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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1917
Page
7
A vivid wartime spirit piece from Hempstead Plain, Long Island shows the Rainbow division's last night before France. It highlights the appeal for donations totaling 35 million dollars to provide papers and letters that bind soldiers to home.
A Des Moines crew in uniform finds welcome and purpose at a YMCA tent homeward bound. Soldiers read, write letters, mail parcels, and buy stamps while the YMCA offers games, concerts, classes, and religious talks. The association is praised as the soldiers’ best friend and a world’s best loved trademark.
A hardware store founded by two brothers collapses under poor financial control. Jim’s loans drown the business while Miss Julig Sparks, a collector hired to recover debts, nets significant repayments. She finally rebuilds the firm, with Jim’s role in loans remaining a tangled issue as the business reorganizes into success.
A fragment shows a lawyer asking about hoof size with a distant line about ordinary-sized hooves. A character named Darky responds that the hooves were ordinary-sized, yielding a brief dialog snippet.
Concord Woman's Club hosts a program with Dr Charles Fleischer discussing America's religion and its growth. The talk covers civilization, humanity, materialism, social justice, science, democracy, and America's emerging global role.
South Acton Halloween party for the Christian Endeavor and nearby groups featured themed decorations and subdued lighting. Witches, pumpkins, bats and orange backdrops adorned the vestry while refreshments included tombstone sandwiches and light brews. Organizers Miss Halliday, Mrs. Flora Baird, and Mrs. Ralph Barker coordinated the event. Nettie Baird, an area bookkeeper, helped with arrangements as Miss Cora Whitney returned from Lynn.
Irvin Puffer and James B Wood participated in a recent football game at the university, won by the 120 class. Puffer and Logho Hore team and Rook or Adee east are mentioned in connection with the event.
The text notes hammock origins linked to American Indian products though found across the West and tropical South America. It cites Columbus as providing the earliest reference to hammocks in his account of the first voyage.
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