Forties Era Bath Notices From 1893 Files
Bath Daily Times recalls Aug 23 1893 with electrics count 2362 riders, city reports available at city clerk, Emmons imitates on Cushing Island, Gardiner steamer delayed by low tides, A B Allen aiding Wylie's Boothbay orchestra, Sewall iron worker injured, G A R posters moonlight excursion to Five Islands Aug 9, cemetery grading progress at Oak Grove, South Island tropical plants bloom, Sagadahoc arrival Boston early today, North Street church World Fair lecture postponed pending views.
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Oak Grove Cemetery
Stone Wall Division
South Island
North Street
August 24 1893 local notes and travel updates
George Schofield starts as coachman for J B Drake. Walter S Russell moved stock to Foote Bros next door. L McCoubrie leaves for Pittsburgh after wiring for street railway. Progressive whist at N T Palmer home. Palmer and Miss Sanborn win prizes. J Pulsifer and Mrs Moulton return to Wellesley Hills MA. Miss Clara Pulsifer stays. Kendall and Barker travel to Skowhegan after Samoset House play season. Hotel closes Saturday after good run. Freight car mishap delays passenger train about ten minutes. Report of a large stone on tracks and vandals with jackknives damaging waiting rooms. Rail service crowded. weather pushes for closed cars. conductors and motormen soaked and weary.
1893 Aug 25 Local Notes On Steamers and Events
The 250 horsepower tandem engine for the power station should arrive September 3. Capt. Perry moves his family to Lewiston for future residence. The steamer Wiwarna runs off route for a Damariscotta to Pemaquid excursion. Open season for fall gunning begins next Friday. Some locals chase yellow legs already. A Front Street employee, member of the Spider club, returns from Seine trip to be united into one. Pawnee Bill's Wild West show advertising car visited the city. show in town September 7. R Hanscomb departs for Portsmouth to oversee gunboat Castine prior to trial trip. expected back in about a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Spider Club
Seine
C. R. Hanscomb
Portsmouth
Castine
Miss Alice Magoun Guest Instrumentalist at Bath event
An evening at Les Camarades Musicaux featured guest instrumentalist Miss Alice N. Magoun at the Albee home in Bath. Other performers included guest soloist Mrs. Wilfred Rice of Chicago and mezzo soprano Evangeline Haynes with Beethoven and Campian pieces in a formal program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice N. Magoun
Les Camarades Musicaux
Carl E. Albee
Washington Street
Magoun
Margaret J. Melcher
Wilfred G. Rice
Chicago
Rice
Evangeline M. Haynes
Beethoven
Albee
Mr. McPherson
Campana
Wilfred Rice
Ramsay
McPherson
Miss Magoun
Melcher
Haynes
Kennebec Excursion to Boothbay Harbor Planned for Sept 3
The steamer Kennebec will depart Boston at 9 a.m. on Sunday September 3 for a day trip to Boothbay Harbor returning from Boothbay at 8 a.m. Monday. A large crowd enjoyed the Epworth League moonlight excursion to Popham last evening despite a 25 minute landing delay. Arthur Sewall of Maine Central left for San Francisco to attend his son Harold Sewall's wedding to Miss Ashe on September 14 in San Francisco.
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Boston
Gardiner
Epworth League
Wesley Church
Fort Popham
Otty Landing
Broad Street
Charles E. Moody
Squirrel
Popham
Arthur Sewall
The
Maine Central
San Francisco
Harold M. Sewall
Miss Ashe
Bath News Roundup Aug 29 1893
Aug 29 1893 a variety of visitors are noted in Bath including Mr and Mrs Bartlett of Gardiner Mrs B L Crosby returning from Boston and Mrs J Sproul of Grass Valley Cal visiting parents at Confer rence Front Street near Dunning’s stable is torn up for the new street railway route Angus Lavery a Bath native now a Salem druggist visits Bath Miss Bartlett Hunt and Richardson return to Abington Mass from W S Wright’s Woolwich The electrics delayed 20 minutes due to a hot crank at the power station and extra trips after the excursion Frank Decker a Salem drug clerk visits Bath relatives and former classmates at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
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Mrs. J. Sproul
Grass Valley, Cal
Mr. and
Mrs. Confer
Front Street
Dunning
Bath
Frank Decker
Salem, Mass
Woolwich
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Comfortable Class Key to Child Health and School Health
Dr. Donald B. Armstrong of New York argues that a comfortable classroom boosts pupil health and learning. Teachers should spot early illness, send students home when needed, and model healthy habits while custodians ensure proper ventilation and temperature.
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New York
N. Y
Donald B. Armstrong
New York City
Armstrong
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Soctor
Women’s health and growth shape happy schools
The report highlights a teacher devoted to fitness and professional growth improving school life for children and staff. It also notes Miss Helen Marguerite Common of Searsport who told Edward C. Moran Jr. she would marry if Democrats won, and her Belfast wedding to John James Duguay of Orono. The Lewiston election note reports no female registrations during the two day span.
