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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1893
Page
4
Holy week in Milford brings no druggist licenses for the year as the town plans store activity. The Boston Post's campaign against overhead wires stirs debate on insurance rates in the Hub and possible repercussive effects on privileges at the World’s fair amid uneasy newspaper practices.
The New York Sun reports five cremations at Fresh Pond including four men and one woman. The piece notes a rise in cremation in the U S with over 100 dead cremated nationwide last year, many by choice rather than cholera cases. It mentions England and continental Europe having crematories and considers cholera’s impact on future cremations.
President Harrison intends to leave Washington for Indianapolis shortly after President Cleveland's inauguration. He will travel on the Pennsylvania Limited Express, stopping Sunday in Pittsburgh and arriving in Indianapolis around noon on March 6. He may alter this plan but does not expect a long stay in Washington.
The 1891 report on vital statistics shows a continuing drop in early marriages since 1874. In 1891 only 59 men and 190 women per thousand married under age twenty one. The Charleston News notes Jews have more than doubled in England's population in twenty years despite immigration.
A 100 year old knife resembling a hay cutter was given to Bangor Missouri postmaster after an election. Labeled Adlai's Ax with The melancholy days have come it became a grim joke for a Republican postmaster who tagged it for a cross country journey. It was last reported in Marquette Michigan covered with tags and messenger comments about a Democratic guillotine.
Benjamin Ellis Martin recalls Coleridge praising Lamb with the line This Lime-tree Bower My Prison at Nether Stowey. Lamb objects to being called gentle hearted in print and demands harsher, truer epithets such as drunken dog ragged headshaven odd eyed and stuttering.
A blurb from G Ben White describes a coin trick using a water-filled tumbler and a plate to make a sixpence appear as a shilling while another coin seems to swim in the water. The same effect can be performed with a twenty five cent piece.
Local note records a liveryman joking about speeds in town, a bylaw limit allegedly broken by a horse in Maynard, and police stabling a saddle horse found attached to a buggy near White Pond. Subsequent items mention fortifications, industry upgrades, and community notices in Concord Junction.
Acton Centre reopened schools on Monday as measles cases rise. A blacksmith shop burned on Tuesday night causing $3000 in losses and damage to Bean and Proctor’s adjacent home. Rev James Fletcher, former principal of Lawrence Academy, died after the fire scene. Firefighting relied on buckets and two water lines organized by S G King of Maynard.
A whimsical note compares the arrival of robins with lingering Canadian grassbeaks, pondering what residents from different zones might say if they meet on a single tree.
Carpenter McDonald and his family left Sudbury for Manchester New Hampshire where he will supervise new dwelling projects. The former Congregational Orthodox church building, now Musichall, has been renovated for public gatherings and is owned by Sudbury brass band supporters. It will reopen on Tuesday evening April 4 with Bird's Orchestra Marlboro providing music and an oyster supper in the lower hall.
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