Boothbay Eyes Direct Steamship Link to Boston
Boothbay plans a direct steam boat from Boston to Boothbay Harbor with a 7 p.m. departures on Tue Thu Sat and arrivals about 6 20 p.m. midweek. The service would connect to Ocean Point and several islands and offer a night return to Boston on Mon Wed Fri. A day trip from Boston to Boothbay would run Mondays. A large committee hopes to prove the route boosts summer traffic and freight for the Steamship Corporation and urges local support while noting current company receivership conditions.
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Boothbay Register
Boston
Boothbay Harbor
Boothbay
Ocean Point
Christmas Cove
Heron Island
Pemaquid
Squirrel Island
Capitol Island
Southport
Isle of Springs
Sawyer’s Island
Five Islands
MacMahan
Riggsville
Westport Junction
Westport
Popham
The
Register
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Calvin Austin
Judge Putnam
Portland
Steamship Corporation
Bath
Kennebec
Steamship Company
Orchids of Dover Mainedescribed by Washington wanderluster
Frank Merritt describes native Maine orchids near Dover including Calypso borealis coral root rattlesnake plantain grass pink arethusa and Cypripedium species. He notes their delicate beauty and rapid decline from habitat loss and drainage, urging preservation.
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Maine
Washington Star
Frank C. Merritt
Washington
Dover
The
Star
Justice Barnard
Kezar Pond
Rock Creek Park
Sangerville
Kennebec River Sail Tour From Augusta To Boothbay Harbor
Readable excerpt recounts a historic Kennebec voyage by sail and steam from Augusta to Boothbay Harbor. It highlights landmarks along the route such as Britt House Gardiner estate Old Court House Merrymeeting Bay and Burnt Jacket while noting the Islander steamship’s popular daily round trip and early colonial footprints at Atkins Bay in Sagadahoc.
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Bath
Lewiston
Gardiner
Augusta
Kennebec
Naught Bhat
Cushnoc Falls
Boothbay
Merrymeeting
Sagadahoc
Sasanoa
Sheepscot
New England
Boothbay Harbor
Kennebis
Britt
B. H. Gardiner
Old Court House
Cedar Grove
Main
Massachusetts
Goose Neck Passage
MacMahan
Sheepscot Bay
Isle of Springs
Townsend Gut
Atkins Bay
Strange Sights on the Water Street Midway Show
Keen Shippy Ideal Shows draw crowds along Water Street midway extending from Railroad Square to Elm Street for a carnival week. Sideshows feature Hindoo juggler, Alphonso the human ostrich, Fat Boy, tango mice, racing bowl power wheels, and performing dogs. Madame Domino palm reader and a diverse snake exhibit with a 24 foot boa from Borneo and a large African python anchor the attractions.
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Alphonso
Bailey & Barnum
Times
Dickens
Squire Wardell
Japan
Depot Square
Madame Domino
New York
Mme. Domino
Bath
Water St
Vine
Mme
Domino
Borneo
Gratitude Note and Sale Offer in Lapeer Clarion
A widow delivers thanks to friends for support during illness and funeral of her husband. She offers to sell a milk cow, a roan gelding eight years old, and a black and white shoot at low prices, signing as Vins. he Well in Lapeer Michigan. The notice closes with a religious sentiment.
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Lapeer
Clarion
Red Cross Units Withdrawn From European Battlefield
American Red Cross surgeons and nurses will be withdrawn from the European battlefield on October 1 due to insufficient funds. Two Belgi um units may continue, but the other fourteen detachments will return to the United States.
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Red Cross Society
Red Cross
Belgium
United States
Fate of War Bath inspector removed from Portland post
A. H. Pierce, longtime Post Office Department inspector based in Portland, has been removed after 26 years in the service. Previously assistant postmaster in Bangor for 13 years, Pierce says the move affects about 150 Republican inspectors and notes friendly ties with the current administration. He will rest in Bangor while planning his future, with no definite successor named for Portland.
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Bath
A. H. Pierce
Post Office Department
Portland
Postal Service
Bangor
Leiberman
Boston
Pierce
S. H. Morse
Spokane
Perkinses Visit on Way to Damariscotta
Mr and Mrs F W Perkins maid and chauffeur from Worcester arrived in town Monday en route to Mr Perkins old home in Damariscotta. They spent Sunday at Old Orchard Beach.
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F. W. Perkins
Worcester
Mr. Perkins
Damariscotta
Old Orchard Beach
George W. Dall
Middle St
Harry A. Plummer
Augusta
Anthony Humphries
Ruth of
Malden
Abbie G. Walker
Salem
Edith Nelson
Squirrel Island
New York
Sweden
Proctor Hagan
Frances M
Portland
Elizabeth Wittich
Phillipston
N. J
North Star
Thomas Perkins
Cox's Head
W. N. Edwards
Clinton, Conn
George H. Stewart
Wesleyan University
Sebasco Estates
Mr. Edwards
Adirondacks
William T. Lewis
Boston
Brunswick
Harpswell
Mr. Lewis
Maine
Ray Chapman
Everett
Boothbay Harbor
Luella Chapman
Carl B. Chapman
Boothbay
Frank E. Guernsey
Dover
Isle of Springs
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Rewards and Testimonials
An old advert claims one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by asserting the remedy works internally with testimonials offered free. The note cites F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and lists the product price as 76 cents per bottle via druggists.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Coo
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
Ational Bank OF Commerce
O. Hall
Notable visitors and residents drop by Bath and environs
A parade of locals and visitors stops through Bath area towns. H C Leighton visits Springfield ties and families welcome guests from Malden, Philadelphia and Boston regions. Congressman Guernsey and wife tour the Isle of Springs with corporate ties.
Accident damages Yale steamer turbines in San Francisco
London Fairplay notes a possible substantial underwriter claim after the steamer Yale sustains turbine damage aboard in San Francisco. The triple screw turbine ship built in 1906 carries $1,000,000 insured value amid unknown causes for the blading damage on both astern and ahead engines on the port side.
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Yale
San Francisco
London ‘‘Fairplay
John Gowers Monument In Southwark Cathedral Crowned By Fame
The London Chronicle notes the monument to John Gower in Southwark cathedral as a notable relic of literary history. Gower wrote three major works in French Latin and English, with the monarch Richard II once asking for a new book to study on the Thames.
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Southwark
Chaucer
John Gower
London Chronicle
Gower
Richard II
Thames
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Kennebec Journal
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Samuel Witt
J. J. Bowers
Brooklyn
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Patterson
Charles Dushbaine
Chicago
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Philadelphia
William Gilmore
Louisville
Wm. Lick
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Dallas
Texas
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Chester
Cool Brothers
George
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J. A
Pounding Machine
H. C. Leighton
Springfield
R. C. Brown
Walter F. Cook
Brookline
S. S. Pierce & Co
J. F. Schofield
George F. Warren
Phippsburg
Anthony Humphreys
Mass
Hudson Bray
Townsend
Ernest Knight
Bessie Hunt
Henry B. Bray
Harry Knight
Eaton Estate
Deer Isle
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