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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1898
Page
5
G Walter Vialle sailed for Europe on Saturday October 22 aboard the Umbria. Page 2 reports the death of Mrs McClure, an elderly Concord resident. A pretty afternoon tea was hosted by Mrs Allen Friend at the Concord Golf Club clubhouse and enjoyed by all attendees.
Local items note tax collection hours at Friend's drug store and voting room on November 8. Ads list goods for sale including wagons farms pullets furnaces stoves and hats plus services from a barber and a blacksmith.
At Concord Mass on October 25 1898 a group of prominent residents and officials are listed including Boylston T Adams A H Barrett Wm H Barker Fred K Baker Joseph Croucher Edw Farrar Rev Edw A Horton Alex N Hunter Leighton Tindell Con McLaughlin C and Pratt Henry Price Rev George H Reed Wheeler Bros Mrs Walter A Barnes Mrs Co Currier Mrs Susan B Edson Mary B Farrar Miss Gilman Frances Grout Mrs W L Sage and others.
The week’s high reached 7 with a low of 29. Total precipitation was 1.60 inches. Fred A. Tower, Observer.
The piece lists local church timings: First Parish Unitarian with 10 45 morning service 12 noon Sunday school and 7 00 or 7 40 evening meetings on select Sundays, Trinity Episcopal at 10 45 service 12 15 Sunday school 4 00 evening prayers, Trinitarian Congregational 10 45 and 7 30 with armory use, Scandinavian M E Church 10 30 morning and 7 30 evening services, class meeting Friday 7 45, and Y 2 S E chapel events.
A two and a half story eight room house sits on a good lot in Concord Massachusetts within two minutes walk of Fitchburg station. For full particulars and price inquire with John G. Watson at Richardsons' drug store.
Dealers offer second hand and antique furniture at reasonable prices. Located over Walden Street post office.
Community notes from Concord Junction include church services at Union church, Sunday school attendance, and a dawning school under Prof. Green. Residents visit relatives in Fall River and Charlestown while officers report vacations and duties. A Sixth regiment homecoming rumor spreads, with Rev. McDonald aboard the ship carrying Corporal Hosmer and Private Hart.
The Prison Congress held in Indianapolis featured Brockway as president and included Charles Dudley Warner among speakers. The event highlighted cleanness and tuberculosis prevention with input from renowned scientists and prison physicians. Superintendent Scott was missed due to a family illness keeping him at home.
Local merchants announce new cheese eggs butter and oysters for sale at competitive prices with eager clerks. O L Dart offers gloves hats and children wear while Miss Tuttle and Miss Poulson stock hats and undergarments. Also a four room house for rent and church notes list services at Union Church with Sunday school Y P S C E and evening service.
Paris reports General Chanoine’s resignation as war minister sparks cabinet crisis. Brisson's bid to adjourn the chamber triggers protests and fierce debates on military respect. Riots erupt with anti-Semitic and royalist demonstrations. 250 arrests recorded as street clashes unfold around The Soleil and Gaulois offices.
Corning N Y Oct 26 David B Winton president of the Bank of Addison killed himself with a razor yesterday while shaving before a planned sanitarium stay. The 60 year old had been in ill health and despondent over his condition, the death attributed to depression from illness.
A severe gale hit Chicago on October 2 causing widespread damage to telephone and electric wires with car service halting after 9 pm. Downed trees and heavy snow snarled traffic, while Missouri, Iowa, and the northwest reported a general blizzard with persistent wet snow affecting telegraph and phone operations.
A severe storm swept Wisconsin yesterday bringing rain and snow with high winds. Telegraph lines were crippled in many areas while Milwaukee saw little snow and rain persisted into the night as temperatures dropped.
The Denver fire and police board and the chief of police are barred by district court injunction from interfering with the Iroquois club gambling house. The board seeks city attorney guidance on the legality of the raiding ordinance. Contempt risk if they defy the injunction. obeying could lead to more gambling houses opening.
From Montreal and Bridgeport reports the French Canadian press attacks Britain's Egypt course, denouncing refusal of discussion or arbitration and recalling U S-Spain war parallels. Henry Kearney pleads guilty to manslaughter in Danbury, gets 18 months. Rhodes says Britain would fight to block French Nile access. Almanac notes storm over central U S with rain, snow, and colder temps ahead.
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