Local Notices and Town Meeting Updates From Brookline
R H Talcott moves to Brookline and Mrs J H Chapman sells her Fredericksburg residence to reside here. Assessors seek all town bicycles amid rumor of a proposed tax by value. Edward W Emerson reports son Raymond recovering from appendectomy. Rev Henry K Hannah accepts Trinity church pulpit and will live with Geo King on Sudbury road. Congregational Home Missionary Society marks 71st anniversary at Saratoga Springs June 1 to 3. Two riders collide on Main Street. one unconscious, both injured but likely to recover. Town meeting names W Wheeler as chair and votes a highway contract to extend toward Concord centre with a committee to contract with commissioners. A plan to restrict stone purchases to Cord Cord is discussed but not carried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Talcott
Brookline
Frederick W. Brown
Ashland
N. Y
John H. Chapman
Fredericksburg
Edward W. Emerson
Raymond
Henry K. Hannah
Trinity Church
Geo. King
Sudbury Road
G. E. Titcomb
John S. Keyes
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Saratoga Springs
George A. Tewksbury
Congregational Educational Society
Main Street
Thomas McGrath
Wm. Wheeeler
Harvey Wheeler
Highway Commission
Lincoln Line
Lexington Road
Concord Centre
Wm. Wheeler
Benj. W. Brown
James B. Wood
Concord
Lincoln
Seasonable Suggestions For Local Shoppers
Local merchant J. D. Murray invites townspeople to discover a varied stock grown for convenience. From household needs to summer goods, he promises to fill requests even if not in stock, at reasonable prices. Items include U. S. bunched sets, baby carriages, garden chairs, lawn mowers, refrigerators, fruit syrups, summer beverages, toys, cigars, and confectionery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
J. D. Murray
Vesper Memorial Service At Trinitarian Church
A memorial service for Memorial Day will be held at the Trinitarian church next Sunday evening at 7 30. An anniversary order of service will be used and a brief pastor's address will be given. Members of the local G A R post and Sons of Veterans, Concord Artillery, and others are invited. Music will be adapted to the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian Church
The
Sons of Veterans
Concord Artillery
New Books In Library Concord May 1897 List
A catalog of additions to the Concord Free Public Library during May 1897. Entries include Ballard Prisoners of conscience Banner Love in old clothes and other stories Crawford Wildlife on Scotland Eliot and Blow Mottoes and teachers numerous authors and works across travel art literature and science with extensive pricing notes.
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Concord Free Public
Ballard
Barr
Banner
Crawford
Sootland
Eliot and
Blow
Froebel
Ford
Francke
Freeman
Normandy
Maine
Gordon
Theodoley
Gosse
Hamlin
Chancellorsville
Harraden
Hilda Strafford
Harrison
Arcady
Hoppin
Howells
Mulhall
Muller
Murray
Napoleon I
Parker
Prince Soc
John Checkley
R. L. Radcliffe
Raymond
Charity Chance
Dolomites
Small
Handbook of the New Library of Congress
Stockton
Traill
Social England
van Dyke
van Rensselaer
Wharton
Martha Washington
Whiteley
R.L. Wilkin
The
Nile
Wing
Church Services and Schedules in Local Parishes
Several churches announce Sunday services and weekly meetings. Among them First Parish Unitarian led by Rev Loren B McDonald holds services at 10 45 a m with Sunday school at noon and evening services on the first and third Sundays at 7 40 starting Nov 1. Trinity Episcopal also at 10 45 a m with Sunday school at noon. Trinitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury has Y P and C E events plus Friday prayer at 7 30. Scandinavian M E Church, Rev J P Anderson, offers services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with class meeting Friday at 7 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Parish
Unitarian
Loren’ B. McDonald
Young People’s Guild Meeting
Trinity Church
Geo. A. Tewksbury
Y. P
May 24 1897 Weather Summary and Local News
Week ending May 24 reports maximum 79 on May 18 and minimum 40 on May 23, total precipitation 0.16 inch, weekly mean 58.6, and weekly range 36. Local notices include visits, concerts, illnesses, travel to Princeton, a funeral in Framingham, a strawberry cake event at the church, and a church vestry meeting on May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Tower
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Ad In 19th Century Ad Copy
The ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions claiming guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded. It lists price 25 cents per box and names B F Johnson & Son Maynard and Jno C Friend Concord as druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Jno
C. Friend
Concord
Memorial Day rites for Old Concord post at St Anne’s chapel
General Orders detail Memorial Day events for Old Concord post G A R with services at St Anne's chapel in South Lincoln led by Rev Henry C Cunningham. Civil war veterans travel by barge and train May 30 31 to decorate graves and attend cemetery ceremonies in Concord Junction Sleepy Hollow and Lincoln Center. A 3 p m parade forms in Monument square led by I Company Sixth Regiment MA infantry and American Watch Band. Colation at Unitarian vestry and evening entertainment at town hall to aid Old Concord post.
