Acres of Untilled Land for Food Crops in Phippsburg
In Phippsburg vast tracts of ledge country lie idle while farmers hear talk of a professional farming future. The piece urges soil knowledge and timely planting to double yields, cites State Extension input, and contrasts with wartime anxieties. Local notes mention residents, fires, and visits.
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Phippsburg
Boston Herald
New England
Shaw
Shaws
Henry Butler
John Eastman
Bath
Carrie Hodgman
W. R. Dickinson
Mel Drummond
Woolwich
Puddle Town
Johnny Frog
Walter Small
Parker Head
Chaffee Bros. Portab
Bath Women Promise Broad War Service at Patriot Meeting
A Bath mass meeting at Winter Street Church drew about 700 women, largest Bath contingent, to hear Mme James de Gogorza and national league speakers. The event promoted the National League for Woman's Service, Red Cross cooperation, and urged registration and organized volunteer work.
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Winter Street
Bath
National League For Woman’s Service
State of
Mme
Eames de Gogorza
Winona Tilton Stinson
David L. Wilson
National League
Mme. Eames
America
Tose
James de Gogorza
Mme Eames
Times Office
Red Cross
League
England
Beth
Maine
Stinson
Wireless Sealed on Vessels Entering Kennebec Port
Commandant McColé ordered all merchant ships entering the Kennebec River to seal their wireless gear and for masters to sign agreements not to use wireless in port. Coastwise communications at sea should be minimal, reporting sighted warships or distress signals. Boston authorities then extended the rule to ban handling commercial messages in the First Naval District and seal wireless on ships at port.
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McColé
The
Coast Defense Naval Pa
Kennebec River
Boston
Mass
First Naval District
Pole and Flag For Government Building
Rep Wallace White Jr informs that the Treasury Department will call for bids on a flag pole for the government building and will provide a flag once the pole is erected. The note follows a prior letter from White about the missing flag on the building.
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F. H. Percy
Wallace H. White, Jr
Congress
Treasury
Aes
Washington
Local Jottings and Notices from Augusta and Nearby
Local items note the death of L A Burleigh Jr a naval coast patrol radio operator in Augusta and a grandson of Sen Edward C Burleigh. Also updates from the Maine Methodist Conference appointment of Rev Frank C Potter to Trinity M E Knightville and ship news of Topaz VII sold to H S Houpt New York with launch planned for late May. Additionally a Maine attorney general opinion warns on explosive law Chapter 288 penalties.
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New Moon
L. A. Burleigh, Jr
Naval Coast Patrol
Augusta
Edward C. Burleigh
Ladies of March
Merry Makers
Mme. Eames
Texas Club
Perry Sanford
Herbert Huggard
R. C. Stevens
Marguerite Mitchell
Westbrook
Frank C. Potter
Wesley M. BE
Trinity M. E. Church
Knightville
Potter
Wiscasset
F. F. Pendleton
C. W. Clifford
H. S. Houpt
New York
E. E. Pennington
Squirrel Island
Guy H. Sturgis
Portland
Maine
Frank W. Ball
Dover
A Trip Around the World By Carolyn Wesson Bongartz
A travel narrative begins in Boston as a start for a world tour. The author notes friends offering good wishes with flowers gifts and telegrams. Mt Tamalpais provides scenic views while a nighttime Chinatown tour with a guide is described as necessary after 1906 earthquake rebuilding.
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Carolyn Wesson
Bongartz
Boston
Mt. Tamalpais
Chinatown
Grand Pacific Voyage From Chicago to Honolulu Chronicle
The narrator recounts a long train journey aboard the California Limited from Chicago to San Francisco, sharing incidents of theft suspicion, travel across deserts and mountains, and arrival in San Francisco. They describe Oakland Berkeley Alameda and a San Francisco welcome with Brigadier General Wisser, then a Pacific crossing toward Honolulu with mayoral reception, leis, and Hawaiian highlights including Pearl Harbor and Waikiki Beach.
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California
Chicago
San Francisco
Alberqueqie
Aica
Alkali Desert
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Table Lands
Barstow
Mohave Desert
Sierra Nevadas
Coast Range
Richmond
Fairmount Hotel
Bay
Alameda
Oakland
Berkeley
California University
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Presidio
Wisser
Golden Gate Park
Bois de Boulogne
Paris
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Eer
Boxer
Penn
Wyman
Center
Slade
Medford
Henry York
Mrs. York
Frank Schofield
Cox’s Head
Schofield
Grace Percy
West Pownal
Eric Carlson
Carlson
Brooklyn
Joseph Perkins
Howard Spinney
James
Popham
Joseph Hennessey
Virginia
Popham Cottage
Horace Morse
the Bath Trust Company
Center Street
Bath, ME
Ohn M Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Great West
Hawaii
Buffalo
Custom House
Golden Gate
Jules Verne
Mer
Honolulu
Fern
Pearl Harbor
Diamond Head
Wikiki Beach
Naples
Hawaiian
Mt. Pali
Hamburg-American Line
Cleveland
Johnson Bros. CO
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