Maine Gipsy and Brown Tail Moth Fight Moves Ahead
Edward J. Catley outlines Maine State Agriculture plan to combat the gipsy moth and brown tail moth. He notes delayed start due to funding, stresses threefold strategy of map infestation, scout borders, and urban crews, and emphasizes limited parasitic control as experimental and not yet reliable. Summers joins as parasite expert. Burgess lab partners offer public guidance from Forest Avenue facility.
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Edward J. Catley
State Department of Agriculture
Catley
York
Cumberland
Maine
Massachusetts
J. N. Summers
A. F. Burgess
U. S
Forest Avenue
Summers
Lewiston Liquor Seizure Ends with Foreigner Custody
Police busted a Lewiston liquor run sending two foreigners and a wholesale whiskey stash to the station. Officers Whitehead and Conley detained a Pole and a Frenchman after eight quarts were found on High Street. both faced illegal transportation charges with a translator present. John Smith previously hauled a gallon of Boston alcohol.
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Wallace
Lewiston
Spindle City
Whitehead
Conley
High St
North
John Smith
Linscott
Corliss
Augusta
Sonia
Boston
Carriage shop raid uncovers loot linked to Sewall shipyard theft
City Marshal Pattee and Sheriff Oliver found four boxes of dies and wrenches at Harry Geary’s carriage paint shop behind a chimney. Geary already convicted of breaking and entering and larceny, sent to Augusta to await grand jury action. Officers believe more tools remain missing.
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Pattee
Oliver
Harry Hobson Geary
Geary
Sewall
Augusta
Grand
Supreme Judicial Court
Popham Anniversary Plans Highlight Local Lawn Party
A large crowd attended St Marys Church lawn party with Knight of Columbus and Holy Name Society rivalries raising funds. Activities included fortune telling, candy and cake tables, a rose and orange tree, a bath band promenade concert, and a weather note on 1816 frosts. Popham Colony history linked to Kennebec site and early New England town meetings referenced.
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St. Mary's Church
Knights of Columbus
Holy Name Society
Holy Name
Henry M. Biggins
Charles F. Fitzgerald
Martin O’lanchhlin
Leo Burke
Jack Mulcahey
Chaney Robbins
Andrew Gallant
William Landers
Sumner Hayes
James M. Royal
George Hart
Costain
Dowling
McGregor
McLellan
Margaret Hennessey
Marion Philbrick
Corrine Focter
Winnie Quinn
Margaret Conley
Bessie McKay
Evelyn Shaughnessey
Arline McNeil
Mary
Catherine Sullivan
Marion Haraden
Sarah Flaherty
Marion
Vivian Colby
O’hara
Nellie Biggins
Kathleen Landers
Helen Haraden
Mary Conley
Ruth Burke
Marion Tracy
Mary Farrell
E. J. Murphy
Mary Mullaney
Sadie McClay
Bangor
Cecile Medley
Adele
Globe Dwellers
Mrs Stover Buried After Freeport Trolley Accident
The remains of Mrs. Ann Stover killed in a Freeport trolley car accident were buried in Oak Grove Cemetery on Wednesday. Portland Medical Examiner Geer authorized burial without Cumberland County examination, after the body had earlier been sent to Bath for burial, despite new law requirements. Stormy weather delayed preparation and burial, and the body was placed in the tomb.
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Ann Stover
Freeport
Oak Grove
Chadbourne
Geer
Portland
Cumberland County
Bath
W. W. Fish
Local Visitors and Guests Arrive in Town Meantime
A long list of visitors and residents' guests fills the page. Flora Randall visits Pownal. Mrs. Edward Seymour of Water town Mass. visits sister Mrs. Parks. New York guests at Boothbay Camp depart after outings. Notables include William Nichols of Mulford Chemical Co. and detective A. E. Keating visiting local homes.
Social notes highlight residents visiting and vacationing
Miss Belanzer spent Wednesday in Portland. Miss Minnie Fuller of Lewiston visited Tuesday. Herbert T. Oliver of Brockton guest of Charles H. Oliver. Miss Ella J. Douglass staying with Mrs. Alvah Hildreth in Topsham. Lydia G. Kingsbury visiting aunt Mrs. Horace Wilson. Allan Cameron of Everett entering a city vacation with Sebisco Estates. Robert Hateh Sewall Peres and Marshal Pattee left Wednesday for a Camden motoring trip. Mrs. Henry Pollard returned to Winslow after visiting children here. Arthur C. Hoedzdon week at Little Chebeazne Island with Boston friends. Mrs. Jessie Rounds of Marblehead guest of Mrs. F P. Rounds on Brunswick Road. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foster of Chelsea guests of William Rice in Woolwich. Mrs. H. A. Beals and children Lucile and John Albert two weeks visit with Bowdoinham relatives. John Minott, clerk at Howard's Center cigar store, week in Boston. Carl Crosman clerking in his absence. Captain Harvey Berry of Popham Beach Coast Guard Station on business. Guards on duty at the Beach. Miss Emily Potter of M. W. Sewallcation at Bay Point. Donald Sewall assisting in clerical work during her absence. Mr. and Mrs. Cutler Bowker returned to Perth Amboy after two weeks in town as guests of Capt. and Mrs Newton Bowker. Mr. Bowker employed with Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co.
