Pompeys Pillar and Graeco Roman Museum Visit at Alexandria
J Henry McLellan reports from SS Exochorda as the ship nears Alexandria. He describes Pompeys Pillar on a 40 foot mound, its red granite shaft and Corinthian capital, and tours the Graeco Roman Egyptian museum with obelisks Cleopatra’s Needles once in London and New York. The voyage continues to Jaffa, Leghorn, Florence, Genoa, Marseille, and Boston with August climate aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SS. Exochorda
Alexandria
Egypt
the Independent
England
Pompey's Pillar
Alexander the Great
John
Assuan
Pompey
Diocletian
Heliopolis
London
Thames Embankment
United States
Central Park
New York
Jaffa
Leghorn
Florence
Italy
Genoa
Marseilles
Boston
J. Henry McLellan
Katy Did A Lively Beacon Street Jesters Play
The Jesters of the Beacon Street church presented Katy Did a two act comedy drama with prologue and epilogue Wednesday evening. Katherine Bradford faces a life changing choice mirrored by her 1774 grandmother. Colonial costumes added charm to the production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katy
Beacon Street
Katherine Bradford
Katherine Pendleton Bradford
Muriel Howe
Margaret Calhoun Pendleton
Rebecca Miller
Elizabeth Bates
Anne Rideout
Laura Craft
Jonathan Edwards Bradford
Donald Jewett
Penelope Tayloe
Marie Smith
Elspeth Winslow
Doris Armstrong Hope Winthrop
Doris M. Crocker
Madame Cecelia la Grae
Stephen
Carroll Morse Richard Pendleton
James Steen Lloyd Evemonde
Carl Meister
Margaret Calhoun
Katherine Humphrey Pendleton
Sones
Dredging Underway for Ranger Launch at Bath Iron Works
Initial preparations for Harold K. Vanderbilt's Ranger, the America Cup contender, involve dredging the launching ways at Bath Iron Works. The Ranger, with a heavy keel, will require 15 feet of depth, a depth greater than destroyers, and is set to launch on May 11 if on schedule into the Kennebec River. A Crocker dredger operates the excavation work at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold K. Vanderbilt
Ranger
Bath Iron Works Corp
Kennebec
Carl B. Crocker
Russell of Windsor Celebrates 87th Birthday at Ridgeway Farm
Russell of Windsor, descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower, recently marked his 87th birthday at Ridgeway Farm. An ex-journalist and retired minister, he now splits time between writing and tending his small farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M-W- Russell
Windsor
Ridgeway Farm
Mr. Russell
John Howland
Community Notes From Phippsburg And Bath Area
Local families visit and return from weekend trips. Edith Atwood vacationing with Gorham Normal School connections. Dromore Grange members attend a state instruction session in West Bath with state officers present. Local deaths, births, and club meetings are listed along with visits to Bath and Wiscasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard M. Blair
South Braintree
Mass
Raymond Campbell
George L. Cutting
Foxboro
Edith Atwood
Gorham Normal School
Willard Atwood
Gertrude Blaisdell
Cora Campbell
Humphrey A. Owen
Elfreda Perkins
Raymond F. Campbell
Annie Malcolm
Anna Derwent
Evelyn Beals
Hubert McCarty
Eugene Ingalls
North Bath
George J. Ingalls
Harry Gilmore
Emma Perry
George W. Larrabee
Welfare Club
Dromore
Eva Rogers
Frank P. Leavitt
Marie Simpson
Harold Mott
Five Islands
Ladies Aid of
Dromore Orange
Celina Desjardins
Washington Street
Bath
Lena Oliver
Worcester
Wiscasset
Arthur Bean
Beverley Joan
Charles I. Hughes
Nettie C. Beals
Lemont Street
Ralph Robinson
Howard S. Bowker
Robinson
Brightwater
Portland
Hadley Tremaine
Pauline Rogers
Augusta
Cony High School
Ernest Rogers
George Ingalls
Hattie A. Bowie
East Bowdoin Ladies' Club Meets and Quilts Sold
Nine members and a visitor gathered for a Bowdoin meeting with a program of readings. One quilt was sold and another order taken. A post card shower was planned for a ill member. Next gathering April 22 with Mrs. Ella Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bowdoin
