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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1896
Page
5
Local items note Mr and Mrs Richard F Wood at Marblehead and several visits and returns from New Hampshire and Maine. People travel to North Woodstock Annisquam Manchester and Nobleboro while renewals and teaching posts are announced. Road improvements on Main street draw praise from locals.
The Old Concord chapter D A R plans a Sept 19 centennial observance of Washington farewell address in Claypoole's Daily Advertiser 1796. The event at Wayside will include an historical hour with speakers, reading of the address, patriotic music, a lawn party and reception, illuminated grounds, and fundraising for Continental Hall. Tickets via Mrs H D Osgood Thoreau street Concord. Attendees from nearby towns expected.
A large audience from Maynard, Bedford and Concord Junction attended the Concord Artillery band concert Thursday evening. The program featured marches and waltzes including 999th Artillery March and American Guard with selections like Songamon Belle and Waterlily. The performance marked improvement and drew extensive praise from attendees.
Sufferers want quick relief and One Minute Cough Cure is promoted as a safe, harmless remedy for immediate results. Advertisers claim it suits children and list suppliers B. F. Johnson & Son Maynard C H Whitney Concord and H A Lituefield West Acton.
The annual Middlesex and Worcester Pomona Grange field meet and picnic was held on Wednesday Aug. 26. About 1506 members attended meeting at Concord with exhibits from the Concord Antiquarian Society. Master A E Patch directed a program including E D Howe Marlboro on Advice to Farmers and H O Hadley Hillsboro on Grange work.
Ex convict William Thompson alias John Smith arrested by Chief of Police Craig last Friday for breaking and entering and stealing a coat from John Algeo on August 14. He eluded officers until capture at Jos McCarty’s house where he complained he could not sleep. About 30 years old, identified by Deputy Hart as a former reformatory inmate discharged in December. Held for the grand jury before Judge Prescott Keyes. He claimed to be a sailor.
The Trinitarian church pastor will speak next Sunday evening at 7 30 on Labor and the Present Silver Question. The talk, offered as a moral and economic perspective ahead of Labor Day, invites all laboring men to attend. A preparatory lecture will be given Friday evening at 7 30 in the chapel due to the Lord's Supper observance.
At Concord Massachusetts on September 1 1896 a roster of individuals is presented including Wm Buttrick P M R S Burrage Rev George W Cooke Henry E Conant Adam Czarmanzye Fred Guonard J W N L A Lovejoy M Najarian Wm W O Connor Ras Mus Pedersen A L Ripley Monsieur Spiess Titus Veinott C H A Wager Axel Werner Miss Nellie Legg Mrs Geo W Perry.
First Parish Unitarian with Rev. Loren B. Macdonald holds services at 10 45 a m Sunday school 12 young peoples mila meeting 7 p m evening service 7 40 p m December 1 and 22 and first and third Sundays thereafter Trinity Protestant Episcopal offers 10 45 a m morning prayer litany and sermon Sunday school 12 m Scandinavian M E Church led by Rev A P Anderson with services 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m class meeting Friday 7 45 p m The Unitarian Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury has U P S C E meeting 6 30 p m and Friday prayer 7 30 p m
The text lists a tax collector’s Saturday hours at J C Friend’s drug store and midweek evening times, property rentals and sales on Main Street and Lowell Road, agent notices for Neyes Brothers laundry, store policies on returns, horse remedies, a Steinway piano advertisement, carriage trimming, new stocking supporters, and a new Walden Street fish market with salt and fresh fish offerings.
Advertisements offer gar field rope and web halters at low prices from Garfield Bros and Hopkins. Waggons buggies and a Chickering piano are for sale. see Edward C. Damon in Concord. Found watch at brick house near F R R station. returns offered after proving ownership. Lost pug dog with no name. reward for return to Box 456 Concord Mass.
O M Gove of Waltham writes that yesterday issue noted delegates who backed Clarke now oppose Apsley. He recalls voting at a prior convention when the argument favored business experience over legislative tenure and endorses Agsley and Weymouth as best for lawmaking.
The supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias elected officers in Cleveland on Thursday. Names include Philip T. Cosgrove from Michigan as supreme chancellor and Thomas H. Sample from Pennsylvania as vice supreme chancellor. Albert Steinhart of Alabama named supreme prelate.
The field for the Fifth Middlesex Senate seat includes Colonel Henry Parsons who vows to challenge all contenders. The ad touts DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure as a quick remedy for cholera morbus or diarrhea, claiming immediate relief and healthy bowels, with distribution by B. F. Johnson & Son and others.
The county commissioners designate places for the declaration of representative votes in Middlesex County. District 12 Winchester District 13 Arlington District 14 Watertown District 17 Concord District 19 Ashland District 21 Marlboro District 22 Hudson District 23 Acton District 24 Townsend District 25 Lynn Street Station House Lowell District 27 Court House Billerica District 28 Woburn.
The Sixth regiment holds a fall field day at Concord on October 6, the Fifth regiment heads to Plymouth on the eighth, and the First brigade signal corps travels to Concord on September 21. The ad promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a fast healer for open sores and piles, listing suppliers in Maynard Concord and West Acton.
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