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Helen Marguerite Common
Searsport
Edward C. Moran, Jr
Rockland
John James Duguay
Orono
St. Francis of Assisi Church
Belfast
Moran
Congress
Lewiston
Heirs Seek Sale of Shared Bath Estate Spanning Several Lots
Doris Dyer and Grace B Lennon represent Bath residents as other heirs join in seeking court authorization to sell the Henry M Heald estate in Sagadahoc County. The request covers multiple parcels including the Cordelia Heal lands and the Dickinson and Higgins tracts, with proceeds to be distributed among heirs in various states.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Edwin R. Little
Brooklyn
Lester W. Little
Emma F. Harmon
Edward W. Bridgham
Bath
Maine
Wilmot M. Kennerson
Dele B. Card
Woolwich
Liliam F. Kennerson
State OF
Martha E. Robinson
Peter Robinson
Mary K. Robinson
Middle St
Sugudahoce
Wilmer ST. Voorhees
Sagadahoe
Foeanor H. Voorhees
Milne
West Bath
Brunswick
Turner Dunton
Minnie Thegins
Henry T. Wing
Minnie Higgins
Samuel W. Foote
A.D
Emma E. Walker
Lee Pecefully
Grace B. Lennon
Abel A. Harris
Doris Dyer Humphreys
Henry M. Heald
Phippsburg
Henry M. Heal
Sumner Heal
Cordelia H. Heal
John KL. Hill
Mark L. Hill
Freeman C. Bowker
Cordelia
Abigail S. Hill
Abigail
Hill
Jacob Co Goss
Win
Ho Migpins
Sant Dower
John L. Hill
Frank Percy
Thie Tone
Atchiwall S
Pearson Morrison
Cordelia Ho
Beylantia Ae
John Bo Wiekine
Dicknson
Orods Tof
Puller
Fuller
Samuel HH Fuller
Joseph Eaton
John T. H
Seth
Moore
Westery
Elbridge Bowker
Said Hill
Bailey, Ellsworth and Nichols
Corded
Helen Morse
Gove Esesteply
Moores
Sal Cordelia H
William Daley
Charles B. Davis
Hiram Morsheirs
M. L. Hill
Batley
Reed
Dri
Simul Point
Said Phippsburg
McCobb Mill Bend
William H. Black
Dickinson
W. H. Higgins
Wm. H. Black
Albion Dickinson
Fannie L. Heald
Abbie S Ogden
Fannie A. Morse
Heald
Bowker
Higgins
Helen A Jewell
Marian S. Higgins
William H. Higgins
Bath Road
Town Road
Heal's
Allan Spear
A. D
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Bath Daily Times
E. L. Emmons
Cushing
A. B. Allen
Boothbay Harbor
Wylie
Sewall's
William A. Foss
Post Sedgwick
Times Office
Five Islands
George A. Browne
George Schofield
J. B. Drake
Walter S. Russell
Foote Bros
L. McCoubrie
Street
Pittsburgh
N. T. Palmer
Mr. Palmer
Miss Sanborn
J. Pulsifer
Messrs
J. A. Kendall
Claude Barker
Skowhegan
Samoset House
Mouse Island
the Times
Capt. Perry
Winnegance
Damariscotta
Pemaquid
Bath Cycle Club
Portland
T. F. White
Southport
E.L. Emmons
North Whitefield
John Specht
Joseph L. Hoyle
Kents Hill
Electrics
Mrs
Nathan Washburn
Child
Candy’s Harbor
Soldiers’ National
Togus
City Landing
George Merritt
Bath Street Railway
Daniel Ammen
Clarence Reed
Forest Queen
Highland Lake
Bridgton
Iron Works
Mrs. Hillman
Amos B. Haggett
Bangor
Gen. Hyde
Slater
Joseph T. Reed
Jamaica Plain, Mass
James Murphy
Crescent Street
Sans Souci
B. Adieux de Manon
Massenet C ‘Dle
Sosy
Hice MacFagon Oy
Vets
Ilgenfritz
Allan Ramsay
Field
Leonore
Beethoven Miss Haynes
152Nd Field Artillery
Camp Keyes
Herbert E. Bryant
State OF Maine Sena Ss
Walter
Glidden
Attes Laura M. Morse
Eugenie Bartlett
Brunswick, Maine
Jettle Reed
Woolwich, Maine
Mary Wright
Wilmot Moses Kennerson
Walter S. Glidden
William F. Dunham
Register
County of Sagadahoc
Independent
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Said
Ruth A. Moore
Madison A. Moore
Wellington A. Moore
Sagadahogc
Narcissa S. Potter
Pearson H. Stinson
Albert H. Stinson
Nellie Louise Desmond
Medford
Mass
Middlesex County
Alice DeWick
Egbert DeWick
Harry E. DeWick
Northampton St
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
Frank E. DeWick
Maire
Nellie Louise Desmond Sagadahoc
E. L. Brawn
Sagadahocg
Sagadahoec
Sagadunoc
William V. Percy
Sarah H. Percy
Belle B. Briggs
Frank M. Bowker
Walter H. Bowker
Sagadahoc. Ss
Twu
Leonard Gowell
Annie Cobb Gowell
Maud H. Larrabee
Mary Low Larrabee
Mrs. Bartlett
City
B. L. Crosby
Rence
Angus Lavery
Salem
Bartlett
Hunt and
Richardson
W. S. Wright
Abington, Mass
Alice M. Bergen
Philadelphia
Marjorie Medenwall
Indianapolis, Inc
Bertha Shea
William Heald
Nelson Heald
Phippsburg, Maine
James Heald
Maud Hartleb
Bath, Maine
Carl Glidden
Woodsfords
Mabel A. Harris
Charles Perkins
Melrose Highlands, Mass
Doris D. Humphreys
Doris Dyer
Aera Grace B. Lennon
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