Modern Sailors Carry On Old Sea Traditions Across Oceans
The piece argues that American merchant seamen now match the old iron men of sail in skill and courage. It cites rescues by modern ships like the Florida and the America, notes that Americans perform half of Atlantic rescues, and details paths to officer ranks through naval, coast guard, and nautical-schools programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
New England
Neptune
Exeter City
Florida
America
Atlantic Ocean
George Fried
Harry Manning
Giles Stedman
Paul Glening
Manhattan
Worcester
Mass
Navy
Merchant Marine
Stedman
West Quincy
Coast Guard
Harvard University Nautical School
Fried
New York State Nautical School
Paul Groning
President Harding
Ignazio Florio
Samuels
Modern State Nautical Academy
James Harvey Tomb
New York State Merchant Marine Academy
Tomb
California
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York State
Merchant Marine Academy
Gore
United States Naval Institute
F. F. Cross
Cross
Poor Department Confronts Aid Fraud and Car Abuse
The Poor department under Supt Sidney L Paton battles irregularities in aid checks and car use. A man claimed car ownership by relatives and attempted to take $2 weekly aid for feeding children while grandmothers confirmed support. The case involved alcohol, licensing twists, and threats of court action to halt payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney L. Paton
Eaton
Portland
Bath area residents visit friends and mourns a New Jersey death
Multiple Bath residents and visitors are listed visiting relatives in Bath including Mrs. Katharine Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. George Ingalls. obituaries note the death of Walter Hutchins of Lyndhurst New Jersey, with burial at Oak Grove after funeral services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Young
Phyllis
Katharine Johnson
Bath
Martha Small
Popham Beach
Allan Kaler
R. F. Campbell
Swanton Wyman
Wilbur
Raymond Wyman
George Larrabee
F. S. Sawyer
Ernest Rogers
Dromore
Francis Merrill
George Ingalls
Gilbert
Edith Atwood
Augusta Campbell
Morse High
Lillian Parks
Doris Perry
Harry Lester
New York
J. Lester Morse
Harry Gilmore
Walter Hutchins
Lynbrcook
N. J
Hutchins
Meadowbrcook
Levi
Mary J. Hutchins
Martha Cutting Hutchins
Stanley
Ruth Grevers
Charles
Charles L. Wilson
Arthur F. Mayo
Oak Grove
Resurrection Sunday at Nazare ne Church Celebrates
Sunday at Naz arene Church featured a morning Resurrection sermon by Rev. Howard P. Jett and a large evening concert by the Sunday school. Mrs. Jett led the concert committee, with Lester Lewis announcing program details and many named Sunday school leaders participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Nazarene Church
Howard P. Jett
Lewis
Jett 'Wilcome
Marjorie Fraser
May Totman
Edward Little Honor Students Named for 1896 Flood Echo
Girls hold the top ten averages for four years at Edward Little High School as Prin. C Herbert Taylor announces this year’s graduates. Pauline Turner is valedictorian and Evelyn Merrow salutarian with Byron Ames as top male student and class orator. Others include Thuth Clough Lillian Hobbs Fern Coombs Susan Bisbee Florence McGlinchey Frances Cartland Margaret Peacock Jeannette Levasseur and two 90+ averages Eudora Ashton Orris Walton. A flood history note recalls 1896 Maine floods with heavy February rain and March 1 three day downpour, flooding streams washing away mills and forcing residents from homes along the Saco River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Little High School
Prin. C. Herbert Taylor
Pauline Turner
Evelyn Merrow
Byron Ames
Thuth Clough
Lillian Hobbs
Fern Coombs
Susan Bisbee
Florence McGlinchey
Frances Cartland
Margaret Peacock
Jeannette Levasseur
Eudora Ashton
Orris Walton
Maine
Cornish
Portland Captain Presents Sea Mouse to Museum
Capt Eben R York of Portland donated a sea mouse Aphrodite Aculeata he dredged from the harbor bottom off Little Chebeague Island to the Portland Museum of Natural History. The specimen was collected during a coastal dredging trip and adds to the maritime natural history collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eben R. York
Portland
Portland Museum of Natural History
Little Chebeague Island
Winnegance Community News Highlights Local Happenings
A year into the causeway project contractor F W Carlton continues work while Carolyn Oliver trains at Boothbay Harbor hospital. Community events raise funds for the auxiliary and a village baseball team forms with field work planned at Morse field. Twilight games likely as weather allows and boat owners prep launches for spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Carlton
Carolyn Oliver
Boothbay Harbor
Winnegance
Squaw Club
Frank Perry
Augustus Small
John CG. Morse
John G. Morse
Augusta Viitors
Fhippsburg
Morse High Promises Excellent Wednesday Night Program
Morse high school presents Alumni Night with Les Camarades Musicaux and a Night Club miniature musical comedy. A 45-minute first half features solos duets and choruses, then the Night Club unit with 30 student chorus and celebrity sketches. The show includes Walter Winchinchin emcee and Betty crowd of performers plus special dance numbers and a George White Scandals influenced sketch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Camarades Musicaux
