How to Beat the Homework Racketeers Warns Reader’s Digest
Ralph Lee Smith reports in Reader's Digest on home based scams that prey on shut ins veterans and workers. The piece cites a show-card scheme that drew 2 500 needy responses daily and netted half a million dollars before stopping. It also notes a Christmas card scheme that earned 100 000 dollars and warns readers to verify with the Better Business Bureau and Chamber of Commerce before starting a part time home business.
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Ralph Lee Smith
National Better Business Bureau
Reader's Digest
Post Office
Better Business Bureau
Federal Trade Commission
American Legion
Bureau
Small Business Administration
US Dept. of Commerce
Washington
D. C
The Persistence of United States Savings Bonds
In 1941 the government began selling Series E bonds to small investors with dual aims of financing defense and curbing inflation. Sixteen years later millions still buy bonds, drawn by safety, ease of payroll deduction, and the belief that saving supports the nation while yielding modest returns.
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United States Savings
United States
Stop Government Competition Bill Aims to Kick Government Firms Out
The proposal seeks to force federal agencies to exit any activities that compete with private, taxed enterprises. Backed by economy minded lawmakers, it faces strong union opposition and calls for broad public support to advance this session.
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Congress
Georgetown Church Sermon Opens Weekly Notes of Local Life
The Georgetown church featured a Sunday sermon titled Fight the good fight of faith with Rev. Warren Harris using First Timothy VI 12 and Romans XI 1 Romans VF 12. An announcements section records a Providence R I marriage of Sally Hulbert and Harold Black along with extensive personal items about visitors, absences, and local residents' goings and comings.
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Georgetown
Warren Harris
Timothy
Sally Hulbert
Harold Black
Providence
R. I
Marrtown Notes Highlight Summer Visitors and Local Sign Change
Marrtown residents report a flurry of visits from Massachusetts and New York, including the Spragues and Haley families. The Bath celebration of shipbuilding’s 350th anniversary draws several families homeward for a short stay and a return trip. A’Hern family vacationing in a summer house, plus updates on Mildred Reay and others, mark a busy community scene with a new street sign addition for the A’Hern name.
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Willard Sprague
Marrtown
Margaret Haley
Bernard
George
Paddy
New York
White Rocks
Richard Peterson
Betty
Leslie
Rodney
Richard
Chelmsford
Mass
Bath
America
William A'Hern
Pat
Massachusetts
Carl Rideout House
Anna Allen
Carl Nelson
Springfield
Clifton
Charles Benoit
Charles
Joseph
Willard Spragues
Honus Hicks
Newton
Robert Graffams
Portland
Mildred Reay
Bath Memorial Hospital
A’hern
Marrtown Road
Percy Lantz
Colewood
Ray B. Coles
Lakeland
Fla
Bath Iron Works reports six month ship income rises
Bath Iron Works Corp preliminarily reports six months ending June 30 income from shipbuilding and product sales of 22 276 019 versus 20 552 280 a year earlier. Net earnings after taxes are 1 110 515 or 2 65 per share vs 1 119 845 or 2 67 per share in 1956. Semi annual reports will be mailed to stockholders in about three weeks.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Dr Wilmert Wolf to Speak on Russia at Five Islands Church
Dr Wilmert Wolf of Naperville Ill will speak Sunday at 7 30 pm at the Five Islands Baptist church about his 40 day sojourn behind the Iron Curtain visiting Leningrad Voronezh Krasnodar Moscow Stalingrad Rostov Yalta Odersa and Kiev He will show photographs from Russia and speak after the talk.
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Wilmert Wolf
Naperville
Ill
Iron Curtain
Russia
Wolf
Leningrad
Voronezh
Krasnodoer
Moscow
Stalingrad
Rostov
Yalta
Odersa
Kiev
St Marys Field Days Kick Off Colonial Anniversary Events
The 350th shipbuilding anniversary observance at St Marys marks a two day program at the church grounds. Friday features baby registration and contest events, an Indian Dance by Chief Tanaka of the Sioux from South Dakota, and gala midway attractions. Saturday offers children’s activities, a 15 kilometer road race, a bean and ham supper, and musical entertainment by Jimmy Footer and his band along with more midway games.
