Concord Social News and Local Delights
Concord society notes and visits as residents and guests are listed. Courtship travel by Col Geo A Keeler and family, Cadet H R Spencer returns to Concord, new talks at Trinitarian church, Home school play A Box of Monkeys, and updates on illness travel and lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Hutchins
Brookline
Geo A. Keeler
R. F. Barrett
St Augustine
Chas H. Fowle
Newport
N. H
St Bernard’s Church
Susie Emmett
Lowell
Edith Cheney
Concord Local Ads and Bargains Highlight Spring Goods
Local items advertise fashion for infants and children at Moss Buck's and new spring styles from Miss E. A. Buck. Stores offer coffee, trunks, and dry goods at discount prices. Towle and Kent's feature Boston Blend coffee and bulk deals. A job ad seeks a skilled second girl by March 15, and postal notices note delivery of New York Sun to Concord residents via F B Chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moss Buck’s
Geo F. Wheeler
Towle & Kent’s
C. E. Brown’s
Boston
Towle & Kent
S. H
Brown’s
A. P. Andrews
Main Street
Public Library
Concord
Mass
E. A. Buck
Tea varieties promise best quality for every budget
Regardless of choice the Orloff Formosa Oolony with lilac flavor the Koh i Noor English Breakfast Tea with stimulating sparkle or an Orange Pekoe with wine like body and purity offers only the best money can buy indicating a strong sales pitch for premium blends.
February 1898 Weather Summary for Concord Massachusetts
Monthly meteorological report for Concord Massachusetts shows mean barometer 30.055 with a high of 30.617 on the 4th and low of 28.899 on the 16th. Temperature averaged 27.4 with 56.4 on the 16th and 19.1 on the 3rd. precipitation totaled 4.57 inches with 23.7 inches of snowfall. Observed events include sleet on the 20th and ice storms on the 20th and 22nd, distant lightning on the 15th, and solar and lunar halos on the 2nd and 2nd respectively. Fred A. Flower, Observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Massachusetts
N. E
Fred A. Flower
Maine Disaster Court of Inquiry Progress
Washington March 9 The Maine was blown up three weeks ago last night with no official cause known yet. The court of inquiry works hard at the navy department, but no expected finish date is given. Officials stress the report may raise another vital issue for the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maine
Court of Inquiry
Navy Department
Church Schedule Listings for Kirst Parish Trinity Church and More
Sunday morning services and Sunday school times are listed for Kirst Parish Unitarian Trinity Church Protestant Episcopal and Trinitarian Congregational in a combined church notice. Other details include Young People's Guild meetings and Friday prayer meetings with pastors named for each congregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren’ B. McDonald
Young ‘People’s Guild Meeting
Trinity Church
New Invoice of Glassware and Goods Attracts Attention
A fresh weekly invoice offers a wide range of desirable glassware including pitchers bowls ice cream trays tumblers and bottles plus table bells sauces oils decanters and more. The seller also highlights toilet goods furniture crockery wooden and tin wares and a fine selection of groceries ready for order during spring cleaning.
Massachusetts House Debates Gas Probe And Radical Execution Bill
The Massachusetts House discussed a gas investigation order but did not vote. A committee exonerated the state engineer. A senate protection bill passed. A prisons committee proposed capital punishment by electric chair at Charlestown with solitary confinement and restricted visits. execution timed between midnight and sunrise with only designated officials and witnesses present. Rules favored easing weaving fines. a medicine registration bill faced defeat though Dr Harvey seeks anatomy exams for physicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
House
State House
Senate
Committee On Prisons
Massachusetts
Charlestown
Harvey
State Board
Boston Chamber Report Shows United States Trade Peak in 1897
The Boston chamber of commerce reports 1897 benefited from agriculture and prices, with national business improving though not uniformly. US business failures totaled 13,039, down 13.3 percent from 1896, liabilities fell 37 percent, and exports reached 1.0997 billion dollars, with gold exports minus imports by 255 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston Chamber of Commerce
United States
Special Train to Washington on April 11
Pennsylvania Railroad personally conducted tour to Washington by special train via Wagner palace cars on the Fitchburg Railroad. The price includes all expenses. Write to R. Watson G P A Fitchburg Railroad Boston Mass for itinerary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Concord Junction Personal Notes and Local Happenings
Sunday visits pause in Concord Junction as J Robert Brown spends time with parents in Boston and Levi Loring stays with family. Officer Chapman welcomes a new daughter. The old sawmill is leased to Isaac Beharrell by a syndicate. A wartime scare passes with no incident. Carrie Ktitscher delays New York trip. Letters from Jere Sheehan and daughter report good health in the old country. Boston Harness Co ships horse harnesses to Indiana for the U S Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapman
Isaac Beharrell
Carrie Ktitscher
New York
Jere Sheehan
Old Country
