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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1899
Page
2
A mix of public notes. Strawberries appear in markets and licenser debates surface amid town meetings in Attleboro with two mayors on the selectmen ticket. A Boston street worker loses sight in an eye from dynamite, while Kipling and libraries get thoughtful mentions and Judge Richardson upholds employer rights against strikes.
Over 100 2:20 and better horses are in San Francisco and nearly 1,500 men work on W H Clark's new trotting track in New York. The New York fire chief drives a fast trotter to fires. Over 150 horses are quartered at the Jewett covered track with more to come. Hoppled horses are barred from the Blue Hill Avenue speedway in Boston. The American turf congress rules Nannie L's Sister is not a proper mare name. Lou Sprague 2:244 is out of Molly Sprague dam of XL 2:1834. Brightwood Driving Association of Washington joins the National Trotting Association. Palatine sister to Miss Rita 2:09% was once named after Cissy Fitzgerald.
Cantata receipts net 108 dollars. Jefts shop shifts to a 10 hour schedule starting last Tuesday. Library closed for annual book examination. Karl Hasselgren becomes printer at Brown's photo studio. One local court arrest last month before town meeting. Dr. Jackson returns from Boston Homeopathic hospital improving. Hudson Cream and Produce Co. buys a new wagon signaling prosperity. Dr. Glazier finds the other half of a dollar bill. Sid joked about by the medicine man. Eugene Lawrence sells the Lawrence Building to Moses A. Hall, former partner of George W. Poor. Social dance planned at town hall next Friday March 17 by Lose No. 3 with Union orchestra. Hudson Spinning Co. tests new rooms with leasing prospects for upper floors of Houghton factory. Barrows sells carriage repair and blacksmithing business to William S. Moulton. Barrows moves to Campella as a tasting machine operator. Plumbers basketball team accepts Brigham's challenge for 25 dollars. Sweeney of Marlboro holds the purse of 50 dollars. Dates and venue not fixed. Hudson vs Marlboro basketball dates cancel amid disputes, latest with Marlboro Y M C A over scheduling March 18. further games unlikely.
Marlboro neighbors report John F. Gibbon working in Barre while W H Niles recovers from illness. Miss Helen Whitney visits Hudson friends. Charles Ashe travels to Nova Scotia to farm. J S Alley moves goods to Boston. John Treacy sick with a cold. Arthur Meanor hosts a Berlin guest. Special Policeman McNiff fills in for Officer Herrick. Frank Callahan’s son recovers from scarlet fever. John Kennedy visits Whitman parents. Edmund Sowerby ill but improving. Leary to replace Perry. John Leary offered travel salesman post in Boston. Kate Doyle leaves Boynton & Co for Houston & Henderson’s in Boston. A H Wade photographs the new high school. Oliver Messenger family ill. recovery ahead. J J O’Hare receives a gold mounted pipe at Gleason House. D K Reilly presents. Peter Funai enjoys life in Italy. Marlboro shoe dispute noted. Union Club whist, pool, billiard tournaments attract members.
A Marlboro clock repair led to a burglar alarm of sorts as a shop clock cuckooed at odd times. A vigilant policeman investigated noises, a suspect with a sob story left, and a clock's mischief culminated in a returned purchase. The shop owner, a doctor, reportedly uses the clock to test patients' sanity.
The Underwood family of four died in a Marlboro tenement after consuming wood alcohol found in all examined stomachs. Professor Wood of Harvard College confirmed the toxin and sent the report to Medical Examiner Hoitt, reinforcing the local authorities theory.
In Sudbury district court Mrs Jennie Collins faces an assault with a dangerous weapon charge after Feb 27 with George Stark as key witness. Collins struck Stark with a table fork while her husband wounded Stark with a knife. Collins held for superior court with 300 in bond. Eugene Oliver also charged and held for 1300.
Doctors warn a Connecticut youth died from blood poisoning after biting a lead pencil. Impurities from the pencil tip likely caused the infection, and physicians urge readers to keep pencils out of the mouth.
Opie Read recalls Sam a colorful veteran who believes he can obtain a government pension. A pension agent questions Sam about service and wounds revealing Sam’s skillet injury and Confederate ties, exposing the absurdity of pension expectations.
A New York Sun column records Mr. Stoggleback discussing women’s rights with gentleness. He notes women deserve privileges but questions mixed signals in sidewalk manners and expects men to yield to women in public.
The passage reflects on Rome as a city of murder and sudden death with blood at every threshold. It notes the city's terror and carnage, its enduring charm, and the draw it has had on poets artists and musicians across centuries who left verses lines sketches and songs capturing love eternity and death.
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