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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
5
Instructions from the Evening Bulletin Providence describe repurposing old fabrics into piano dusters dish rags and mitts. Suggestions include old silk skirts for dusters old stockings to make mitts and cheesecloth or gauze shirts for rags, roiled in washing powder and ammonia, then hung to dry in sun and air.
A farmer magazine household page notes exchanges for poetry and plants. One respondent offers Browning poems in exchange for geraniums while another seeks Byron letters for watermelon seeds. The Los Angeles Herald remarks newspapers reach more people cheaply than ads.
Marlboro Democrats await a ballot commission report on the rightful candidate with both men likely to run regardless of the decision. The Hisgen vote may grow amid factional tensions while Marlboro and Hudson high schools square off in a Saturday football game. Other items note painting work at St Luke's church, a delayed streetcar, a shooting of grey squirrels, workers moving to Jamaica Plain, sidewalk widening on Howes t, and minor legal actions involving Leary Bass and bondsman surrender.
Providence reports a body found in a dress suit suitcase in a yard near the Hope reservoir. The victim, a 22 year old boy, was stuffed in a feather bed. Four other infant fatalities within a mile raise questions. No ownership clue for the suitcase.
New York Oct 9 Counsel for Senator Platt secured a Supreme Court order directing Mae C Wood to file the summons and complaint in her divorce suit within 10 days. Justice Blanchard warned that failure to file would dismiss the case.
Mrs L P Parker and daughter Lulu are visiting in Somerville. John Wade resumes at Daylight barber shop. Dozens of local visits and movements include Boston visitors, Nova Scotia returnees, and Marlboro baseball plans. A church communion observed with Rev Nellie Mann Updale preaching.
Household tips urge preserving old fabrics for rags and using proper woven mop cloths. Keep camphor with silver, cut away seams for polishing rags, and repurpose table linen for bandages while avoiding linty fabrics.
The excerpt contrasts a columnist's skeptical view of urban noise against a Boston Transcript note on loud city life. It then presents a Massachusetts probate citation for Catherine Campbell’s estate, calling heirs to appear in Cambridge on October 24, 1907, with notices to publish and mail copies beforehand.
The note outlines Scottish legal vocabulary where bankruptcy is an act of sequestration, a solicitor is a writer or law agent, a case debate replaces argument, the assize equals jury, a delinquent is a wrongdoer, a fatuous person is an idiot, burglary becomes housebreaking with an aggravation, and an author means the seller of real property from whom title is derived.
A voice notes that an accidental discovery teaches how keeping a bottle of ink handy lets a fountain pen write like any other pen without the mess of refilling. The exchange underscores that grand inventions often arise from chance observations.
Susan A. Wallace widow of General Lew Wallace died in Crawfordsville Indiana. Born December 25 1830 she had notable literary talent aiding her husband’s writings. Educated in Crawfordsville and at a Friends academy in Poughkeepsie she published The Patter of Little Feet in 1853 and later The Storied Sea The Repose in Egypt and The Land of the Pueblo s leaving one son in Indianapolis. Boston Transcript
Middlesex county probate court investigates the last will of John Allen of Maynard. Queen Colony Trust Company petitions for letters testamentary without surety bond. Court set for October 31 1907 at 9 am in Cam on notice by weekly Maynard Enterprise publication for three weeks and by mailing to known heirs. Witness Charles J McIntire Esquire.
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