Popham Cliff Reveals Possible Coal Vein At Rockledge
Reporters cite a discovery of black ore at the Rockledge site on Popham Cliff near Bath. Contractors moving the hotel back say blasting uncovered coal like material that could be a vein, with speculation on scale and potential Bath benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
George S. Loveres
Rockledge
Daniel Bishop
Bath
Bishop
Kennebec
Small Point
Maine
Portland
James W. Kelley
F. H. Twitchell
Mr. Lovejoy
Horse Shoe
Popham Land
Fort Baldwin
H. T. Stevens
Wood Island
Atlantic
Bought and Paid For delights Bath audience at Opera House
Bath patrons praised William A Brady’s Bought and Paid For at the Bath Opera House. Helen MacKellar and George D. MacQuarrie received strong praise for their convincing leads as the seven member company delivered flawless acting with a rich scenic presentation. Mile. Toutain and Prof Stanton offered notable teaching and musical interludes. George F. Duncan, Portland, is critically ill from a paralytic shock, while plans for a Cape Elizabeth summer residence were mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
William A. Brady
Bath Opera House
Helen MacKellar
George D. MacQuarrie
Prof. Stanton
Evening Star
Louise Hill
Walter Hood
George F. Duncan
Portland
West St
Duncan
Cape Eliabeth
Maine News In Brief Highlights Bequests and Local Happenings
The 44th Bowdoin College Alumni Association dinner in New York announced a $500,000 bequest to Bowdoin College in Brunswick from Edwin B. Smith. Maine items report candidate names for postmaster, mayoral caucus results, guardianship for James Dwight Curtis, and Vanderbilt cup sailing plans with Herreshoff hull weight shifts. Also noted are four new 49 ton portable stone crushing plants for the Maine Highway Commission, upcoming Maine Department Grand Army encampment in Lewiston, and various state events including potato day in Governor Haines era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin College Alumni Association of
New York
Brunswick
Edwin B. Smith
United States
Maine Highway Commission
Augusta
Got Hens Up Early in Bath Man’s Alarm Clock Scheme
A Bath man boasts a simple method to force hens to lay more eggs by waking them with an alarm clock. Another Bath poultryman counters with electric lights and tinted shades to simulate daylight, claiming superior results and showing off his new car.
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Bath
Ten kinds of cabbage standardization urged by USDA
Washington D C Jan 30 The Department of Agriculture through the bureau of plant industry announced that any person with an unknown vegetable variety may obtain correct identification from the department. Correct names for fruits may also be obtained. The note stresses that misnaming confuses truck and fruit growers and farmers. many varieties share several names. M J McCormick passed Monday in Gardiner on business.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department
Many Bath residents and visitors listed in town notes
Capt J A Flint of Machiasport visits Bath while Mrs Lizzie King travels from Huse Street to Boston friends. Others include Mrs Oliver Moses and daughter Helen in Portland, Miss Frances Thompson in Boston visiting sister Mrs Wilson O'Brien, G M Stinson of Woolwich leaving for Portland, and Harold Rand from Gardiner at home in Bath. Mentions of Miss Ethel Curran to Boston, manager Maxwell moving to Portland, the Sewalls wintering in California, nurse Susie Larrabee in Portland, and several locals visiting or returning from trips. Also notes J L P Burke injuring his arm, Asbury transferred to Somerville, and local theater success by Lowell Foote’s Masquerading Widow.
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J. A. Flint
Machiasport
Lizzie King
Huse St
Boston
Oliver Moses
Helen
Portland
Frances Thompson
Wilson O'Brien
G. M. Stinson
Woolwich
Harold F. Rand
Gardiner
Joseph Mack
Lewiston
Ethel Curran
Manager Maxwell
Portand
S. S. Sewall
California
Orange Grove
Susie Larrabee
Children's Hospital
Stewart de Mott
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Frank Patten
Mary
Byfield
Mass
D. C. Shaw
Front St
Merton Soule
Bath & Lewiston
Charles Howard
Harry Bartlett
Berlin
N. H
JL. L. Lowell
Bartlett
F. K.trowbridge
New Meadows
Atlantic City
New York
Kershner
Philadelphia
Flora Miller
James Kerr
Pelton-Miller
M. T. McDougall
Chestnut St
J. L. P. Burke
Bath Iron Works
Middle
Center Sts
Loo
Thomas F. Asbury
Woolworth’s
Somerville
Leggett
Middleboro
Conn
Mr. Asbury
Asbury
Bath
Frank M. Harnden
Litchfield
Fred J. Dunton
Harnden
New Opera House
John Whittey
John Trainor
West Bath
New York City
Savannah
Cuba
States
Horace M. Bickford
Charleston
Trainor
Bickford
Bickford Lumber Co
Lowell S. Foote
Bowdoin '12
Sanbornville
Foote
Church of St. John the Baptist
Arthur L. Foote
N. T. Palmer
Arraignment in Grondin murder case in Los Angeles
World news brief reports the arraignment of John Grondin a chemist and undertaker in Los Angeles on murder charges regarding his wife Zelia Grondin a Waterville Maine native. The case hinges on competing handwriting analyses of a suicide note and a February 3 preliminary hearing.
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Los Angeles
John Grondin
Zelia
Waterville
Grondin
Frederick Courtland Penfield
Vienna
Baron Louis Rothschild
Allegrasse
Archduke Leopold Salvator
Harvard
James L. Wellington
Wellington
James Russell Lowell
William Wetmore
Weather and travel tales from Seattle subscriber notice
A Seattle reader sends 3 dollars for a year’s subscription and shares local weather notes saying rain and warmth prevail with no frost. She mentions a pink La France rose from her garden and notes family ties to Bath and Woolwich, and that winter may stay mild.
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Bath and Woolwich
Seattle
Woolwich
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Popham Cliff
Mile. Toutain
Waynflete
Maine News
James R. Clark
Benjamin F. Blagdon
Wisecasset
William G. Hubbard
McGillicuddy
Postmaster Hubbard
Taft
William H. Hines
Frank A. Morey
Elton H. Thompson
James Dwight Curtis
Curtis
Thompson
Grand Army of the Republic
John F. Lamb
Livermore Falls
Council of Administration
University of Maine
Robert J. Aley
William T. . Haines
Haines
C. M. Stewart
Bancor Chamber of Commerce
John A. Roberts
N. T. Cook
New Jersey Experiment
Guy C. Porter
Houston
Aroostook
Skowhegan High School
Fedora Lewin
George Lewin
North St
High School
Dana D. Wagg
Dresden Avenue
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Maine Industrial School For Girls
Hallowell
James F. Bagley
Wilson
Bangor
Henry F. Wing
T. J. Nelligan
E. C. Carll
Lysander Wolf
Laconia
Wolf
Cape Porpoise
Warren C. Philbrook
Supreme Court
Artie” Bickford
Mountain
Cumberland
M. J. McCormick
F. B. Nichols
Cherryfield
C. P. Nickles
Nickles
Colonial Club
World News
Ernst
William
Victoria
Onise
Brunswick City
Blankenburg
Ernst August
Potsdam
Ernest August
Ferdinand K. Keuhn
Monroe
Winthrop More Daniels
Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Clay Hall
Colorado Springs
Wash
the Times Co
10Th Avenue
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