Washington Farewell Insight and War-Era Farming Call
The piece recalls Washingtons Farewell Advice to avoid permanent alliances and rely on temporary ties for extraordinary emergencies. It cites Ambassador Gerards account of German war crimes, linking them to the war being fought for liberty. It urges farmers to maximize production and every backyard garden to counter high markets and food shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allances
Washington
Europe
United States
Waste and extravagance threaten war effort
The article argues every person must curb waste and excess to aid the United States and its allies against Germany. It links overeating and excessive dress to harming food supplies, insisting wasteful habits of plenty must end to strengthen national resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Germany
Shipping Warnings at Kennebec and Atlantic Harbors
Ships entering and leaving the Kennebec and other key Atlantic harbors must observe proper signals and protocols or risk being fired upon as suspicious craft. Authorities warn mariners to adhere to the rules to avoid interception or damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Atlantic
Bath Opera House Mass Meeting Urges National War Efforts
The Home Gardening Committee urges citizens to grow food to ease shortages and bolster the war effort. It condemns selective service as unfair and supports universal draft with no substitutes, while praising Goethals and the Flying Corps for aiding liberty. Bath plans a large Sunday mass meeting at the Opera House to voice patriotic resolve.
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Bath
War Department enlistment terms to end after war
The War Department announced that Regular Army and National Guard enlistments made now and since the war began will be held only for the period of the war. Veterans will serve active duty for the war duration and then return to civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Regular Army
National Guard
Navy on the job as advanced line of defense
The public learns little of naval movements but is assured the fleet is active and performing efficient service as the front line of defense. Dispositions and locations remain undisclosed, yet the public can rely on the Navy being on task.
British success in France shows two-year army build
The piece argues that American strength depended on two years of preparing an army capable of performing required operations seen in France last summer and this spring. It highlights the link between prolonged preparation and effective service by allied forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
France
War humor cited as submarines loom next summer
An editorial note mocks wartime attitudes toward Germany while predicting submarine thrills at beaches next season. An advertisement promotes Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil with two sizes 25c and 50c at all drug stores.
Sagadahoc County Grange to Hear Mrs Tilton StinsonSpeak
Mrs Winona Tilton Stinson secretary of the National Service League will address Sagadahoc County Pomona Grange at the regular monthly meeting next Wednesday April 25 in the afternoon The Pomona program includes opening and closing rites readings vocal solos a duet and a discussion on fertilizer costs with local Grange entertainment by West Bath Grange and Sisters Rogers and Peterson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona Tilton Stinson
National Service League
Sagadahoc County
Pomona Grange
Pinson
Alvah Donnell
Carolyn
Tops ham Grange Holds April Meeting Involves Dues Vote
At the Tops ham Grange regular meeting on April 7 one membership application was presented. The group defeated a State Grange resolution to raise dues from four to five cents a quarter, deeming it harmful to the order. A flag display rule was approved for peace time. Mrs. A T Bickford led a program with vocal music, a potato disease discussion, a question on postwar commercial advantages, a farce performed by Marion and Berniece Nicoll, recitations by Ethel Cushman, and patriotic songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsham Grange
State Grange
A- T. Bickford
Grange
Charles Given
Will Noyes
J. P. Hayward
Fred Rackley
Neil Hall
Ralph Mallett
Arthur Barrett
Marion
Berniece Nicoll
Ethel Cushman
America
West Bath Grange Advances Nine Candidates in April Work
Despite rough weather on April 9 West Bath Grange met in good numbers and conferred the first two degrees on nine candidates while one applicant was received for degrees. The third and fourth degrees are planned for Monday evening April 23. Efficient degree work is noted by the group. Preparation continues for the County Pomona meeting at West Bath on Wednesday April 25.
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West Bath Grange
County Pomona
West Bath
Ferry hearing set on April 24 for Merrymeeting Bay routes
Sagadahoc County Commissioners announce a Tuesday hearing at Bath Court House to discuss establishing a ferry across Merrymeeting Bay. Residents may share views on tolls hours of service and other details to improve travel between Bath and distant parts of the county.
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Merrymeeting Bay
Sagadahoc
Court House
Bath
Bowdoin student mustered into Maine Coast Artillery Corps
N Hamilton Foster of Newcastle a Bowdoin student was listed as the 85th man in the 4th Company of the Maine Coast Artillery Corps. The article notes local church services, highway work on the Bath to Brunswick route, and Bowdoin students ordered by the Navy Department to report for seaman training at Portsmouth Navy Yard. It also mentions a shad scale coin plug incident on an automatic line and conductors lacking change under the new system.
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N. Hamilton Foster
Newcastle
Bowdoin
Maine Coast Artillery Corps
Clarence M. Fogg
Corliss Street
Winneganee
T. N. Kewley
Ham’s Hill
Bath
Brunswick
Navy Department
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Arthur Sewall
Oliver Moses
A. Shirley Grey
Portland
Herman A. Young
Peabody
Mass
John W. Thomas
Evanston
William F. Martin
Lexington
Jacob B
Obituary for Charles F. Foster 60 at Clifton Street home
Charles F. Foster aged 60 years 10 months and 24 days died Monday at his home 11 Clifton Street. Funeral from the residence Wednesday at two. Born in Wiscasset son of William and Bertha Foster. Lived in Chelsea Mass 32 years worked on Chelsea Ferry. Moved to this city three years ago. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs. George E. Barker and Mrs. Blanche Pendleton and two sons Frank C. Foster and Charles F. Foster.