Langford Convicted of Assault in East Cambridge Case
George Langford a 21 year old colored man was found guilty of assault with intent to murder in the Midilesex superior criminal court East Cambridge and sentenced by Judge Bishop to state prison for not less than 18 nor more than 20 years He had been serving a larceny sentence in the reformatory and on the assault day refused to work He threw a large die at Instructor Chase then drew a knife and stabbed Officer Shattuck disfiguring him for life The jury was out five minutes Boston Post
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Langford
Midilesex
East Cambridge
Bishop
Langford
Reformatory
Jane
Chase
Eimer E. Shattuck
Shattuck
Boston Post
For Sale Items From Concord Junction
For Sale 50 hens and pullets by Geo Manoer. Mixed pickles by the quart. 18 kinds and sizes of lamp chimneys. Genuine porpoise shoe laces. McLarens Imperial Neufchatel cheese at Dart s. Ladies spring hats latest styles at Miss Tuttles Millinery Soncton. Furniture repaired and upholstery, carpets relaid. Interior decorations promptly attended to by Thomas Hutchinson near Chaplin s stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dart’s
Miss Tuttle
Soncton
Thomas Hutchinson
Chaplin
Concord Junction Church Notes
Union church led by Rev. W. W. Campbell holds Sunday services at 10.30 with Sunday school at 11.30. Y P S C E gathers at 6 p m and the evening service starts at 7 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry King Hasnah
Geo. A. Tewksbury
M. E. Church
J. P. Anderson
Union Church
W. W. Campbell
Light Brahmas for sale from prize lines
Fine light Brahma hens and pullets for sale. Daughters of the 2d Prize breeding Pea Cock at the Boston Poultry Show in 1897 and Fletcher hens. John H. Moore, Concord Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fletcher
John H. Moore
Concord
Mass
The Cost Of Trains In Public Transport Debate
A Chicago and Alton official argues most people cannot own homes as costly as a first class passenger car. He cites car prices from $6000 to $12000, plus yearly maintenance and $500 overhauls, to show housing costs rival rail equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Charlton
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Mr. Charlton
Kansas City Journal
Stow Citizens Urge Center Route for Electric Railroad
Stow town meeting in the town hall Tuesday evening voted that any electric railroad through Stow must pass through the town center rather than Boons Pond. A selectmen committee was appointed to solicit subscribers to organize under general laws to build the central corridor. J D Shaughnessy spoke on legal rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stow
Hudson
Maynard
Boons Pond
A Narrow Escape from Consumption Through Healing
Mrs Ada E Hart of Groton South Dakota recounts a near death from lung illness. After four doctors gave up, she tried Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds, taking eight bottles to recover. Trial bottles available free at local drugstores with a guaranteed or refunded price for regular sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada E. Hart
Groton
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Inc. C. Friend’s
Concord
Mortgagee Sale of Real Estate by The Middlesex Institution for Savings
Public auction to sell the Edward C Damon mortgage properties in Concord Westvale Middlesex on April 7 1898 at 3:30 PM. Three parcels totaling about 19 acres with mill frontage water rights and structures pass to the buyer subject to easements. 5000 cash due at sale and balance in nine days. other terms announced at sale by the savings institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward C. Damon
Middlesex Institution
Middlesex South
Concord
Middlesex
Westvale
Maynard
Martha Kelley
Kelley
Bound Rock
John Brown
Wm. D. Brown
Said Brown
Town Way
Sarah C. Brown
Maple Street
Maynard Road
James
Monroe
Wm. Simpson
Simpson
Abial H. Chase
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Assabet River
Factory Canal
Assabet
Middlesex South District
Amory Leland
Middlesex Institution For Savings
Henry J. Hosmer
Mass
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Royal
Royal Baking Powder CO
Carl Butters
Walter N. How
J. W. Moss
Vermont
Bessie Holmes
Milton
Thos Hollis and Family
James C. Howard
Prescott Hosmer
Hubbard Street
Charles Thompson
H. R. Spencer
U. S. S. Enterprise
Milldam
Lincoln
Fowle & Kent
Henry A. Clapp
Boston Daily Advertiser
Woman’s Club
Town Hall
Nathan Rogers
E. L. Edwards
Joan Whitney
Frank Foss
la Grippe
Andrew S. Lowden
William Foss
Sarah
Johnson
Mary Hartman
Maynard C. Clark
Nova Scotia
Daniel Lothrop
Mary Levier Hoss
E. E. Hoss
Nashville
Wayside
The
Trinitarian Church
Paul
Timothy
Apostle Paul
Congregational Church Building Society
Geo A. Hood
New York Sunday Tribune
Engl
Edward Farmer
U.S. N
Farragut
Farmer
Back Bay
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York Sunday Journal and World
F. B. Chase
Chase & Sanborn’s
Kirst Parish
Unitarian
Episcopal
Trinitarian Congrega
Fred A. Tower
General Court
Concord Junction
Robert Brown
Annie S. Blossom
Roxbury
Levi Loring
Boston Harness Co
Artillery Branch
United States Army
Indiana
Geo
Manoer
Spain
J. H. Pray Sons & Co
Surrey
L.N. Fowler & Co
Concord Junction, Mass
J. D. Shaughnessy
Whitney
Ben
W. Brown
New Democrat and Concord
F. R. R. Station
Concord, Mass
Dren
Maurice McWalter
Main St
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