Adventurous Devil Iconography Powers Underwood Brand
A retrospective on the William Underwood Company traces its 19th century cannister debut and the devilled ham trademark. It notes the migrated image of a red demon on the can, its historic trademark registration, and how adventure and forward momentum propelled the firm from wartime provisioning to modern marketing.
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America
Boston
William Underwood Company
Russia Wharf
Underwood
California
Pine Tree Council Plans Fall Roundup for Boy Scouts
The Pine Tree Council announces a Fall Roundup to boost recruitment as Scouting marks its Golden Anniversary in 1960. Cub Scouting targets eight to ten year olds with family involvement, Boy Scouting emphasizes patrol participation, and Exploring opens vocational and social opportunities for older youths.
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Pine Tree Council
Boy Scouts of America
Cub Scouts
Khrushchev Visit Seen As Path To Peace Advancing U S Ties
The Adams New York Journal and Wall Street Journal weigh Khrushchev’s U S trip as potential uncovering of truths, fostering understanding and a path to a just peace. They warn against overconfidence, likening the world to a jungle where survival demands wisdom beyond righteousness or cunning.
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Khrushchev
U. S
Adams
New York
Wall Street Journal
Light and community notes brighten Georgetown town
At First Baptist Church Rev Ernest Roberts preached on Genesis light as a guide to daily living. An organ recital featured Forest Perkins of South Paris as soloist. Town activities include road tarting, Robinhood post office moves, and numerous visits and gatherings among Georgetown residents and relatives including Luger Brant Beach visitors.
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Ernest Roberts
First Baptist Church
God
Jesus
Forest Perkins
South Paris
Five Islands seaside notes and tours around town
The region's news covers herring nets off Five Islands, trains on the winter schedule with a daily inbound and outbound run, and a busy slate of church events. Residents host and visit kin, outline fall sermons, youth fellowship resumes, and local folk attend recitals, trips, and cottage weekends across Georgetown, Bath, and neighboring towns.
Cousin News From Mount Morris Area
Stanley Jewett of Mount Morris New Jersey called his cousin Mrs Charles Mac Mahan with notice of the death of his brother Irving Jewett on August 12 at a veterans hospital in Saginaw Michigan Irving was born in Georgetown and attended Robinhood schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Jewett
Mount Morris
N. J
Charles MacMahan
Jewett
Irving Jewett
Veterans’ Hospital
Saginaw
Mich
Georgetown
Robinhood
Bay Point sale and local notices in Bay Point area
Dr. James Graham of Melrose Mass purchased the Colby property owned by Arthur Colby of Bath and built by the late Osea Cahill on the northern part of Bay Point. Gordon Merry and a Waldoboro friend visiting Merry's sister Mrs. Dwight Furbish returned to Waldoboro. Bay Point remains quiet from unseasonably cold weather. Mrs. Joseph Higgins of Georgetown called at the Navajo f on Sunday.
