Long Island trees loom as giants in Setauket study
The writer visits Setauket and notes ancient oaks and willows along the bay, detailing measurements of a white oak reported as one of the state’s largest. He describes nearby family farms, historic roots, and the Setauket landscape with vivid timber, including a massive black walnut and a towering cherry. The piece also previews a later account about the 1927 fly to France for American Legion veterans.
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Henry O. Thayer
Nature
Long Island
Setauket
Great Island
Bay Shore
Great Sound
East Setauket
Scudder M. Jayne
Jie
State Forestry Department
Albany
Change of Rates for State Ferry Effective Jan 1
The State ferry Hockomock will operate more passenger and freight trips from Bath to Woolwich starting Jan 1 under a revised tariff approved by the Public Utilities Commission. Freight trips between Bath and Woolwich are planned for early morning hours with single and double team rates, auto truck and driver rates, and special tickets for two and one half ton auto trucks. The schedule aims to move most freight before 9 am while maintaining passenger service, with various ticket terms and transfers restricted to original purchasers.
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United States
Hockomock
Bath
Woolwich
Public Utilities Commission
Wy Hack
Aes Automobile
de Hay
Bath and
Avaloo
UNS
iCtt
Tomes Eagles Petcare
Seren
Esguris
Japan's November Trade Rises on Imports Surge
Japan's preliminary trade returns for the first ten days of November show exports valued at 79,700,000 yen and imports at 69,600,000 yen. Compared to October, exports rose by 6,500,000 yen and imports by 9,600,60 yen, signaling a growing import volume according to Acting Commercial Attache AL Ty Calder in Yokio.
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Japan
AL Ty Calder
Yokio
Freight Expert Cuts Delivery Time by One Third
A railroad innovator in the United States has streamlined freight handling across 260000 miles of track. Through new methods he introduced, delivery times have been reduced by about one third. He now processes a weekly workload of a thousand cars.
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United States
Old Time Conditions in English Navy Described
Attorney Walter S. Glidden described vividly the hardships faced by officers and sailors of the last century English Navy at the Bath Rotarians lunch. He spoke of press gangs, wooden 74 gun frigates, crews of 700 sailors and 150 marines, meager wages, flogging, no shore leave, and hospitals. The talk contrasted past naval life with today’s improved shipboard conditions.
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Walter S. Glidden
Bath
King Tavern
Glidden
Collingwood
Nelson
Fuller
Boys Work
Edward W. Bridgham
Clarence A. Weaslee
Gratz Jackson
Canton
Wilson
Gilbert MM. Elliot
William A. Jack
Brunswick
Davis R. Post
Constantinople
Lawrence J. Short
Gloucester Chamber of Commerce
Dpercy Re Low
City
Aldrich Announces Candidacy for Local Legislature
Mills J. Aldrich of Topsham announced his Republican candidacy for representative to the legislature from Arrowsic West Bath Topsham Woolwich and Phippsburg. A well known lawyer with Brunswick offices he will circulate nomination papers after New Year and emphasizes Sagadahoc County needs a Topsham voice. The Old Ladies Home trustees invite a pound party Friday afternoon from three to five with tours and donations welcome. Morris Povich was in Portland on business Tuesday.
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Walter M. Mallett
Topsham
Brewster
Sagadahoc
David W. Scribner
Sewall
Bath
Mills J. Aldrich
Ney
Arrowsic
West Bath
Woolwich
Phippsburg
Aldrich
Ele
Popsham
Sagadalee
Arrowsie
Brunswick
Old Ladies
City Hall
Bath Iron Works
Rasph Uoee Esq
Bath Board Trade
Harold A
Newburyport
New England
Massachusetts
Joseph Loeal
Boston
Theodore Friedeberg
New York
Eldridge
Batt
Dridge
Eldridge and
Beal
Last Six Master Edward J. Lawrence Destroyed by Fire
The last six master schooner Edward J. Lawrence is ruined off Fort Gorges after a Sunday fire at Wortlhind Harbor. Fire crews from the city, Osipee, and Chicopee battled the blaze, which started in the boiler room and swept fore and aft. The ship was towed from anchor and beached to prevent navigation hazard after years laid up awaiting cargo. Built in Bath in 1905, she cost about 150000, measured 3340 gross tons, 320 feet long and 50 feet beam, and changed hands several times before sale in a marshal's sale last April for 3390. The six-masted era ended with the Wyoming sinking three years earlier.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Edward J. Lawrence
Fort Gorges
Wortlhind
United States Coast Guard
Ossipee
United States
Chicopee
Chesapeake
Bath
Wos
France- Canada Co
Portland
Vortland
Morecraft Construction Co
New York
Wyoming
Cape Cod
Percy & Small
J. S. Whislow Co
J. O. Malo
Dewey Cafe
Colonial
Addie M. Lawrence
Fairfield
Verey & Small
Eleanor A. Percy
Lawrence
Percy
Samuel KR. Percy
Allen M. Trish
Willian R. Kreger
Stoke
Mdynard
Winslow
Boston
St. Nazaree
Chesapeake Bay
Six Masted Schooner Edward J. Lawrence Destroyed by Fire
Portland harbor fire destroyed the six masted schooner Edward J. Lawrence once the pride of New England ships. Built in Bath by Percy & Small for J. S. Whislow Co. of Portland, she launched April 2, 1908 with sponsor Miss Addie M. Lawrence of Fairfield.
Quick Action Halts a Threatening Blaze
A chimney overheated in a home on Center Street near the Opera House sparked a woodwork fire. A still alarm at 3:15 summoned Driver Cloutier, Driver Cook, and two firefighters who found flames threatening adjacent wooden structures. Using a chemical tank and two ponies, they quelled the blaze and returned at 4:08.
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Dpuna
Center Street
Opera House
Combination 4
Cloutier
Cook
Water Street
Ridley Seeks Executor Role In Cumberland Probate
Calista I. Ridley’s will is filed in Cumberland County probate court. Widower Cyrus R. Ridley seeks appointment as executor and is named beneficiary along with John G. and Alta M. Storer.
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Calista
Pomona and West Bath hold county meeting on Bath Iron Works
Sagadahoc county Pomona grange met with West Bath grange to discuss Farm Bureau work and clothing pattern savings. A Bath citizens meeting examined two industrial proposals for Bath Iron Works with a Boston and New York backers, and a Bath committee was named to evaluate the plan.
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Pomona
West Bath
Farm Bureau Committee
Boston
Independent's Public Mart opens for free classified ads
The Bath independent announces a new Public Mart classified section in its January 14 issue. It invites readers to place ads selling or buying vehicles and farm goods and renting or exchanging properties with a two line ten cent weekly rate, offering free insertion for January 14 to test the service.
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Independent
Public
The
Bath Independent
Public Mart
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