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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1899
Page
8
Notices emphasize all matter must reach the office by Tuesday night to appear in the same week. Early submissions prevent condensation or delay. Advertising matter and subscriptions left with N. J. Cole the News dealer will receive prompt attention.
South Acton reports a sulfur camphor and lime boom linked to the diphtheria scare. Auctioneer Henry S Hapgood of Stow will sell on December 13 in the Universalist vestry. No Sunday services were held to avoid contagion. A Christmas sale and supper are planned for December 7.
South Acton locals learn clothing made to order and repair services by James McGreen tailor. Winter bicycle storage and care offered by H. E. Clough. Neatly executed at moderate prices.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a traveling man betting he could carry four bricks half a mile. He endures exhausting strain, nails white knuckled grip, and near collapse yet earns $2 while the crowd laughs. He suffers soreness for days.
President Hart of the Chicago Base Ball club announces Thomas Burns’s resignation with Tom Loftus to succeed him. Thomas Dirga, at Connecticut state prison hospital entrance, 23 feet jump leaves both ankles dislocated and probable internal injuries. Boston hospital seeks relatives of a man named George Smith, about 38, who died there. Austrian unterhaus scenes surge over the compromise bill with Deputy Breznovsky clash and crass exchanges.
Asa Parlin enlarges his ceanery and O D Wood builds a carpenter shop on his father's land. Miss Hattie Tuttle cares for Alfred Flint, Miss Mabel Bartlett visits Mrs Lyman Tuttle. Capt Luke Smith improving after illness. Frank Fiske breaks two ribs building at West Acton. Ladies church aid fair and supper December 12 featuring Husking Bee. C E society held a vestry social with music and animal drawings.
South Acton craftsman Geo. E. Clapp offers watch and clock repairs with work called for and delivered by postal service.
Mrs Magill relocates from L Blanchard’s house to Campello. Universalist society to hold annual fair Dec 14 with usual attractions. Sunday school concert at Baptist church themed Thanksgiving. Three diphtheria cases in village alongside prior report. Dr Frank L Gilbert buys Dr Hutchins stock and begins practice. Woman’s club met Nov 27 with music talks and readings. Correction on Miss Sadie Sullivan disease diagnosis confirms diphtheria and antitoxin treatment by Dr Tasker. he has treated all village cases.
A compact advertisement notes 50c and up caps for men women and children in all sizes at Littlefield’s. It also mentions I A Littlefield and other local services like Geo E Clapp watch repair Miss M A Armstrong dolls and Wingold flour and Clarion cake products for Thanksgiving entertaining.
New York reports Kid Broad of Cleveland defeated Dave Sullivan of Boston before the Broadway Athletic Club in a 25 round 124 pound contest. Sullivan started aggressive but Broad’s defense and counters controlled the bout, with Broad winning by the 21st round and Sullivan fading despite a late grandstand effort.
Boston health officers condemned large consignments of western fowl causing a price shake after half the birds were rejected. Sourness and warm weather blamed for losses reaching four tons sent to Spectacle Island as fertilizer. birds from northern New England and New York appeared sound.
New York police arrested Charles D. Hughes a hedge fund style “get-rich-quick” banker at his 6 Wall Street office last night. A patrol wagon transported books and papers to police headquarters amid hundreds of complaints dating back to 1898.
In New York on November 29 two jurors were secured in the Molineux trial after about 50 talesmen were examined. Jurors No. 9 and 10 are Edward Billings of W. B. Barbour & Co. and Mannheim Brown, a milliner. About 420 talesmen have been examined as the trial enters its third week.
Timothy McDonald aged 103 died in Greenfield Massachusetts after a long life as a local tanner. An Ireland native, he came to the United States many years ago and settled in the city. Sixty years ago he pledged abstinence from alcohol and kept his vow.
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