
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Frep A. Tower
Local Concord Ads and notices mix of goods and events
Long list of Concord market agents and ads for Cream from Concord vendors, local houses for sale and to let, horse and carriage services, lanterns and walnuts for sale, wallpaper, hay and corn fodder, soap, rubber stamps, rope and hardware, plus notices from Concord Junction about residents, church events, weather impacts, and local deaths.
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Concord
A. F. Bowman
J. W. Raymond
Derby
Mass
Main Street
John H. Chapman
G. St. L
Towle & Kent
Geo. H. Hopkins
G. H. Hopkins
Wm. Bulger
H. H. Chapman
Fitchburg Station
Philadelphia
Bradish’s
H. C. Derby
H. L. Whitcomb
Riverview
H. Fitzgerald
Richardson’s
Albereen
Geo. Hagerty
Bradish
Utica
Saturday Globe
Railroad Men Enticed to W C T U Meeting in Concord
Mrs Henry Hartwell superintendent of Concord W C T U led a Monday evening event for about 25 railroad workers from the Boston and Maine and Fitchburg lines. H C Rolfe read a paper signed by state railroad superintendent E M Allen. Recitations and music followed, then a supper.
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Henry Hartwell
Concord
Boston
Maine
Fitchburg
H.C. Rolfe
E. M. Allen
Among the Churches Hirst Parish Unitarian Services
The notice lists church schedules for several denominations. Hirst Parish Unitarian led by Rev. Loren B. Macdonald offers morning services at 10 45, a Sunday school at noon, Young Peoples guild at 7 pm and evening service at 7 40 pm on Dec 1 and 22 and then first and third Sundays monthly. Protestant Episcopal Church holds morning prayer litany and sermon at 10 45, Sunday school at noon, evening prayer at 7 30. all seats free. Initiating Congregationalists led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury hold Y P S C E at 6 30 pm and Friday prayer meeting at 7 30. Scandinavian M E Church under Rev J P Anderson offers services Sundays 10 30 am and 7 30 pm with class meeting Friday 7 45 pm.
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Union Church
W. W. Campbell
Concord Junction
William Wright
Loren B. Macdonald
Young Peoples’ Guild
Irinitarian Congregational
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Be or Taleen Buffalo and Cream Gluten Milk Producers
Preservation advertisement notes Be or Taleen Buffalo and Cream Gluten as leading milk producers of the era. Mentions Flagg's Food for cattle and poultry. References Agency of the New York Life Insurance Company.
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Flagg
The
New York Life Insurance Company
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Wheeler Pharmacal Co
Ketters
Whitcomb
F. R. Beck & Co
N. Y
DeWitt
B. F. Johnson’ & Son
Maynard
C. H. Whitney
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Alfred Spring
Mrs. Bourne
Mr. Curtis Senior
Church
House of Geo
Sadie Campbell of
Hudson
C. H. Burbank
Pearl Wayne Council H. C
Union Church Lyceum
Garfield Stone
Concord Road
Acton Centré
Acton
Ida A. Park
Wm. J. Batt
Willow Degree Lodge
Reformatory
Crescent
Rebekahs
Pearl Wayne Council
B. F. Johnson & Son
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
James
Mary A. Hayward
Cambridge
Marc A. D
Concord Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
Folsom
Register
Hirst Parish
Protestant Episcopal Church
Benj. W. Brown
Canada
Pillsbury’s
F.B.R. Station
Concord, Mass
Martin W. Woodnow
Sudbury
Edgar W. Goodnow
Frank W. Goodnow
Ae Enterprise
H. Folsom
Geo. Taylor
Ritellia
Sudbury Enterprise
S. H. Folsom
Geo. Flood
Strout
J. B. Deane
Nason Street
Sam
WM. F. Litchfield
Charles Ford
South Acton
Darling’s Elk, Cor. Summer and Nason Sts
Reasona Sae
Quincy
Shanes
Concord Clothing Company
Friend’s Block
Westvale
Venient Apartment
Ralph H. Damon
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