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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1914
Page
7
Concord Junction and nearby communities report visitors including John Allen with Waldo Stone and families. Ralph Stone, Arthur Burr and others are mentioned along with trips to Jaffrey and Jamaica Plain. A road project and local auctions are described with civic notices and marriages unnamed.
The Unitarian church harvest dinner drew 250 guests from Boston and surrounding towns for the largest gathering under these auspices. A Delegation from Boston Sons of American Revolution attended and visited the Wayside Inn for a banquet. Police seized a Boston man for hunting without a license and a Newton doctor was fined for shooting on a reservation. The Woman’s club held a pre sale and Alfred Cutting spoke on notable Wayland figures. Electric lights were installed in E P Stiles and Richard Oliver homes.
About 35 couples attended the Monday afternoon event with Lawton's orchestra providing music. Several local notes mention Rodney Pratt's view of a Braves win at Fenway Park and Wallis B. Ford at a Harvard Washington Jefferson game. A Sunday mass at Help of Christians church saw holy communion, while Mrs. P. Hi Bullock won second prize at Templeton fair for grape jelly. Kate Lawler family attended a funeral in Lowell and a bed of nasturtiums at Miss Kate Lawler's residence drew praise for weeks.
On his first day the new master spoke to pupils in the hall and said he did not believe in canes. Cheers interrupted him before he added that a stout leather strap is a far better tool.
A Houston Post quote contrasts a caustic father and his daughter as she reveals an engagement proposal. He judges appearances harshly, while she defends the suitor and asserts her own choice despite his stern confidence.
A compact reflection attributed to George Eliot critiques mercy as weakness and treason against the common good, framing two forms of sympathy as flawed. The fragment cites a moral tension between compassion and societal strength within a historical literary voice.
Birds shun new bright wood and favor houses resembling decayed trees where ancestors nested. Martins bluebirds and wrens dislike fresh materials and will select homes that feel aged and natural. Build accordingly to suit the birds rather than personal taste.
A Newark reader writes that success means retiring to a quiet study with a garden view to reread Dickens from Pickwick to Drood. Failing that, he would prefer to spend evenings raking leaves in Branch Brook Park with other elderly workers. The commissioner is asked to consider this as an application.
A buyer confronts Wilkins about the car's lack of speed while noting a claim the seller was arrested six times in it. The seller, Sou, replies that the arrests were for obstructing traffic.
In Tunis the essence of orange flowers and orange flower water production is centered in Naboul. About 200,000 pounds of orange flowers are distilled annually yielding 200 pounds of neroli essence valued at $30 per pound and 74,000 to 85,000 quarts of orange flower water.
The Wakeful Bostonian notes a Boston professor's remark claiming sleep is a mere illusion. The comment, linked to a witty lodging scene with music and tents, appears in the Houston Chronicle’s quip column.
A sharp exchange unfolds in court as a young legal figure demands the witness describe the weather on the afternoon in question. The confrontation centers on factual details essential to the case and the witness’s testimony.
The report cites 23 murders in Loudon city during the previous year, highlighting the comparatively good record while noting the annual tally.
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