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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1896
Page
8
The office requests all material reach by Tuesday to ensure same week insertion. Earlier receipts help prevent delay or condensation of articles. News and ads and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Community items report a teachers convention in Ayer closing school, church notes, sermons, and civic notices in South Acton. Reported activities include Sunday services at Congregational and Universalist churches, Christmas sale plans, post office notices, and cautions about steel range peddlers.
Ex Postmaster General John Wannamaker signs a Philadelphia business leaders plea to run for the Pennsylvania Senate to succeed J. D. Cameron. In New York, Rev. Dr. Storrs receives a golden jubilee banquet in Brooklyn. An Evansville case ends with a man shot after attacking a woman and her child. Wage worries arise in New Bedford mills as spinners face lower pay. Boston reports a record high 71 degrees for November.
The report notes Anchoria sighted with a broken shaft, Mercer burned with losses near $200,000, and Indrani arriving with disabled machinery. It mentions a proposed Armenian relief fund of half a million, naval movements, and various local incidents ranging from a fatal fall in Suncook to mills resuming operation in Newcastle and New Ipswich.
Mrs. Susan Hovey visited Ayer. Grace Richardson at home. a flock of 33 wild geese over the village. Annie Blanchard hosted the Woman's club. inquiry into the next village postmaster. Grimes visited Somerville. inauguration ball planned. Parmenter & Po sey Fertilizer Co. party at Richardsons. Fritz Hawes replaces Geo. Decoster at pail shop. C. H. Nash read a poem to the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society in Leominster. Edgar Hall hosted the Ladies' Benevolent society. union services on Good Citizenship with Buxton and Wood. Stone niece Alice improving in Watertown. corrections to West Acton locals. tinware sale and cash-card discounts in Littlefield's. tenement for rent behind Windsor Hotel. many local notes on dances, windows, harvest, and church talks. first snowfall. Joseph Binks lost member of local Farmers and Mechanics. poultry thefts. Maynard finds missing satchel. Rev. Hayward in town. muskrat mounds increasing. Leavis & Son sale completed. Ralph Baker sent to Concord reformatory.
The 52nd annual meeting of the Massachusetts Teachers Association will be held at the English High School in Boston on Friday and Saturday, November 27 and 28, 1896. President Parker and associates have worked to make the gathering exceptional, and every teacher and school officer who can attend should not miss the benefits it offers.
An old handwritten notice contrasts post boys with the new telephone and touts One Minute Cough Cure as a near instant remedy. Names listed include B. F. Johnson & Son Maynard C. H. Whitney Concord and H. A. Littlefield West Acton.
London reports that Britain France Russia may jointly manage Turkish affairs through a European minister of finance with Edgar Vincent to head the treasury, a Russian war minister, and a French interior minister. The plan envisions a £5,000,000 loan, tax collection by a European receiver general, civil service reform, and equal rights for religious communities.
A thief using a postman disguise stole a bag of registered letters worth 42000 francs from a mail cart on Rue de Allemagne. Reports from Madrid mention Weyler advancing into Pinar del Rio and Maceo avoiding battle. London reports Mr and Mrs Walter M Castle of San Francisco sailing home on the St Paul from Southampton.
Readers are urged to send news, advertising material and subscriptions by Tuesday night to ensure inclusion in the same week’s edition. Early submissions help avoid condensation or delays. Items may be left with A. L. Noyes at the post office.
The Acton Centre church fair is set for Dec 10 in the town hall. A pretty home wedding united Miss Lucy Emily Noyes and Frank Senior Davis at the Monument House with Rev. Bernard Copping and Rev. Thomas White side officiating. Guests traveled from Lowell Boston Cambridge Bedford Concord Franklin Falls Salem Auburndale and St. Louis.
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