Richmond Emerson Lane Post Holds Meeting and Social
Local Emerson Lane American Legion meeting closed with a social including steamed clams served by Eben Baker after the session. Numerous neighbors and families attended events around Thanksgiving with visits to relatives in Portland Bangor and Gardiner.
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Ora Morrill
Winslow
William Dingey
Charles Cobb
George B. Hitchcock
Belmont
Mass
New England
Richmond
Betty Mann
Richmond High School
Ann
Lester Woodward
Dresden Mills
Ladies’ Aid
Enterprise Grange
Fredericine Fellows
Gardiner Street
Ernest Purinton
Augusta
Henry Tarr
Ry Varney
South Berwick
Portsmouth
Colby College
Auburn
C. W. Messenger
Boston
Enterprise Grange Hall
St. Ambrose Church
Thomas O'Neil
Winnifred Gilbert
Bertha Emmons
Rosanna Gonya
Elizabeth Hurley
John Dailey
William Miller
Beano
Harold Richardson
Arsebial Gilbert
Adrian Gilbert
Gerald O'Neil
Philip Nardini
Emerson Lane Post
American Legion
Eben Baker
Maine forests and products survey notes and mountain heights
The article reports Maine geologists mapping gravel resources for highway construction and lists the six highest mountains in Maine led by Katahdin. It notes a statewide survey since 1930, with annual area and sample counts, plus a decline in motor vehicle licenses and out-of-state fishing and hunting activity. It also profiles John B. Stowe, a long-time barber from Saco, marking his 92nd birthday and Civil War service.
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Maine
County Wicklow
Ireland
University of Maine
United States Geological Survey
Crockertown
Franklin County
Piscataquis
Oxford
State Highway Department
Fish & Game Department
John B. Stowe
Saco
Prospect Street
Massachusetts Battery
Gettysburg
Georgetown Thanksgiving Visitors and Local Social Notices
Georgetown residents and area visitors gathered for Thanksgiving events and holiday visits. School events included a Georgetown Center entertainment and a student presence at Center school, while a Working League Christmas sale and supper were planned for December 6 at the First Baptist vestry.
Grass fires threaten woods near City Farm Cemetery
Firemen battled a brush and woods blaze at City Farm property near Oak Grove cemetery for over an hour. Engine 4 responded and a chemical then bucket brigade fought the flames using water from a brook after a cigarette thought to have started it was discarded.
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City Farm
City Farm Woods
Oak Grove Cemetery
Five Islands Bride Weds Roy Clark in Thanksgiving Home Ceremony
Phyllis Jeannette Stevens and Roy Adair Clark were married at the bride’s Five Islands home on Thanksgiving Day. The cream lace and peach taffeta gown, matron of honor Mrs. Albertina Pinkham, best man Linwood Stevens, and Rev. Frank Hovey officiated. The couple plan to Brooklyn, New York, for their new home.
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Phyllis Jeannette Stevens
Islands
Roy Adair Clark
Williamsburg
Drummond R. Stevens
Five Islands
Robert R. Clark
Albertina Pinkham
Linwood Stevens
Frank Hovey
The
Baptist Church
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ida Hinckley
Bath
Theo McNeill
Chester MacMahan
Lester Lewis
Muriel
Rupert
W. E. Gray
Percy MccGilvre
Harold Pinkham
Paul Stevens
Groton
Mass
George Floyd
Grange Hall
Alexander Marr
Everett
Madeline Berry
Hershel Dickey
Berry
Acroid
Cambridge
Harmon’s Harbor
Leslie Aingley
Virginia
Collnn
Boston
Aingley Cottage
Grass Fire Reported Behind Dummer Street School
Fire engine responded to a grass fire behind the old Dummer Street Primary School. Children skating on the Frog Pond put out the blaze before the apparatus arrived.
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North End
Dummer Street
Mysterious blaze damages bungalow in Harvard Heights
A fire of mysterious origin damaged the unoccupied Warren Blackman bungalow in Harvard Heights after five Tuesday afternoon. Everett Green of Engine 2 fought the blaze with an axe to gain entry and called for help. the fire burned a hole through the roof before the department contained it. An inquiry will determine if the bungalow was visited during the day.
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Warren Blackman
Harvard Heights
Everett Green
Washington
Harvard
Winship Streets
Green
Bath people view president and wife in Washington
Rev. Omar W. Folsom and his daughter Elsie Folsom, visiting Washington for winter, watched President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover leave Foundary Methodist church after Thanksgiving service. Folsom joined friends, waved from the sidewalk, and photographed the presidential procession guarded by motorcycles and secret service men.
