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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
8
The Assabet Furniture Company of Maynard reports a giant purchase of the Fox Carpet Company stock from Brooklyn New York. The store promises huge discounts and claims sales prices will be below factory costs. Read this letter for details and store information.
The ad lists remnants and fabric pieces priced at 50 cents each or 40 cents per yard. It promotes lengths up to 20 yards, with free lining by Fox Carpet Co and general wording about home use and carpet materials.
Yard Carpet Co advertises genuine Brussels carpet at 1.80 per yard for short ends 5 to 20 yards long priced at six cents per yard. Variations in length noted.
The Fox Carpet Co. advertises a 50 cent per yard price on Choice Tapestry Brussels, with yards long and produced in a free made and lined option. Also offered are Wilton Velvet and High Pile Axminster at 70 cents per yard, plus Very Best Tapestry Brussels at 1.40 per yard, noted for durability and colorfast wear.
The note lists one half yard lengths priced at $1.50 each and describes them as fine small pieces. It mentions yardage portions and cost without additional context or figures.
Marlboro lodge of Odd Fellows worked the third degree Monday evening. The notice appears in a Marlboro Mass publication with standard advertising and subscription details.
Stow has broken ground for a fourteen thousand dollar high school building. The town also advances plans for a new fire station beside the post office and hosts a schedule of social and church events including dances, meetings, and memorials through May.
Express wagon used in the tonic business in fine condition. Also 2 horsepower engine and boiler. N. J. Cole.
To rent two tenements and sell an eleven acre tract suitable for a farm. Also two houses and a small farm with buildings. Inquiries directed to A Merriam in South Acton Massachusetts.
A roundup of residents and guests includes Thomas Scott painting a house for B. D. Hall in Stow, Dr. R. H. Knowlton visiting from Lowell, Miss Macomber guest at C. H. Mead, and Lester Warden working for Geo. H. Reed. Also listed are travels of Josiah Withington to Worcester, Marion Folsom taking a two week post office vacation, A. P. Bean and wife visiting their daughter, and Mr. Dean buying a Boxboro farm. Six boxes of asparagus shipped to Boston mark the first of the season, while Rev. C. L. Rhoades from New York City is to give the Memorial Day oration at Acton town hall. The death of Robert Graves of Northampton is noted, with prior visits here and to his aunt Mrs. Fred L. Bailey. Mrs. Francis Brown’s body arrived in Roxbury from her daughter’s home, with funeral services held at the Congregational church. Mrs. Brown was 80 and formerly of Boxboro. Rev. H. v. Pinkham’s Baptist addresses drew large crowds, with further appreciations of Mrs. Arthur Webber’s readings. Sundays featured Pinkham’s focus on Plowing in the Cold from Proverbs 20:4.
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