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Thomas Savage
Little River
John R. Blackie
Gilbert Gunnell
George Alderman
Georgetown
Roy Powers
Brunswick
Blackie
Clarence Haley
Topsham
Dudley Allen
Joseph F. Higgins
Port Clyde
Tuesden
Damariscotta
Raymond Reid
Ethel B. Patterson
Ruth Patterson
Sarah Morton
Boothbay Harbor
Miss Morton
Pattersons
Bonnie Richardson
Ralph Davis
Jaques Willibeck le Mair
Barrington
R. L
St. Andrews School
Shirley Howard
Lynnfield
Mass
Roy Newman
Robert Hawley
West Georgetown
Amherst
Donald Walker
McMahon Island
Adolph Spear
Waterville
Colby College
Jimmie Clarke
Roy Clarke
Seguinland
Orono
University of Maine
Roscoe P. Todd
Bockinhead
William A. Todd
Daniel Levine
Timmy
Karen
Robinhood
George Laskey
Charles McMahan
Ruby McMahan
Bath
Adelaide Stott
Maine Medical Center
Portland
McMahan
Gorge Laskey
Carroll Powers
Guy R. Snowe
Winter Street
Marrtown
Percy Lanz
Luger
Brant Beach
N. J
Holy Trinity Church
Lloyd F. Worley
Hartford, Conn
Mere Point
Fon
Del
Bisseths
MuacMahan
Paul Petzold
Rumford
John Pierce
Maurie Pierce
Briggs
Deedham
Robert Graffam
Willard E. Sprague
Brent Beach
Yermouth
New Brunswick
Quebec
Charles Gould
Sasanoa
Harry Stone
Lewiston
Lawrence Cloutier
Augusta
Brian Davian
Philip Dalrymple
Kennebec Point
Frederick Woodruff
Needham
Thomas Karhl
Massachusetts
Harold L. Brown
Ricky Kosalka
Jane Oliver
Harold Brown
Cathy Brown
James Oliver
Joyce Oliver
Betsy Savage
Allens
Overlock Lodge
Leonia
Harold Brown, Jr
James Graham
Melrose
Colby
Arthur Colby
Osea Cahill
Bay Point
Graham
Gordon Merry
Waldoboro
Merry
Mrs
Dwight Furbish
Joseph Higgins
Woolwich PTA Plans Yearly Activities and Events
The Woolwich PTA map for 1959 60 was laid out at the fall meeting at Woolwich Central school. Plans include a teachers reception and open classrooms in October led by Principal Earl Coates, a bake bean supper on October 10, and Halloween activities for different grades. Deputy Sheriff Belanger spoke on juvenile delinquency and weapons seized from youths, stressing parental responsibility.
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Woolwich
PTA
Woolwich Central School
John McPhail, Jr
Earl Coates
Alice Baker
Staphine Soule
Anna Allen
Ruth Orr
Mila Darnell
Peggy Hathorne
Dorothy Roderick
Donald Severence
Betty Rogers
Pauline Woodman
Betty Reed
Kay Beal
Ellen Orr
Carmen Jackson
Gertrude Brown
Marilyn Bennett
Rosemary Campbell
Walter Smith
Richard Crocker
Charlotte Leeman
Leon Beal
Ernest Rogers
Edward Gallant
Donald Sceverence
John McPhail
Chester Leeman
Alex Thistle
McPhail
Bangor
James Hay
Tuessie Hall
Paul Pitman
Day
Belanger
Sagadahoc
Elizabeth Bailey
Alice Beaker
Albert Richard
Surprise Alert Mobilizes Maine National Guard Units
An official call went out at 7 45 p m to mobilize one warrant officer and 63 enlisted men. Lt Richard L Crocker notified Capt MacDonald and the alarm rang at Central Fire Station. Major General Edwin Heywood reported 55 to 60 percent of guardsmen statewide reported within an hour and 80 percent were mobilized after four hours. A two hour delay at Augurn delayed the alert but mobilization remained successful.
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Richard L. Crocker
Crocker
MacDonald
Central Fire Station
Edwin Heywood
Maine
Augurn
National Guard
Television classes test education value nationwide
A year long testing program for officially enrolled pupils will measure achievement and evaluate Educational Television instruction. The State Department of Education cooperates with commercial television stations to offer courses under the National Defense Education Act.
Bath man suffer hip injuries in car crash
A passenger Charles B True 75 Bath complained of hip injuries after a collision. The Beaudet car had about $200 damage. Mr and Mrs Roland D McIntosh of 45 Bedford Street returned home after a trip to Nova Scotia and Moncton N B to attend Licensed Retriever Field Trials. Their daughter Gail stayed with Dr and Mrs Earl Wade of 406 Front Street during the trip.
