Concord Package Store Hold Up Recalls Multi Town Robberies
Two youths about 18 and 21 robbed the Concord Package Store at 23 Thoreau Street last Wednesday at 9 28 pm, taking about 50 dollars after brandishing a German pistol. They fled to a waiting car toward the Concord Turnpike as clerk Mason Foss alerted police. Police checked Brighton and Brookline stores later that night for possible links.
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Concord
Thoreau Street
Mason G. Foss
Concord Turnpike
Foss
Marshall J. Witherell
Recut
Brighton
Brookjamen
Brookline
Rubles Mark Golden Anniversary With Open House
Mr and Mrs John E Ruble of 9 Shirley Street celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with an open house in West Concord last Saturday. More than 225 relatives and friends attended from distant points including four of their children and six of their seven grandchildren. The couple married May 13 1900 in Lowden West Virginia and moved to town about 35 years ago both active in church affairs.
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West Concord
John E. Rubie
Shirley Street
Coupé
Albert G. Lind
Clarence Manter
Concord
Henry C O'Neil
Chicago
Illinois
Harold Ruble
Maynard
O’neil
Mr. O'Neil
Sarah O'Neil
Ruble
Woman Fires Pistol at Car in Madison Sayings She Shot Wrong Woman
Mrs. Charles Shell fired a pistol at a car in Madison and reportedly said she had shot the wrong woman. The incident occurred near her home and involved Mrs. Jerry Shepard as the other occupant.
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Madison, Ga
U. P
Charles Shell
Jerry Shepard
Morrill Named Concord Public Schools Superintendent
At the Concord School Committee meeting Mrs Winslow J Damon announced Radcliffe Morrill as superintendent of Concord public schools effective July 1 succeeding Ralph D McLeary who moves to Plainfield New Jersey Morrill currently serves as Concord High School principal having arrived in 1949 after leading Wayland High School He is a graduate of St Stephens College and earned a Harvard master’s degree He is married with two daughters and resides at 354 Main Street West Concord.
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Concord
Concord School Committee
Winslow J. Damon
Radcliffe Morrill
Concord Public Schools
Ralph D. McLeary
Plainfield
New Jersey
Morrill
Concord High School
Willard H. Smith
Wayland High School
St. Stephens College
New York
Harvard
Main Street
West Concord
Eaton Hill engagement announced in Schenectady Concord
Mr. and Mrs. John Eaton of Schenectady announce the engagement of their daughter Beth Durward Eaton to George Alfred Hill Jr. of Concord. Miss Eaton has degrees from Stoneleigh Beaver College and Simmons School of Social Work and is in the Junior League. Hill, a former Navy carrier pilot in the Pacific during World War II, attended Amherst College and now works in West Concord. The couple plan a July 5 wedding.
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Concord
John Eaton
Schenectady
New York
Beth Durward Eaton
George Alfred Hill, Jr
George A. Hill
Elm Street
Eaton
Stoneleigh Junior College
Beaver College
Simmons College of Social Work
Hill
Amherst College
West Concord
Third Daughter Nancy Conant Cable Born in Bryn Mawr
The recent arrival of a third daughter, Nancy Conant Cable, to Mr. and Mrs. David C. Cable of Strafford Pennsylvania at Bryn Mawr hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Boyd of Concord and Mrs. J. C. Cable of Ridgewood New Jersey. Great-grandmother is Mrs Myra L. Boyd of Concord.
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Concord
Nancy Conant Cable
David C. Cable
Jean Boyd
Strafford
Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Fred T. Boyd
Thoreau Street
J. C. Cable
Ridgewood
New Jersey
Myra L. Boyd
Concordis
Concord Names Rae Commander and O'Neil Secretary
Leonard E. Rae of Nashoba Road is the new commander of the Concord Veterans Council Post. Edith Monson O Neil is named the new secretary. Memorial Day program plans are underway. Regular Confirmation classes are held at St Bernard s church with the sacrament to be administered Thursday morning June 8 at 10 o clock and First Communion class to receive First Holy Communion next month.
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Leonard E. Rae
Nashoba Road
Concord Veterans Council
Edith Monson O'Neil
St. Bernard's Church In
Concord
Facts Concerning Social Security
Wages you earn under social security cannot be credited to you unless they are matched up with the name and number on your social security card. Make sure your employer records your name and account number exactly as shown on your card. Benefits you or your family may receive depend on wages shown in your social security account. You may lose benefits if wages are not properly credited.
Real Estate Board Elects Boston Leader as Vice President
Fred T. Boyd of Thoreau Street elected vice president at the Boston Real Estate Board meeting for the coming year. The note also lists upcoming meetings for the Woman's Missionary Society tonight at 8 at the Evangelical Free church and the Young People's Society on Friday night. Next Sunday at 2 oclock Our Lady Help of Christians church West Concord will hold its annual May profession with participation urged by parents and children.
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Boston Real Estate Board
Fred T. Boyd
Thoreau Street
Woman's Missionary Society
Evangelical Free Church
Young People’s Society
Our Lady Help of Christians Church
West
Concord
Concord Chorus Opens Public Rehearsal For St John Passion
Concord Chorus invites the public to a final rehearsal Monday May 22 at 7 45 PM in Veterans Hall before performing The Passion According to St John by J S Bach May 23. Soloists include Mrs Donald Prouty Mrs Henry Hosmer L Frederick Kilham Jr Charles Locke with Miss Nancy Loring conducting and Mrs Ripley Gage accompanying.
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Concord
St. John
J. S. Baeh
Veterans Hall
Veterans Building
Wayland
Providence
R.I
Nancy Loring
Donald Prouty
Littleton
Henry Hosmer
L. Frederick Kilham, Jr
Charles Locke
Walter Goodale
Constantin Pertzoy
Lincoln
Victor Bogle
Gage
George Eberlein
West Concord
Inflation fuels push to raise petty larceny limit
Jackson Mississippi lawmakers debate lifting the petty larceny cap from 50 to 100 dollars. A state representative argues that stealing under 100 dollars cannot be called grand larceny in today’s economy.
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Jackson
Miss
U.P
House of Representatives
Drink offender seeks vote. judge suspends fine
John Killingsworth faced Judge Charles G. Kelly on a drunkenness charge and asked to suspend the fine so he could vote. He produced a permanent poll tax receipt and the judge stamped five dollars suspended on the warrant.
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Knoxville
Tenn
John Killingsworth
Charles G. Kelly
Killingsworth
Buddy Poppy Sale Aims To Honor Dead By Helping Living
SOMETHING GOOD is coon W. veteran welfare program. The extent of our activities depends upon the funds we raise through our poppy sale. This year an all-out drive seeks to make the 1950 sale the largest in history to aid disabled veterans and survivors of those killed in action. The slogan is Honor The Dead By Helping The Living.
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Concord
Dalgo Bregoli
VFW
Chevron V. F. W
America
V. F. W. National Home For War Orphans
Eaton Rapids
Michigan
Gold Chevron
V. F
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Concord Peg
McLeary
D&m Shoe Co
Houghton Street
Manning
Chevrolet Motor Division
Wheeler
Simon Willard Road
V.F. W. Poppy Sale
John’s
U.S
Great Road
Garag
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