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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1916
Page
4
A Maine newspaper notes strong local support on Monhegan Island for strict lobster conservation laws and criticizes careless hunters who shoot without certainty, arguing penalties should match murder for deadly mistakes. It also reports on Russia’s Asia Minor advance, Justice Hughes as GOP favorite, and local Maine politics.
A Bagdad Florida resident reports a course of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pepticon Pills relieving severe nervous spells and neuralgia. She slept poorly before, now claims full days of activity, housework, garden work, and a mile walk. Drugstore availability noted.
A memo from Deputy Sealer A Russ informs town boards to appoint a sealer of weights and measures by April 1916 under revised statutes. The letter urges smaller towns to combine in selection, warns against unfit appointees, and stresses systematic oversight to protect the purchasing public.
The note from Edgar A Russ, Deputy State Sealer of Weights and Measures, expresses hope for an early reply in April and closes with a courteous, formal sign-off.
The Red Men remain first in the standings with the Orioles atop the second division. The BIW and Draughtsmen games are omitted with a rollover planned. official standings follow.
The Abenaki Camp Fire group celebrated its third anniversary with an all day event in Charles T. Jackson’s Sagadahoc Block antique rooms. A noon dinner featured grapefruit, fruit, salads, sandwiches, cake, ice cream and cocoa. Ruth Ledyard and Virginia Paine hid coins in a large birthday cake. Members read papers after dinner under Miss Margaret Foote, guardian, with Anna Trott as secretary and Louise Cahill as treasurer.
In a Friday YMCA contest the Y.M.C.A. third team defeated the Eagles 26 to 13. Players listed include Knight Moody Clements Sprague Kingsbury Gillispie Leydon Small and Ham. Referee Earl Knight. Also noted are church society visit and steamship updates with City of Bangor headed to Boston for overhaul and Kennebec River opening service delays.
Dear readers are urged to try Anuric for backache kidney and bladder disorders and rheumatism. The ad claims physicians at Dr Pierce’s Invalids Hotel use it and offers a mail order trial with a 10 cent sample and a free medical treatise. It touts potency versus lithia and cross sells Golden Medical Discovery.
Local tidbits note a Tuesday evening dance at the K Y C and a Sagadahoc Knights of Columbus delegation attending a Bourke Cochran lecture in Portland. Seth Webb returns from Island Falls, a lumber firm faces shipping slowdowns due to car shortages, with 5,000,000 ft of logs awaiting sawing.
Schools began Monday morning. Capt Felix Stinson resumed duties as janitor of the K WG. A Bath fisherman caught 12 pickerel through the ice at Lemont's Creek. WCTU met at 681 Washington St to discuss Flower Mission. First Baptist session held special exercises and an interesting program. The late Capt George H Wallace of Portland, master of Ruth E Merrill, buried after death near Rio Janeiro. J J Lawlor of Worcester fills in at Western Union while Alma Sampson tours for two weeks. Lawlor, 19, has two years as an operator and is visiting Bath for the first time.
An old-style advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features endorsements from F. J. Cheney & Co. and the National Bank of Commerce in Toledo Ohio, claims of internal action, testimonials, a 76 cent price per bottle, and distribution by druggists alongside Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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