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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1920
Page
2
The article notes vacation season ending and fall plans forming while favorable early autumn weather invites productive effort. It defends baseball integrity amid rumors and praises swift, decisive action to curb corruption, suggesting New England as ideal for meaningful work. It hints at new oil prospects and ends by prompting readers with a school bell sound.
The new freight rate increases totaling 1.25 billion dollars per year will be watched closely. Despite jumps of 25 percent to the east, the effect on bulk prices remains small due to other price pressures and overall lower price levels. The danger lies in a chain of markups through manufacturers and retailers if profiteering takes hold. A sample shows the added transport cost is relatively small for many items.
A New York broker argues that the United States must train personnel for foreign commerce. He envisions a national school for experts in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, akin to West Point, Annapolis, to boost exports and merchant marine strength.
Smithson quit smoking six years ago to save money and track his spending. He saved £150 in a bank account before the bank failed, leaving him without cigars and prompting a joke about the loss. Brownlow remarks the idea was sensible.
A man obsessed with shop talk repeatedly visits his best girl. She endures early on but erupts when she discovers his intrusion as he scans a telephone directory for prospective customers, triggering a heated confrontation at her home.
Doctor Gautier told the Academy of Sciences that high-heeled shoes may prevent consumption by promoting chest breathing over abdominal breathing. He cited studies showing many abdominal breathers develop disease, while heel wearers maintain better pulmonary function and fewer breathing ailments.
A newly developed tractor features sixteen legs arranged as four cranks with four legs each and four automatically operated wheels. The legs adapt to ground conditions, letting the machine switch from tractor to motor truck. It can plow seed cultivate harrow mow harvest rake and furnish power perchi ca.
Miss Mary Burton, aged thirty five, becomes sole owner of a comfortable two acre garden home and an annuity. Her orphan niece Myra Davis moves in to help with housework and plans to improve the garden. A cheerful young man, Archie Lull, arrives claiming temporary work and wins Myra’s interest while assisting with poultry netting and a scarecrow for the cherry trees. He later reveals a potential inheritance angle as the tale moves toward courtship.
Analysis shows 301 Boy Scouts of America featured in the American delegation to the World Scout Contest in England. Delegation spans 32 states plus the District of Columbia and Hawaii with the largest group, 49, from Colorado thanks to the Denver Boy Scout band. From Florida twenty now? illustrate diverse origins and mascots.
Lancaster boy scouts spent a day occupying city offices and running mock municipal operations. They organized street traffic with traffic cops while Mayor Charles M. Sauer, Chief Floyd C. Hinden, and Fire Chief John R. Spera supervised in turn, overseeing enforcement, station duties, and city hall activity.
The Middlesex Probate Court cites heirs and interested parties in the estate of Sarah A Harris late of Acton. John W Heald of Carlisle seeks letters of administration without bond in the acton newspaper notice dated August 27 1920. The hearing is set for September 20 1920 at nine in the morning at Cambridge.
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