Sid
Charles Babb
Ella Adams
Healthy Happy Home Helpers 4-H
Herbert Adams
Walton Adams
Gorham
N. H
Cora McAfee
Portland
Robert McAfee
Lisbon Falls
William and
Henry Woods
Oscar Douglass
Phyllis
Douglass Road
Clyde Starbird
L. C. Starbird
Preparations Underway for New Pulpwood Terminal
The F W Carlton Co of Woolwich works on Pejepscot Paper Co s new pulpwood terminal at Kelley Spear yard for early Spring shipments from Canada Provinces. A Woolwich lighter began pile driving Monday as wharf rebuilding and a 500 foot boom are built. Steamers will deliver wood to barges and towboats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Carlton Co
General Contractors
Woolwich
Pejepscot Paper Co
Kelley Spear Yard
Tattler
Popham Beach News Highlights Seeps With Local Doings
Mrs Ethel Osgood returns home from a Bath visit while Maurice Hinckley and George Hoyt travel for business. Residents report poor roads, light station life, and a flock of martins arriving on schedule. Community notes cover visitors, funerals, illness, schooling, and local history of Sugar Loaf islands and Pewce gulls conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Osgood
Light House
Ida Oliver
Upper
Washington Street
Bath
Maurice Hinckley
Georgetown
George E. Hoyt
Richmond
Hoyt
Edgar N. Drake
Fred Osgood
Helena Bowie
Spruceville
Ethel] Osgood
Fred Blanchard Crowley
Norman Perkins
Milliard Urquehart
Seguin
Urquehart
Jonesport
Annie Oliver Stacey
St. Petersburg
Fla
Brunswick
Stacey
Moses T. Chandler
Madelyn Bridgee
E. W. Ostood
Frank Scott
Arthur Hill
Seguin Island Light
Hill
Napoleon T. Fickett
Pond Island Light
Stephen Etnier
Stephanie
Gilbert's Head
Shirley Morong
Jerry
Bobby
Edgar L. Drake
Seaman Drake
Marguerite McNulty
Margaret Wyman
Popham
The
True Blues
Stanley Perkins
Merrill Oliver
Carol Drake
Joe Stover
Leon Oliver
Eva Dobbin
Richard Sprague
Charles Leonard
Bertha Newdick
Rodney Wyman
West Point
Young pianist conductor William Penny Hacker thrills Bangor crowd
William Penny Hacker eighteen year old protege of Jose Iturbi impressed about 1000 music lovers at a Bangor City Hall concert sponsored by the Schumann club on a Friday evening. He showcased both piano and conducting talents to the appreciative audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Penny Hacker
Jose Iturbi
Bangor City Hall
The
Schumann Club
Curse on Saco River Revisited by Old Settler
The Old Settler in Biddeford Journal questions the Squando curse claiming three whites drown yearly. It notes 1675 war, a failed fire attack on a garrison, and a disputed tale of Squando a priestly figure linking mystic rites to influence among his people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco River
Squando
Biddeford Journal
Saco
Folsom
Falls
Philip
Beacon Street Methodist Parish Supper Draws 125 Members
The Beacon Street Methodist church held its annual parish supper last Wednesday with about 125 members attending. Proceeds from a free will offering collected by Milton H. Douglas and Clifton W. Tedford will aid the church’s obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Ladies’ Aid
Milton H. Douglas
Clifton W. Tedford
William J. Craft
Hermon W. Crooker
Charles T. Henderson
Archie M. Wishart
Raymond M. Clark
Carleton W. Andrews
Doris M. Crooker
Laura Craft
Gertrude Wallace
Rebecca Miller
Church
Probate Court waives bonds in multiple Sagadahoc estates
Judge Walter S. Glidden leads a busy April term probate session in Sagadahoc. Wills were allowed for Arthur H. Beal of Topsham Katherine Beal ex ecutrix and George J. Coombs executor for Bowdoin estates Charles W Pratt of Bath with Mary Pratt executrix. Administrations granted for Jeremiah Millay Bowdoinham Lida Baker and Fred H Ward of Topsham John Reed Woolwich Clara Reed. inventories and bonds approved for several estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahoc
