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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
4
The Enterprise Company issues a weekly published item dated Wednesday. HF Wilder named manager. Entry recorded as second class matter August 25, 1903 at Marlboro Post Office under the 1879 act.
Advertisement lists rates for yearly and short term subscriptions with postpaid and advance options. Details include one dollar per year, six months sixty cents, and three months twenty six cents, for Marlboro Massachusetts, office at 161 Main Street.
Rates for one inch ads are 7c for a week with each extra inch at 25c. Special rates apply to yearly advertisers. Business notices in local columns cost 10c per line per insertion.
Snow shows slight improvement while regional social news notes visits and lodge events. Reports from Beacon Hill critique of legislature with pledges broken. Travel updates mention Milo Dover Waterville and Togus Soldiers Home. prices and local market remarks include jackrabbits and arizona reclamation notes. The fragment ends with advertising blurbs from Leslie Bros DeKalb.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest son of the president, attends Harvard and was chosen assistant manager of the varsity crew after competing with several candidates. He raised $600 in a subscription drive for rowing support, surpassing all others and proving his merit beyond being the president’s son.
A vivid stage description notes the front entrance official, mocked as the eight dollar a week man at the door who wears a thousand dollars worth of gold buttons, reflecting theater lore and audience wit.
Mrs De Style and Mrs Schopper swapped notes at a bargain sale as they celebrated a silver anniversary. Mrs Gunbusta asked if twenty five years of marriage were involved. Mrs De Style clarified the husband gave her $25.
Concord residents and visitors populate the week with family calls, travels, and social calls. Mrs. A P Bean suffers a head injury from a training car accident and spinal meningitis fears rise. Middlesex School wins a four oared race at Bateman’s pond with Brookline High, time 1 18 12, crews listed.
Andrew E. Simpson, 43, who had lay in a three week coma after an alleged hypnotic episode, died last night. He had studied hypnotism and collapsed after reading a book portraying self hypnosis. Doctors called for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The National Association of Manufacturers will hear a tariff and reciprocity committee report today. A poll cited 60 percent of about 3000 members favoring a Dingley tariff revision. Also, Abraham H. Hummel collapsed on his first day at Blackwell's Island penitentiary and was sent to hospital though not considered seriously ill.
A note denounces a free seed giveaway at Washington aimed at farmers. It warns against thinking farmers sell votes for turnip seed and urges grange members to resist such subsidized offerings.
William F. Hunt retired to the Colonial Inn and will be escorted by Company 1, 6th Regiment M.V. to Old Concord Post G. A. R. Memorial Day. J Alvord Rose captured two thirds plus a second, and Philip Damon one third in the Hanover inter scholastic track meet. Ina Clark hosts a hand decorated china exhibit at the Colonial Inn on May 28 from 2 to 6 PM. no sale.
A bogy handicap match played on Concord Golf Club courses Saturday afternoon saw F. Alcott Pratt win the match 2 up. George 8. Keyes took second 2 down while others like H. W. Hosmer C. B. Richardson W. H. Gar land P. M. Vilas and several others failed to card.
The pastor will lead services next Sabbath with morning theme A Protestant World Gathering in Rome and an evening Grand Army Memorial Day service featuring patriotic music and an address by the pastor. Members of Post 180 Spanish War Veterans Association of Company I and others are invited. Service at 7 30.
Advertised letters include Albert Daggett Geramie Merrimac Co George Munroe Rev John Wilson B B Walker Mrs Jane Gage 31 Bradford St Mrs Little Box 38 Mrs Osivia Merrill Marie Nilsen Louise Pratt Mary Reardon Elizabeth Smart and others.
A letter to Rev. L B McDonald aged six years recounts painter Dreicorn swapping lead-and-oil for Devoe at Holy Family Institute in Holyoke. Donohue later praises the Devoe job, while cost and lost bids are weighed against the cheaper lead-and-oil alternative and future work.
A brief fragment notes a puzzling line about perceived value or condition. Readable details are limited, but the text hints at a critical assessment or misprint. No clear events, names, or dates are established in the surviving content.
Richardson's Embrocating in Concord Massachusetts lists H Richardson as a pharmacist with address details and trade services. The item notes location and professional designation without further context.
Concord High edged Arlington High 2 to 1 in eleven innings on a Saturday afternoon. Connorton and Sloan drove in runs for Concord while Connorton added two stolen bases and Williams walked three. Umpires McSweeney and Hendricks called time after 1 hour 55 minutes.
Concord veterans plan graves decoration for members of the Spain war with a parade assembly at the armory at 2 30 and a procession starting from the armory at 3 o'clock Major Hart will lead the Wal tham detail on the 841 train and Lieut Ireland will command the Maynard detail arriving in the morning Those who served in the war are invited to attend the meeting. Middlesex Institution for Savings holds its annual corporate meeting on Tuesday June 4 1907 at 330 p m in Concord Massachusetts Herbert W Hosmer clerk reports
The Concord Health Department requests bids for swill and garbage collection from June 1, 1907, to June 1, 1908. The Board may reject all bids. Bids due by May 28, 1907. Contract form available at the chairman John M Keyes office.
Classified notes from Concord mass offer a general housework job for a girl and a second job, with applications to Mrs Theodore Chamberlin at 7 Lowell road. Additional ad for a second girl and a house to let on Barret Mill Road and a bootmaker advertising fine leather goods and taps. Also a notice for an experienced housework girl and a barnd picture framing deal at Vanderveer near the post office.
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