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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
4
Miss Helen Bowker visits Fitchburg and a new proprietor, Maria of Connecticut, is noted. The Concord town hall hosts an American orchestra and a minstrel show by the Concord Junction Brass Band is set for March 13.
The Boston Postal Journal lists March 1902 foreign mails closing dates including March 4 11 18 29 and additional March 8 22 times for Great Britain Ireland and Europe. It cites last year’s Money Order total of $205 618 680 in the United States with only $174 lost to wrong payments. It notes a bill expanding free use of the same privilege as for Mrs Grant and Mrs Garfield and warns about misaddressed letters. It also records 39 837 letters and 32 172 parcels sent to the Dead Letter office without addresses.
At about 5 30 p m Saturday Thomas Curley and other boys push ice on the Assabet River near Elm Street bridge. Curley lost balance, fell in, drifted 50 feet or more downstream before David Ball and E T Blood found him in a rowboat and brought him aboard. A warm rub and drinks revived him.
Marlboro residents take new jobs at local firms as Pratt joins Marlboro Electric Machine and Lamp Co and Robb starts with Maddox Market Co. Willie Fitzmaurice recovers from pneumonia. A large crowd attends stations of the cross at Immaculate Conception church. J F Kennedy is a son of Whitman residents. The Rawlins club reports fees for a reclam salvor in G A R hall with good attendance. The Marlboro Farmers Institute will meet in G A R hall on Friday March 21 under Marlboro ne auspices. Longley block sold by W P Locklin of Philadelphia to a Lowell party. McDonald resumes Curtis factory work after an earlier leg injury. D D Burns flies in to visit his mother Mrs Bridget Burns. J F Casserly welcomed a baby boy born Tuesday Feb 25. E F Howe Nelson Peckham and Charles Howe travel to attend the sins of rs John Deland. L H Colburn, after closing a company, has a summer resort offer for England season.
Sudbury notes Nathan Barker ill at home as town selectmen prepare the warrant for the annual meeting on March 24. Edward F. Young relocates to Wayland to run a meat business. Rev G E Folk returns from evangelistic work and will preach next Sunday. School exhibitions and a cantata A Trip to Europe are planned for March 20. Weather reports mild March 1 with early birds and high brook levels last week. May Cutter to oversee Goodnow care. Elizabeth G Wells leaves for a week in Maine. Miss Ethel G Thompson substitutes. Lectures on Mammoth Cave by Charles H Rice set for March 11 in Town Hall. New stores opening March 8 by William M Parmenter and Richard S Oliver with partners.
Miss Marion Hall youngest daughter of Rev A J Hall died Thursday Feb 27 from heart trouble. Born in Gloucester in her thirty second year she was beloved for her cheery nature despite poor health. Funeral Saturday drew flowers and attendees from Sudbury Gleasondale South Framingham Saxonville and Amherst classmates of J Clifford Hall. Services by B J Johnston Rev William C Collier and Rev A M Walker with "Asleep in Jesus" sung. Remains to be laid to rest in Mt Pleasant cemetery in spring.
Josiah Bacer, conductor on the P W and BR, claims long standing chest ailments finally improved after using a Brazilian palm circular about Geo H Hearn. Hearn, an engineer, reportedly recovered from a desperate case and recommended the Balm. Bacer began using it and after months his symptoms fully resolved.
The Maynard item list includes Edward F Brown visiting Marlboro E Sperling opens a Hudson tailor shop in Neil Currie store and C H Persons exhibits the smallest upright piano. Vaccination orders for school children and a Home Mission collection are planned.
Local retailer Mrs Ada Hodge offers a fine line of stationery stockings golf gloves and small wares at her Nason street storefront.
A vintage advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case through Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites endorsements from local Toledo pharmacists West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Price is 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free.
The South Framingham basketball team defeated the Maynards at South Framingham 17 to 6 on Friday evening continuing its winning streak.
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