Concord D A R Fair Nets 175 For Chapter House Debt
Members of Old Concord chapter D A R held a Wednesday fair at the Chapter House. Net proceeds are expected to reach 175 with a goal of 200 to reduce the debt to 575. Tables featured fancy articles, aprons, household goods, and a mystery room amusements. A wedding reception followed a Boston couple’s ceremony at M I T.
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Old Concord
Barrett
George R. Blinn
Bedford
Alfred Curtis
Caroline P. Holden
Chas, Towle
Martha Baker
John B. Tyler
Herbert Hosmer
Billerica
James BR. Bent
A. L. Morse
Q. Reir
Maynard Qu
Thomas
Nathan ‘Derby
C. C. Dennison
Mary Hosmer
Concord
Daniel Lothrop
Margaret Lothrop
Joanna Braley
Akerley
Rochester
New York
Boston
Dewey
Bryn Mawr
Henry H. Braley
Burn Mawr
John Dewey
Columbia University
Mass. Institute of Technology
Trinitarian Church Announces Sunday Services and Thanksgiving Events
The Trinitarian Church outlines next Sundays schedule with morning worship at 10 45 a m Sunday school at noon Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m Scandinavian service at 8 p m led by Rev O O Thorpe and a 7 15 p m sermon The Whosoever of the Drinking of the Water of Life will be discussed Thanksgiving unity service at the Unitarian Church Thursday at 11 a m and a Friday evening personal testimony meeting What Have I To Be Thankful For A Thanksgiving gift drive sent to the poor featured vegetables and a money offering alongside a musical program The Junior Class for iris and boys meets Tuesdays 3 45 to 4 30 under Mr Moody with Miss Annie Jowsgow at the piano.
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Christian Endeavor
O. O. Thorpe
Unitarian Church
Mr. Moody
Iris
Annie Johns Gow
Concord Bride Elisabeth Braley Weds Professor Dewey
Miss Elisabeth Braley of Concord married Professor Frederick Archibald Dewey of New York Tuesday afternoon at the Braley home on Main Street. The ceremony, performed by Rev. Smith Owen Dexter of Trinity Episcopal Church, took place amid family observance.
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Concord
Bryn Mawr
Elisabeth Braley
Frederick Archibald Dewey
New Yor
Braley
Main St
Smith Owen Dexter
Sunshine cracker sales record at Walcott & Co
Ernest B Hingman of Walcott and Co. earns praise after a highly successful Sunshine crackers sales week. His strong knowledge of the business and engaging disposition helped him stand out as an exceptional salesman and valuable to his employer.
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Ernest B. Hingman
Walcott & Co
Auto Trip in Africa Highlights from Mrs Downes Talk
Mrs Marion A Downes spoke at the Concord Woman's Club meeting on her Africa journey. The group voted to donate 25 to Belgian relief funds with 15 for anaesthetics for French hospitals and 10 for blankets, and urged individual gifts toward a 100 blanket fund led by Mrs Walcott.
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Walcott
Marion A. Downes
Miss Holden
Mrs Downes Delights with Algeria Lecture and Costumed Demonstration
Mrs Downes shared an entertaining 15000 mile peewee journey through Algeria Luni telling native songs and dances she demonstrated in varied costumes from Moorish street to Lunisian Jewels. Her assistant drummed and played melodies as photographs and curios from the trip were shown. Local 12A Concord union formed by telephone operators. Willow Rebekah lodge to confer degree December 21 with D D G M Miss Bowlby from Watertown visiting.
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Maynard
Concord Local
Willow Rebekah Lodge
Miss Bowlby
Suite
Watertown
Concord Junction Events Include Bible Students Service
The Concord Junction International Bible Students plan Sunday worship at 3 p m in Lapham's block opposite the depot with A E Sponcer of Waltham as speaker on Elias has first come. The Hyperion orchestra featuring Clara Leighton Gertrude Knowles and Herbert Mallinson impressed at West Somerville Knights of Pythings ladies night.
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Margaret McEachern
Roxbury
College of the Spoken Word
West Concord Woman’s Club
Association Hall
Teddy
Maynard
Magdalene Chapter
Harriet B. Robinson
Reformatory
Warner's Pond
Lecture by Mrs Marble on Social Unrest and Service
West Concord Woman's club heard Mrs Annie Russell Marble speak on Social Unrest and Social Service as Impulses in Modern Life and Literature. The program included piano solos by Miss Bess Snyder and current events. Tea was served by club members.