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Flora F. Randall
Pownal
Edward Seymour
Watertown
Mass
F. J. Parks
Bessie Mores
John P. Mores
Lisbon Falls
Ruth E. Hubbard
New York
Boothbay Camp
Margaret Golder
Mary McDowell
Julia E. Frazier
Margaret Steadman
West Newton
Fred F. Butler
William Nichols
Kansas City
Mulford Chemical Co
George A. Coombs
Franklin, Mo
Clarence Morse
Sadie Mellen
Quincy
James H. Parker
Elmer O. Pray
Shirler
Melrose
Pray
Wilson O'Brien
Charlotte
Boston
W. M. O'Brien
Columbia Hotel
Ernest S. Magoun
Sarah E. Harlow
Parker Head
Harlow
Freeport
A. E. Keating
West Somerville
F. N
Mary Monroe
Keating
Massachusetts
Charles_Clark Munn
Springfield
Monhegan
Munn
Westfield Plate Co
M. J. McCormick
Louise
Frank
John McCormick
Mayers
Portland
McCormick Farm
East Pittston
Thomas McCormick
Minnie Fuller
Lewiston
Herbert T. Oliver
Brockton
Charles H. Oliver
Ella J. Douglass
Alvah Hildreth
Topsham
Lydia G. Kingsbury
Horace Wilson
Mere Point
Allan Cameron
Everett
Sebisco
Brunswick Road
Charles Foster
Chelsea
John Minott
Howard's Center St
Carl Crosman
Harvey Berry
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Emily Potter
M. W. Sewal
Cation
Bay Point
Donald Sewall
Cutler Bowker
Perth Amboy
N. J
Newton Bowker
Bowker
Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co
Local residents listed as visitors and guests in city
County Attorney Bridgham visited Richmond on business. Miss Helen Robinson guests of Miss Althea Harvey in Hallowell this week. Mrs. William Schaubel returned from Philadelphia. Dr. Thomas Lightbody of Mandarin Florida visiting relatives here. W. E. Pierce of Melrose visiting Mrs. W. F. Wetherbee. William Shea joined Hockomock as day force engineer. Howard Spinney of Popham left to join the steamer F J Lisman as oiler. Charles D McKinney of Dorchester Massachusetts in town. Miss Catherine Sullivan of Woolworth's takes two week vacation in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Miller and Linwood on two week vacation in Massachusetts. Mrs. A A Robinson of Westboro returned from visit with Mrs. W F Wetherbee Washington St.
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William Schaubel
Philadelphia
Thomas Lightbody
Mandarin
Fla
W. E. Pierce
Melrose
W. F. Wetherbee
William Shea
Hockomock
Howard Spinney
Popham
F. J. Lisman
Charles D McKinney
Dorchester
Mass
Catherine Sullivan
Woolworth’s
Boston
Vernon Miller
Linwood
Massachusetts
A. A. Robinson
Westboro
Washington St
Woolwich Notes From Ocean View and Camp Closure
Woolwich hosts visiting residents from Yonkers Malden Chelsea Iceboro and North Bath. The Boothbay Camp season ends next week with twenty boys to tour the White Mountains Crawford Notch and a Fabyan House dinner. A corn roast hosted by Miss Bel Bacon of North Bath drew praise as part of local social activity. Mrs Emma Trott arrives from Boston visiting Woolwich relatives after Wiscasset entertainment.
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Boothbay
White Mountains
Crawford Notch
Fabyan House
Bath Aerie to Initiate Twenty Five Candidates
Bath Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will hold an important session next Tuesday evening for the initiation of a class of twenty five candidates. The meeting will start at seven o'clock.
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Bath Aerie
Order of Eagles
Mexico's Resources and the Shadow of Silver
The piece notes Mexico's diverse climate and rich vegetation yet emphasizes how silver mining has eclipsed agriculture including wine, corn, and oil as the nation's defining wealth. It discusses the expectation that farming might lead the economy but highlights mining's dominant historic role.
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Mxico
Mexico
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Archie Trenor
M. A McDonald
M. J. Sheridan
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William H. Sears
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Popham Seach
Alins Bay
George Popham
John
Raleigh Gilbert
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England
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Richmond
Helen Robinson
Althea Harvey
Hallowell
Woolwich
William A. Butler
Yonkers
N. Y
Charles
Moatsweag
Mary Patterson
Malden
Frank Head
Mabel Foster
J. Gott
Woolwich Center
Emma Preble
Iceboro
William Rice
Emma Trott
Wiscasset
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