Maynard News and Notes Highlights Local Happenings
Read about community updates including new hires at Harriman's Laundry and Assabet mills, a postponed basketball game, upcoming minstrel shows and concerts, new businesses on Main Street, road improvements to the paper mill area, and the progress of electric light wiring across town with expected December operation.
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James Nicholson
New Hampshire
Solomon Medicine Company
Music Hall
Rena
Sudbury St
Ada Bowers
Nebraska Farmer Builds Record Crib To Hold Harvest
A Nebraska farmer stacks thousands of bushels in a tall temporary crib nearly thirty feet high. The article notes that such large crops overwhelm ordinary barns and that four similar cribs exist on the same farm.
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Iesha Rama Echme
Rge
Luck In Thirteen Box Recovers From Fever Sore
Walton Furnace Vermont resident Wm Spirey credited Bucklen Arnica Salve with curing a severe fever sore on his leg after trying other remedies. The ad claims it heals bruises felons ulcers eruptions boils burns corns and piles. Sold by Burdett & Barnard Marlboro J T Friend Concord J T Shattuck Northboro. Price 25 cents.
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Spirey
Walton Furnace
Bucklen
Burdett & Barnard
Marlboro
J. T. Friend
Concord
J. T. Shattuck
Northboro
Worcester Team Moves to Maynard for Remainder of Season
The Worcester professional basketball team will transfer to Maynard for the rest of the season after a Marlboro conference between manager George D. Morse and HK J. Coughlin, who holds the Maynard franchise. Maynard will host their first home game against Burkes, with Morse promising a winning team.
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Enterprise
Marlboro
George D. Morse
Worcester
Maynards
Maynar
Morse
Maynard
Jin
Coughlin
Ausveraaed
Cen Maynard
Fin- Poe Oon Mapanek
Soem
Ite
Burkes
Bae
Buy At Home drive aims to keep Maynard trade local
Local merchants urge residents to shop within Maynard during the holiday season. They promote C. H Persona for pianos A. for furniture and W. B Case & Sons for dry goods as examples of ongoing, quality stock. The article advocates reading merchant ads for details before shopping elsewhere.
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Maynard
C. H
W. B. Case & Sons
Appreciation for sympathy in loss of Mrs. Alice Henderson
The undersigned express sincere thanks for acts of sympathy and kind words during their bereavement in the loss of their sister Mrs. Alice Henderson and thank those who endeavored to ease their sorrow Mrs. George Brown Charles Itman This card was to be printed last week but was omitted unintentionally.
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Alice Henderson
George Brown
Charles Itman
Electric work expanding in Concord and nearby shops
J. P. Watson of Concord wires the Maynard house for electric lights and this week undertakes wiring at Michael Crowley’s barber shop and the offices of Dr. Garland and Dr. Richards in Naylor's block.
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J. P. Watson
Concord
Maynard House
Michael Crowley
Dr. Garland
Dr. Richards
Naylor
Editors and the Censor in a South Russian Town
A Pearson's correspondent recounts a local press censor hosting an evening party where editors waited two and a half hours in the censor’s back kitchen with manuscripts and proofs for that morning’s issue. The host refused to hurry a rubber game to attend to them.
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Russia
Pearson’s
Lady's Narrow Escape From Hysteria Through Art
A titled lady recovers from a severe illness as a local art gallery exhibitor with water colors. An elderly nurse insists the long painting hours caused the crisis, while the doctor questions hysteria and notes the paintings were all genuine water colors. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Censoring Othello in Constantinople
A Turkish censor Nis han Effendi rewrote Shakespeare's Othello for Constantinople removing Cyprus and moving the setting to Corfu to respect treaty concerns. He justified replacing Cyprus as a Turkish island noting the Paris Treaty and territorial integrity.
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Nishan Effendi
Constantinople
Cyprus
Turkey
Corfu
Paris
Far North Atmosphere Quiets Men Says Tramping Quiet
A northern resident explains that high altitude trains men to conserve breath leaving them silent at night. The habit forms from trudging in thin air, where every breath is for breathing and talking is minimized.
