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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1910
Page
7
Local notes report school closures for Thanksgiving recess and multiple town events. Residents discussed include Mrs Frank Farrar facing mumps, Mr Foote with heart trouble, and Miss Charlotte Conant expected back from Washington. A large buck sighting near the village and a serious car accident involving Silliker are also noted with ongoing concerns for recovery.
Mrs J Monahan of 638 Main St tick Mass suffered four years of kidney trouble with back pain and low energy. After trying various remedies she found relief from Kidney Pills, prompting her to recommend them. Sold by all druggists 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sale agents for the United States in the name Dean's and take no other.
Marlborough Savings Bank notes deposits earn interest on the third Wednesday of January and July. Banking hours are 9 to 3 weekdays and 9 to 12:30 Saturdays. Officers listed: William D. Burdett, President. Charles F. Holyoke, Treasurer.
Wanted live fowls and chickens. Special price offered. For details call 2134 Ma Mase.
West Acton James French cut his hand with an axe last week. Mrs Addie Holt is spending the week at Harry Knolt s. William Losan and wife of New York visiting Boxboro home. Eliza Woodward and Jane Woodward of Claremont N H with sister Mrs M B E Wood. Rev Silas N Adams of Concord preached in Baptist church Sunday evening in exchange with pe. D N Lovett F Blanchard and chauffeur Littlefield shot a deer in Harvard. deer weighed 190 lbs. Commander in chief J E Gilman honored in Boston Friday night. West Acton War club meets 3 30 p m Nov 28 in Baptist vestry. Major Edwin Randolph Short will lecture on Boy Scout. boys under 18 invited.
Thomas W. Silliker, Maiden chauffeur, was pinned between his auto and a tree on the Boxboro road between the Ball and Chester homes for nine hours Thursday evening into Friday morning. He was found unconscious by milkman Guy Goodrich at about 7 am and taken to Harvard for medical examination showing a crushed chest and a damaged blood vessel.
Mr and Mrs Martin E Wood celebrated their golden wedding day with a large turnout from town and Boxboro. The couple have lived in the area for 37 years and many friends attended from Maine New Hampshire Lowell Newton Watertown Ayer Littleton Concord and Milbury.
Nellie Lang Maker daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew R Maker and Karl Roland Jones of South Acton wed at a Walden Street home on Monday evening in a double ring ceremony led by Rev G A Tewksbury of the Trinitarian church. The small ceremony drew about 25 relatives with Miss Ariena F Butters as bridesmaid and J W Burnham as best man. The couple plans to spend their honeymoon in New York City.
The article notes the marriage of Mr Jones, a night telegraph operator at the burg station of the B M railroad, to a bride with many friends in Concord and his home town. It mentions his background at Pepperell, education at Concord High School and Waltham Business College, and lists generous gifts including silver, cut glass, $60 in gold, furniture, and more.
Alumni and Company H 8 meet on the playgrounds at 10 o clock Thanksgiving morning. The lineup pairs include Hosmer versus Wood and Potter versus Graverson with Sargent facing Joslin. Referee is Butters and umpire Goddard. Ruth Raymond returns from Tilton for the holiday as J W Raymond’s family plans Thanksgiving in Amherst New Hampshire.
The text notes Portugal's 1900 census population at 5 423 000 with Lisbon at about 400 000. Agriculture is described as a failure with only about half the land in use. Soldiers receive about 30 reis daily and twelve ounces of bread plus Spanish cigarettes. Diet in the north includes dried codfish pickled in Norway, goat’s meat, black bread from Indian corn, salt and acidic wine for water.
Light battery powered autos replace hand cars for section crews on some lines. European fridge cars total 1 085 vs 90 000 in the United States. An American Turkish railroad across the Mediterranean toward Asia Minor and Armenia is favored, about 1 200 miles long and costing $100 000 000.
An English inventor patents a corkscrew with a lever for easy cork removal. A typewriter stand with a turntable lets two users operate the machine from opposite sides. An Illinois man patents a lawn sprinkler with a spirally corrugated rubber hose spray head that rotates and throws water in all directions.
A garbled Chicago fragment recalls a boastful mam tophic line about living as if each day will be a payday. It mentions Lippincott’s and a father’s advice to his son about valuing daily work and labor.
Corrected to November 13, 1910. Saturdays half hour care from 2 PM to 8 PM. Special Theatre Car for Maynard connects at Concord Depot with Kaye leaving Boxtom at 11:28 PM. Cars connect at Concord with multiple streets railways for Lowell South Framingham and Clinton routes.
Local notes report visits among Dr. Jarvis Sevral and Fitchburg officials, arrangements for wintering in Interlaken Florida, and a long trip home of Nellie McNeally to England after 23 years. It covers illness, work returns, family reunions, a minstrel show, snow plow purchases, and upcoming Royal Arcanum events.
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