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Charles F. Foster
Clifton St
Wiscasset
William
Bertha Foster
Chelsea
Mass
George E. Barker
This City
Blanche Pendleton
Hartford
Mrs. Robert W. Donnell Dies After Illness
Grace L. Donnell aged 49 wife of Robert W. Donnell died Saturday at her North Bath home after a two week pneumonia illness. native of the city she was daughter of William and Ezelda Wright Edgeley and survived by her husband nine children and one brother in Augusta. Funeral was held this afternoon with Rev. C. M. Fogg officiating. Interment in the family cemetery in West Bath.
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Grace L. Donnell
Robert W. Donnell
North Bath
William and
Ezelda Wright Edgeley
Augusta
C. M. Fogg
Corliss Street
West Bath
Portland Area News and Maritime Charters Update
Mr and Mrs Merritt of Sebasco visit Portland. Ninth graders plan April 27 entertainment at Morse Assembly Hall. Boston Pullman restored to service at 10 p m. Mrs Gaudreau and son return to Portland from visit with J G Parris. Sedgwick Circle met at G A R Hall for an all day session with a tacking bee and picnic. Harry A March and his Musical Merry Makers perform after touring Augusta. Marshal Wallace warns owners to contain roaming hens under penalty of prosecution. Fred Billings, master joiner, visits Boothbay Harbor schooner under construction. Clergy changes: Rev T N Kewley and Rev C W Harrison to continue pastorates. district superintendents named. Municipal Court fines two gallons of liquor to Brackley. libel costs imposed. case appealed. New England vessel owners charter ongoing trade including Malcolm Baxter Jr to load cargo for Italy. Edward R Smith to load coal for Point a Pitre. Sadie C Sumner chairs lumber voyage to Martinique.
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Freeman H. Merritt
Sebasco
Portland
Morse Assembly Hall
Boston
E. L. Gaudreau
J. G. Parris
Upper
Washington St
Sedgwick Circle
G.A. R. Hall
Harry A. March
Merry Makers
Augusta
Marshal Wallace
Times
Fred Billings
Boothbay Harbor
T. N. Kewley
Beacon St. M. E
C. W. Harrison
Wesley M. E
J. M. Frost
Wilmot P. Lord
D. B. Holt
Auburn
Keegan
George Brackley
Brackley
Thomas Sullivan
Norfolk
Point-a- Pitre
Sadie C. Sumner
Gulf
Martinique
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills: a tonic combo
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla for rheumatism dermatitis and other illnesses from impure blood and weak systems. It claims doubled effectiveness with Pepticon or Peptiron Pills as a post meal and pre meal regimen to treat anemia nerves insomnia and exhaustion. Thousands are using these medicines and a family should as well.
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Hood
Eo Hood
Local Jottings From Portland and Gardiner Notices
Frank Hawkes died Saturday in Portland. Mrs. Eric Haggett and daughter Evelyn returned from a three weeks visit with her sister in Dorchester. Judge Sanford L. Fogg spoke at a patriotic mass meeting in Gardiner. R W Conforth lent the Maine flag for decoration at Winter St Church for a women’s mass meeting. Delegates attended the State convention of postal clerks in Augusta. Conforth began installing electric, elevator, fire alarm, and telephone systems at the Old Folks Home in the South End. A group from Dunlap Commandery attended St Albans Commandery in Portland for annual inspection with a banquet.
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Frank Hawkes
Portland
Eric Haggett
Evelyn
Edward Pennell
Dorchester
Sanford L. Fogg
Augusta
Gardiner
Coliseum
R. W. Conforth
State of Maine
National League For Woman’s
Winter St
Percy & Small
Code Flags
William J. Perry
Miss Lily
Pray
Milton H. Douglas
United National Association of Post Office Clerks
Maine
South End
C. A. Peaslee
A. E. Bishop
Benjamin Murray
Sewall Strout
A. L. Strout
Frank Clark
H. A. Walters
Dunlap Commandery
K. T
St. Albans Commandery
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Bath, Me
Gerard
England
Italy
Russia
Bath Committee On Public Safety
Chicago Board of Trade
Hapsburg
Flying Corps
Coast Artillery
Coast
Mr. Wilson
Gyethals
Continental Ridge
Goethals
Pomona
Belle Donnell
Belle Rackley
Addie Purington
Hope Ward
Margaret Peterson
Castoria
Fletcher
F.S.- Curtis
Centre Street
Exmbalmer Telephone Collection
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Room
Sagadahock Block
Chichester S
A. B. Watson
Union Street
Pateers
Maine Central Railroad
Otekeachan
Cyrus W. Longley
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