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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1915
Page
2
The Second District Republican gathering at New Meadows drew a large, representative crowd signaling strong district interest ahead of the year’s campaign. Speakers Cobb and Brambaugh urged unwavering Republican doctrine as a path to national leadership amid cross border tensions and domestic reform debates.
Lloyds statistical summary shows 1914 world mercantile fleet reduced by 667 vessels totaling 926 134 tons due to war. UK lost 101 ships and 229 179 tons, Germany 13 ships and 67 611 tons. Most losses are wrecks totaling 258 ships and 288 470 tons.
Summer residents along the Salino route report a severely potholed road that needs buoying at multiple spots. A bridge near the Clough place remains unrepaired weeks after collapse, creating dangerous holes and rocks from Merry's to the West Bath line. Charles M. Fitzgerald returns home from Augusta for the weekend.
The advertisement urges Hood's Sarsaparilla as a powerful blood purifying remedy for scrofula and humors. It claims forty years of testing and features the tonic as a health restoring medicine made from roots barks and herbs.
Bay Point hosts a crowd for a Smokeshop minstrels program featuring Eddie Gibson songs and jokes about Bay Pointers. Mrs Haines of Auburn and Mrs Emerson of Bangor hosted as the young men performed Opening Chorus and a final musical number.
A conference of University of Maine agricultural committee members and E F Hitchings and B F Brown announced that the annual apple show in Bangor is canceled due to an exceptionally small crop. Officials expect less than 40 percent of normal yield, and limited displays may occur at the Portland Maine Pomological Society meeting while Bangor’s last November exhibit is seen as the finest in the society’s history.
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