Civil Service announces age limits for Navy Yard groups
The Civil Service Commission fixes age limits due to the emergency for Navy Yard Groups I II and III in Boston Portsmouth Newport. Group I laborers janitors etc 15 years up, Group II apprentices ship fitters machinists 15 years up, Group III 18 years up. Labor Board established at Navy Yard Boston, Portsmouth and Newport. Information at the Labor Board offices. Secretary B H Coughlin Bath Maine.
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United States Civil Service Commission
IIT
Navy Yard
Boston
Mass
Portsmouth
N. H
Naval Station
Newport
R. I
Office of Board of Examiners
Custom House
Bath
B. H. Coughlin
Old Bath ship Governor Robie tale recalls maritime days
Jonathan Little recounts the Governor Robie, a Bath built clipper from 1883, its coal laden voyage to Portland, later adventures under Captain Bill Blanchard of Searsport, reef grounding off Timber Island, rescue efforts, and the rise of steam and barge conversions.
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Jonathan Little
Governor Robie
William Rogers
Biddeford
Portland Harbor
Fred Robie
Sullivan Street
Bacon
Water Streets
Hooper
Liberty
Main Street
Franklin
Gorham
Portland
First National Bank
Maine
Granger
Robie
Searsport
New York
Horn
Frisco
San Francisco
Bill Blanchard
Cap'n
Bill
Cap'n Bill
East Indies
Maine Paper Mills
Timber Island
Biddeford Pool
Cap’n
Charles Curtis
Curtis Point
Mr. Curtis
Blaine
Cleveland
United States
Charles
Enoch Curtis
Cape Porpoise
Amos Nichols
Far East
Pacific Coast
Seven Seas
Veteran Shipwright William Davis to celebrate 90th birthday
Maine maritime figure William Davis of East Deering plans a June 90th birthday. A master joiner, he spent years in Bath Wiscasset and Portland, repairing ships including the City of Portland. He worked for International Line and Barteland Steamship, retiring from the Navy’s aviation program notes.
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William Davis
East Deering
Maine
Davis
Bath
Wiscasset
Portland
Portland Express
Durham
John Swett
John Randall
Randall and McAllister
City of Portland
Mr. Davis
Eastport
New England
St. John
New Brunswick
New York
International Line
Bsrtland Steamship Company
Charles W. Morse
Coielay Ske
Boston
International Steamship Company
Bay State
Cape Shore
Joseph
Sally
Vining) Davis
Isaac Davis
Ann Doughty
Windham
Effie
Herbert
Velzora
South Portland
Lucretia Rook Robinson
Steamship Company
Aviation Branch Seeks Navy Observers for Squantum Training
Young men join the Nava Reserve Aviation program with June first as the start date for basic timber at Squantum field. The Navy Aviation Corps seeks expert observers for artillery and engineering roles with college men preferred and a demand for proven flyers.
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Aviation Department
Uncle Sam
Aviation
Naval Reserve
Squantum
Naval Aviation
Pensacola
Florida
Coast Defense Patrol
Coast Patrol
New England
Charlestown Navy Yard
Teeming Navy Yard
Nava
Navy Aviation Corps
New York book dealer Kellogg Trowbridge estate valued at $1.56 million
The estate of Frederick Kellogg Trowbridge, banker and book collector, died June 25 1916 in New York, was appraised at $1,563,215 with library items and rare volumes among $142,152 in personal effects. Major bequests include cash to wife and son, gifts to the Church of the Epiphany and several institutions. He was known as a summer resident on New Meadows Maine estate.
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Frederick Kellogg Trowbridge
Vermilye & Co
New York
Shakespeare
London
J. G. Whittier
Pepys
Lord Braybrooke
Pickwick
Oliver Twist
Thomas Gray
Isaac Jaggard
Ed Blount
John Smethwick
Jean Grolier
Erasmus
Thackery
Eliot
America
Cambridge
Church of the Epiphany
Episcopal
Trowbridge
New Meadows
Conant
Maine
Costly Collection Practice Sparks Stamp Ballet
A Bathman received a four cent bill from an out of town firm for a year’s balance. He sent four cents in stamps and later got a receipt. He calculated the postage costs: two cents to mail the bill, two cents to send the stamps, and two cents for the receipt, totaling six cents to settle a four cent debt.
Efficient billing by check receipts cuts postage waste
Ada Negri notes how a clerk reduced mailing costs by using check receipts. The method, inspired by New England Telephone, adds slips on bills and returns payments with minimal paper. The system saves two cents per bill and supports the idea that a cleared check is a perfect receipt. Edna Worthley Underwood is cited as author.
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New England Telephone Company
Ada Negri
Edna Worthley Underwood
D. Howard Spear
Bath
Poems From The Plains Show Her Versatility
Literary notes praise the author for verse of equal quality to her prose. Songs from the Plains is described as spontaneous and objective in vision, with sketches of New Orleans Kansas City and portraits of Rachel and Kubelik shaping vivid scenes. The work reflects linguistic mastery and exposure to modern and ancient literatures.
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Plains
New Orleans
Kansas City
Rachel
Kubelik
Italy
Early Bath churches and their building dates
A historical list of church structures in Bath with construction years from 1756 to 1856. It notes seven to ten congregations including New Church, Universalist, Old North, Wes ley, Beacon, Grace, Free Baptist, Elm, Weeks, and St. Mary's, plus later enlargements and fires.
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Winter St
High Sts
West Bath
Bath
Wesley
Commercial St
J. R. Day
Beacon St
Central
Grace Church
Oak and
Middle Sts
Summer St
Morse
Free Baptist
North St
Elm St
Weeks St
St. Mary’s
Maine Bible Society maps religious groups by township splits
A Bible Society chart maps Maine townships and unorganized areas showing church privilege and denominational split. Figures list Adventist 4170 Baptist 39538 Catholic 31380 Congregational 23250 Episcopal 6390 Methodist 32638 Presbyterian 1207 Universalist 12067 No Preference 24487 plus other categories.
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Maine
The
Bible Society
Episcopal
Friends i
Methodist
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Winter St. Church
Crockett and Smith
Woodsum
N. E. Coffin
Miss Crosman
W. Nelson
Mr. White
God
Roscoe McFadden
Mr. Austin
Red Cross
Dorothy Welch
George McFadden
Rebecca Bowker
Millicent Clifford
Randall Cook
Lydia Tracy
Butterfly
Bernice Sturtevant
Edna Wilson
Lena Trott
Mae Congdon
Nellie Congdon
Harriet Henderson
Beulah Withee
Trish
Wilhelmina Aherns
Arthur Colby
Byron Smith
Hatch
Frances Lord
Janet Cutler
Evelyn Lightbody
Virginia Cowles
Ralph Dunton
Ada Russ
Hodgkins
Arthur Crockett
Miss Brown
Mary Day
Carrie Crockett
Ruth Skillings
Chester Marr
William J. Cartmill
Y.M.C.A
South Grammar Schools
A. W. Colby
Gardiner
A. C. Colby
Washington St
Walter S. Glidden
Supreme Court
Auburn
Rogers
Waldo County
Willard Mudgett
Norfolk
Bangor
New York Harbor
the Aviation
Naval Reserve Service
Sss
Si—Niéwstit
Royal
Copenhagen
James F. Will Co
Brunswick
NEW Church
Herbert L. Lord of
Maine Kent’s Hill ‘Alumni Association
Falmouth
Milton Trott
North Grammar School
Ellen Turner
Texas Club
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