Salem Elks present notable boxing show for veterans muster
The Bath Veteran Firemen Association heads to Salem for a muster and an outdoor boxing program at the arena. Navalinus A. A. presents a ten round main bout with Nate Siegel versus Mike Morley, plus a Sanford semifinal and three preliminaries featuring local boxers from East Boston Salem Brockton and Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morley
Jack Perry
Holyoke
Connecticut
Siegel
U.S. Navy
Red Ames
Jimmie Kelley
Soldier Sultaire
Dave Dalitz
Silent Dempsey
Pittsburgh
Solyoke
Chick Slayes
Cambridge
Indianapolis
Frankie Conway
Philadelphia
Conway
Joe Lynch
Jack Sharkey
Joe Burman
Jabez White
Frankie Burns
Blueberry Pickers Return From East Waldoboro Harvest
Raphael Paley Donnell Carr Tlford Stover and Will'am Perry returned from East Waldoboro where they picked blueberries for a contractor who cleaned up about four tons. Paley and Carr were away a month while Stover and Perry were away two weeks. They averaged 40 to 60 quarts daily by hand and 3.5 to four bushels with a croke. They were paid by the quart and earned good money. Stover and Perry played on the Waldoboro town team last Saturday, beating the Paragons and impressing the crowd with their field work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raphael Paley
Donnell Carr
Tlford Stover
Will'am Perry
Waldoboro
Hamed
Stover
Perry
Paragons
Pittsburg City Seeks Frazer Stokes in Messenger Murder
Sheriff W C Oliver issues a second circular for Jess Frazer alias Ben J Stokes in connection with the Pittsburg murder of a messenger and robbery amounting to 48000 dollars in currency and checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherif W. C. Oliver
Jess Frazer
Ben J. Stokes
Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
Epworth League Institute Attracts Maine Religious Youth
The fifth annual Epworth League Institute opened at Empire Grove Camp Ground East Poland and runs a week. Maine Conference Methodists gather the largest delegations in history with hundreds attending and 40 lifework decisions. Notables include Rev Grube B Cornish Rev M Gerry Plummer and Bishop Edwin Hughes among faculty and guest speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League Institute
Empire Grove Camp Ground
East
Poland
Epworthians
Maine Conference of Methodist Churches
Maine
Wesley Church
Beacon Street Church
Sarah Black
Evelyn Oliver
Elizabeth Gray
Lilie M. Cahill
Jennie’ Brown
Musetta Henderson
Gladys Bailey
Thelma Barbour
Donald Hamilton
Warren J. Oliver
George A. Cabil
Harry Ward
Douglas Armes
Wesley
John Roy Browne
Rene
Marion Dato
Myrtle Shepard
Marion Bowie
Beacon Street
Bath
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Washington, D.C
Ife
Elizabeth Brubaker
Lacey Webb Traves National Training School
Washington
Louis SS. Staples
Kittery
Edwin H. Hughes
Herbert Nichols
Skowhegan
John M. Arters
South Portland
John Wesley
Sunday Night Concert Impresses Bath Visitors
Weather cleared for Bath park concert as Gaudreau's Concert Band played to a large crowd. Summer visitors praised the city's musical organization, noting it matches Maine peers and surpasses many New England groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaudreau
Times
Bath
Maine
New England
Gypsies Suspects Stop Car In Massachusetts Garage
Police and state authorities seek two women and a man dressed as gypsies who halted a touring car with New York plates at a Waltham garage. The women parted with inner tubes and patches as the owner’s cash vanished shortly after. The car, believed heading to Maine, left with only the last three digits of the plate in hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Waltham Mass
Maine
Counterfeit $20 Note Warns of New In Circulation
A warning from the Bath Reserve Bank of New York warns that a dangerous counterfeit $20 federal reserve note is circulating. It appears printed from photo-etched plates and retouched on two sheets with silk threads between them. The message urges care in handling $20 bills as the counterfeit could fool experienced handlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve
Bath
Reserve Bank of New York
Bowdoinham Old Home Week Church Yard Cleanup
Bowdoinham residents join Rev Leathers to clear the Baptist church yard and raze an old horse shed. Volunteers plan more work on Saturday to improve the grounds for Sunday services and celebrate Old Home week with memories of the town. Local residents, visitors, and returning natives gather as preparations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Mr. Leathers
First Baptist Church
Bowdoinham
Job Macomber
Leathers
Frank Siegars
Florence Cook
Portland
Massachusetts
Justice Ames
Kate Smith
Bath
I. M. Fowle
Erskine Gay
Bustins Island
Cla
Rideout
Arlington
Mass
Nancy Cornish
Abbie Hulse
John King
George Hackett
Charles Hackett
Lindel Little
Springfield
West Medford
George R. Foster
Lisbon Falls
Flok
Jack
Foster
Frank Cornish
Bowdoinham in 1887 Chronicle of Local News and Events
