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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1916
Page
10
The board orders property owners to destroy gypsy and brown tail moth eggs caterpillars and nests by December 1 1916 under Chapter 381 Acts of 1905 amended by Chapter 268 Acts of 1906. Noncompliance allows the town to act and lien the land. Citizens should cooperate on premises and report neglectful neighbors.
Naval officials concluded the twelve destroyers near Nantucket Cape Cod likely searched for a phantom ship. They found no trace of the Kingstonian or its crew and suggested the SOS may have referred to Knudsen, the Norwegian freighter sunk in the same U boat raid.
Francisco Veteri and Joseph Castelli, both deaf mutes from New York, faced trial in the New Haven Superior Court for the killing of Anna Castelli, wife of Castelli, in April. Prosecutors say the woman was brought to New Haven to be murdered under a plan by Castell.
President MacCracken announced that pledges have been received for the full amount of the Vassar College endowment fund. In Sydney, many prize fighters have enlisted in the army since the war began, with twenty killed on various fronts.
The navy gains a massive searchlight from the European war era. Inventor Heinrich Beck, who helped build it at Schenectady, was prevented from going to Belgium and Germany at the war's start, then returned to the U S to negotiate patent rights. The device features a five foot mirror and emits a violet white light visible up to 200 miles under favorable conditions.
A development group in Wolfville plans a Bay of Fundy tidewater project at Cape Split with an American hydraulic expert guiding surveys. Early tests of a crablike current motor on Cape Split tides reportedly produced up to 50 horsepower at nine miles per hour, using both ebb and flow.
An old German furniture dealer recalls a tale of a mute woman who frightened a clerk when asked to pay a bill. The dealer wonders aloud if the woman could be dead, expressing shock at the silence.
Senator Sorghum disputes a colleague's claim that a friend's address was filled with empty platitudes. He argues the speech lacked reliable, substantial content and was not worthy of defense.
Gibbs mentions his son attends a school for drawing while Gibbs calls it a dental college. The exchange contrasts the implied art training with the actual dental education setting.
A tired, hungry man finds a boy and a dog by the road and brings them to a lonely house. A woman arrives, revealing she came to marry him today, to join him, the boy Tom, and the dog in a simple ceremony at the house at the end of nowhere with their pastor and attendants.
Jimmy, an usher longing for college, dreams of the stage. When the lead actor falls ill, he secretly memorizes a role and entrances the audience, winning the part. His debut defeats stage fright, earning praise from a cheering crowd and a future with his beloved at his side.
Nancy, a bridesmaid in a Raleigh estate wedding, helps fix a pin while awaiting Andy, the perpetually late groom. Her charm disrupts the scene as she slips into a playful masquerade, then learns her father’s guest is Andy arriving with plans to stay a week, as her nerves tighten for the ceremony.
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