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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1924
Page
1
Express Agent Whalen reports an eight year old boy, Benjamin Derby, died after being struck while returning from a scooter ride at Concord station yesterday as a locomotive thundered along the platform. The child fell onto the tracks just as the engine approached.
Hon and Mrs Rolfe Bradbury of North Acton have returned from St Augustine Florida where they spent the winter. They report cooler weather there than in many years as they traveled home.
Local residents visit relatives in Amherst and Utica as Benjamin Derby returns from college and Kathleen Mullaney dies at home. Firefighters respond to a chimney fire on Old Bridge Road. Bether Marcus, two, ill with diphtheria, remains gravely ill at home in Ashland.
Armour's Star brand bacon is described as mild cured and sliced thin priced at 29 cents per pound. The note emphasizes a low-cost meat option for shoppers.
A 25 member committee led by Judge Prescott Keyes to organize the 150th anniversary event for the Concord Fight on Patriots Day 1925 was named. The group includes selectmen, town officers, and notable residents, with an honorary list and a music subcommittee established.
Mrs Mary B Pratt widow of Windsor Pratt marks her 85th birthday on Monday March 24. Born in Portland Maine March 24 1839 she has resided in this town for seventy years. She has two daughters living Mrs Ernest Hosmer Ypshire California and Mrs L K Reed South Acton.
Many will attend the Borough Pomona Grange gathering in Sudbury on Thursday. Master Busene Bent of Southboro will run the business meeting. Lewis G. MacBrayne of the State Road Federation will discuss Living in the Horseless Age. Sudbury residents A G Adames and Maria A Gilmore will present papers and readings. The Rev Norman Mainy of Harvard University will address whether America offers fair opportunity to immigrants.
Mr and Mrs Isaac Ford and Mr and Mrs James Brown celebrated 50 years of marriage. They held open house at their School Street homes and hosted a dinner for relatives and friends. Both couples, natives of Paris Maine, wed March 21 1874. Mr Ford is Civil War veteran and member of local posts. Mrs Ford active in Woman's Relief Corp and church auxiliaries. Continued on page two.
Rev Ralph A Barker leads Friday evening prayer meeting at 7 30. On Sunday March 30 morning service at 10 30 with Sunday School at 11 45 and evening service at 7 o'clock. Evening discourse on Christian Teaching About Sin as part of Fundamentals of Faith series.
Maynard March 25. Frank J. DeMars post A. L. held a public meeting at Riverside Theatre to kick off a membership drive in cooperation with the Mass Dept. The hall filled with Legion members Auxiliary guests and friends. Speakers urged enrollment and pledged to aid disabled World War I veterans in hospitals and rehabilitate them from neglect as the Legion continues its duties. Continued on page seven.
John A Finigan Auctioneer announces a March 31 1924 sale at 10 am in Concord featuring 30 horses carriages harnesses sleighs and full St Germaine's Livery Stable equipment. Also an April 1 1924 sale in Harvard of farm stock and equipment owned by Owen McHugh with cash terms and lunch on site. A Winslow Eaton sale in Lincoln on April 5 1925 offers cows horses and household items at Wheelwright Estate at 10 am.
Auction Friday March 28 at the C B N am Farm Littleton Mass will sell cows farm tools and furniture on Boxboro road near Boxboro Depot and Bonboro Depot Deacon James Brown Farm. Two fresh cows 14 month old Holstein grade tools wagons mower spreader plows cultivator and more plus furniture antiques and dishes. Cash terms. Lunch at the farm.
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