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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
3
The joint recommendation from Maine and Northwestern state stations urges planning for maximum acre yields in 1918, seed bed prep, and generous fertilizer use. It cautions higher costs, scarce supplies, and the need to order fertilizer now for prompt delivery and best terms.
Skim milk should be used directly for human food rather than wasted. It yields more value when converted to cheese and by products such as cottage cheese, or used to feed animals to produce meat, with specific ratios and feeding practices outlined for dairy cows pigs and poultry.
Instructions on preserving poultry through water bath canning and jar sealing. Details cover washing, dressing, removing bones, packing meat in jars, adding liquid, and processing times and pressures. Advises using proper jar seals, cold water rinses, and careful handling to ensure safety. Research notes reference department guidance and cautions about rubber quality.
Fragmented OCR lists items and prices for produce and groceries such as cabbage potatoes onions and apples with scattered words and broken phrases. The text resembles a market price column from a historical newspaper with several OCR errors and unclear values.
The report details continued steamer service by the Virginia and passenger reflections on a white Christmas. It notes returning servicemen and local families visiting for Christmas at the Eaton home, plus travels of Miss Olive Drake and others. It also describes long wartime travel stories, courier work in frame raids, and a Christmas celebration at Snskle Center with Miss Waterhouse hosting nineteen guests and gift exchange.
Assistant Naval Constructor Harold F McCarty returns home for Christmas and Mise Herel M Dixon visits from Waterville to spend the holiday with her parents. The L A & W St Ry Bath division receives Car 139 from Cumberland County Power & Light Co to relieve congestion and goes into operation locally. Albert Bears, formerly of Bath and a longtime L A & W motorman, dies from injuries after a car collision in Auburn. services held in Auburn and body returned for entombment. Christmas rail service disrupted with limited freight, several trains cancelled, and the freight house closing early. Local construction work at Muddy Bridge progresses with concrete piers, pending weather. Navy reservists granted four days leave for Christmas. many locals travel, some ill, with illegal liquor seizures and a physician under investigation for prescriptions. Sheriff Oliver returns home amid ongoing concerns.
Dan McLean of Onna reports relief from long term constipation drowsiness and headaches after using Fruit-a-lives. He credits the product with restored appetite and energy noting a full recovery and recommending it to friends. Ogdensburg New York distributor details included.
Transfers recorded at the Register of Deeds include Charles W. Clifford to W. Howard Larrabee Jr and others in Bath, James W. Coombs to Frank Melangulin in Bath, El Sinore Real Estate Co to C. E. McCleary in Bath, and multiple other deeds across Bath Bowdoin, Bowdoinham and Tops ham. A Universalist parish Christmas tree, Santa in the vestry, and seven o’clock Monday exercises were noted, with Ensign Warren Mayers, aboard a submarine chaser at New London, spending Christmas.
An advertisement advocates The True L F Atwood Medicine for digestive comfort and a clear head. It promises better stomach liver and bowels, with a large bottle and small dose priced at 1 cent. Sample free from The L F Medicine Co Portland Maine.
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