Great Gamblers Across Continents Mentioned
The piece notes Spaniards and their descendants as ardent gamblers in Europe and the Americas. It also compares Haussas in Africa who rival Chinese gambling, and Kanaka in the south seas who gamble with cowrie shells as dice, risking bones on a final throw.
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Europe
New World
South Seas
Call Down Over Roof Incident At School
A Pittsburg Press item notes a father asked if he was a school board director and was told yes. The teacher reportedly spoke impolitely to him during a call at the school, with the man on the schoolhouse roof at the time of the exchange.
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Pittsburg Press
Still Under the Spell in Richmond Dispatch Dialogue
The exchange features Mrs Powers Hezekiah and Mr Powers debating remarriage with Maria’s potential choice. Mr Powers agrees he would choose Maria again if she wished. The snippet portrays intimate domestic tones from the Richmond Dispatch.
Children’s natural grace in the moment, Fuseli quote
The remark highlights that children act with grace because they are unhindered by affectation or pretense, living fully in the moment, reflecting a pure spontaneity valued in impressionist sensibilities.
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Fuseli
Maynard Notes and Local Moves at Assabet Mills
Local items report Peter Floyd moving to Assabet mills in Lowell, William Donnell leaving the shear room, Miss Barbara Neo at Wilfred Holt, and Miss Annie Hinchcliffe visiting from Waltham. Residents mention travel, family events, a death in North Andover, a wedding announced for Annie Cullinean and John Clements, and reups of street lighting contracts.
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Nellie Connelly
Marlboro
John Brayden
Frank Hood
Ascabet Mills
William Brewin
Peter Floyd
Lowell
Assabet Mills
Misa Alice Murphy
Boston
William Donnell
John Connors
William Baxter
North Andover
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James Higgins
Etta May Winn
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Arthur Sullivan
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W. J. Short
O H. Persons’ Music House
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Alonzo Mason
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Timothy Crowley
Epworth League
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Lleereenica Wei
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Nason St
Nan Prensa
South Acton
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James Johnson
Medford
Helen Nelson
Sweeden
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John Weaving
James Smith
Woonsocket, R. L
Sadie Hardy
Bolton
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Cambridge
Sadie Hines
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Stuart
Greenville
Charles Hoyle
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Mary J. Dao
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H. H. Haliday
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Boston Clothing
Mary Mahon
Lexington
Walter McIntyre
Lexton
Mr. Irish of
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Iola
LO. G.T
William Panton
Prince Edward Island
American Woollen Co
Hillside St
Magdalene Chapter
O. E
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South Boston
Y. P
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Eid
Congregational School
Bessie McCarthy
Mamie
Bury
Kalley
High St
John Anderson
Harpes
Thomas Wolfenden
Ees Eee
Deby
Fred Tuttle
Lynn
Frank
John Greenwood
Dorchester
Hanna
Assabet Mille
Rebecca Franklin of
Clinton
Michael O'Donnell
John Punch
Frank Jones
Robert Scott
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William Adams
Brockton
May Mullin
Waltham
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James O'Connell
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Inez Nutting
Charles Kane
George Thane
William Scully
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Acton
William Fitzpatrick
Nelson Obershaw
Alfred Billet
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Julia Aanne
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East Douglas
James Reed
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Nellie Sullivan
William Wardbrick
Samuel Townsend
Andrew Rogers
Harwich
Scotland
Thomas Bell
Maynard Silhouettes
Della Devine
Helen Levassauer
William Barnes
Allan Howard
New Taiwan
Teehee
Oneereel Campbell
Alice Roatere Frisude
Mamie Scully
Thomas J. Connors
St. Bridget’s
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Harry Chase Sen
Mrs. Chase
William Jones
Annie Foster
Boston Theatre
Nebraska
Elsie
Christian Endeavor
Harper's Magazine
Barbara Neo
Wilfred Holt
Anton Pickering
David Stuart
Hyde Park
Annie Hinchcliffe
Lawton
Concord Junction
Ann Graham
Cora Johnson
Matapan
George Geoghan
Jefferson
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John Clements
William Shehean
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Parker St
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