Concord rubber plant aims to open after May purchase
A Boston capital backed group bought the Damon mills on the Concord Savings Bank property to convert into a rubber shoe factory. The six story brick complex, powered by water and a 250 horsepower engine, will employ 500 to 600 workers and produce about 10,000 pairs daily. Rubber prices run from 1 to 1.25 per pound as the plant readies operations.
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Damon
Concord Savings Bank
Concord Rubber Company
Boston
T. J. Sheehan
Forest BE Shap Sudden Death Noted
Forest B.E. Shap dies suddenly, with details limited in the obituary notice. He was remembered by family and community figures as a person of quiet influence and local ties. Further information on service arrangements was not provided in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shapleigh
Elliot, Me
Indignation Over Conductor’s Insult to Ellithorpe
A Hudson resident denounces a Marlboro to Hudson car conductor for insulting Levi P. Ellithorpe. The writer, praising Ellithorpe’s 30 years of acquaintance and high character, calls for public conveyance staff with gentlemen instincts to prevent such outrages from recurrences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi P. Ellithorpe
Hudson
Marlboro
Mr. Ellithorpe
Massachusetts
Electric Bitters Proven to Free Woman from Illness Chains
Testimony from Manchester Michigan man George D Williams describes his wife regaining strength after five years of helplessness. He credits two bottles of Electric Bitters with restoring her ability to turn in bed and do her own work. The ad touts relief from nervousness insomnia melancholy headache backache fainting and dizziness. Each bottle guaranteed and priced at 50 cents through local sellers Johnson Maynard and J C Friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
Johnson
Maynard
J. C. Friend
Concord
D. M. Stearns
Israel
Christ
Esau
Moses
Samson
Delilah
God
Jonah
Simon Peter
David
Jonathan
Saul
Another Double Dance Promises More Weekend Fun
Two orchestras, Harry E Brighams nine piece and T J Flanagans six, will play on Saturday night for a continuous dance. The novelty keeps dancers on floor as one ends the other begins. This will be the last dance until after Christmas with late trains to Marlboro Fitchburg Maynard and South Acton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry E. Brigham
T.J. Flanagan
Marlboro
Fitchburg
Maynard
South Acton
Simplicity and Comfort at Home Advised
The Atchison Globe urges readers to seek simplicity and a comfortable home. Focus on a warm winter and cool summer, fix water pipes, secure a good cellar and cistern, and keep essentials handy while giving up clubs to tend personal affairs.
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Atchison Globe
Sudbury Local Happenings and Notable Visits
Sudbury reports include Burr preparing Thanksgiving dinner in his new home and a social dance planned for Thanksgiving eve at Music Hall. John Rice’s hospital operation in Boston shows favorable progress while Rev W G Leaman visits from Springfield.
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Clifford Burr
Albert E. Hosmer
Concord
Music Hall
John W. Rice
Boston
W.G. Leaman
Springfield
Sudbury
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promote Health
Bismark's iron nerve came from splendid health and indomitable will. If you want these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr King's New Life Pills to stimulate brain and body. Only 25c at Johnson's drug gist Maynard and J C Friend's Concord.
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Dr. King
Johnson’'s
Maynard
J. C. Friend
Concord
Army & Navy Tab 8 Promised Quick Dyspepsia Relief
Advertises Army and Navy Tab 8 as a rapid cure for dyspepsia and sour stomach. Claims a few doses relieve constipation and stomach distress, with vegetable ingredients and no gripe. Priced 10 cents per pack. mail order option available from 17 East?lav Street, New York.
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U. S. Army & Navy
Army & Navy
LEV Co
Lavu Sr
New York
Warnings on Wine and Selfish Living From Proverbs Commentary
A 1899 sermon notes how drink and opium fuel sorrow, urges looking to Christ for deliverance, warns against self centered living, and contrasts paths of temptation with the call to spiritual vigilance and repentance. The preacher cites Habakkuk, Isaiah, Genesis, Corinthians, Galatians, and Revelation to urge faith in Jesus and moral restraint.