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America
St. Mary's
Church Grounds
Tanaka
South Dakota
New England Amateur Athletic Union
Brunswick
Bath
St. Mary's Church
Jimmy Footer
Engaged: Miss Estelle Fatum to Lt. Thomas King in Kingston
Mr and Mrs John H Fatum of Kingston announce the engagement of their daughter Estelle to Lt C Thomas King US Army son of Mr and Mrs Marc N King of 23 Bedford Street The couple’s plans include a August 18 wedding at St James Methodist Church Kingston NY Estelle Fatum is a senior at Boston University majoring in music education and a concert soloist King recently completed Officers Candidate School at Fort Bliss TX and will serve in Germany this fall
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John H. Fatum
Kingston
N. Y
Estelle
C. Thomas King
U.S Army
Marc N. King
Bedford Street
Fatum
Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts
Musse
Mu Phi Epsilon
King
Boston University College of Liberal Arts
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Fort Bliss
Texas
Germany
St. James Methodist Church
Obituary Chester A Plant 71 Bath auto dealer dies
Chester A Plant 71 longtime Bath auto dealer and former alderman died after a long illness at his Birch Point cottage. Survived by widow Vivian Coombs Plant daughter J Edward Drake Jr brother Wallace and two sisters. Funeral Saturday at 1 30 pm at A F Mayo Son Funeral Home. Donations to Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital requested. Panama City note ends article.
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Chester A. Plant
High Street
Birch Point Cottage
Woolwich
Charles G
Lucritia Leighton Plant
Plant
Mendelssohn Club
Bath
Old Columbia Theater
Grace Episcopal Church
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Corl
A. F. Mayo & Son
Harold L. Allen
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Simmonds Summer Upholstery Special
Simmonds offers a summer reupholster deal with living room and two chairs for 67 dollars plus fabric costs. Act now for a free portable radio with batteries and case. The firm markets itself as the world’s largest reupholsterer with a 10 year workmanship guarantee.
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Simmonds
Ition
New England
Simmonds War Ee
Chase St
Engineer and university professor Arthur C. Jewett dies abroad
Arthur C. Jewett 78 former University of Maine engineering professor and Winchester Arms production superintendent died July 27 in Granby Massachusetts while en route to Bath from Winter Park Florida. Survived by wife Mary son Roger Jewett daughter Helen Lepter and sister Ruth Hazelton. Private funeral Tuesday at Curtis Funeral Home with burial at Oak Grove.
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Arthur C. Jewett
University of Maine
Winchester Arms Corp
Granby
Mass
Bath
Winter Park
Fla
Edwin H
Elizabeth Chapman Jewett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jewett
U. of M
American Bridge Co
Bird & Son
East Walpole
Industrial Conference Board
U. S. Department of Education
College of Industries
Carnegie Institute of Technology
American Society
Death of Mrs Welthy Ann Crowe 87 Widow of Wilbert Crowe
Mrs Welthy Ann Crowe 87 widow of Wilbert J Crowe died at Augusta after months of illness. She lived in Bath Georgetown and Richmond and was born Sept 30 1869 in Horicon New York. She left Maine in 1914 and leaves a daughter Kista Hanson Bath a son Edward H Van Buren Rochester New Hampshire a sister Lydia Robertson Bolton Landing New York and several grandchildren great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
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Welthy Ann Crowe
Wilbert J. Crowe
Augusta
Bath
Richmond
Mrs. Crowe
Horicon
N. Y
Abraham and
Almira Gifford
Maine
Georgetown
Mrs Dora W Bates, Bath, 69, dies at Old Folks Home
Mrs Dora Winslow Bates 69 widow of Capt Harvey Bates died Friday night at the Old Folks Home. Born Boothbay Harbor March 23 1888 she lived in Bath 45 years and belonged to Corliss Street Baptist Church. Survived by sons Lawrence and Frank Bates both of Bath sister Mrs Delphine Goodwin of Bath and two brothers Sanford Winslow of Bath and another sibling unnamed in fragment.
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Dora Winslow Bates
Old Folks Home
Capt
Harvey Bates
Boothbay Harbor
Alden
Flora Lewis Winslow
Boothbay Harbor and Arthur Winslow Noted Figure in Community
Boothbay Harbor and Arthur Winslow of Edgecomb are mentioned along with four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The fragment hints at a family or obituary notice highlighting Winslow and kin.
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Boothbay Harbor
Arthur Winslow
Edgecomb
Death of Mrs. Clara M. Jones of Rockland
Mrs. Clara M. Jones 59 of Rockland died in a Rockland hospital Thursday night. Born in Bath May 5 1898 she was the daughter of John and Jennie Coffill. She was a Grace church member and survived by her husband four daughters a son three brothers and 15 grand nephews.
