Life in a Yankee Battery continues on the front
A World War I correspondence from a U S Army artillery battery describes frontline life near No Man s Land The writer recalls grim scenes of shelling gas attacks and close calls with German forces and notes the bond with infantry and the sacrifice position chosen to support the guns He praises the Salvation Army as crucial aid and shares small moments of humor and home longing.
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No-Man’s Land
No-Man's Land
101St
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure by Blood Action
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh, stating it is taken internally and affects the blood to treat mucous surfaces. It lists F. J. Cheney & Company of Toledo Ohio as proprietors and claims nationwide availability through druggists at 75 cents.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Con
Toledo
County Boys Ordered to Report for Camp Devens Induction
Sagadahoc county selects 24 men to report Wednesday at 3 PM to the local board for induction into military service. They depart 7:15 AM Thursday for Camp Devens. Names include Eugene J. Janders and Ralph G. Pinkham among many residents from Bath Richmond Bowdoinham Topsham and surrounding towns.
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Sagadahoc County
Camp Devens
Eugene J. Janders
Marian Street
Bath
Ralph G. Pinkham
Richmond
Leland S. Plummer
High Street
Elwell S. Barry
Cor
Game Birds Coming to Renew Local Hunt Season
Flocks of black ducks arrive at Merrymeeting bay with teal observed and partridge in suburban covers promising harvest after close time. Fall hunting displays appear, notably Smith store. Also notes Charles E Moody, Bath native and father of the pure food act, and his Boston firm Charles E Moody and Co. Meanwhile the Emergency fleet corporation advances with excavations along High street despite material and labor delays.
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Merrymeeting Bay
Smith Store
Emergency Fleet Corporation
High Street
Sewall Farm
French Café Treats for Hungry Troops on Leave
A soldier recalls a night in France with coffee pie and doughnuts sold by a kind local lass. He describes nightly offerings for tired, homesick men, and a cold wakeful shift after rolls and blankets. Punishment sent him to a Supply Company detail loading hay and charcoal.
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France
Woolwich Red Cross Lawn Party Boosts Local Fund
Sasanoa Bluffs Woolwich hosted a lawn fete attracting Bath and Woolwich residents to raise funds for the Red Cross. Houses lit with flowers flags and lanterns. tickets sold at the door. cake yardage guessing prize won by Marion Bowie. Proceeds help Woolwich’s $100 quarterly quota.
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Sasanoa Bluffs
Woolwich
Bath
Red Cross Fund
Sidney Porter
Roland Beal
Vera Dexter
Marion Bowie
Victroias
Red Cross
Fred Carleton
Charles Sheridan
Horace Locke
Waldon Hathorne
Clyde DePuy
Ossian Dodge
E. W. Dexter
Frank Lawrence
Two Woolwich Boys Meet in France Over Bath Toasts
A letter from Sergt. A J Galloupe describes two Woolwich youths serving in Battery F 56th artillery C A C meeting for the first time in France. They learned they shared Bath Maine as their hometowns and traded reminiscences during an informal dinner.
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Woolwich
France
Sergt
A. J. Galloupe
Frank Galloupe
Sergt. Galloupe
Batery F
56Th Artillery
Bath
Maine
George Dolloff
Hospital Corps
Near Tragedy Narrowly Averted on Ferry Wharf
Bystanders on a Massachusetts ferry wharf witnessed a near catastrophe when a car driver lost brake control. A woman with a baby carriage was pushed clear in the nick of time, a man was swept overboard but escaped, and a bag of flour was lost in the scramble.
