Portland highlights reflect ships, streets, and summer life
The Bath area notes include the leaking schooner Ada E Brown at Rio de Janeiro and cargo survey plans. Street work on Washington street with rock and sewer upgrades aims to smooth traffic. Local vacations and visits abound with Elliot Fuller, E W Penley, Miss Dora Hathorne, and more. A Sloane speech energizes Topsham rally as Maine Central counts autos.
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Rio de Janeiro
New York
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Charles B. Minott
Washington Street
Linden
Washington Streets
Social life at Small Point and local activities Aug 23 1916
Mr and Mrs William Warden enjoy luxury at the Small Point clubhouse with fine swimming days and popular beaches. Laura B Palmer hosts a sewing bee at her Allen Street home. Children may get free automobile rides tomorrow at nine from the Cosmopolitan clubhouse with cars volunteered by local owners. E W Hyde visits Augusta while Grace Morse stays with Mr and Mrs Leslie Reed in Gardiner. Capt McIntire and Harry McIntire attend a lively encounter.
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Laura B. Palmer
Allen Street
Cosmopolitan
Bath Children Enjoy first rides as Cosmopolitan club aids
About 125 Bath children were treated to their first automobile ride as part of a Cosmopolitan club philanthropy. Automobiles loaned by local prominent residents lined Winter to Linden streets, with games on the green and music by the Drum Corps.
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Cosmopolitan Club
London Bridge
Linden
A. H. Shaw
Fred H. Kimball
William D. Sewall
Amory Houghton
Galen C. Moses
John McInnes
Harry B. Sawyer
Frank B. Nichols
Charles R. Higgins
F. R. E. Dean
Jack Holmes Hyde
Sheriff Oliver
Joseph McCole
Scott Frye
Bath News Summary of Aug 1916 Social and Local Events
Aug 25 1916 Beacon Street Men plan Labor Day field day clambake at Foster's Point with lunches. Bath residents attend dances at Theta Delta Chi with notable guests from New York and California. Grace church to install a memorial organ built by Moller Co to honor Mrs Thomas Worcester Hyde. Local outings include Ridley camp visit to King's Point and Bay Point trips. Bath ball team to face Lewiston Nationals. Monhegan reports a 25 foot 8,000 pound shark caught and drowned. Naval Militia cruise on the Kearsarge and local hay crop news. Weather storms cause damage near the Huff residence. Dancing at Sebenon hall with Kelley's Banjo Orchestra.
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Arthur S. Hyde
St. Bartholomews Church
New York City
Thomas Worcester Hyde
Moller Organ Co
Hagerstown
Bath Dance Orchestra to Headline Kennebec Yacht Club Hop
The Cos mopolitan club members will enhance Monday evening as the Bath Dance Orchestra is engaged for the hop. August committee manages the program and includes Misses Helen Wheaton Bessie Mooers and May O'Brien.
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Peninsula Shipyard Builds Wooden Vessels in Portland
Aug 27 1956 Portland briefs report Alonzo B Parks in charge of craft drawings at Peninsula Shipbuilding with son Howard aiding. Paul Blackwood home from New York for vacation, soon sailing to France as engineer on St Paul. Local social notes mention Woolwich belles minstrel program profits, motor boat trip to Concord NH, and a Maine Bowdoin College Student Loan Assoc formed with Bath Bath pres Rupert Baxter and Portland director Philip Clifford. The item also notes Loyal Farragut Sewall returning from France where he served with the American Ambulance Corps, and a touring Ohio party visiting with a large luggage laden car. Fresh eggs 40c a dozen. Excursion steamship Virginia offers Sunday outing from City Landing at 9 am.
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Alonzo B. Parks
Howard
Paul Blackwood
William. Blackwood
New York
Panama
France
St. Paul
State of
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Bowdoin College Student Loan Assoc
Rupert Baxter
Bath
Robert K. Eaton
Brunswick
Philip T. Clifford
Portland
Donald F. Snow
Bangor
Visitor Returns After Weeks in Town Guests of Mrs Leonard
Master George son returned today after a two week stay in town as the guest of Mrs Merrill’s daughter Mrs E Randall Leonard on High Street.
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George
Iing
Merrill
E. Randall Leonard
High Street
Hughes to Speak in Bath on Saturday
Justice Charles Evans Hughes Republican presidential candidate will address Bath on Saturday September 9. Rupert H Baxter Sagadahoc county State Committee member and candidate for State Senator organized the visit after a week of effort. Other local items note visitors and outings around Bath including Woolwich residents to the movies and area excursions. Squirrel Island to get a new cottage by John E Oldham at the west shore.
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Maine State Librarian Bulletin
Henry O. Thayer
Maine
State Library
Bath
Nequasset
Sagadahoc
Damariscove
Topsham Hall
Charles H. Sloane
Nebraska
Charles Evans Hughes
Justice Hughes
Rupert H. Baxter
Sagadahoc County
Squirrel Island
John E. Oldham
West Shore
Lakewood to Welcome Jane Morgan Russell Nype in Two for Tonight
Lakewood theater opens Labor Day with a return engagement of Jane Morgan and Russell Nype and comedienne Frances Brandt in Noel Coward's Two for Tonight. The musical features a score by Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and marks Lakewood's first back-to-back guest stars in a single season due to demand. Morgan and Nype will also perform their own numbers as the third act of the show.
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Farest
Lakewood Theater
Jane Morgan
Russell Nype
Frances Brandt
Noel Coward
Cole Porter
Irving Berlin
Grant Mills
Paris
Europe
Americas
Henrickson Family Vacation at the White Mountains
Mr and Mrs Joseph H Henrickson and daughter Marie and Sylvia with Mr and Mrs Henry Henrickson spent the weekend at the White Mountains.
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Marie
Sylvia
Henry Henrickson
City
White Mountains
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