Snow removal program debated by Maine officials
Maine officials and Bangor Chamber of Commerce officials urged state and local action on snow removal to extend the motor season, proposing a $20,000 investigation and pilot experiments in Bangor with data to guide municipal decisions while the Highway Commission would provide limited support.
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Maine
Committee On Ways and Bridges
Haven Sawyer
Bangor Chamber of Commerce
Paul I. Sargent
State Highway Commission
Sawyer
Sargent
Barwise
Bangor
Highway Commission
Senator Barwise
Commerce Chamber
S. 8
Bunker
Harry E. Green
Waterville
Morse Pupils Demonstrate Highest Rank In Class Parts
Elizabeth Coombs heads the Morse high honor list, with Mary Curran and Helen Brown following. Four students earned top ranks for their four-year English honors, while Katherine Trott posted a 90.31, and others near the 80s to near 90 in various subjects.
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Elizabeth Coombs
Mary Curran
Helen Brown
Dorothy
Monnell
Morse High
Miss Coombs
Miss Curran
Brown
Donnell
Katherine Trott
Wilfred Rice
Donny Meiay
Grace Spaulding
Evelyn Davis
Mary Curren
Onde Srote Case Fel
Marlette Lidels Ce Ooo
SOGC
EO Tanollom
Ese Ciyets
Beatrice Jenkins
Solaisse Ceneres
Christine Lockery
Eiegereites
Elizgabeth Wright
St.sl
Eephiraitit Pooler
Aston
Leans
Marguerite Williams
Dorothy Huggard
Edwin Spaulding
PRAT
Avin Aneiee Seerere
Abi
Aia Sette
Sereteee Ee
Althine Smunseys
Cote Sa
Marion
Burnham Dunton
Gertrude Milliken
Ptaavisia Rie Feud
Alexander Donaldson
Shepard
Eileen Ties Ey
Elizabeth Crotie
Helena Tvese
Louise Holbrook
Elizabeth Randall
Lord As
Achaiah O
TSU Rss CL Pouch Lamees
Asele Reciec
Dorothy Dreton
Oie
Tose Wieinblatt
Scsi
Bistallemehe
Edir Res
Ateraeblacteaiat
al Acyl
Eleanor Statherin
Tale
New Steamer Nobska Makes Fine Showing
The steel steamship Nobsky tested off the Maine coast by Bath Iron Works and will sail for Newport R I to join the New England Steamship Co on the Nantucket line. Capt Blair led the trials with W S Newell overseeing engine work and Tron Works executives coordinating tests. The vessel completed full speed runs, tested windlass, and returned to Bath after adjustments by Wilfred O White.
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Nobsky
Maine
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Newport
R. 1
New England Steamship Co
Tron
New England Steimship Co
Warren T. Berry
Reod
Albert F. Haas
Bath
Kennebec
Seguin
Vortland Harbor
Southport
Nobska
Tron Works
Wilfred O. White
Boston
Assessors Begin Citywide Data Collection in Edmunds
Chairmy in Edmund PV Briggs, Secretary Henry G. Hodgdon and James Mulligan head the board of assessors visiting stores to gather data for the annual assessment. Assistant assessors also started Wednesday to canvas the city for information used to assess poll, real and personal estates.
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Edmund PV. Briggs
Henry G. Hodgdon
James ©. Mulligan
Board of Asses
Isaiah's Head at Small Point Shared in Bath Print
An old wood cut from The Bath Independent depicts Isaiah's head at Small Point on the Maine coast. The carving shows a woman seated atop the veck with a parasel gazing at the surf. The note recalls past Bath summers and cherished picnic spots for older readers.
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Bath Independent
Isaiah
Small Point
Maine
Bath
Opera House Fire Destroys Bath Theatre in Maine
A fire gutted the Bath opera house owned by Maine and New Hampshire Theatres Inc. Damage is about $15,000 insured. The blaze started near the balcony area as firefighters with 11 hose lines battled the flames. Wil Hayy Gray and Hk. Augustus Huse are managers, with Gray recovering in Baltimore.
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Bath Opera House
Maine and
New Hampshire Theatres Inc
Wil- Hayy PL
Gray
Lewiston
Augustus Huse
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Columbian Theatre
Theatre Activiies
Ovce
Rupert Miller
Charles S. Parks
Willa Cather To Lecture At Bowdoin May Fourth
Miss Willa Cather, praised as America s foremost woman writer, will lecture at Bowdoin College May 4. The noted Virginian raised in Nebraska drew on frontier life for works like O Pioneers One of Ours and My Antonia. Her stories appeared in Youth and the Bright Medusa and she edits McClure s.
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Willa Cather
America
Institute of Modern Literature
Bowdoin College
Miss Cather
Toler
Alexanders Didge
Antonia
Imi
McClure
Cather
Birt
Nebra
Soo
Mississippi
Assistants Begin Work April 1 for City Tax Canvass
The assistant assessors start April 1 with an animal canvas of the city. They must complete within ten days and return to the assessors. Books were received from Trenry G Todgden, secretary of the Board, with instructions to locate every dwelling occupant and persist until information is gathered. Returns determine poll, real and personal taxes and state school reimbursements.
