Concord News Mixes Ads and Local Notes on May Events
Concord items report Charles L. Miner buying Worthley milk routes and visits by Charles Prescott and families to the World's Fair. A biography of Amos Bronson Alcott by Frank B. Sanborn and W. Harris is reviewed, with Concord sources. Merchants list goods and services from Whitcomb’s, Hunt’s, and Brown’s, plus notices on voters, letters, and Memorial Day plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Miner
H. P. Worthley
Charles W. Prescott
Stacy Tolman
New England Magazine
Edward Hoar
Concord
Main Street
Bernice Whitcombe
Malden
T. Quincy Browne
M. B
Amos Bronson Alcott
Frank B. Sanborn
William T. Harris
Chain letters blamed for church fund drive mania
A columnist condemns widespread chain letters circulating for church funds and other causes. The piece jokes about the unstoppable chain, warns readers to break links, cites Concord Junction reactions, mentions Shakspeare and Parker-like parallels, and notes two chains already broken by a martyr.
A Lecture On Scientific Home Sanitation In Concord
Mrs. Minerva B. Tobey of Boston will speak in Concord on Why women should study home sanitation. The program covers Plumbing Dust and its Dangers Household Insect Pests and Home Hints Worth Knowing. The event references World’s congress talks in Chicago and notes her collaboration with Prof. Sedgwick at the Institute of Technology.
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Europe
Minerva B. Tobey
Boston
Concord
Tobey
W. T. Sedgwick
Institute of Technology
A. F. Rolfe
Mary A. Livermore
Kate Gannett Wells
Weather Summary for Week Ending May 15 1893
Weekly weather report notes a maximum 85 degrees on the 11th and 12th, minimum 35 on the 6th, and a total precipitation of 0.29 inches. Relative humidity stood at 73.7 percent with a prevailing south and southwest wind direction and a greatest velocity of 30 mph on the 13th. Observer Frep A Tower signs off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frep A. Tower
Religious Services Schedule Across Local Churches
Unitarian church led by Rev B R Bulkeley holds services 10 45 a m with evening 7 40 m and a May 21 guild meeting on The European Sunday led by Miss Helen T Blanchard. Trinity Congregational with Rev Geo A Tewksbury offers 10 45 a m services and 6 30 p m Y P S C E, 7 30 p m evening service. prayer Friday 7 30. Episcopal Trinity Church, Rev Walter Russell Breed rector, holds morning prayer Litany and sermon 10 45 a m, Sunday school 12 m, Holy Communion second Sunday each month, continuing until first Sunday in June.
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B.R. Bulkeley
Helen T. Blanchard
Trinitarian Congregational
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Walter Russell Breed
Ruching Sale At Miss E. A. Buck’s Store
A new line of ruching offered with a large and fine assortment at Miss E. A. Buck’s. The notice mentions visitors to the World’s Fair who wish to engage rooms in private homes.
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E. A. Buck
West Acton Notes on Society and Local Happenings
Mrs Ella S Burroughs and daughter returned to Alstead N H at the start of the week. The Ladies Benevolent Society meets Thursday afternoon and evening with Mrs Isaiah Hutchins. Postmaster elect H A Littlefield is praised by friends. Asparagus thrives after warm weather. Teele and Stevens sold profitable boxed produce. A large crowd attended a Sons of Veterans benefit drama at Union Hall. Mrs Eliza B Cole returned to Clinton after staying with relatives in South Acton. Reverend Lyndh of Cambridge filled the Baptist pulpit. Local fair appeal noted with few attendees. Mrs Lilla Sheppard and son left for Lowell after four years here. S R Burroughs builds new barn and soon a residence for man and beast. Francis Kinsley, longtime Acton resident, died in Boston aged 76 after health retreat to California.
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W.H. Teelé
W. F. Stevens
Union Hall
Sons of Veterans
Lilla Sheppard
Clara Holt
Lowell
Wm. Baker
Francis Kinsley
Acton
Boston
Mr. Kinsley
California
Auction of Holstein Freisian cattle at Ledge Stock Farm
Otis H. Forbush of East Acton Mass will auction for J Frink Son proprietors of Ledge Stock farm Gallupville New York the entire Holstein Freisian herd at the farm three miles from Delanson station on the Delaware and Hudson main line on Wednesday May 17 1893 at 11 o'clock a m.
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Otis H. Forbush
East Acton
Mass
J. Frink &Son
Ledge
Gallupville
New York
Delanson Station
Delaware & Hudson R. R
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C. Friend
Dalton
Bunker
J. G. Watson
E. E. Williamson
Wollaston
Calhoun
Senate
Grant
Appomattox
Concord Post
Wright Tavern
John H. Davis
Wm. Bowden
James Bowden
Peter Doherty
Geo. B. Davis
W. W. Sheildon
L. A. Smith
O. B. Stetson
H. D. Swift
Stevenson & Co
Geo. A. Young
A. M. Dunbar
Mary L. Dunn
K. A. Hood
Maria O'Connor
Annie S. Parlin
Mary Russell
Henry
Commonwealth
Concord Author
Roberts Brothers Boston
Mr. Alcott
Walcott
Alcott
Anna Bronson Pratt
Sanborn
Constantinople
William J. Harris
Washington
Litterateur
Vate
Fair Grounds
J. H. Potter
36Th Street
Chicago
D. F. Potter
Lufkin
Henry Derby
H. L. Whitcomb’s
Richardson’s
George F. Wheeler
Campbell
Whitcomb’s
Hunt’s. Daily
Hunt
H. L. Whitcomb
Phila
Hunt's
N. S. Daniels
C. E. Brown
Monument St
Geo. S. Butters
Main St
The
Baptist Sunday School
D. H. Hall
O. L. Dart
F. E. Wetherbee
H. W. Parker
Will B. Holt
L. A. Holt
den. Enoch Hall
West Acton
Houghton & Whitcomb
Littlefield’s
W.L. Mead
H. A. Littlefield
W. L. Mead
Concord Junction
P. O
Shakspere
Unitarian
Ella S$. Burroughs
Alstead
N. H
Ladies’ Benevolent Society
Isaiah Hutchins
E. C. Parker
C. T. Clark
Eliza B. Cole
Abel Cole
South Acton
Clinton
Mr. Lyndh
Cambridge
Baptist Church
Harvard College
Christopher
S. R. Burroughs
Concord National Bank
Massachusetts
U.S
Smrid
Birger Atraed A Eeaeee
National Bank
Suffolk
I. B. L. Fabens
B. L. Fabens
Harrison H. Hunt
Geo. Hey Wood
George M. Brooks
Edward C. Damon
W. C. Hancock
Pratt
Lexington ST
Concord, Mass
David H. Brewer
Devon
Shire Street
Henry A. Richardson
Attorney- At-Law
Friend’s Block
Exchange
State St
Maynard
King’s Livery
Mais
Jeremy Austin
Islate
Salh
Lexington Street
New Wheeler & Wilson
F. J. Hastings & CO
Concord Elevator
Canada
Cg.w
C. H. Towle
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