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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1898
Page
5
Concord hosts visitors from Misses Weir to Miss Scribner and Miss Hazard while town events move ahead. The caucus meets March 18, militia notes, and a March 26 bicycle auction by Marlboro Rubber Co draws bidders. Local ads invite legal services and bicycle sales.
The Walden Royal Arch chapter marked its 25th anniversary with a town hall celebration last Friday. About 300 people attended the Masonic event featuring L B Macdonald’s invocation, a banquet, speeches by Geo W Hopkins and Harry Hunt, and an entertainment by the Kalmia ladies' quartet with Walter David.
Classified notices list items for sale and services in Concord. Second hand lady’s bicycle, infant dresses at Mauss Buck’s, dry and green oak wood and white birch offered by Geo F Wheeler. Towle Kent’s sells Boston Blend coffee 25¢ per pound and five pound can for $1. H L Whitcomb represents Noyes Brothers laundry. Store hours note returning unsold goods Fridays. Miss E A Buck’s and The Cosmopolitan fashion sheets advertised.
For sale or to let a twenty acre farm on Walden street with a cottage house and four lots on Thoreau street opposite Dr Osgood will sell as one or in parts. Also three farms on Lexington road two in Concord and one in Lincoln. For particulars apply to Benjamin Derby Concord Junction Massachusetts.
A memorial service for Miss Francis Willard, former president of the national W C T U, will be held at the Trinitarian Church next Sunday at 7 30 PM. The pastor Mrs Rolfe and Miss Caroline M qawai of Boston will give addresses, with seats reserved for local W C T U members. Music selections will be performed and a general invitation extended. The Christian Endeavor society meets at 6 30 PM that Sunday with Miss Caswell speaking on the Willards home work. all members and friends are urged to attend.
A list of names advertised for payment or service appears for Concord Massachusetts dated March 15 1898. Names include A J Anderson M F Bickford George M Brown Frank Carr James Dunlap and others with several ladies listed among the names.
The issue lists Sunday services for First Parish Unitarian Trinity Church Episcopal and Trinitarian Congregational with pastors Rev Loren B McDonald Rev Henry King Hannah Rev Geo A Tewksbury and Rev S Anderson, including times for morning services Sunday schools evening services and midweek meetings across the churches.
In 1858 during the Indian mutiny at Lucknow Lance Corporal Goat of the Ninth Lancers earned the Victoria Cross. He dismounted under heavy fire to try to rescue Major Smith of the Second Dragoon Guards, returning despite danger to recover the fallen officer.
Grandpa entertains many grandchildren on a winter evening by moving a lamp to cast changing shadows on a sheet. He demonstrates that shadows vary in size and can seem to leap to the ceiling, explaining the trick and cautioning them not to knock over the lamp.
A child's grief over the death of a dolly is described in a ritual of mourning with friends visiting, dressing the dolly in white, making a coffin, and burying her in a violet bed. The speaker repeats crying and recalls the funeral as deeply personal.
Local police on duty and officers on leave. residents report health, travel, and social events. Notices include a cadet appointment, post office repurposed as a fruit store, and a 25th Walden Royal Arch banquet. A nearby undertaker rumor stirs talk of industry.
Concord Junction locals advertise furniture repair and upholstering services plus carpet cleaning and relaying. Interior decorations offered by Thomas Hutchinson near Chaplin's stable. Display of picture moulding and canned goods including succotash. Mentions price cuts on Buttrick Patterns and Kennedy's crackers. O. L. Dart.
Union church Rev W Campbell pastor holds Sunday morning service at 10:30 Sunday school at 11:30 Y P S C E B at 6 p m evening service at 7 am
Fine light Brahma hens and pullets for sale. Latter are daughters of the 2d prize breeding Pea Cock at the Boston Poultry Show, 1597 and Fletcher hens. John H. Moore, Concord, Mass.
The explanation traces sterling to eastern German migrants known as easterlings who worked in England minting coins after migrating to the island. Over time the term was abbreviated to sterling and came to signify genuine money, plate, or character in English usage.
The report shows a maximum of 65 on March 13 and a minimum of 27 on March 9. The weekly mean was 16.6 with total precipitation 0.10 inch. Fred A. Tower, Observer.
A critique laments machine processed velvet that is puffed waved boxed and plaited, arguing the rich surface is spoiled and value diminished. The author compares over trimming velvet to mutilating lace or sable, urging restraint and natural beauty without excessive decoration.
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