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Trenry G. Todgden
The
Bosard
Camden girls basketball guest Helen Holman visits town
Helen Holman of Camden, former pastor of the First Baptist Church, stayed with Althea Levya of Turner's Court after a Saturday game here with the Camden high school girls team. Holman and Miss Levya were with Miss Elizabeth Wright of Norwich, Worcester? during the weekend.
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Helen Holman
Camden
Camden Tgh
Holman
Paistor
The
First Baptist Church
Althea Levya
Turner's Court
Levya
Elizabeth Wright
Woolwich
Two Men Seized After 80 Gallons Bottled Alcohol Near Ferry Dock
Sheriff McClure halted a Massachusetts to Rockland trip after spotting a Ford coupe at Commercial and Ferry streets. He found 65 one gallon cans and three five gallon cans of alcohol, arresting Thomas Djerf of Quincy and Niemi of Clark Avenue Quincy. Djerf pleaded guilty to illegal transportation and received a $500 fine plus jail time. appeal set upper. Meimi faced no press charges. other linked cases listed with varying outcomes.
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Wolace McClure
Ferry
Martin Neiini
Clark Avenue
Thomas I. Dijers
Nelson Street
Quincey
Mass
Sherif McChire
Wiscasset
Woolwich
Massachusetts
Sherif McClure
McClure
Court House
Edwin Lowell
Albert Redlon
Tom Taates
Djerf
Rockland
Niemi
New England
Thomas Djerf
Quincy
State Ferry
Keegan
Sagadahoc Supreme Court
Matt Meimi
Mary Lee
Supreme Court
Tony Vulla
William F. Swain
Dionne Fined Ten Dollars for Malicious Mischief in Topsham
Thomas Dionne was found guilty of malicious mischief in Topsham municipal court and fined ten dollars plus costs totaling thirty dollars and seventy cents. Prominent citizens testified seeing Dionne peering into the Scribner home window. Dionne admitted a prior obscenity arrest in Tourthind, reported by police chief Hernan A. Tinskell.
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Thomas Dionne
Topsham
Henry Boucher
James Scribner
David TD. Scribner
Angela Johnson
Dionne
Scribner
D. W. Scribner
Arthur B. Johnson
Ed. I. Aldvich
Elvira Ridley
Tienry Boucher
Herbert Marriner
Jesse Gord
Tourthind
Hernan A. Tinskell
Lorthind
Bath Couple Observes Golden Wedding
Mesir and Mrs. William A. McNeal celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Monday at 30 Duimmer Street Bath. He is a retired foreman contractor and a lifelong Bath resident. Annie M Jordan McNeal was born in Bath and married March 30 1916 at her father's home on Dunmer Street by Rev E W Parte. They have two daughters Mrs Charles I Mason and Mrs Ralph Covel of Bath and one grandson Leon Ek Mason of Reston.
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William A. McNeal
Duimmer Street
McNeal
Alexander McNeal
Edgecoll
Bath
McNexl
Annie M. Jordan
Sambel MS. Jordan
Dnnmer Street
Bath Iron Works Chief Engineer Burkhardt to Depart
John E. Burkhardt will leave Bath Iron Works after ten and a half years to join Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp in Quincy Massachusetts as turbine engineer. He plans to start about May 1 and will be replaced by the move as a professional advance for the turbine department. His family will remain in Bath until near the end of the current school year.
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Independent
Rock Creek Park
Central Park
New York City
Forest Park
St. Louis
Hyde Park
London
Thiergarten Park
Berlin
Bois de Boulogne
Paris
Klingle Road
National Zoological Park
Zoological
Apollo Belvidere
Venus de Milo
Ao Florist
Msak Ser Tere Satler
John E. Burkhardt
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Quincey
Mass
Burkhardt
Bath
Gethlehem Shipbuilding Corp
Ose
North End Housing Project in New Hands
The North End brick housing project in Portland was bought from the Government at auction by Arthur G. Spear and sold to the People's Investment Association. Deeds show a $50,000 price with a $44,000 mortgage, suggesting a total about $94,000. William I. Berry of Gardiner visited the city on business.
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North End
Arthur G. Spear
Portland
People’s Investment Association
Hiram ‘T. Stevens
Register of Deeds
William I. Berry
Gardiner
City
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Corliss Wax
Morse
Longley
Dutton
Carr
Trish
Coombs
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MacDonald
Speed Birds
Small
All Church League
Hagan
Beacon Street
Jackson
Savage
People’s
Kk. F
R.G
Fin
Wheneas
Bucky
Sagadahoc
Pomona
Dirigo Grange
Dingo Grange
Earpswell
Jeannette Berry
Fred Rackley
Topshaw
Bessie Randall
Phillip Kimball
Brunswick Schools
John Randall
Clarence O. Purington
Feed Improvement Association
William R. Kimball
Pine Tree State Seed Co
Jesus
Irma Stearns
FE. C. Patten
Grace Wilams
Belle Rackley
Beatrice Snow
Helen Gould
Edith Prince
George Wetton
George
Bath Iron Works
Bowdoin
Coupe
M’clure
Ferry Dock
Fine
New Hands
Johnson Bros Co
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