Bath Daily Times 1889 Forty Years Ago April 17 1889
Langdon T Snipe from Yale returns home for a week of leave. The Kennebec steamer beam and connecting rods are installed. Gas pipes to be laid on Dummer street. Capt Gibbons to be succeeded by Capt Starkey. The South End fish market changes hands. Street work on Union Street progresses. Bath ball grounds season opener planned against Portland Maine League. Union Rank of K of P hosts social at Acadia hall with music and dancing.
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Langdon T. Snipe
Yale University
T. P. Gibbons
John R. Kelley
William H. Starkey
Bath
The
Baths
Portlands
Maine League
Postmaster Nichols Heads to Portland by Eleven O'clock Train
The eleven o'clock train to Portland carried Postmaster Nichols today. Large bonfires lit the southern city horizon last night as eggs sold for 12 cents at several retailers. Hens are laying well while law and order seem tight in Bath. Forward blockings of the Morse barge required extensive shoveling to make space.
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Nichols
Portland
Local Notes From Bath And Vicinity In April 1889
April 20 1889 reports painters changing Page block exterior on Front Street and arrivals aboard the Star including Will Turner of Somerville Mass. Knox Lincoln Railroad directors meet. Varney’s new saw mill will expand Bath North plant lumber capacity. U S buoy boat up river to Maine Central wharf to set down buoys. Bay Bridge spring inspection by Bibber and Purington. Twenty tons pig iron for Bath Iron Works arrives by rail and moves to the works. Supreme Court deems beans vegetables not fruit. Y M C A to meet at 4 30 pm in Winter Street chapel with W R Comer conducting. Captain Collins resigns Star of the East, a gold headed cane shown as tribute. Red Men of Bath hosted in Lewiston, Bath warriors return midnight by special train.
Concert charms Brunswick citizens and fund meeting planned
On April 22 1889 a Brunswick band concert drew many residents. A meeting of Park fountain fund subscribers is set for this evening in the common council room. A 800 ton salt cargo bound for Houghton Bros. arrives at port from Turk Island. A Christian Endeavor union gathering will take place at Winter Street church Tuesday evening. Victor Richardson resumes studies at Gray's Business College in Portland and will spend Sundays in town. Universalist society May Day entertainment at the Alameda promises a good show. Many locals travel to New York for Washington’s inauguration centennial celebration. The park pond frog returns, heard by Sunday wanderers. High school entertainment seats are selling rapidly.
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Park Fountain Fund
City Firms Plan Lighting and Public Works
Electrician Larrabee advances wiring for city hall incandescent lighting as arc lights prepare to illuminate the hall. A charity baseball game between Baths and Portlands is set for next Thursday at Lincoln Street grounds to aid local youth. Public buildings committee reviews City Hall renovations with several plans discussed and another meeting planned. A small fire at Dunning’s Center street home was contained by quick action and Luce’s assistance. Night weather turned cold with a NW wind dropping temps to freezing. fruit trees showed early injury from frost.
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Larrabee
City Hall
Baths
Portlands
Lincoln
George A. Dunning
Center Street
Smith to share honors with Catholic elect
Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate last fall, will receive the Laetare medal from the University of Notre Dame. The award honors a lay Catholic of the United States who has achieved distinction reflecting glory on the Catholic faith. Past recipients include warriors, statesmen, writers, jurists, orators, and actress Margaret Anglin.
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South Bend
Ind
Alfred E. Smith
University of Notre Dame
United States
Margaret Anglin
Study Forestry in West
All Pacific Northwest states provide technical forestry training at state institutions. The schools are well placed for practical work and offer strong facilities for technical instruction.
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Pacific Northwest States
New Cruiser to Be Eye of Fleet for Navy
The Navy plans 10,000 ton heavy cruisers as fast long range ships to guard commerce and scout for battleships. Pensacola and Salt Lake City lead, each with ten 8 inch guns in three turrets. Ships will displace about 11,568 tons at sea, speed 32.5 knots, geared turbine power, and light alloy bulkheads to save weight.
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Pensacola
Salt Lake City
Wyoming
Washington
Sagadahoc Probate Notices and Estate Filings in Bath
A dense compendium of probate notices from Sagadahoc County Bath detailing executors and trustees for estates including Celia E. Lincoln Henry L Adams and Charles Rideout among others. Appointments and first final accounts are set with court dates in May 1929 and related inheritance tax determinations.
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Beal Bath
Doe
Manly
Sur
Charles
Low
Touring Car Backs Through Show Window at Pluming Shop
A Buick touring car driven by Byron Pottle backed into a vacant Washington street spot and crashed through a large plate glass window and frame post in Harry Huse's plumbing shop while attending a Sunday Opera House show. Car accelerated stuck. window spaces boarded up. glass insured.
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Byron Pottle
Spring Street
Harry Huse
Washington Street
Pottle
Opera House
Great Forests of the Pacific Coast
Coast forests north of San Francisco display unrivaled density and majesty. Mild, humid climate west of the Cascade and Coast Ranges fosters exceptional growth with Sequoias leading, while Douglas firs Sitka spruces and giant arbor vitae follow in size across Oregon and Washington.
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San Fransisco
Cascade and
California
Luther Burbank Improves Gladiolus Varieties in California
The piece notes that gladiolus improvement in America began around 1870 with the first American seedling. After years of work, Luther Burbank introduced a superior strain in 1890, twelve years of experiments yielding larger flowers that endure California sunlight.
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Burbank
America
Luther Burbank
California
Will and heirs listed for Maine estate probate hearing
The document outlines an estate matter in Sagadahoc Maine where Herbert L Simpson of Brunswick seeks administration with will annexed for a deceased relative. He lists heirs such as Mollie Staples and Carlos French, notes the executrix is deceased, and requests appointment on May seventh 1929 after notice and publication.
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Herbert L. Simpson
Brunswick
Sagadahoc
Augusta A. Simpson
West Bath
E L. Tarr
Arrowsic
Leeosa
Rufus P. Stinson
George L. Tarr
Afred L. Stinson
Arrowsie
Mae Oo
Bagadahoc
F. Stinson
Said
Charles_E. Stinson
Bath
Susan G. Mitchell
Sousitt
Carrie P
Georgetown
Jessie F. Eaton
George
John
J. Harris
Amelia Ee
J Man
See
Adahoc
Amelia
Gorman
gDrannay
Gisbe
Moilie Staples
Carlos French
Stari Ec
Petition Notice and Sworn Statement from 1928 Proceedings
A sworn statement affirms the truth of the petition on file. The order directs publication in an independent newspaper for three weeks. The court sets a May 6, 1929 deadline for interested parties to appear and show cause why the prayer should not be granted. Attested by P. Dunham, deputy.
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Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
Nigers
Joseph M. Trott
Celia E. Lincoln
Bathin
Sagadghoc
State OF Maine
Charles J. Dain
Jennie
Rideout
Charles F. Rideout
Walter
Sagadahogc
Edith Lemont
Admx
Mason M. Lemont
Ida F. Lemont
Pen
M. Leonard
William T. Holy
William F. Dunham
Eset
Della T. Adams
Henry L. Adams
Independent
Ivdy
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Man
Toner
Glidden
Adahoc
Edward W. BE
Baw Independent
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Cocenae
Bath Independent
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Lemont
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M. Lemont
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Segadanoc
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Lowance
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E. Perkins
Charles M
Segad
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Paulie Beal
Ofr
P. J Fe
A.D
Petter
Attes
P. Dunham
Tate
M . the
M. Trott
H. J
Jose
Bald County
Unty
A. D
Ted
S. Glinden
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