Bowdoinham features a social mix with Mrs. George F. Tyler and two children visiting from Boston, John Britt of Waterville visiting Elizabeth Britt, and a boating party mishap leading to a moral about haste. The Bowdoinham Brass Band plans its 13th annual excursion aboard the Islander, with a route to Bath Five Islands and Squirrel Island and on to Boothbay Harbor, weather permitting. Local developments include a 65 foot tall smokestack at Kindling Wood Mill, Rob Fisher in Portland at Commercial College, S. W. Carr expanding a coal shed to 600 tons capacity, Siegars & Cros. upgrading their canned factory to steam operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Tyler
Boston
Melvin Jenkins
Brooklyn
John Britt
Waterville
Elizabeth Britt
George Kelley
George
Bowdoinham
I. H. Purinton
R. W. Carr & Co
Kindling Wood Mill
Robert T. Fisher
Portland
Commercial College
Amesbury Letters and Local Travels Report
Passing days in Amesbury Massachusetts include guests and illness notes. Substitutions and visits touch KE S Lancaster Mrs Nellie Kurtz Miss Jessie Ames Ruth Doggett Raymond Blodgett attend Epworth League East Poland. Harvey Ames returns to Watertown while family stays. trips to Portland Old Orchard noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amesbury
Massy
KE. S. Lancaster
Nellie Kurtz
KE. S. Kendall
Daniel Jacques
Dr. Elliott
Brunswick
Jessie Ames
Ruth Doggett
Raymond Blodgett
East Poland
Sarah Beard
Melrose Highlands
C. O. Purinton
Harvey Ames
Watertown
Mass
R. H. Jack
Portland
Old Orchard
Bertha Welch
Sebago
Edna
Cora Wilkinson
Lewiston
Philip Rideout
William
Fred Leavitt
H. D. Grant
Bath
Ernest Frye
New York
Young and Jayne Married in Brooklyn Aldermanic Chamber
John E. Young marine engineer and Nellie E. Jayne telephone operator, both of Brooklyn, wed Monday afternoon in the aldermanic chamber of the municipal building with Albert J. Grassy acting as justice of the peace. The groom is son of Joseph Young of Whippsburg and the bride daughter of Robert Tee. They will reside in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Young
Brooklyn
Nellie E. Jayne
Albert J. Grassy
Joseph Young
Whippsburg
Robert Tee
Contractor Cedric Reynolds Works on McLellin Mansion Site
Cedric TL Reynolds and crew finish specified alterations on the McLellin mansion ell at Garden and Washington streets. Plastering is complete and a small lodge room and lobby are among the rooms in this section of the building for the new Masonic temple project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedric TL Reynolds
McLellin
Garden
Washington Streets
Masonic Temple
Hood sarsaparilla claims appetite and digestion benefits
An advertisement touts Hood sarsaparilla for appetite, digestion, blood purification, and nutritive value. It also lists for sale items such as a 3 hp Witte kerosene Bosch ignition engine at Blaisdell & Leeman's, Bath Maine. Additional notices seek agents for Bliss Native Herbs and offer damaged Good year shoes at Rice Shoe Store in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witte Kerosene
H. P
Blaisdell & Leeman's
A. R. Webster
Bath
Maine
Goodyear Welt
Rice Shoe
Ferry Street
Buttons giving way to snaps in fashion and voting note
The article notes a shift from buttons and hooks to snaps in women’s dress for easier wear and time savings. It also mentions ripe blackberries, a record crop, and City Messenger John W. Gilmore posting voting lists in wards for a referendum on September 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Messenger
John W. Gilmore
Quincy Seeks Federal Aid for Fore River Naval Work
Quincy city council adopted resolutions to memorialize Congress for a larger naval appropriation for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Fore River yards. It notes thousands of layoffs, calls for Massachusetts officials to meet workers, and urges hiring preferences for Quincy residents when work resumes. About 2,000 are currently employed on a five hour day five day week schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Fore River
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co
Quincy, Mass
Massachusetts
Quincey
Fore River Corporation
Quincy
United States
Smart Pupils Rewarded for High Averages in Two Schools
Virginia Clark Doris Campbell Clarence Eaton of Weeks Street grammar school and Marietta Dunn of Mitchell school won the South End Parent Teacher Association contest for highest general average last school year. Leland R. Mitchell Board of Education chairman escorted them to Augusta with Mrs Mitchell and Mrs William D Rich, touring the State house and Blaine mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Clark
Doris Campbell
Clarence Eaton
Weeks Street
Marietta Dunn
Mitchell School
South End
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Silk Department
D.T. Percy & Sons
H. P. Boudreau
Salem Elks
C. A. Peaslee
Sagadahock Block
Bath Opera House
Paramount
Sympany Orchesra
Liberty Theatre
Paramount Pictures
Empire Grove
Rey. Alyin
Goddard
D.D
Baptist Society
Fannie Fall
Ernest
Florence
Everett
OW. Carr
Helen Gould
Millard Rogers
Marshall
Hila Rogers
Charles Danforth
Lydia Webber
Litchfield
F. K. Jack
Charles Fisher
Stanley Coolidge
Elizabeth
The
Methodist Church
George Ferguson
Farr Johnson
Ray Douglass
Cora Howard
Buffalo
N. Y
O. Purinton
Karl Hatch
Bowdoinham Advertiser
Young-Jayne
Hood
Bliss
Alonzo O. Bliss
Lactola Dairy Feed
Bath Grain CO
Bath Dept. Store
Trephone Teeling
Fred B.teeling
N. Y. Life Insurance Co
Dummer
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