Concord News Notes and Local Events of 1893
The Concord Advertiser reports on Towle Brothers ad campaigns and a North Quarter school house entertainment last Saturday. It covers Rev and Mrs Brown leaving for Chicago, George Greywood attending Groton library dedication, remnant store ads, and local housing and cattle movements. It also details Memorial services at Trinitarian church with Post 180 G A R, and a lengthy sanitation discussion urging garbage disposal by chemical treatment to prevent cholera. Police court actions convict Cook and Connors for vandalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Quarter
William Brown
Concord
Chicago
Georgegreywood
Groton
Daniel Needham
Sudbury River
Nine Acre Corner
Martha’s Point
Arlington Parties
J. F. Carr
New Hampshire
Mr. Carr
Trinitarian Church
Old Concord Artillery
George A. Tewksbury
Board of Health
Middlesex
Resmene Frederickson
Cyrus Fleigher
Cambridge
Concord Enterprise
George M. Brooks
Mrs Deborah Wheeler Dies at 86 in Concord Village
Mrs Deborah Wheeler widow of Jonathan Wheeler died at her Concord home last Wednesday at age 86 years 10 months. She leaves two sisters a daughter Mrs Blanchard wife of Walter S Blanchard ex president of the Metropolitan Bank of Boston and a son Frank Wheeler of Washington. The funeral Saturday afternoon was led by Rev Grindall Reynolds and Rev B R Bulkeley with many relatives and friends, burial in Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah S. Wheeler
Jonathan Wheeler
Concord
Grindall Reynolds
B. R. Bulkeley
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Free Public Library Adds Noted Works and Volumes
A catalog lists numerous new acquisitions totaling hundreds of dollars, including Adams Amateur Photography, Bernard War Talks of Confederate Veterans, Orne Morning Songs of American Freedom, and Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. The piece also reports Memorial Day observances issued by Commander Benjamin of the Old Concord Post with a schedule of services, parades, and an illustrated war lecture at Town Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Barker
Bernard
Bidgood
Boyd
St. Andrews
Boyesen
Bridge
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Burnham
Latimer
Chittenden
Collingwood
John Ruskin
Finck
Wagner
Fraspont
French
Glazebrook
Isaacs
Kilben
Lang
Homer
Lyon
Massachusetts
Southwest
Phelps
Donald Marcy
Pierce
Charles Sumner
Poole
R. L. Reed
Rennsselaer
Robertson
Savage
Smith
Chattanooga
Petersburg
Street
Jesus
God
Thompson
Tuckerman
Peter Stuyvesant
Wiggin
Penelope
Benjamin
Old Concord
Department of Massachusetts
Grand Army of the Republic
Concord
Mass
Grand Army Hall
Uniform
Trinitarian Congregational Church
George A. Tewksbury
Grand Army Wall
Co. I
Catter
Sixth Infantry
Concord Mounted Battery
Carter
Boston
Local Weather and Community Notices in Concord
Prevailing wind direction southwest with 28 mph on the 21st. Precipitation 1.43 inches. Church services listed for Unitarian, Trinitarian, and Episcopal parishes with times. Local ads cover hiring, goods, plants, ice cream, and services. notices include lodging, carriage work, and sale items. Names include Fred A. Tower, Rev. Bulkeley, Rev. Tewksbury, Rev. Breed, and J. H. Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Tower
Unitarian
B.R. Bulkeley
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Walter Russell Breed
Acton Centre Social Notes and Visitors
John Kingsley was in town last week Horace Hosmer of Nashua visits friends Miss Clark of Framingham Normal spent Sunday with her parents in town Miss Marjorie Pitman and Lester Blodgett on the sick list with measles James Wayne of California arrived in Acton guest of brother Robert Wayne Walter Fletcher and Mr Graves of East Boston were at the Monument House Sunday Rev Mr Perkins of Haverhill N H will occupy our pulpit next Sunday guest of Rev Mr Wood
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kingsley
Horace Hosmer
Nashua
Clark
Framingham Normal
Marjorie, Pitman
Lester Blodgett
James Wayne
California
Acton
Robert Wayne
Walter Fletcher
Graves
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mercury
Towle Brothers
Wm. Buttrick
P. M. Britton
Geo. M
G. R
Harris
Kennedy
E. J
Mason
Fred
McDonald
H. A
Manning
Mike
Marble
Frederick T
Peck
Cummins
Palmer
Geo. C
Place
Geo. A
W.M
Sweeney Fred
H. E
Verne George
Waller
H. B
Baker
Joseph
Haynes
Mary
Lord
Clarissa A
Morgan
Eva
Ring
Lena
Leonard Cook
John Connors
Wheeler
Library Books
Wishaw
Tearland
Witliam H. Benjamin, Com
Asa Jacoss
Adj
Paris Green
G.W. Z. C. H. Towle
Hire’s Root Beer
E. A. Buck
J. H. Potter
36Th Street
D. F. Potter
Victor Cushion
R. M. Hoyle
Hastings & Co
H. L. Whitcomb’s
Richardson’s
M. H. Holden
C. E. Brown’s
Dempsey’s New Shoe
George F. Wheeler
Hunt’s
Hellebore
London Purple
Concord Elevator
Hunt
H. L.whitcomb
S. P. W. White
Waldo Flint
Phelps’ Billiard
Phila
N.S. Daniels
Richardson
Miss
Marlboro
Henry ‘Cane
George
F. Capanni
Arthur St. Louis
Fayville
F. L. Hopkins
Daniel H. Noyes
Hattie C. Bigelow
John Gallagher
Rae
Concord Junction
Amanda P
Frank Garland
Deborah
Caroline E
Reuben Stewart
Miss A. Duchesne
John Haniford
Maynard
Lovell Diamond
Waltham
Way Express
T. F. Parker
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Yours
CH Mead & CO
West Acton
Wright Tavern
John H. Davis
Prop
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Acton Centre
W. Sanford
H. L. Whitcomb
American Express Company
Lexington Street
Wheeler & Wilson
Sanford
F. J. Hastings & CO
South Acton
Canada
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