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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., West Medford in 1870. (search)
s, we had an opportunity to see some of our new neighbors as they assembled. Miss Addie Morss served as organist and played the Nuns' Prayer as a voluntary, and accompanied the congregational singing. A French gentleman, the Rev. Louis Charpiot, was the clergyman. He was of the Trinitarian Congregational order, and had but recently begun preaching in West Medford, being employed on the editorial staff of the Nation then published by Mr. Usher, who in the spring of ‘71 established the Medford Journal, since which time Medford has never been without a weekly paper. He had been preceded by Rev. M. B. Chapman, who had served for two years. Mr. Chapman was a Methodist, and a student in Boston University, and boarded with Mrs. G. A. Spaulding. He was even then described as a brilliant preacher and elicited the remark from a shrewd observer, I want to hear him again and see if he had all his powder in one gun. Mr. Chapman married while at West Medford, and one day just previous, said t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., The first Medford Journal. (search)
The first Medford Journal. On Thursday, January 8, 1857, there appeared in our old town its first local newspaper, bearing this title in ornamental capitals The Medford Journal. It styled itself, A paper devoted to News, Literature, Science and Art. This was followed by a quotation from Burns, A chiel's amang ye takina notes, an faith he'll print them. It was published by C. C. P. Moody and edited by George G. W. Morgan. Its subscription price was $1.50 per annum, in advance. It waMedford Journal. It styled itself, A paper devoted to News, Literature, Science and Art. This was followed by a quotation from Burns, A chiel's amang ye takina notes, an faith he'll print them. It was published by C. C. P. Moody and edited by George G. W. Morgan. Its subscription price was $1.50 per annum, in advance. It was of eight pages, 10 × 12 inches in size. A brief allusion has been made to it in recent years in Medford Past and Present, as a small four page venture of four columns each, placing it at about 1850. Possibly there may have been at that time such a one, but as that writer placed Mr. Usher's Medford journal next in order, he doubtless referred to the subject of this sketch. The first article was under the caption, Original Poetry, and consisted of four eight-line verses, entitled The Poet'
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., A Medford town meeting. (search)
n Medford who can vividly recall town events of sixty years ago, but there are few who have written the story. Mr. Brooks' history had then been published but two years, and he was resident in the town of his boyhood. His was one of the earliest town histories, and despite some inaccuracies was one of the best. Up to 1857 no one had the courage to start a weekly paper in Medford by which current events might be chronicled, but on January 8 of that year there appeared the first of the Medford Journal, a paper devoted to news, literature, science and art. Mention has already been made of this in the Register, with a review of its initial number. During its all too brief existence occurred the annual town meeting, commonly styled the March meeting. This was held on the ninth day of the month (Monday, of course), and the Journal appeared on Thursday. The editor said:— The business of the town was transacted with great unanimity and good feeling and despatched with great cele
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Connecting link in Medford Church history. (search)
e making many improvements which all rejoice to see, have authorized us to say that they will give the land for a meetinghouse. That's noble! Messrs. Story, Judkins and Holton never were behind hand in good deeds. Three cheers for the friends that make this generous offer! Now who will have the honor of giving the stock? Who? We shall be glad to announce the name next week. Three cheers and a tiger for the man, whoever he may be! The following month there appeared in the same Medford Journal a communication that was both history and appeal, under date of March 18:— editor of the Journal:—Will you allow me to say a few words in relation to the West Medford Christian Union Society: That organization has now been in existence for about three years, and from the start it has done well, the last year, especially, being of unusual interest. Mystic Hall has been filled every Sunday with attentive audiences, and the Sunday school embraces nearly all the children in the plac
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Views of Medford. (search)
ot in 1870, the Register has presented. One is from a pencil drawing by Francis Wait, the other shows it at an earlier time. It was the Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill of Trowbridge's famous story, the Wood's mill of actual fact. In the first Medford Journal of 1857 there was no attempt at pictorial illustration, nor yet in the great blanket sheet of Usher's Medford Journal of 1871, that we can recall. No files were preserved by the publisher and only a few stray copies are known. In 1865 MMedford Journal of 1871, that we can recall. No files were preserved by the publisher and only a few stray copies are known. In 1865 Mr. Nathan Brown of West Medford sketched a view of the river, looking up-stream from the railroad embankment, and painted in oil two copies. The central feature is the picturesque ruin of the second aqueduct of the Middlesex Canal, which, after thirteen years of disuse, still spanned the river and seven years later took on the superstructure of the first Boston avenue or Canal bridge. One of these paintings is in the Historical Society's collection, framed in wood from the aqueduct built in 1
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ial comment, literary notes and miscellany, local news and advertising matter. This was issued under the title, The Medford Journal, the somewhat ornamental type making an attractive heading. C. C. P. Moody was publisher and George G. W. Morgan, ee venture. We are not prepared to dispute the assertion, but have never been able to find such a one. But of the Medford Journal of 1857, the Medford Public Library has a complete file and the Historical Society a neatly bound but incomplete oneassed on, but they certainly were worthy of better success. As thirteen weeks covered the brief life of the first Medford Journal, so it was thirteen years ere any other attempt was made for a weekly paper in Medford. Just at the end of 1870, Jar-paged weekly. It was a great eight-column blanket sheet, twenty-one by twenty-eight inches in size, bearing title Medford Journal in big ornamental letters, the two words a little separated by a wood-cut of a wood-burner locomotive and ancient ra
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
the old house a one-story wooden block containing four stores. A grocery was started in two, a drug store by Amasa Beach, Jr., in one, and two dress-makers took the other. These we have named sufficed for three years. The new grocery of Hall & Co. had but a brief run, then a fish man tried it, and in 1872 Artemas Poole, a shoe-maker, came in. Meanwhile a livery and boarding stable for D. K. Richardson had been built just beyond Whitmore brook, and Mr. Usher had begun to publish the Medford Journal in December, 1870. Mr. Usher's stable was struck by lightning and burned and he replaced it by a new and larger building, which early in 1875 he moved across High street. This caused a rearrangement. Two buildings were moved to Auburn street (just extended across the river), one half of the four-store block taken down, and the original Macy store moved next the old Usher house and Mr. Poole moved into it. The new stable building was made into two stores, with various rooms on secon