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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1899
Page
4
The piece notes undiscovered metal riches in the United States and urges exploration beyond known limits. It contrasts a messenger boy with a Chicago wedding ring tale and comments on Captain Coghlan, judgment in beer contracts, and public faith in commissions. It adds Philippine officers’ experience with native protests and a desire for peace.
The piece muses on women neglecting duties and men entering women’s traditional roles. It suggests the best washerwoman, cook, and milliner are men who have entered the female sphere and predicts further shifts as education progresses. It ends with a playful note on future reversals.
The American Woolen Company announces a New Jersey based consolidation worth 65 million dollars uniting mills in Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island New York and Maine. Officers include Fred Ayer Joseph Ray and William Wood. The plan aims to lower costs without creating a monopoly benefiting manufacturers trade and consumers.
Detroit May 3. The Michigan Society Sons of the American Revolution hosted visiting delegates and leaders at a grand dinner with Secretary Alger, Senator Depew, Major General Wheeler, Merritt, King, and Breckinridge in attendance. Alger praised the flag, the war effort, and promised vindication as supporters lauded the army and navy’s conduct in the Philippines and Cuba.
Mrs W B Currier enjoys fresh air after a long illness. Mildred millinery goods attract shoppers at Cleary Williams. Mrs T A Sweeney undergoes a major operation with Dr Rich and Dr Hoitt reported as successful. The Maynard Marlorbo baseball game opens the season Saturday May 6 with a local parade escort to the grounds.
A Maynard wedding unites Miss M Alice Whitman and John Smethurst on April 26 at Charles B Whitman’s Brook Street home. Rev Edward Higgins officiated before about 30 guests. best man Joseph Haigh and bridesmaid Alice M Brown. The couple will reside in Maynard with gifts including silver pieces.
Local shop notices advertise ladies and children's hats and millinery at Miss Naylor Miss Deane and Mrs L E Dufur in Maynard. Services include dental work at Boutwell's and veterinary consultations by a London trained surgeon at the Maynard House with hours in the evening and noon.
Multiple local churches publish their Sunday schedules with service times Sunday school and choir directions for Congregational Methodist and St George Episcopal churches including Holy Eucharist Matins litany and various catechism sessions and evening services with midweek prayer meetings and rector led instructions listed by church and leaders.
Free. Strangers welcome. Rev A J Crowe. Sunday masses 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Vespers 3:15 p.m. West Acton first Sunday monthly. Sunday school 2:15 p.m. Holy day mass 7:30 a.m. Baptisms Sundays 4 p.m. Rosary and Scapular Society third Sunday. Miss McMorrow organist.
A Saturday woodland fire in West Sudbury scorched about 200 acres owned by multiple residents. Other items note Mrs. Lemuel P. Brown’s May return, town hall dancing opening, highway protest before Middlesex County Commissioners, a Monday house fire at William Hanson’s, and a May weather record at the Wayside Inn. Memorial day plans, cemetery decorations for Henry Edson and Warren B. Witherell, and legacies from Mrs. Joanna Gleason are also discussed with payments to local churches and the Unitarian and Methodist societies pending.
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