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West Concord
Attractive fair arranged by Union church ladies
The annual fair of the Ladies' Aid union church will be held in the church vestry December 3 and 4. Tables include fancy goods, aprons, handkerchiefs, rummage, five cent and ice cream. A home bakery with hot lunches will run continuously. On December 3 a free entertainment with instrumental and vocal solos. December 4 ends with a Lotus concert.
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Union Church
Ith
The
Lotus
Funeral Notice for Joseph Sprowson Fitchburg Resident
Joseph Sprowson died suddenly at his Central street home on Sunday at age 64 from heart valve leakage. A former instructor at the Reformatory, he was well known in Fitchburg and leaves a wife and children. funeral services were held in Fitchburg with interment there.
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Joseph Sprowson
Central St
Sprowson
Reformatory
Fitchburg
Boy at his best between ten and eleven, says Judge
A court quips about a boy named Herbert whose mischief ranged from breaking a glass dish and flooding a bathroom to tying a canary and surprising neighbors. The judge jokes that psychologists say boys are best between ten and eleven, a remark sparked by the morning chaos.
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Mrs. Smythe
Ted Draper
Ted
Punishment for Cowards in the Thirty Years War
A Youth's Companion excerpt notes brutal German army penalties for cowardice during the Thirty Years War. In 1642 Swedish forces at Leipzig stormed the city. a force under Grand Leopold engaged before the gates, Panicked, and fled. Court martial led to death sentences for officers and executions of soldiers, with few pardons granted.
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Tisson
Leipzig
Grand Leopold
George Madwas
Humble Beginnings of Humbug Legend From Old Berwickshire
A fragmentary tale traces the origin of the humbug name to early Scots speech. It mentions a Bogue figure, Gordie Hume nicknamed Hum o the boy, whose family ties and rising reputation sparked a popular humorous tale that spread locally.
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Wee
Berwickshire
Gordie Hume
Hume
Indictments in Sullivan Case Shake Maine Town
The Knox County grand jury returns indictments charging Mildred Sullivan's murder. Lionel K. Dudley Alice Pelletier Presque Isle and Kate Michaud Wallagrass indicted for murder. Ambrose Bridges named accessory before the fact. Perley Pelletier not indicted though a key witness. Kate Michaud charged as murder suspect following her confession.
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Dr. Dudley
Alice Pelletier
Kate Michaud
Houston
Lionel KE. Dudley
Presque Isle
Kate
Michaud
Wallagrass
Mildred Sullivan
Ardoxtook County
Grand ‘Jury
Ambrose Bridges
Miss Pelletier
Bill Wags
Perley Pelletier
Bridges
Kate O. Michaud
Archibald
Dudley
Steamer Hanalei Wrecked in Dense Fog Off San Francisco
In a fogbound wreck off Duxbury reef nine miles north of the Golden Gate the steamer Hanalei was shattered by surf. Forty three survivors were rescued, eighteen bodies washed ashore or brought to port, and the missing count remains uncertain.
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San Francisco
Hanalei
Duxbury Reef
Golden Gate
Bolinas
United States Revenue
McCulloch
Iroquois
Deaths in Asylums Report Shows Nurse and Attendant Role
Boston reports Massachusetts insane hospital staff caused 43 percent of patient deaths and injuries in 1913. Of 135 casualties with known cause, 12 were personal crises, 17 sudden deaths without violence, 105 front injuries. Responsibility lay with patients in 36 percent, with fellow patients in 30 percent, and with others in 12 percent.
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Boston
Massachusetts
State Board of Insanity
Jose
Carranza Replies to Spanish Protest Over Executions
Madrid dispatch reports General Carranza replying to Spanish protests against Mexican priest executions with a hard line statement. He said he would listen only after he has tied a hundredth part of the crimes attributed to Kaiser troops.
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Carranza
Madrid
Mexico
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Academy
L. Anderson & Son
F.M. McCain
Cross
Si Ben Seme
Trinitarian
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Ernest
Hinsman
Africa
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