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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1912
Page
4
A Marlboro Enterprise page lists subscriptions, office details, and staff. It includes a dated letter from Waldo L. Stone to Frederick W. Eaton backing the Republican candidate, plus social notices about anniversary celebrations, and multiple classified ads for sales, lost books, rentals, and help wanted in Concord and surrounding towns.
Rehearsals begin for a Grange Paper Match and Rev H A Ofeli returns to public speaking tour via Minneapolis Boston and Concord visits. Local clergy shifts include Rev Tobias Foss at Norwegian M E church and Jakey Bartholomeo’s wedding plans to Mary Valentine in Troy NY. Concord football beats Dedham 7 0 as high school advances.
A Concord town notice proposes a precinct one straw ballot on October 29 from 2 to 6 pm to gauge Women’s Suffrage sentiment. Voters may choose Wilson Taft Roosevelt Debs or Chaffin as a test of public support for equal suffrage including the Progressive party platform. A rally idea is floated for candidate explanations at the polls. A nearby incident reports a horse caused wagon damage near Hubbardville. Spencer Bros announce Columbus Day market close at 10 am with many stores expected to close at noon.
A Concord Roosevelt Progressive meeting elected officers including Frank Pierce as president and Allen Brown as secretary. The group drew both senior and younger supporters and aimed to propel a new ticket with 60 attendees approving the move. Letters from supporters were read praising the effort.
Concord residents who helped secure coal deliveries received their first consignments with one carload arriving Thursday and another on Saturday. The Thursday car carried stove coal and Saturday’s shipment was stove coal. Buyers carted coal home with many using their own teams while others hired help. Prices stood at six dollars and seventy five cents per ton for buyers with vehicles and seven dollars twenty five cents per ton for those without, noted as fair compared with statewide quotations around ten dollars per ton. Two more cars were en route and expected this week.
By invitation of the Concord Women's club a Presidents Conference will be held in the Unitarian meeting house in Concord on Thursday Oct 17 at 1045 am and 215 pm Morning forum will discuss club welfare and federation with reports on the International Congress of Hygiene and Democracy and the National Conservation Congress Afternoon sessions present Biennial reports with topics The Journey The Morning Sessions The Conferences The Evening Sessions The Social Functions Box luncheon tea and coffee served by the hostess club Train leaves North Station Boston 845 am and returns from Concord 450 pm arriving Boston 545 pm
The Wilson club plans a Democratic rally in precincts one and two at an early date. Humphrey O'Sullivan of Lowell, candidate for congress, will provide some high class speakers and several local speakers will be heard.
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