Haircut price increases discussed at convention
At the convention the association and beauty group debated raising salon prices. Plans included a $5 haircut, paired with a shampoo, and notes of a potential price spiral if inflation continues.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1955
Page
3
At the convention the association and beauty group debated raising salon prices. Plans included a $5 haircut, paired with a shampoo, and notes of a potential price spiral if inflation continues.
The article notes Charles R. er rector of Frin i Church resigns from the pulpit. Rev. Peck, previously vicar since 1946, led the church after ordination in South from 1935 to 1937 and 1937 to 1946 as plans for a research project on the colonial period are discussed.
Fragmentary text lists names and places including Bodworth Emerson Hospital and Main Street. Mentions firemen first aid, oxy lonist, and visiting relatives, with scattered references to individuals and duties. Details are incomplete and context unclear.
Acton Emerson Hospital Auxiliary gathered at Mrs Prentice Bland's home with Mrs Edith Carbone the new Maynard president as guest. Officers elected included Mrs Albert Wunderly president and Mrs McIntosh vice president. Members reported on projects including a $540 sewing unit and a $105 food sale despite bad weather.
Evans Congregational Church hosts an Acton Center chicken pie supper on Saturday November 5 with meals at 5 p m and 6 30 p m The Women s Church Aid Society and the Service League organize the event led by Mrs Kenneth Jewell and assisted by Mrs Wilson Bursaw Mrs Paul Cornwall Mrs Clayton Steeves Mrs F W Putnam Mrs John Pederson Mrs Edwin Anderson and Mrs Benjamin Smalley
Forty four Sudbury Scouts joined troops from Stow Maynard Cochituate and Hudson at the Parmenter Reservation for the District Camporee. Leaders praise discipline and new scouts gaining camp experience while a swap auction and games entertained the large group.
Concord Atty Gen George Fingold hosted a Boston State House gathering of Massachusetts district attorneys. The fall meeting of the South Middlesex Conference will be at Reading Unitarian Church Sunday at 4 PM. Bloodmobile visits Concord November 4 at First Parish vestry with appointments open for Acton Roxbury Carlisle and Lincoln residents.
Minx, a German Shepherd, is the full time companion of Charles Letizia who is blind. Trained at the Second Sight Training Center they walk and live as a team. Second Sight provides guide dogs and training free of charge, funded by public contributions from Smithtown Long Island.
Mr. and Mrs. A Hubert MacLeod of 10 Everett Street observed their golden wedding anniversary with open house. They married in Concord on October 24 1905 and have lived there since. Mrs MacLeod was formerly M Ida Whitney of Concord. He a Nova Scotia native started an electrical contracting business in 1919 and previously ran a Lincoln market and a Pedinelli market store. They have a son A Robert MacLeod Jr and a grandson A Robert MacLeod III. He suffers arthritis but remains active in a wheelchair.
Concord resident Edward E. Brooks, 19, was located aboard his 40 foot ketch Taeping off Gloucester after missing since Sunday. A Coast Guard air and sea search found him Tuesday afternoon unharmed. he had departed Manchester by the Sea from Dudley’s Boat Yard. He was brought to safety aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Casco.
Acton Center Congregational church hosts Rev. Hugh Penney D D of Federation church Ayer Thursday night at 8 oclock speaking on The Church at Work With Our Servicemen. Dr Penney known for Hospital House in Ayer, refreshments provided.
Bedford plans a town meeting Friday October 28 at 8 o clock in the school auditorium. Moderator Harold I Wellings ton presides over a 17 article warrant including a $750 000 appropriation for a new elementary school. Other articles seek site for off street parking a drive in theatre zoning drainage tree removal and road discontinuance from Wood street to the Lincoln Bedford line.
More than 100 parents attended the Alcott School fall session. James B. Judge introduced new principal J Wendell Warren and new superintendent Dr Angelo Giaudrone. Dr Giaudrone announced the addition should be finished by next week.
Two sisters from Valparaiso and Chesterton welcomed baby boys on the same day at Porter Memorial Hospital. The newborns arrived within 12 hours of each other, making the birth event a shared family milestone reported from Valparaiso.
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