Variety in cooking turkey saves appetite and yields meals
The article notes a man failed a 30 day roast quail challenge but succeeded when allowed to vary the preparation. It then offers turkey ideas like fillets of turkey with rice, turkey a la royale, turkey in cases, and boiled turkey with oyster sauce to reduce monotony and use leftovers.
Fry Out Curry Stew From Old Cookbook
Fry three slices salt pork and three onions until brown. Add chicken pieces and thinly sliced potatoes, cover with water and simmer until chicken cooks and water thickens. Mix curry powder with water, add sliced potatoes and curry, boil until potatoes are tender. Serve with rice. Recipe serves one extra large chicken or two small ones.
Broiled Oysters Quick Method on Grid Iron
Instructions for broiling large fat oysters on a gridiron with salt and pepper. Dry oysters, optional flour dusting for browning, butter the gridiron, use hot fire, broil quickly, and serve hot with a dab of butter on each oyster.
Beef Cakes with Juicy Meat and Potatoes Dish
Instructions describe making fried meat cakes from chopped raw meat seasoned with salt pepper and onions. Shape into flat cakes dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry in drippings. Serve atop nicely mashed potatoes with the beef cakes.
Orange Pie Creamed Butter and Citrus Filling
Cream one tablespoon butter and three fourths cup sugar. Add beaten yolks of three eggs or whites of two. Stir in juice and grated rind of one orange and juice plus half rind of one lemon. Bake with one crust and frost with egg white.
Scrambled Mutton Delicacy From Simple Kitchen Method
A recipe describes scrambling mutton with three cups of cold boiled mutton chopped fine three tablespoons of hot water a quarter cup of butter added on the stove beaten with four eggs stirred until thick seasoned with pepper and salt.
Milk as perfect food guides infant nourishment
A discussion on milk’s role in early nutrition notes that milk is a perfect food for a baby, but requires dilution or modification for a young infant. It advises choosing a commercial infant food suited to a child's digestion and sticking with it through trial periods, with a note to continue next week.
Baked Halibut With Pork Garnish and Hollandaise
Clean a 2 1/2 pound halibut and bake 35 minutes on a buttered sheet, basting every ten minutes and removing pork in the last ten. Garnish with shredded potatoes, serve with Hollandaise sauce. Hollandaise uses butter yolks lemon juice and boiling water stirred over steam until creamy, seasoned with salt and cayenne.
Roasted Duck With Olive Sauce Method
Dress clean and truss two ducks bake in a hot oven coating breasts with fat pork slices. Baste often. Domestic ducks roast longer. Serve with olive sauce made from browned butter flour and stock enriched with olives.
Cup Plum Pudding Recipe Steps
A traditional cup plum pudding recipe blends raisins currants flour bread crumbs and sugar with chopped suet candied peel citron and spices. Mix add eggs and milk until thick enough to stand a spoon then steam boiling water for three and a half hours.
Lemon Pie Recipe Instructions Summary
A basic lemon pie filling uses lemon juice and rind, water, cornstarch, sugar, an egg, and butter. The mixture is boiled, thickened with cornstarch, cooled, then folded with lemon and egg before baking with a bottom and top crust.
Celery Soup From Beef Shank Recipe
A beef shank broth is prepared by browning and skimming fat then thickened with a small amount of flour. Celery is added in large pieces and boiled until tender, then rich cream is stirred in with salt and pepper for seasoning.
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Macallar Parker Company
Washington Street
Arthur A. Dakin
W. Gilman George
Weston
Massachusetts Highway Commission
South Sudbury
George W. Hunt
Atherton W. Rogers
Falmouth
Cincinnati
Henry N. Eaton
James Tulis
J. Bacon
California
Los Angeles
Mr. Bacon
Mt. Pleasant
Salvation Army Corps
Waltham
Chapel of Memorial Church
Woodstock Farm
Raymond
Inez A. Perry
Rollstone Hill
George H. Barton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wayside Inn
E. R. Lemon
Ladies Home Journal
Nobscot
Bismark
Turkey
Orange
Christine Terhune Herrick
Hialdfal
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