Morse High School
Carleton L. Rice
Fred K. Sturtevant
Weston P. Holman
Robert B. Hatch
Fred H. Cary
Allan H. Ramsay
George D. Field
Hibbert L. Norton
Frederick Edney
Francis S. McPherson
Cary E. Albee
Erts
New York
D. Joseph Doyie
Walter Winchinchin
Harold E. Cutting
James W. Temple
Russell M. Colby, Jr
Stanley Curtis
William “Joe” Grindell
Stanley Rogers
Mary Cunningham
Five Night Club Steppers
Katherine Dinsmore
Kathleen V. Leonard
William H. T. Gove
Jack Merrill
Phyllis Small
Mare Night Club
Tootis Horne
Dorothy A. Welch
Frances Shaughnessy
Leon Buck
Merton Sprague
Russell Colby
George White
Eugene M. Desmond
John H. Grindell
Grindell
Mary Kenney
Nelson Lowery
Margaret Austin
Jesse Levine
John Mullaney
Chester Leeman
Ernest Sarkis
Percival Black
Rodney Ross
Ruth Dale
Jane Donnell
Lois Swett
Betty Fuller
Catherine Hooper
Vernal Chaney
Carl Dearborn
Alfred Parks
Bertha Lord
Hope Rowe
Isabel Mackinnon
Wesley Marco
Louise Briggs
Easter Services Well Attended Despite Rain
Easter morning drew large congregations across Bath area churches. Wind and scattered showers teased worshipers as floral displays impressed attendees. Prof. Wilmot B. Mitchell of Bowdoin, ill, could not attend Winter Street church. Rev. Henry W. Webb of Wiscasset preached in his stead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmot B. Mitchell
Bowdoin College
Winter Street Church
E. D. Hardin
Bath
Henry W. Webb
Wiscasset
Sunrise Easter service on Park Sunday a great success
Despite bad weather over 100 people gathered for the Sunrise service as Easter day began. The Salvation Army band played. Capt. J C Miller led the service with Rev. Howard P Jett and Rev. Charles R Sims among others delivering prayers readings and hymns. The gathering included multiple church representatives and left attendees hopeful the service becomes a Bath tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
J.C. Miller
Howard P. Jett
The
Nazarene Church
Jet
Bath
F. L. Littlefield
Pas
Wesley Methodist Church Service Closes with Benediction
The service at Wesley Methodist Church concluded with the pronouncement of the benediction marking the formal close of worship for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Wesley Methodist Church
Easter Service Draws Dunlap Commandery to Central Church
Rain delayed a Dunlap Commandery march from the Masonic temple to Central Church for an Easter sermon by Rev. David L. Wilson Grand Prelate of the Grand Encampment of the United States. About 60 members attended with several past commanders and Right Eminent Sir Wallace N. Price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap
K. T
Masonic Temple
Central Church
United States
David L. Wilson
Wallace N. Price
Gardiner
Maine
Oscar F. Williams
Will T. Marr
Boothbay Harbor
Easter Concert at Corliss Street Church
Nearly 200 residents attended a Sunday evening Easter concert at Corliss Street church. Concert committee included Charice M Berry chair Frances Rand and Mildred Walker. Recitations and solos by local students and Rev Charles W Berry provided a varied program ending with an offering and violin solo Beautiful Garden of Prayer by Junior McPherson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street
Charice M. Berry
Frances Rand
Mildred Walker
Charles W. Berry
Yonder Hill
Doms Minns
Elaine Thackeray
Lawson Armstrong
Beulah Pratt
Philip Armstrong
Elizabeth Munsey
Edith Crocker
Robert Gilchrist
Junior McPherson
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C.t
U. S. Navy
Phippsburg
Emma King
Star
Roberta Lewis
Marion McCaclin
Paul Pinkham
Robert Pinkham
Clarence Warner
Almon Haley
Beulah Pinkham
Madeliene Haley
Ada Fraser
Adi Wiash
Ient
Patie
Ocytte Joseph Gill
Earth
Gwendolyn
Luella Lewis
Corinne Brawn
Marie Hamlin
Shirley Parshley
Marie Lewis
Edna Brawn Hoope
Maynard Pinkham
Arthur Warner
Victor Leask
Donald Knight
Ott
Annabell Lancaster
Lena Oliver
Rodney Lewis
Jett
Hazel Brann
Morse High Promises
Mr. McPherson
Mrs. Hatch
Mr. Sturtevant
Mr. Edney
TTC
Cel Noe Tree Ey Costa
Holman
Albee
Mr. Norton
McPherson
In the Heart of the Hills
Dorothy Lee
Sturtevant
Mrs. Cary
Rice
Mrs. Albee
Attila
Verdi
Hatch
Mr. Field
Mr. Ramsay
Cavalier
la Gioconda
Ponchielli
Vuee
Nutting
Cary
Ito Urvamtictionds
Sunrise and
Dunlap Commandery
Sunrise
Ruth King
Ria i Barbara Bracey
Dora Bridge
Earl Crocker
Viola Blethen
Mary McCabe
Ruth Clark
Sen
Violet McDorr
Freelind King
Catherine Crocker
Eleanor Munsey
Euster
Madelyn Oliver
Havel McCorr
Deletra Au
Ruth Kine
Eileen Piper
Heart of the
Lily
Burbara Jenkins
Euhi Morrist
Jesus
Dorothy _Calchrist
Hive
Risen Christ
Phyilis Horwert
Lone
Agu
Phitathenn Clas
Jennie Creteg
Midelyn Halvett
Genevieve Kaery
George Norman
Norman
Eity
Normith
Langdon Cree
Bie
A.D
E. S. Crosby Company
W. A. Furber
James B. Drake & Sons
J. Edw. Drake
Sidney L. Eaton
D. M. Humphreys
F. J. Hinckley
H. G. Hodgdon
Owen J. Ledyard
Harry E. Litchfield
C. H. Morse
Roger D. Skillings
H. T. Stevens
Fred H. Thompson
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