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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1905
Page
7
Trustees approve a small scale district nursing experiment to aid residents who cannot hire a full time nurse. One nurse will serve Orsi with potential expansion if successful. Preparatory steps are made for a winter hospital fair to raise funds.
Marlboro officials including Mayor Henry Parsons and lawyer E. Irving appeared before the State Highway Commission in Boston on a petition for a main highway section from the Berlin to Southboro town lines with a cross section at right angles. A spur line to Hudson was added for separate consideration at a hearing set for Friday, November 10.
Mrs Lucy Labour, who injured her eye in an accident on the Concord Maynard and Hudson street railway, is improving under Dr D J Driscoll and will sue the railway company with attorney Edgar Weeks handling the case.
A vivid fashion feature describes a green edged rain umbrella with a carved natural wood handle and a blue plain kimono with Dresden borders. It highlights linen waist hooks, cuff and collar buttons with hunting scenes, Japanese lace, Byzantine embroidery, and new color shades St Patrick blue carnatino red and gooseberry green.
General Dragomiroff, famed Russian military expert, spotted a long haired soldier in St Petersburg. He commanded the man to seize him by the hair, then used the grip to subdue him before shaving the corporal’s head at a barber. The episode served as a stark lesson to others.
A specimen on the mythic asteria star gem valued for health and fortune, noting its corundum composition, varied colors, and April associations. It mentions Colombo Moorman craftsmanship and a London Graphic view. The piece then outlines Mexico's plan with supernumerary jurors to replace ill jurors to shorten trials.
The Half-Dollar Music Series by Oliver Ditson Co features twenty six or more piano solo volumes and titles for duets violin mandolin and other instruments. Recent additions include Organ Pieces edited by Hans Lichter designed for two manual organs. Pieces include Raff Cavatina Chopin Nocturne in G minor and Schumann Spring Song with prices at fifty cents.
Large crowd fills the Rice schoolhouse Sunday afternoon with enthusiastic services led by Rev. H. R. McCurdy of the Baptist church. Congregational singing followed an address as part of the gathering. Nickel Plate Road sells colonist tickets to the Pacific Coast with low rates through October 31. Tourist sleepers available from New England. for details contact L. P. Burgess, N. E. B. P. A., Old South Building, Boston.
The article notes English servants in London papers advertise candidly about faults and temperaments, with claims like drink temptation but not an inebriate and faithful but plain of speech. It mentions a “dishonest girl of seventeen” and a rough coster girl offered for training in domestic service.
An old piano is accepted as part payment toward a new Ivers & Pond piano with an allowance and monthly payments if needed. The store offers a hundred second-hand pianos priced $50 to $300, all warranted, and sold at bargains. Monthly payments as low as 3. Free bargain list by mail.
Timetable details effective Oct 9 1905 list Boston to South Acton Concord Junction Concord Maynard West Acton and other stops with numerous daily and Sunday departures. Also notes live poultry and pigs for sale by Geo A Dyer Marlboro Mass with contact.
Corrected Oct 8 1905 timetable shows trains Marlboro to Boston Southboro South Framingham and return with multiple departures and arrivals listed by station and time. Includes Sundays, night and daytime services among Marlboro Boston South Framingham Northboro Fitchburg and Lowell routes.
Complex early 20th century timetable lists routes between Concord Maynard Hudson Sudbury Street and Westvale Switch with frequent daily departures starting September 26 1904 and notes Sunday times and special carcharter options.
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