Whale and swordfish battle off Seguin ends with whale fate
A 70 to 80 foot whale fought a twelve foot swordfish four to five miles southeast of Seguin Light for about two hours. The swordfish drove its blade into the whale, but the whale rose and thrashed, eventually sinking the swordfish and then reemerging to continue the fight. Onlookers, including Capt. Herman Spinney and George E. Hancox, witnessed an extraordinary duel rarely seen near shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Kelley Field
Gene ‘Tunney
Tom Heeney
Yankee Stadium
Portland Press Herald
Seguin
Press Herald
Herman A. Spinney
Georgetown
Spinney
Capt
George E. Hancox
Franklin Park Theater
Boston
Contract Awarded for Bath High School Building
The Bath high school building committee awarded the contract to N W Downing of Presque Isle with a bid of 198212, the lowest from 16 bidders. Downing will begin work Monday and aims to complete the building by August 1, 1929 for the Fall term, with rapid construction to close in before winter. The Bath project mirrors Downing’s Caribou high school, designed by Bunkers Savage of Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
N. W. Downing
Presque [Ste
Downing
Ihursday
Houston
Caribou
Bath
Bunkers& Savage
Augusta
Caribou High School
Benefit Card Party at Edge Summer Home
About 150 guests attended a card party at the Summer residence of Senator and Mrs. Walter Edge in Small Point to aid Bath City hospital. Twenty seven tables complemented auctions and prizes for contract and auction bridge with notable wins by Joseph Mellen of the Portland Press Herald staff and Mrs. M P Elder of Canada. The event raised about 700 and included cakes, dolls, and silk stockings sales with tea and sandwiches served by local volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Edge
New Jersey
Bath City
Joseph Mellen
Portland Press Herald
M. P. Elder
Canada
Emma Reed
Bath
Margaret Gillespie
Harrison Wright
Philadelphia
William D. Sewall
Harold Sewall
Small Point
Miss Mills
Dearborn
Norway
Rupert H. Baxter
Lola Kelley
Small Point Colony
C. W. Fallup
New York
Col Gardiner Prepares for Six Week State Campaign
Col William Tudor Gardiner rests at Phips Point Woolwich with Mrs Gardiner and children after a hard primary. He resumes campaigning for six weeks ending in September. He will visit Island Falls and accompany the Aroostook count contest tour, planning to visit every county. he traveled by motorboat while Mrs Gardiner and the children drove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tudor Gardiner
Phips Point
Woolwich
Gardiner
Col
Island Falls
Aroostook
Mrs. Gardiner
Machias Gunboat Fades Into Mexican Navy Aqua Prieta
The historic U S S Machias, a Bath Iron Works built gunboat that fought in the Cuban blockade and World War I, ends its U S service and becomes a unit of the Mexican Navy as Agua Prieta. The sister ship U S S Castine, also decommissioned, left a legacy of Maine shipbuilding and sea warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BATH
Machias
Stars and Stripes
Sampson
Schley
Sims
Niblack
Cardenas
Cuba
Wilmington
Winslow
Alerta
Ligera
Antonio Lopez
Hudson
J. M. Merry
Diana Cay
A. L. Willard
Willard
Worth Bagley
Bernadou
Guinner
G. P. Brady
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Castine
Mississippi
British Channel
North Sea
U. S. S. Machias
U. S. S. Augusta
Vicksburg
Wheeling
Dolphin
Petrel
Concord
Nashville
Bennington
Paducah
Pine Tree State
Prefers Jail To Hotel Sign Trial In Lincoln Co Court
Miss Frances Sortwell daughter of former Cambridge mayor appeared in Lincoln county municipal court without counsel to answer malicious mischief charges for removing a hotel sign opposite her home. She offered to go to jail a year to end the dispute and a further hearing was set for Aug 7 after claiming lack of time for proper counsel. Bail was set at 500 dollars. The hotel sign had directed traffic to her residence and a hotel sign later removed by the management after highway commission guidance was also torn down. Conviction carries up to one year in jail and a 100 dollar fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln County
Frances Sortwell
Alvin Sortwell
Cambridge
Mass
Washington
Miss Sortwell
Fate Proves Kind To Bath People
A Bath and Togus ball game trip ended in a dramatic crash when a Buick driven by Joseph Fortin of Brunswick sideswiped a Studebaker Commander carrying Mr and Mrs Eugene F Bridges and Mr and Mrs John Cunningham. The car toppled on a bank but all occupants survived with injuries, while Fortin fled the scene. The battle scarred Commander was a $2000 loss but could be driven home. Later, a Bath child suffered a broken leg in a separate Washington Street crash caused by a Buick driven by Samuel Povich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene F. Bridges
Chestnut Street
John Cunningham
Togus
Dead Man's Curve
Gardiner- Brunswick Road
Studebaker
Joseph Fortin
Brunswick
Bridges
Cunningham
Washington Street
Bath
Barbara Morse
Horace Morse
Bath Street
Samuel Povich
South End
Bath officer flies over orphanage in dramatic plane stunt
2nd Lieutenant George E Acheson, United States Air Corps, swooped over the Orphans Home in Bath Maine, flying low near tree tops and over the Kennebec River. He dropped a weighted paper bag containing a letter to Mrs Louise R Staples, the home’s matron, sending a message that he could not stop but would visit Texas later. The episode drew cheers from children and neighbors as Mrs Staples learned of the gesture from the letter addressed to her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans Home
United States Army
Army
George E. Adhison
United States Air Corps
Louise R. Staples
Bath
Crocker Crest
Charles T. Jackson
Edward Murphy
Middle Street
Times
George Acheson
A. C
Staples
Acheson
New York
Texas
Kennebec
Winfield Wright
Woolwich
George Wright
George
Morse Hijn
Portland
Beautiful Washington Theme Delights Cosmo Club Talk
Hon. Edward C. Plummer, vice chairman of the United States Shipping Board, spoke at the Cosmo politan club on Beautiful Washington after the February meeting. He traced his 30 years in official Washington and recalled Ambassador Jusserand praising the city as the world’s most beautiful. Miss Carrie Shaw entertained with piano numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cosmopolitan Club
Edward C. Plummer
United States Shipping Board
Plummer
Official
Shipping Board
Harding
Coolidge
Carrie Shaw
Frederick Payne Shaw
Bath
Eastman School of Music
Lincoln
Potomac
Versailles
Ambassador Jusser
Paris
Ambassador Jusserand
Corner Stone of Davenport Memorial City Hall to Be Laid
The Davenport Memorial City Hall corner stone will be laid Thursday at 9 a.m. in Bath with brief ceremonies. The northwest wall will be cleared by Wednesday night to allow public viewing. A brass cylinder will hold copies of The Bath Daily Times and notes on the city council’s acceptance of the Davenport trustees’ offer. A photo of the current hall and the planned new building will be displayed, honoring George P Davenport as Bath’s greatest benefactor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Memorial City Hall
Bath Daily Times
George P. Davenport
Davenport
Bath
City Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Whale
Arthur Allen
Optometrist
Bath Trust
EDGE
Col. Gardiner
Saucy
Wiscasset
Kennebec River
City Landing
Gayard
Haif
Myer Wey
Lismoer
Arthur Sewall
Meine Central
Ami
Tir Cer
Beautiful
E. C. Plummer
Will
Sherwin-Williams
Johnson Brosco
Paint Headquarters
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!