Forty years ago in Bath headlines date April 3 1900
Bath Daily Times items from April 1900 recap local shipyard activity sights of the Davenport awaiting coal cargo in Newport News and delays on the river. The column notes shad nets readied for season, a birthday tea with a famous cake, staff changes and trips to Portland Boston and New York. It also covers repairs at Bath Iron Works, tug and steamer movements, yacht club social events, civic meetings, and an accidental fatal stone fall in Woolwich.
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J. S. Pinkham
Charles Davenport
Newport News
Davenport
Sparks
I. S. Coombs
High Street
Oak
Green
Robinson
E. W. Hyde
Russell Street
Charles Hodgkins
Frank W. Robbins
Traverse
Supreme Judicial Court
U. S. S. Geranium
First District Light House
Bath Iron Works
Portland
Portsmouth
N. H
Eastport
Stella
New York
Colby
Philadelphia
Bath
Charles Lawrence
Lawrence
Kennebec
W. F. Blanchard
Thomas Coss
William Shea
John Fisher
John Johnson
James Houlihan
Tragic Hidden-Play Death Forces Community Notice
A girl died after a hide and seek game when companions found her lifeless beside a wall. Mrs Wright, traveling in Portland, was summoned home by telegram. Local residents news include Bowker on vacation, Drake ill with grip, Kelley returning from Rockland, Hanson resuming Webber's drug store clerk job, and Reed in Boston on business.
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Wright
Portland
Bird Motion Pictures at Nequasset Church
Bowdoin College biology professor Alfred O. Gross will present snow colored bird life films at Nequasset Congregational Church on Monday April 15 at 8 p.m. The event, run by the Union, invites the public and includes refreshments by local ladies after.
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Alfred O. Gross
Bowdoin College
Nequasset Congregational Church
North Woolwich
Ay's
Re Elect Aldrich to Committee and County Nominees
The text lists local figures elected to reelection to the committee and unan imously nominated Sagadahoc county members including Arrowsie Tarr Bath Small Norman F. Curtis Bowdoinham Charles B. Randall Georgetown Fred P. Carr Phippsburg Raymond M. MacIntire Richmond Joseph Randlette Topsham John L. Jack West Bath Edwin Haggett Woolwich John C. Gilmore. Arthur Sewall of Bath named alternate district delegate to the National convention.
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Linwood T. Skelton
Lena M. Skelton
Bowdoinham
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Mary T. Nealey
Georgetown
Sewird
Emmons
Madelyn Berr
Phippsburg
Winfield W. Morse
Emma G. Morse
Richmond
Parker
Sadie Wood
Topsham
Arthur B. Jobtmson
Mary P. Hill
West Bath
Earle
Donnell
Lily A. Donnell
Raymond M. MacIntire
Isabella MacIntire
Joseph W. Randlette
Doris M. Brown
John L. Jack
Elnora Totman
Edwin W. Haggett
Lizzie A. Haggett
Woolwich
John C. Gilmore
Mazilla Gilmore
Arthur Sewall
Bath
Mayor Haskell Proposes Plan to Bolster Sinking Fund
The proposal outlines using annual $400 savings from interest on Public Debt to boost a sinking fund. The plan would add $2,000 yearly, increasing the fund by about $25,000 over five years and retire $50,000 in bonds, cutting bonded debt from $329,033 to $254,033. Housing Project Bonds would be fully paid. Alden G. Sinita returns to Bath after Wis. visit.
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Alderman Legard
Focter
Disey
Bath Tax Club
Patten Free Library
Haskell
British American Assurance Co Us Branch Financial Statement
A New York branch cash assets and investments show stocks and bonds 2 339 951 92 and total gross assets 2 842 319 04. Admitted assets equal 2 827 582 87 with net unpaid losses 91 183 00 and unearned premiums 648 436 90. Other liabilities total 4 454 994. Statutory surplus 1 943 128 0 percent total liabilities and surplus 9 427 582.
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Bath City Council Hears Curfew Petition and Budget Plans
The Bath City Council considered a curfew enforcement petition from Mrs E Emma Leonard and 14 others and sent it to the Police committee. Mayor Haskell noted no more appointments for now while discussing Lieut Emerson Mason of the Marines Reserves proposing a Bath unit with a potential payroll and city land support.
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Maine
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Navy Club
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Rogers
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the Times
Local Garden Club Exposition Draws Attendees
Mrs William S Forbes of Massachusetts hosted a spring flower ship event at her Summer home Spring Farm Pippsburg attracting visitors from Bath. The Boston Rose Garden exhibit, part of the New England Spring Flower show, featured community support and garden club talent despite garbled OCR details.
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Mass
Pippsburg
New England
Boston
Bath
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