150th Anniversary Parade

New Ipswich Historical Society

August 28, 1900

This appears to be taken at the intersection of Turnpike Road and Main in New Ipswich, NH. The Battery B Band of Worcester.

Band playing at the 150th Anniversary Parade - Photo by Leon R. Willard

Traffic

Always a lot of traffic at these events

Heavy traffic

On this day - June 29, 1908

James Roger diary entry

29th (Monday)

Warm muggy forenoon: a nice rain commenced about 2 pm. afterwards fair. David and Henry Royce grinding scythes &c in forenoon and D. fixed one bay in barn for the hay.  I planted some early and late cabbage.  Got pc from Hamish.

On this day - June 29, 1897

William Jurian Kaula diary - Miss Weil

Yesterday we made a trip to Paris and spent the day in making many needful purchases with a new supply of money.  Paris was hot and sultry and not the least inviting.  We meet Mr. Clark on the Grand Boulevard who furnished us with the details of the death of Miss Gertrude Weil.  The news of her mysterious dissapearance [sic] had reached us in Crécy.  The body was found in the Siene [sic] and the funeral was being held from the Morgue at the time of our arrival in Paris.  Miss Weil was a tall young lady with beautiful red hair and well known among the students in the Latin Quarter.*  Her parents are wealthy and live in Philadelphia.  She went sketching somewhere in the vicinity of the Notre Dame and was missing for ten days.  The police were notified and though the body was found on the fourth day it remained in the Morgue for six days unidentified!  This speaks well for the intelligence of the famous Paris police.  The cause of her death is an entire mystery and as the police have no reason to believe it to be anything but suicide the body was not allowed to be creamated [sic].  The affair has created quite a sensation among the Americans aided by the New York Herald of Paris.  Think of a young lady of education refinement and wealth being publicaly [sic] exposed in the Morgue for six days without being discovered by either her friends or the police!  

The additions to our Colony are Mr. Lake and Miss Smith.  This branch of the Smith family have been mentioned before (p.59)

Stout invited us out for a row on the river at Crécy.  We accepted and it was a sad mistake.  I will not be able to get even with Stout as he leaves for America to-morrow.  Owing to the reconstruction of a bridge at Crécy the river has been drawn down almost to nothing but mud and rank vegetation that once flourished under water.  Pushing a boat over mud flats and tons of weeds is not enjoyable in spite of the charming scenery that lined both banks.  I did not think Stout capable of a practical joke and did not suspect that there was a reason why the boat did not move even in the shallow water and reeds.  It was an asinine trick to throw overboard about twenty feet of iron chain that was attached to the boat and tangled up with tons of weeds on the bottom.  I had not the strength of a Hercules and gave up the job after a half-hours work.  The village of La Chapelle is the most picturesque of the environs of Crécy.  Much of its charm is owing to the presence of an old Gothic church that is situated in the deepest part of the valley and is always seen in silhouette against the surrounding hills.

*Hazard knew Miss Weil while at Annisquam, Mass.  She was a splendid swimmer and often swam the swift Squam River - a current certainly as strong as the Seine.  Her pocketbook with money was found on her person and there is no clew [sic] of foul play.  The sketching materials have not been found - June 29. Cartwright says that it is a case of undoubted suicide as a post mortem examination disclosed a reason that was only mentioned in the French newspapers - July 5.

[Note:  per The Library of Congress, Ms. Weil was in Paris continuing her art studies.  Her family insisted her death must have been an accident as she had written to them the day before her disappearance and the letter was generally very positive.]

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