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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
7
A concise guide outlines practical support a wife or partner can provide during illness and hardship. It emphasizes practical care, emotional steadying, and reliable presence as essential aids to a man facing medical distress.
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a cure all for nervous weakness and poor circulation. Rudolph M. Hunter of the Hunter Corporation, Philadelphia, recounts decades of neuralgia and insomnia, crediting the tonic with restoring health and enabling longer workdays.
The Rockland region reports 1108 telephone subscribers and bustling activity. News covers summer tourism, new band concerts, yacht club chatter, electric rail route talks, and dock aging. A Bath girl notices line tapping and a cuckoo clock miscue as phone gossip ripples through town.
A month after the 539 ton three masted schooner Alice M Davenport launched by the New England Co in Bath Maine ran on rocks off Bear Island near Matinicus while bound for Rockland with a coal cargo. Capt M D McKown is aboard with Commodore Blair and the tug Bismark set to assist if weather allows. the vessel may need to offload coal to be saved.
The third annual reunion of the Simpson Dscendenta association will be held at Merrymeeting Park on Wednesday August 27. The text notes various local events including a parlor car ride to Lewiston by the Lowell assembly's Pythian Sisterhood on August 19 and other maritime and civic happenings in Bath and nearby towns.
Boston readers are invited to explore the Hoosac Country and Deerfield Valley famed for forested Berkshires, Hoosac River scenery, and historic sites praised by Longfellow and Hawthorne. The Hoosac Tunnel is highlighted, with a request to send two cents for an illustrated book from the General Passenger Department, Boston and Maine Railroad.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of J. Carney & Co Toledo pledges $100 for each uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary note dated December 6, 1886. Advertisement claims internal use affects blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials. Sold by druggists, 750. Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
A local citizen Mr. Seth R. Kellett describes waking with kidney ache and night urinary weakness. He says Doan's Kidney Pills gave greater relief than prior medicines or doctors and recommends the product sold by Webber's drug store with Foster-Milburn Co. as sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
Local notice mentions Lulu Gupy and a 910 2¢ Hanrny C in Webber Register. Details are fragmentary but indicate a personal or property record with names and a location. Further readable elements are unavailable in the text.
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