Local notes from Concord include meetings and visits
The Ladies Auxiliary of James J. Mansfield post 158 American Legion postponed its meeting to next Monday at the Veterans building. Local social items note Pinky Hosmer's expected return from an Atlantic cruise within two weeks, whist prize winners at Elkshall, Young Republican club plans for March 12 with Rothwell MacRae slides, and visits by Mrs. Mary DeMao and Mrs. Robert Tompkins. Concord high debating club plans for March 29 30 finals with 23 schools, John Finigan presiding. Concord team to debate Wellesley.
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James J. Mansfield
No. 158
American Legion
Veterans Building
Our Lady of Indulgence ‘Society
Elkshall
Frances Seften
Bedford
John Smith
John V. Columbo
Maynard
Sam Ammendolia
Mary DeMao
Young Republican Club
Otis M. Whitney
Musketaquid Road
Rothwell MacRae
Concord High
John Finigan
Concord
Wellesley
Dance to raise uniforms for Legion drill teams
Hudson forms joint dance by Sons of American Legion Squadron and Junior Legion Auxiliary to be held Friday night April 5 in Town Hall. Proceeds fund new uniforms for drill teams. Junior Auxiliary team holds the state championship. Plans led by Dr Charles W Coggins and Mrs Albert A Morel with several assistants.
Gruber Bros Award Prizes At Annual Furniture Sale
Gruber Bros announces prizes for the annual furniture sale. Sally Murphy of 12 Garfield Street wins first prize a $26 merchandise award. Margaret Castillini of 4 Douglas Avenue secures second prize an upholstered chair. Tut Graceffa of Main Street gets a floor lamp. Mary Callahan of Prospect Street receives a 49x12 Congoleum rug. Alric French of 2 Espie Avenue earns a Congoleum rug.
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Maynard
Gruber Bros
Sally Murphy
Garfield Street
Margaret Castillini
Douglas Avenue
Tut Graceffa
Main Street
Mary Callahan
Prospect Street
Alric French
Espie Avenue
Emerson Group Meeting Hosts Noted Local Figures
Elmer Robinson hosted the Emerson Group gathering at 4 Lowell Road last Sunday evening with Miss Nancy E. Carkin as the main speaker. Other items note Larz Anderson recovering at Fitchburg, Franklin Hartwell resting after appendectomy at Emerson Hospital, George Outus appointed as VFYW aide, and several church talks and services at local congregations.
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Elmer Robinson
Lowell Road
Emerson Group
Nancy E. ‘Carkin
Franklin EB. Hartwell
Mill Dam
Fairhaven Road
Emerson Hospital
Anchor and Ark Glee Club Concert Planned in Maynard
Plans progress for a concert by the Anchor and Ark Glee Club of Maynard at the Veterans Building to benefit the Concord Legion band. Arthur B. Corey is a chorus member and Robert MacLeod handles publicity for the glee club tour.
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Anchor and Ark Glee Club
Maynard
Veterans’ Building
Concord Legion Band
Arthur B. Corey
Robert MacLeod
Glee Club
Roosevelt backs emergency locks for canal lifeline
President Roosevelt urged swift congressional action to build a third emergency set of locks for the Panama Canal while saying acquiring more territory for defense would be silly. The Washington note highlighted the canal’s strategic importance and the need for faster lock construction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Congress
Storage Shed Fire Damages $200 In Concord
A second alarm 43 hours later responded to a storage shed blaze behind the Concord Coal and Wood Company on Sudbury Road. Firemen battled eight inches of snow on the roof and worked 45 minutes to extinguish a fire believed sparked by spontaneous combustion from an overheated stove. Damage confined to the roof, estimated at about $200.
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Concord
West Concord
Central
Concord Coal and Wood Company
Sudbury Road
Card of Appreciation for Election Victory
Edith Taylor Engman publicly congratulates opponent Mrs. Louisa N. Wood on her election win and thanks supporters in a brief post election notice.
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Louisa.n. Wood
Edith Taylor Engman
Cullinane couple rejoice birth of baby daughter
South Acton Mr and Mrs Corveleus C Cullinane of Central Street celebrate the birth of a baby daughter at their home on Sunday afternoon February 25.
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Frederick S. Millett
Main Street
King’s Daughters
Sallie Bartlett
Corveleus C. Cullinane
Central Street
Concord High cancels football games with Northbridge
Faculty manager Al Cook at Concord High School cancels negotiations with Northbridge High over dates for two scheduled games. The teams had clashed on November 15 1940 at Northbridge and a 1941 game in Concord, and mutual agreement called the contests off.