Arthur H. Ben
Topsham
Katherine E. Beal
George J. Coombs
Bowdoin
Robert G Coombs
Charles W. Pratt
Bath
Mary Pratt
Sarah A. Davis
Lara D. Wright
Ella B Aderton
Bowdoinham
Frank B. Aderton
Alfred R. Ames
Isabelle C. Ames
Carroll Roberts
Georgetown
Girard Trust Co
Robi R Dechert
Katherine Elizabeth Beal
Flora C. Blanchard
Allan Spear
George L. Coombs
Robert G. Coombs
Fred H Ward
Harold S Ward
Eugene B. Webster
Edward W. Bridgham
Morse returns home after hospital operation
Sherman L Morse has returned home from Memorial Hospital after an operation several weeks ago and is recovering well and plans to be active soon. Squaw club met with Mrs Parker O Rogers hosting. next meeting at Mrs I A Trueworthy's home. Relatives note Mrs Leon Pennell and her grandson Norman Merritt McCabe visited Freeport. George Merritt attended Abram C Oliver’s funeral in Freeport. Edwin B Hunt’s death noted in Garwood New Jersey with local ties to Winnegance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman L. Morse
Memorial Hospital
Squaw Club
Parker O. Rogers
I. A. Trueworthy
Leon Pennell
High Street
Norman Merritt McCabe
Freeport
George Merritt
Portland
Abram C. Oliver
George Dennison
Bath couple return from Caribbean cruise aboard Kungsholm
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Drake described a lively voyage starting March 25 from New York on the Swedish American liner Kungsholm. Highlights included calls at Port-au-Prince Havana and Kingston with cultural outings, daily entertainments, and seven daily meals plus a stop in quarantine on arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Vermont
Sweden
United States of America
Hon
J. Edward Drake
Kungsholm
New York
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Jematen
Ait
Kingston
Ertat
Bournemouth
Former Bath Girl Wins Movie Contract
An Associated Press dispatch from Hollywood reports Miss Iva Stewart, formerly of Bath, signed a movie contract. Stewart, a former telephone operator and Woolworth’s employee, has modeled in Chesterfield ads and is daughter of Mrs. Celia Stewart of Hartford Connecticut and Crescent Beach Rockland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Hollywood
Iva Stewart
Miss Stewart
Woolworth’s
Bath
Chesterfield
Celia Stewart
Hartford
Elizabeth Palmer
Greencastle
Ind
Maine
Hebron
Irma Wilson
Brooklyn
New York
Naval man arrives Wednesday by plane in Bath
Harold Gailey chief electrician's mate U S naval arrived in Bath by plane Wednesday afternoon for duties on the new naval ferry Aquidneck returning to Bath Iron Works Tuesday night after tests over the Rockland course. Gailey flew from Newport naval station to Bath landing at 12 15 and was met by a boat from the Iron Works. Manford Francis of Old Town arrived Monday to visit his uncle Wesley Simpson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gailey
U.S. N
Bath
Bath Iron Works Corp
Mr. Gailey
Naval Station
Newport
R 1
Kennebec
Iron Works
Manford Francis
Old Town
Wesley Simpson
Wesley Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pompey’s
Cape of Good Hope
America
Europe
Caesar
Beacon Jesters
Phippsburg
Popham Beach
Audubon Society
Africa
Lesh Bowie
Helena Oliver of
Sprieville
Lfe
Stockholm
Florence S. Holmstrom
Cony
Zonta Club
Inez IL
Genthner
Chapel Street
Jennie Crocker
Pejepscot
Mal
Glidden
Mary (Maria) Tarbox Graves
Helen Louise Beauchesne
Mary A. Wilson
Joseph H. Wilson
Annie M. McMahan
Leslie G Ainley
Frederick E. Whitmore
William L. Skelton
Edwin B Hunt
Garwood
N. J
Havana
Mort Casil
Interes
Drakes
Columbus Cathedral
Prado
Maine Monument
President's Palace
Milan
Vedade
Tropical Gardens
Capt. Kidd
Howard Marsh
Gardiner
Logsees
Henry Ford
Portland Cement Association
Madison Ave
New York, N.Y
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