Bath city notes preps for Christmas rush and winter events
City items report heavy mails and Christmas shoppers, sleighing demand, and meat prices. Measles and diphtheria cases appear in Bath while roads grow muddy and skating possible with overflowing ponds. Local projects include a new house, road hearing, and a traveler's schooner sail. Community events feature a whist party, anniversary banquet, and new music store with Edison phonograph demonstrations.
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Bath
Wyoming
Newport News
Woolwich Road
Miss Lena Brooks Visits Bath as Sponsor of Wyoming
City residents meet Miss Lena Brooks daughter of the governor and sponsor of the Wyoming vessel. She attends Dana Hall and longs for the West. She enjoys horses and her ranch heritage, plans to enter a western agricultural college, and aims to manage the governor’s ranch after graduation.
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Lena Brooks
Wyoming
Miss Brooks
Dana Hall
Wellesley — Hills
Mass
Wellesley
West
Western Agricultural College
Brooks
New England
Bath
Ships
Maine
Pine Tree State
Abbie Brooks
Death of Chester M. Andrews L shocks Bath community
Friends learned Tuesday of the death at his High street home. A Bath native from boyhood, he married Bath native Winfield B. Thomas and leaves a wife and daughter. He was foreman of the coppersmith department at Bath Iron Works and highly regarded by coworkers. Surviving relatives include his mother three brothers including J R Andrews of Hyde Windlass George M Andrews of New York Shipbuilding and Fred Andrews of Hyde Windlass and a sister Mrs Robbins of Belmont Mass.
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Chester M. Andrews
High Street
Bridgewater
Mass
Bath
Winfield B. Thomas
Andrews
Bath Iron Works
J. R. Andrews
The
Hyde Windlass Company
George M. Andrews
New York Shipbuilding Company
Fred Andrews
Robbins
Belmont
DAR Contest Promotes Revolutionary Essays for Students
The Colonel Dummer Sewall chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution offers two prizes to grammar and ninth grade pupils for essays on Revolutionary subjects. Prizes of 10 and 5 dollars require at least 1000 words, signed with a fictitious name and submitted to Mr. Freeman, superintendent of schools, by February 1. Real names stay sealed until judging.
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Colonel Dummer Sewall
Daughters of the American Revolution
Freeman
Georgetown’s Oldest Resident Receives Birthday Toast
The article honors Mrs. Knight of Georgetown as the town’s venerable longtime resident. It notes her active community life in church and charity sewing, frequent visits from summer visitors, and her declining health but enduring spirits as she approaches her ninety fourth birthday next summer.
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Georgetown
Knight Homestead
Arab bridal tale at luncheon charms Ottawa audience
Mrs. Todd wore a nine color dress with heavy sequin bands as she spoke at a luncheon for Arabic women. Her husband failed to recognize her. guests enjoyed a three day affair with twenty attendees and fifteen courses. She shared anecdotes about Arab customs, weddings, and the Sultan’s regime.
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Todd
Professor Todd
Extra Copies Requested for Bath Torpedo Boat Crew
In Boston on December 11, 1909 a letter notes gratitude for the Dec 11 edition and encloses stamps to request extra copies. The Bath built torpedo boat destroyer Flusser crew are wearing automobile goggles on deck to shield eyes from spray and smoke.
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Boston
Mass
Society Gossip Squares Christmas Spirit and Local Events
The notice describes rising interest in Red Cross stamps as Christmas approaches and mentions local visits, lectures, and social events. Hon. Fred Jr. Wilson visits Brunswick for a launch, Fortnightly club hosts Brigham lecture with YMC A lantern slides, and Grace Church Sunday school plans Christmas activities. Residents Walter BE Chase, Mrs. Edmund P. Briggs, Ella Staples, and Harold McCarty appear in town or abroad, with social gatherings and bridge games noted.
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Fred Jr. Wilson
High Street
Brunswick
Brigham
Guild
Hervey
Bowdeinham
Walter BE. Chase
Waldoboro
Edmund P. Briggs
Bridge
Request to Mail One-Year Independent to East Providence Reader
A Bath native now living at East Providence requests the Independent newspaper be mailed to him for one year, expressing satisfaction with the paper after receiving copies. The letter emphasizes interest in ongoing subscription.
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East Providence
R. 1
The
Independent
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Legion
Salvation Army
Colonial Club
Bath Independent
Bath Social Club
Charles Stinson
Hitchcock’s Hill
Charles W. Morse
Hough
Rockland
Carolyn
South End
S. H. Conley
Centre Street
Torrey
John H. Ramsey
Charles D. Clark
Mikelsky’s
Africa
Webber
Front St
Edison
Victor Records
Mikelsky’s Music Store
Thompson Brothers
Red Cross
Grace Church
Harold McCarty
Bluefields
Nicaragua
U.S. S
Des Moines
Kimball Bros. CO
Park & Pollard Co
Holiday Books
W.H Smith & Son
the Bookstore
Sagadahock Block
Tors
Swet's Drug Stores
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