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Earl L. Jones
Clara M. Jones
Rockland
Bath
John
Jennie Pero Coffill
Jones
Grace Church of
Dorothy Small
Owl's Head
Clara Ascott
Danvers
Mass
Frances Wooster
Worcester
Mary Gray
Bristol
Conn
James York
George
Thomas
Earle Coffill
Mrs Ellen L Whitman 71 of Middlebury Dies in Portland
Mrs Ellen Louise Whitman 71 of Middlebury Conn died Thursday night at Maine Medics Center Portland after 11 days as a patient. She was visiting Bath with her sister Mrs Mason Lemont before hospital admission. Born Woodbury Conn Sept 19 1885 she was daughter of James F E and Eleanor Flushman Brown widow of Frank H Whitman. She belonged to Second Congregational church Waterbury Conn. Survived by sister Mrs Lemont Bath and several cousins.
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John
Nancy
Astoria
S. I
N. Y
Russell C. Harris
Chambersburg
Department of Fine Arts
Wilson College
Warren Todd
William
Todd
Warren
Waterville
Agnes Powers
Thayer Hospital
Etta Jones
Roscoe Todd
Seguinland
Ralph Carlyle
Wayne Bascom
Carlyle Cottage
Jack Williams
John Williams
Camp Lejuene
N.C
Joseph Connard
Swathmore College
Winslow Cottage
Sea Beach
Charles Brewster
Yankton, S. D
Kennebec Point
Charles Shanes
William Meredith
Westport
Five Islands Church
Boothbay Hospital
Robert Spear
Ralph Becker
Marina, Inc
Calabrese
Medford Mass
Robinhood
Beardsley
Wynnewood
Clarence
Clinton Allen
Robert J. Evans
Edith
Gloversville
William Gilland
Edwin Hussa
Gilland
Tehran
Iran
Edwin Hussa Jr
Rosemont
Gertrude Hunt
Ralph Mallett
Topsham
Melvin Davis
Webster
Roy Powers
Brunswick
Gunnell
Waltham
Mass
Galen Hinckley
Rowayton
Conn
J. Robert Blackie
Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
Cal
R. L. Swinton
Minneapolis
Clinton Allen’s
Little Chapel of St
Ellen L. Whitman
Ellen Louise Whitman
Middlebury
Maine Medics Center
Portland
Whitman
Bath
Mason Lemont
Woodbury
James FE
Eleanor Flushman Brown
Frank H. Whitman
Second Congregational Church
Waterbury, Conn
Mrs. Lemont
Funeral service for Mrs Ruth Anna Crooker
Mrs Ruth Anna Crooker’s funeral was held Thursday at 2 p m from Curtis funeral home with Rev Richard Arnold of Beacon Street Methodist Church officiating. Bearers were Sanford Nickerson Vinal Hunnewell Carl Langbehn Nelson Rice Ray Smith and Archie Wishart. Burial followed in Riverside cemetery Woolwich.
Crowe Funeral Service Held for Mrs Welby Crowe
Funeral service for Mrs Welby A Crowe conducted Monday at 2 30 PM from Leslie C Shumway Funeral Home 638 High Street with the Corliss Street Baptist Church officiating. Betters were Frank Moore Harry Moore Thomas Tracey and Wallace Jenkins at Oak Grove.
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Welby A. Crowe
Leslie C. Shumway
High Street
Harold L. Allen
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Frank Moore
Harry Moore
Thomas Tracey
Wallace Jenkins
Oak Grove
Funeral service for Mrs Clara Norton
Funeral service for Mrs Clara Jane Norton was held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Curtis Funeral Home with Rev Charles R Sims officiating. Bearers were Walter L Mosher Sr Samuel Thompson Jr Nathaniel Norton and Robert N Mosher. Burial was in the family lot at Oak Grove.
Wesley E. Shaw Funeral Service Held
Funeral services for Wesley E. Shaw were held Thursday at 1.30 p.m. at A. F. Mayo & Rev Dr. David L. Wilson officiating. Cremation followed at Grace Lawn cemetery in Auburn and ashes buried in the family lot at Milton cemetery in Milton, Massachusetts.
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Wesley E. Shaw
A. F. Mayo & Son
David L. Wilson
Grace Lawn
Auburn
Milton Cemetery
Milton
Mass
Crossword clues and partial grid entries
A list of crossword entries with numbered clues including 29 Galled 30 Negative reply 32 Skin mark from whip 33 A dressing med 35 French dramatist 38 Peck 41 A willow 42 Kind of cloth 44 Canal boat 45 Eskers 46 Bamboolike riv
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Crane
Peck
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Livermore Falls
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