Marlborough 100 Years Ago | Episode 3 | October 1926
Step back 100 years to October 1926, when a man fell off a utility pole and lit a cigarette about it, a police dog went rogue in a chicken coop, a couple from Pleasant Street dropped in on President Coolidge at the White House, and a Maple Street household staged the most elaborately haunted Halloween party in Marlborough history. In this episode of Marlborough 100 Years Ago, we bring you the news from the pages of the Marlboro Daily Enterprise, presented in the style of a 1920s radio broadcast. In this episode:
-A utility pole worker survives a near-fatal fall and immediately lights a cigarette
-An "Indian Summer" thunderstorm knocks out city lights and floods Ward Park -The school board votes to fire any teacher who gets married
— Ex-Mayor Frye is not happy
-Marlborough's brand-new $250,000 Junior High School opens to the public
-The Woman's Club launches a citizenship drive for foreign-born residents
-Mrs. Ella Cody arrives on the midnight train searching for her daughter
-A Marlborough couple visits President Calvin Coolidge at the White House
-Mr. and Mrs. George Moore turn their Maple Street home into a haunted house with four ghosts
-Civil War veteran Thomas Gately is remembered
-Rotary Club speaker: Marlborough needs a hotel
-A police dog kills 11 chickens. Then someone steals 7 more from a neighbor
-1,000 crows fly over the city headed for Georgia
-Marlboro High beats Ashland 33–18
Plus: a missing set of keys, Alfred Ghilohni is operated on and more from the City Items column. Marlborough 100 Years Ago is produced by WMCT-TV, Marlborough's community television station. New episodes follow the news of Marlborough, Massachusetts as it appeared exactly 100 years ago. Based on reporting from the Marlboro Daily Enterprise, October 1926 #Marlborough #Massachusetts #History #1920s #LocalHistory #NewEngland #MetroWest #WMCTTV
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