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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1895
Page
6
A Concord group, led by founders W. H. Kelley and Mrs. Carrie Hall, gathered Friday and Saturday for a meeting and a Plymouth excursion. Ten cars departed from Union Station at 8 am, with Sunday reserved for memorial services.
Miss Chamberlain the whistler drew praise with bright solos and encores. Master Stone, a boy soprano, won hearts and applause with multiple encores. Miss Bates debut impressed, Miss Phelan offered charming solos, Geo Phelan read selections to encore, Mrs. Geo A Tewkebury accompanied. After the concert, ice cream and cake followed in the parlors and a social period ended the event.
Union services will be held at the Trinitarian church next Thursday at a.m. Rev Loren, pastor, will give the second lecture on Jonah next Sunday at 7 30 p m. The Runaway and Caught. A table social Thursday evening with admission price as table vegetables. Proceeds sent to Mr Waldr0n of the City Missionary Society of Boston.
Fragmentary advertisement touts a one minute cure for asthma and feverish conditions. Mentions Johnson & Son Maynard Dow ney Doc Littlefield Wert Acton and other names in unclear sequence.
About 50 relatives and friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Worthley’s home on Tuesday evening to mark their twenty-fifth anniversary. B W Brown presented a Morris chair and guests sent silverware gifts. Captain A B C Dakin read a poem by George B Bartlett recounting Worthley’s life.
A list of names appears as advertised letters at the Concord post office dated November 19 1895. Recipients include Wm Buttrick Geo M Ayers W L Davis Joseph Garberi R Haldron Albert Hayward Lester Jewetts K W Kauffman Middle sex Brush Co Rev J N Plante Marcel lus C Putnam Chester W Smith J Smith Geo E Snyder Silas S Whitcomb John Wallace Rev A Wheeler William Wilson Clinton O White W F Whitney Mrs Margaret Mangan Mrs Juliette B Smith Mrs R A Stur devant.
The report records week ending 7 p.m. November 18 with high of 56 and low of 19. Weekly mean temperature 39.2 and weekly precipitation total 3.62 inches. Rainfall since November 1 stands at 6.27 inches.
The healing salve is praised for curing eczema and skin affections and described as a perfect remedy for piles. Local distributors include B. F. Johnson & Son in Maynard C. H. Whitney in Concord and H. A. Littlefield in West Acton.
The notice lists morning and evening services for Unitarian, Protestant Episcopal, and Scandinavian M E churches with pastors and Sunday school times. It notes free seating and a Friday prayer meeting, plus a P S C E gathering. A separate town hall lecture funds an A O U W sanitarium in Las Vegas New Mexico. It ends with garbled ad-like text and signatures.
Philadelphia report details William Shoemaker claiming Detective Schweckler duped him with an alleged witness statement by Mrs. Blanche Hannigan. Shoemaker says he paid $20 for the affidavit and that the plan aimed to trap him, while he denies the perjury subornation charges.
A local store highlights discounted outerwear and accessories with prices on ulsters hats and frieze coats. Regular wool ulsters listed at seven fifty to ten dollars eleven, with new stock from Lamson Hubbard hats two dollars to two fifty. Read as a brisk inventory push aimed at bargain seekers.
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