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al Cook
Concord High School
Northbridge High
Concord
Northbridge
Cook
Abbot Fenn
Roger Fenn
Monument Street
Harvard
Vin Freedley
Fenn
Middlesex School
Frederick Lovejoy
Joseph Booth
Carlisle
New England
Bridgeton
Maine
Massachusetts
Wollaston
William O’brien
Henry S. Thompson Jr
Mary Cochran
Littleton
New Hampshire
Percy A. Rideout
West Concord
Gilford
Rideout
Dartmouth College
Chuckie” Maloney
Charles M. Maloney
Commonwealth Avenue
Boston Bees
Young Maloney
Evansviille
Indiana
Red bombers attack southern Finnish town killing 50
Reports say Red bombers conducted mass flights over Finnish towns outside the war zone and killed hospital inmates along with women and children in raid shelters. The assault left fifty dead in a southern coastal town. Separately, Boston Mayor Tobin, after a Palm Beach medical test, will return to City Hall Friday afternoon.
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Helsinki
Boston
Tobin
Palm Beach
City Hall
Pratt Heads Drive for Salvation Army Fund in Concord District
B L Pratt accepts chairmanship of the fencers committee aiding the annual Salvation Army Drive to be launched in Concord and district. The goal for Concord Carlisle and Lincoln is 1000 dollars. Pratt will have full charge and will announce his assistants soon.
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Concord
Burleigh L. Pratt
District
Arlisle
Lincoln
Pratt
Friends OF the Salvation Army
Salvation Army
Concord and District
Boxboro Garden Club Meeting Features Will Curtis Talk
The Boxboro Garden Club met at the Wetherbee Arms on Wednesday evening with many attendees. Will Curtis from The Garden in the Woods Sudbury spoke on Wild Flowers and fielded audience questions late into the night.
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Boxboro
Boxboro Garden Club
Wetherbee Arms
Will Curtis
Garden In the Woods
Sudbury
Curtis
Maynard Court Game Set To Open Season Sunday
Burt Coughlan, sportsman, plans the court game season as the Maynard club prepares a new formation. The Ash Captain Deacon and teammates Daley Becky Laibowicz Columbo Norgoal Mariay will host Hill A A of Charlestown at time hall this Sunday. The sport remains popular with a large attendance expected.
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Maynard
Burt Coughlan
Ash
Deacon
Daley
Becky
Vini Laibowicz
Joe
Columibo
Norgoal
Mariay
Hill A. A
Charlestown
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Parker Hardware Co
Main ST
TEL
Concord Co-Operative Bank
Maynard, Mass
Mutual Savings Bank
The
Middlesex Institution For Savings
Samuel Hoar
Henry F. Smith
Treas
Marlboro Legion Drum Corps
Herbert B
Pinky” Hosmer, Jr
Elm Street
Robert Tompkins
Foxes’ Point
Nova
Scotia
Dorothy Dunne
Lynn
Harold ‘Tompkins
Buffalo
B. B. Feed Company
Herbert Berry
Legion
Chelsea Naval Hospital
Mrs
Warren Lake
Barrett’s Mill Road
Sons of Legion and ‘Junior Auxiliary
Colonial Tel
Pera Ag
Et Ee Ae
Lindsay
Pea Intelligence
FBI
Jane Withers
Ritz Brothers
Arthur Keye Wittig
Luke Fung
Gruber Bros. Award
Larz Anderson
Palmer Memorial Hospital
Brookline
Fitchsburg
George F. Outus
Crest Street
Maynard Post Vieyw
VFYW
Lynne Townsend
Acton Congregational Church
Union Church Men’s Club
Myron Clark
Ladies Union
Union Church
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Richard Cameron
James Hanley
Belknap ‘Street
Leonard ‘Fowler
Union Congregational Church
Iin Maynard
Union
Wilder X. Macurda
Walden St
United Press Association
Saltonstall
Joseph E. Donovan
Boston Municipal Court
John Duff
Redwood City
Welles-Ill
Duce
Lausanne
Sumner Welles
Mussolini
Rome
United States
Berlin
N. H
Parmachenee Lake
Bratislava
Slovakia
Danube River
Germany
Europe
Romania
Barnstable
Craigville Beach
Park Commission
Board of Selectmen
Neendon
Robert Currier
Watertown
New York
LaGuardia Field
Belvidere, Ill
Gus Sonnenberg
Mildred
Hollywood
Tyrone Power
South Acton
SPORT
West Acton
With the
Zola
Ruth Goete
Bormside
Northwest Passage
B. L. Pratt
Boxboro Club
Coughlan
Pte 35
Annicr
the Manning Pharmacy
Gow Bldg
Main ST Maynai
America
S. P. Hughes
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