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Charles B.true
Bath
Beaudet
Roland D. McIntosh
Bedford Street
Nova Scotia
Moncton
N. B
Gail
Earl Wade
Front Street
Bath men among Bowdoin College Class of 1963 entrants
Four Bath residents are among 217 Bowdoin College freshmen starting this fall as part of the college’s 15th entering class since its 1802 opening. R Frederick Brown Jr George Cary III Marsh Tellan and Stephen Lee are the Bath natives listed with addresses on Washington Street Chestnut Street. Orientation followed six days of tests and meetings with faculty and administration.
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Bath
Emeater
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
R. Frederick Brown, Jr
R. Frederick Brown
Washington Street
George F. Cary, III
George F. Cary
Marsh J. Tellan
Lemuel M. Tellan
Stephen D. Lee
Edward J. Lee
Chestnut Street
Elks Schedule Meeting and Building Report
Bath Lodge of Elks convenes Thursday at 8 p m to hear a final building committee report. Exalted Ruler James F Feeney notes resignations of George Finlay and Douglas Wirta with Edward Jenks as Chaplain and Earl Fortier as Inner Guard filling vacancies. Jerry Rioux advances to Esquire and Oct 22 initiation night with planned dinner.
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Bath Lodge of Elks
Elks
James F Feeney
George Finlay
Esquire
Douglas Wirta
Edward Jenks
Earl Fortier
Jerry Rioux
Chiplain
Dike Washington PTA Opens Fall Meeting With Guest Speaker
The Dike Washington Parent Teacher Association schedules its first fall meeting for 7 30 p m Thursday at Dike school. Mrs Joseph I Smith will speak, with a twenty minute teacher meet and greet beforehand. Sixth grade mothers hostesses. executive board met Monday for initial program plans.
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Dike- Washington Parent Teacher Association
Dike School
Joseph I. Smith
Funeral rites for Archie E. Davis of Sebasco
Funeral services for Archie E. Davis of Sebasco were held Tuesday at the Community church of the Nazarene in West Point with Rev. Mrs Kenneth Crawford officiating. Bearers included Henry Wallace Fred Wallace Everett Wallace and Alton Wallace of West Point. Interment followed in Holland Cemetery West Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie E. Davis
Sebasco
Community Church of the Nazarene
West Point
Kenneth Crawford
Henry Wallace
Fred Wallace
Everett Wallace
Alton Wallace
Holland Cemetery
Mrs. Elsie Lenora Dunton Rites Held at Curtis Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Lenora Dunton were conducted Sunday at Curtis Funeral Home with Rev. Frederick L. Niles of Beacon Street Methodist church officiating. Committal services followed at 2 p.m. Monday at Pepperell Cemetery in Pepperell, Massachusetts.
Elsie Lenora Dunton 79 dies in Bath Massachusetts
Elsie Lenora Dunton 79 died Friday at 1189 Washington Street Bath where she lived with her brother Forest D Putnam She was born September 14 1880 in East Pepperell Massachusetts daughter of Lucius and Martha Hovey Brooks She lived in Bath ten years previously resided in Massachusetts and attended Beacon Street Methodist Church as a member of its Women Society of Christian Service Survivors include sister Mrs Eldora Leighton of Portland and brother Forest D Putnam of Bath
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Elsie L. Dunton
Elsie Lenora Dunton
Washington Street
Forest D. Putnam
East Pepperell
Mass
Lucius
Martha Hovey Brooks
Gertrude Summerton obituary of Bath resident dies at 77
Gertrude Emma Summerton, 77, wife of John W. Summerton of 85 Western Avenue Bath, died September 16 at Bath Memorial hospital. Born February 14, 1882 in Bath, daughter of William and Mary Sprague, she was a life long Bath resident. The couple managed Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg, from 1927 to 1940 and she was a Wesley Methodist Church member. Surviving besides her husband are a sister Goldie A. Chaney of Bath and several nieces and nephews.