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Omar W. Folsom
Elsie Folsom
Washington, D. C
Leonard D. Norsworthy
Hoover
Foundary Methodist Church
Folsom
Mount Pleasant
Foundary Church
Secret Service
Mr. Folsom
Meteor Showers Reported by Newark Observers
A North Haven observer saw several bright meteors between 4 and 4 45 am Wednesday but clouds blocked Thursday skies. At 2 15 am Friday a startling meteor crossed east toward the moon leaving a fire trail and a ring near the moon. Larry Pabst arrives Newark at 4 45 pm Thursday after clear skies, noting numerous meteors. The Leonids are not due again in large numbers until 1965. Frank Beverage witnessed a major display in 1899.
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North Haven
Larry Pabst
Newark
Frank Beverage
Firemen Respond to Multiple Calls Sunday News
Firefighters from Engine 2 and Engine 4 attended several incidents Sunday and night. A bonfire at Sewall's Pond sparked a tree fire. a chimney blaze at 4 Park Street. a camp interior fire on North Street extension. a burning automobile at 449 Middle Street.
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Sewall’s
Park Street
Chandler House
Joseph Mullaney
North Street
Charlie Wallace
Middle Street
Sidney L. Eaton
Books Read At Session Highlight Mystery and Short Story Trends
The discussion surveys mystery origins from Poe to Doyle and Gillette theater renditions. It cites The Dr Thorndike Omnibus and Sea Stories by Edward Clarence Plummer, then analyzes short story growth led by Edward J. O'Brien with his best stories system and awards.
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Edgar Allen Poel
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
William Gillette
R. Austin Freeman
Edward Clarence Plummer
Bath
Edward J. O'Brien
America
Mr. O'Brien
Stephen Vincent Benet
Pictorial Review
Harper's
O'Brien
John Brown
Benet
Louis Bromfield
Best sellers and notable books of 1932 and beyond
A survey notes current best sellers across fiction and non fiction with authors such as E Phillips Oppenheim Sigrid Undset Lida Rarrimore P G Wodehouse and Peter Kyne. It highlights recent successes like Peking Picnic and The Osterhoff Jewels and lists science and social science titles including Economic Stabilization in an Unbalanced World and The Financial Aftermath of the War.
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Fountain
Charles Morgan
Sigrid Undset
Robbin Hill
Lida Larrimore
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Osterhoff Jewels
Lonely Valley
Peter B. Kyne
California
J. B. Priestly
Joseph Lincoln
P. G. Wodehouse
Ann Bridge
Atlantic Monthly
Marie
Abbe Dimnet
America
James Trueslaw Adams
Russia
George E. Raiguel
William K. Huff
Elizabeth G. Ricker
Progressive Club of
Lisbon
Department of the Interior
New York Library Association
Hoover
Roosevelt
Norman Angell
Harper's
G. D. H. Cole
Knopf
Glenn Frank
McMillan
President Sills Opens Italian Renaissance Lectures
President Kenneth C. M. Sills delivered the first of six lectures on the Italian Renaissance in Wheeler Hall. The opening talk, Dante the Divine Comedy, is open to Brunswick residents by consulting Superintendent Sherman Graves.
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Kenneth C. M. Sills
Wheeler Hall
Sills
Brunswick
Sherman Graves
Bath couple hurt as car overturns in Minot
Mrs Archibald M Main wife of Bath Iron Works executive is treated at Central Maine General Lewiston for scalp laceration and neck injuries after a Chrysler sedan overturned on loose gravel in Minot. Her son Archibald M Main Jr, a Hebron Academy student, suffers a cut over the eye while Newell Wilson also escapes injury.
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Archibald M. Main
Bath Iron Works Corp
Central Maine General Hospital
Lewiston
Chrysler Family
Minot
Archibald M. Main Jr
Hebron Academy
Main
Bath
Newell Wilson
South Street
Hebron
Archie Main
Morse High
Hebren Academy
Rev
J. Francis Brady
Norway
Father Brady
Academy
Harold A. Burbank
Gra>ton, Coonn
Dromore Farm Bureau to hold Thursday sewing and meeting
Dromore Farm Bureau will meet at the Winnegance Community Clubhouse on Thursday for an all day session starting at 9 30. A square meal dinner will be served at noon under the supervision of several named members. The day includes sewing for the Red Cross with guidance from Bath chapter representatives.
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Dromore Farm Bureau
Winnegance Community Club
Eleanor Gilmore
Elizabeth Haley
Jennie Harrington
Rachel Hodgdon
Lillian Hosmer
Jennie Knight
Julia Johnson
Emma Ingalls
Bernice Drake
Grace Dickinson
Farm Bureau
Red Cross
Bath
Aletha Campbell
Brunswick High debating club to extend practice time
The Brunswick High School debating club will add extra practice sessions to give less experienced debaters more speaking opportunities. Mrs Cornelia Pratt, the debating coach, volunteers to lead a small after school class for the same purpose.
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Brunswick High School
Cornelia _ Pratt
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Melrose Highlands
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Brackett Street
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Chicago
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Manchester by-the-Sea
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Frank Cole
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