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Massachusets
Noted author Edna Underwood to publish historical work
Mrs Edna Worthley Underwood sues and publishes The Whirl wind a detailed eighteenth century Russia portrait from Small Maynard and Co Boston It will be translated into French Italian and Spanish A critic likens it to Quo Vadis In 1918 19 Who's Who mentions the author This winter she plans three volumes of translated articles introducing 12 new storytellers Also this year she published The Crimeas Sonnets Songs of Hafiz and Songs from the Plains She is kin to William Page Henry Howard and Charles Corliss and related to late ex Mayor D Howard Spear Miss Bessie Pray of Gardiner visits Mr and Mrs Lemont Oakredge cottage Bath boys Amory McLellan and Charles Hall arrive home from Camp Devens overseas
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Edna Worthley Underwood
Small, Maynard and Co
Boston
Russia
America
Grace Ballard Dies Suddenly at Popham Beach
Grace Humphreys Ballard of Woodfords died Wednesday afternoon at Popham Beach after a brief illness. She was born in Bath to the late Captain D M Humphreys and Mrs Humphreys. Survived by husband Robert Ballard Portland pharmacist, two sons John 14 Willis 11, mother, three sisters Agnes Humphreys Brunswick Mrs Toothaker Brunswick and Mrs Dunnels East Orange N J, and brothers John Co and Fred W Humphreys.
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Face Humphreys Ballard
Woodfords
Popham Beach
Popham
Ballard
Bath
D. M.humphreys
High Street
Robert Ballard
Portland
John
Willis
Agnes Humphreys
Robert Toothaker
Brunswick
A. Frederick Dunnels
East Orange
N. J
John Co
Fred W. Humphreys
Record of White Cib voting in early 1915 1916 naval bills
Summary notes showing White Cib positions on key defense issues from Feb 5 1915 to June 2 1916. He did not vote to reduce battleships from two to one. He opposed coast defense funding increase. He voted against the Kahn amendment raising army strength and against senate-prepared army expansion. He also opposed further naval preparedness amendments.
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Maine
Kahn
House
Senate
Wardens Recover Fines for Lobster Law Violations
Warden Daniel A. McDonald of Bath and Warden Waldo Ricker of Saco worked in Sagada hoc and Cumberland counties this week and turned over to the state a sizable sum from lobster law fines. They report summer people fail to mark traps and gear, while ground fish arrive well at Portland with large catches noted.
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Daniel A. McDonald
Bath
Waldo Ricker
Saco
Sagadahoc
Cumberland
Portland
Fruit-a-tives touted for Indigestion relief in ad copy
Donat Lalonde of Ogdensburg credits Fruit-a-tives with rapid relief from indigestion and constipation after years of illness. The ad offers 6 boxes for 2.50 and a 25 cent trial size. The copy notes dealer access and highlights local social updates about Ralph Day on furlough and Mrs. Alfred Howarth’s civic work and language education efforts.
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Masoxxerve Sr
Hutt
Ogdensburg
N. Y
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104Th
Salvation Army
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Ernest E. Rose
West Bath
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Arthur G. Paine
Eddie Fickett
Bowdoinham
Chester R. Talbot
Seth Doughty
Washington Street
Arthur J. Roderick
Phippsburg
Charles B. Millett
William J. Kilbride
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Roy N. Patch
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Fred O. Hayward
Trufant Street
Sidney E. Grant
Cummings Street
Harry G. Moore
Warren, Mo
Ralph Peterson
George Fournier
Topsham
Frank Freed
Center Street
Joseph__W.— Bowen
Portsmouth
N. H
Edmund Rousseau
Bridge Street
Earl H. Kronstrand
Floral Street
John I. Spellman
Maple Street
Frank 8. Rideout
American House
Max Hoffman
Willow Street
Kenneth R. Weeks
Tainter’s
Lewiston
Carl M. Dixon
Harold F. Dowling
Shaw Street
Adelaid Lachance
Front Street
Charles B. Woods
Mellin H. Pierce
Washington
Charles E. Moody
Moody
Texas Shipyard
Mr. Moody
Woolwich Red Cross
Bessie Pray ‘of
Gardiner
Arthur Lemont
Mrs. Lemont
Oakredge
Amory McLellan
Charles Hall
L. F
Atwood
New England
L. I
L. F. Medicine Co
Fletcher
Castoria
yBears
Lam Tzu
Taur Company
Grace Humphreys Ballard
Ana
Ralph Day
Edwin Dowling
North Street
Young Day
Sebasco Estates
Alfred Howarth
Fall River
M. E. Kateen
Howarth
Queen’s Daughters
Department of University Extension
State Board of Education
Sam
Joseph S.caldwell
Office of Horticultural_and Fomological Investigations
Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Platt Industry
Taylor
Washington,d.c
U. S. Department OF Agriculture
Washington, D. C
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