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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1939
Page
4
Classified notice seeks a reader to provide measurements for a district along a named avenue. Phone contact listed as 780 for interested residents or businesses to submit length data and related specifications.
A fragmentary entry notes an event involving May Tate and locations in 1908. The text references George V and Vane the Pers, but details are unclear. The item reads as a brief society or legal notice with names and dates obscured by OCR errors.
A chaotic reflective piece blends a prison escape narrative with a Georgia football game, musing on liberty, punishment, and the public’s appetite for shocking episodes. It wanders through public habit, forest fire warnings, and rural life, mixing anecdotes and social commentary.
Supreme Court rulings open the door to taxing government securities by federal and state authorities. Many lawyers support using constitutional amendment or presidential action to end tax exempt bonds. Critics warn of lost revenue and reduced capital for industry, since wealthy investors favor tax free bonds for safety and higher after tax returns.
The Concord Artillery Associates of Company H discuss a members trip funded by two years of donations. The group notes the excursion is popular with all expenses paid and many members joined the last trip two years ago, with plans for an even better outing.
The Public Works Administration created by Congress in 1933 funded 46 percent of project costs for local schools hospitals and sewers with the community supplying the remaining 66 percent and bidding to the lowest reasonable bidder. The WPA established by Congress in 1935 under Harry L Hopkins provided relief through labor on roads airports parks and other projects while also funding white collar and research programs. communities contributed materials and equipment costs with labor paid from federal funds.
The 63rd annual session of the Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star opened yesterday at the Municipal Auditorium in Springfield and will run daily through Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Hunt were among attendees.
A rehearsal for the Sudbury Tercentenary ball will be held Saturday night May 80 at 8 o'clock in Sudbury Town hall. Albert Edmund Haynes, noted ball figure and professional dance instructor, will explain and teach the old twahloned dances to be performed at the ball.
A large delegation led by Huntington will attend another session with Worthy Metron and patron of Miapah Chapter 0. B. 8. respec tively, Huntington serving as assistant Grand Burlanel.
A survey of 300 years of Massachusetts Bay rules notes innkeepers barred from debt enforcement by seamen unless securing someone. It cites Peregrine White's 1620 birth and the first Thanksgiving proclamation, a 1775 Paul Revere drawing, long civil suit declarations in Worcester and Boston archives, ship seizure bonds of 1776, and early New England Episcopal marriage rites in 1688 King’s Chapel.
The Junior Prom is set for Friday May 19 in the school auditorium. The Pooley orchestra from Hotel Bancroft will provide music and dancing. Committee members include George Whalen Virginia Taylor Roger Burnham Doris Kelley Lorietta Dionne Margaret Crowe Helen Arcezewski Jennie Girdiewski Leo Nurmi Eva Mark and Edwin Wasulk supervised by Miss Avice Fearns.
Bedford Police Chief Frederick Sullivan and his wife visited Salem for a two day convention and a parade after renewing old acquaintances with the 104th Regiment, a unit he once served in.
Miss Margaret R. Moir returns to teaching at Center Primary School after several days of illness spent at home. Vaughn Stone leaves Chester E. Cole to take a job at Ch Farm, marking a personnel change in local employment.
Acton August Johnson remains at Deaconess Hospital in Brookline as friends and neighbors hope for his improved health. A large group of Pilgrim Fellowship youths attended a rally at Loominater Sunday afternoon with Rev. Harry B. Roberts of Yorktown Hewitts expected to preach at the Congregational church.
A fragmented note mentions a windmill built in Cambridge in 1682 as a five mill to grind wheat in the United States. It also notes Massachusetts as a leader in world literature contributions and cites Charlestown geographer eres (2702-2828) and a Boston Chamber of Commerce legal matter.
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