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Old Concord
St. Anne’s Chapel
South Lincoln
Henry C. Cunningham
Forty-seventh Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers
Reformatory
Concord Junction
Lincoln Center
Monument Square
Concord
Sixth Regiment
Massachusetts Infantry
Cyrus H. Cook
American Watch
Sleepy Hollow
George L. Prescott
Sons of Veterans
Unitarian Church
Ladies of Concord
Scholars of Concord High School
Old Concord Post
Concord Local Ads Offer Hems From Hats to Wagons
Local notices list new and used wagons by P. W. White and Towle Kent. Hats and undergarments at C. E. Brown and Miss Buck. Whitcomb promotes paper hangings, laundry agent lines, and a new Chinese Laundry. Towle Kent sells crackers and cookies, tampers prices on candy and chocolate, and O. L. Dart offers glassware and screens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Whitcomb
C. E. Brown
Democrat
Concord
Paris Green
Heilebore
Towle & Kent’s
Miss Buck’s
Hop Sing
Vose
Walden St
Kennedy
Towle & Kent's
Philadelphia
F. B. Chase
John Sexton
Bedford Street
C. E. Brown's
New
Fitchburg
R. M. Hoyle
Corcord
Empire
Monogram
Buck
Wheeler & Wilson
O. L. Dart’s
Peoples National Bank Marlboro Ad Promotes Bonds and Safety
The Peoples National Bank promotes a general banking business in Marlboro Massachusetts offering drafts payable nationwide and abroad, government and railroad bonds, and notes its bond selection facilities for water company securities. It advertises safety deposit boxes and absolute security from fire or burglary, signed by John L. Stone, cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
John L. Stone
Marlboro
Mass
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C. H. Whitney
H. A. Littlefield
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STOW
William H. Brown
Waltham
Lizzie Lord
Lydia Porter
West Acton
Muzzy
S. C. Beano
F. PB. Glazier
A. Lawrence
Warren Blanchard
Princeton
Herbert Marshall
Framingham
Rockbottom
West School
Mary Martin
Watertown
J. T. Beal
the Peoples National Bank
Annie
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H. A
Littlefield
LCL
Icha
Ben, W. Brown
Bilour
Brook
Planet Jr
Bowker
Pillsbury’s
F. R. R. Station
Concord, Mass
Iver Johnson
Fitchburg, Warwick
Duquesne, Etc
Chas. E. Boyce
Church Street
Hudson
Concord National Bank
Massachusetts
U.S
Treas
State of
County of Middlesex
Fay Heywood
Erastus H. Smith
Edward G
Damon Henry J. Hosmer
Charles E. Brown
Concord Clothing CO
Friend’s Block
Westvale Woooolen Mill
Westvale
Mill Dam
Old Post Office
Main St
John M. Keyes
Fowler
Gendron
Outing
Hunter
National
White
Reliance
Tlion
Snell Bicycles
Stearns
Snell
Remington
H. S Richardson
Concord, Mags
H. Whitney
H. A. Littlefeld
Bicycle
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Crawford B. & D. Special and World
Northboro
Florence Elizabeth
George H. Felt
Fayville
John James
Patrick
Christiana Lee
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