Bath and Lewiston News of Christmas Cheer and Local Happenings
City note highlights Merry Christmas greetings and festive shop hours as Bath merchants report solid holiday trade. Reports on grange sessions, police and postal workers busy, theaters planned, and upcoming boxing match. Also mentions highway spending, new street lights, auto tags, and political talk amid Maine Christmas travel. Wade Morse case disappoints supporters as Taft delays ruling.
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Citizen Mill
Maine
Bath
Brunswick
Moving Pictures
Maine Street
A. H. Shaw
Tide power scheme for Winnegance ponds proposed
Letter from R. Cc. M. outlines a two pond tide power plant at Winnegance with ebb and flood tide wheels driving generators. Each pond uses gates to trap or release water, providing continuous power as tides rise and fall. Efficiency varies with tide height and timing, but one or both systems would supply electricity for industry.
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Winnegance
McDonald
Develojing
R. Cc. M
Sheep losses drive Phippsburg farmer to quit flock
Herbert W. Cutting of Phippsburg quits sheep farming after a dog attack destroys 13 sheep and injures others. He sells the remaining flock to William R. Bowker, despite building a dog proof fence. The incident prompts calls to seek compensation from unknown owners and notes local feldspar could spur regional crockery manufacturing.
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Herbert W. Cutting
Phippsburg
Cutting
William R. Bowker
Unpaid Bowdoin real estate taxes for 1911 notice
Tax collector R. S. Carr lists 1911 unpaid real estate taxes on Bowdoin lands in Sagadahoc Maine. Notices warn nonpayment will trigger sale of sufficient property at the Bowdoin Town Office on the first Monday in February 1912 to cover taxes, interest, and charges. The list names owner descriptions and due amounts.
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Bowdoin
Sagadahoc
Maine
Cooper
Ida
L. A. Prout
Prout
Co. Cooper Hazlett
Jas. A. Land
Allen
N. J. Cornish
A. Glasser
Lepoint
Merritheld
Pred
Land
S&s
W. Randall
Bowdoinham Line
M. 8S. White
de Oscar Adams
Bushard
Clovis
Roberts
Webster Town Line
Rideout
EE. A. Land
Alfred Wenzel
KE. T. Baker
C. G. Penney
Elijah Allen
State Small
John N. Land
J. O. Roberts
H. G. Carr
Joseph Small
Whitten, Albert, Land
J.S. Allen
J. C. Haigh
H Ss. Dunn Penley
H. EB
Town Line
W. H. Clough
D. BR. Verney
Graves
William Wesland
J. Small
G. T Grover
G. A Staples
C M. Marshall
Taxes due on Arrowsic lands to be sold February 1912
Notice states that unpaid 1911 taxes interest and charges on lands in Arrowsic Sagadahoc County will be sold at public auction at the Town Hall on the first Monday of February 1912 at 9 o'clock. Names of owners appear in the notice with amounts due.
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Arrowsic
Sagadahoe
Town Hall
Obituary notices from Boston roxbury and Bath deaths listed
Obituary notices dated December list Ella P Foster Rose M Stewart Annie Sparks and others. Ages range from 19 to 70. Names include Thomas D Andrews Drusilla Torsey Georgia Wilson Willim Parris Harald Knight Frederick Robinson Jon Couture and Daniel McQuarrie with origins in Bath Los Angeles Westport Augusta Freeport and Winthrop.
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Winthrop
Dee
Drusilla Torsey
J. H. Torsey Wilson- II
Addison
Georgia French Wilson
McQuarrie
Los Angeles
Cal
Daniel McQuarrie
Thath
Parris
Bath
Willim DB
Knight
Westport
Harald BF
Knect
Robinson
Augusta
Frederick Robinson
Thath Couturee
Jon Couture
Bangor Eye Doctor to Visit Bath Hotel Phoenix Dates
A Bangor Maine physician formerly of Bath will visit the Hotel Phoenix Bath on January 8 9 and 11 to examine eyes and glasses. The schedule includes Monday Tuesday and Wednesday sessions with fittings and eyewear consultations.
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Bangor
Maine
Bath
Phoenix
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