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Gertrude Summerton
Gertrude Emma Summerton
John W. Summerton
Western Avenue
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bath
William and
Mary Bailey Sprague
Summerton
Sebasco Estates
Phippsburg
Wesley Methodist Church
Goldie A. Chaney
Archie E. Davis Dies at 77 in Sebasco Estates
Archie E. Davis, 77, of Sebasco Estates, a long time lobster fisherman, died Saturday at his home after a long illness. Born in Round Pond, he was a son of Augustus and Nancy Wallace Davis. He attended Sebasco schools and the Community church of the Nazarene at West Point. Surviving are his sister Pearl Murphy of Sebasco, brother Leon F. Davis of West Point, a cousin and several nieces and nephews.
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Archie E. Davis
Sebasco Estates
Sebasco
Round Pond
Augustus
Nancy Wallace Davis
Davis
Funeral Service for Mrs Gertrude Summerton Held
Funeral services for Mrs Gertrude E Summerton were conducted at 1 30 p m Saturday at Curtis Funeral Home Reverend Dr Oliver W Bell pastor Wesley Methodist Church presided. Bearers were William Phillips John Cheney Jr Russell Young and Leslie Ferris. Interment followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Gertrude E. Summerton
Curtis Funeral Home
Oliver W. Bell
Wesley Methodist Church
William Phillips
John Cheney, Jr
Russell Young
Leslie Ferris
Oak Grove
Funeral service for Mrs Caro line Thompson
Funeral service was held Thursday at 2 p m at Curtis Funeral Home with Rev Craig H Richards of Central Congregational Church officiating. Bearers were Karcher Jackson Edwin H P Lowell Fred Osgood and Herbert Morse. Burial followed at Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Thompson
Curtis Funeral Home
Craig H. Richards
Central Congregational Church
Karcher Jackson
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Fred Osgood
Herbert Morse
Oak Grove
Edith P Stevens Funeral Held at Church of the New Jerusalem
Funeral services for Mrs Edith P Stevens were held at 2 p m Thursday at the Church of the New Jerusalem with Rev Louis A Dole officiating. Interment followed in the family lot at Pine Grove Cemetery Fryeburg on Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith P. Stevens
Church of the New Jerusalem
Louis A. Dole
Pine Grove Cemetery
Fryeburg
Miss Joan Shaw Returns to Boston After Weekend With Shaw Family
Miss Joan Shaw returns to Boston after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Shaw on North Street over the weekend.
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Joan Shaw
Boston
Mrs
Roscoe Shaw
North Street
CROSSWORD 46 HEADLAND ACROSY AND CRYPTOQUOTE PUZZLE
Crossword clues cover weapons to cratchits Christmas bird and Headland with numbered entries and standard crossword style. Cryptoquote quotation shows Emerson line about quotations with a code alphabet axyclebraxtr.
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Alvah G. Reynolds
Milo Wedge
Wilming
Stevens Brothers
Five Islands
Howard Roberts
Roberts
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Baptist Youth Fellowship of
Georgetown Baptist Church
Frank Blake
Ray Gilpatrick
Orville Rowe
Ford
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Reginald Pinkham
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New Meadows Inn
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Hallowell
Goodman
Pennsylvania
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Belliica
Kennebunk
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Hanna
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Franz Stevens
Harold Rowe
D. W. Staffeld
Eleanor Wilson
Canada
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Monhegan Island
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Lloyd
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Winthrop
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Easton
Herman Barter
Shaw
John Williams
South Portland
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South Hadlley Falls
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Pearson
Somerville
William Marr
Beulah Miller
Marr
Rose Wilkins
Livermore Falls
Fred Scheffer
Cambridge
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Franklin MacNeil
Donald Hopkins, Jr
Keith
Wayne MacGillivary
Aroostook County
Madge O’brien
Connecticut
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Chester Pinkham
Clifford Canning
Westbrook
Edwin Berry
Kathy
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Butts’ Coltage
Malden Island
Charles Carr
Arizona
Mr. Carr
Leon Kelley, Jr
Orissa Carr
Albion
Sedgemere Road
Woolwich P.T.A
Dike-Washington Pta
Capitol
George W Russell
Headland
North Sea
the Sweets
Emerson
King Features Syndicate
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