Independent seeks photos of Sagadahoc county natives living elsewhere
The Bath Independent announces a new weekly feature printing pictures and sketches of Sagadahoc county born residents now living in other states. Readers are asked to mail photographs with detailed captions including birthplace town parents school attended emigration date current location and occupation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Arrowsie
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Gorgetown
Perkins
Phippsburg
Richmond
Topsham
West Bath
Woolwich
Bath Independent
Railroads urged to clear brown-tail nests on rights of way
A letter argues railroads should remove brown-tail moth nests from their rights of way. It notes Maine towns now clear nests along roads and parks and asks corporations to share the burden. The writer also discusses growing street railway mileage and a possible service to Popham Beach, praising Harry B. Sawyer for securing new Kelley Spear contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Street Railways
Maine
Phippsburg
Popham Beach
Harry B. Sawyer
Kelley
Burleigh Seen as Likeliest Senate Candidate in Texas
Former Congressman E C Burleigh of the third district announces his candidacy for United States senator. If a Republican legislature is elected this fall he would have a strong chance, with Fred A Powers of Houston also in the race but not favored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Burleigh
Third District
United
Burleigh
Pictures of Mayors Spur City to Act on Historic Portraits
In Bath a push recalls past mayor portraits hanging in the aldermen’s room and urges a committee to secure missing images before time erodes the record. The Independent carries a Edison letter on tidal power, urging practical engineering validation for funding. The idle New England shipyard site at Bath could attract firms if highlighted, as Bath faces political heat with no January intoxication arrests and a looming municipal judge contest.
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The
New England Company
Atlantic
Bath Board of Trade
Bath Merchants’ Association
West Bowdoin School News and Local Incidents
Miss Ida Allen returned to school after a week of illness. Mrs Hannah Williams suffered a severe stove burn in a recent accident. Joel Higgins and a Lewis ton friend visited Ab ram Higgins. Several town schools closed Friday for winter. Mrs James Rideout remains in very poor health.
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Ida Allen
Hannah Williams
Joel Higgins
Lewiston
Abram Higgins
James Rideout
Susie Center
Point
Massachusetts
Capt
Amasa Williams
New York
Walter
Willis
Cornwall
Hudson
Bridge
John Meeley
Durham
Albert R. Harward
Susan Gertrude Hynes
London
England
Independent
Norward’s Road
Mabel
Hattie Temple
Bath
James FE. Cornish
Newton
Mass
Margaret McCollum
Westport
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted As Cure All
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional ailment. It claims the remedy cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Mhall
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Bowdoinham News Digest Remembers Local Figures
Bowdoinham reports Isaac Eaton death at Soldiers Home aged about 72. Harold French fractured a leg bone and Willis Frye bruised in a bob sled collision on the main street. Many locals noted illness visits, engagements, travels, and community events including courtship, theater, lodge meetings, and an upcoming postal savings bank opening February 21.
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Harold French
Willis Frye
Isaac Eaton
Charles and
Annie Fisher
Boston
Notable February Freeze Warns of Cold Weather Cure
A reader mentions the Feb abbreviation Freeze everybody and mocks the chill. The ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a permanent warmth booster that invigorates blood, strengthens the body, and resists disease for men, women, and children.
Seven Years of Misery Ends for Sikeston Woman
Mrs DeMabethune of Sikeston Missouri reports seven years of debilitating illness with monthly bed rest and cramps. After rejecting surgery a friend recommended Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound which restored her health and energy, enabling her to perform daily tasks and social duties. The ad credits the remedy with helping many women facing displacement inflammation irregularities and nervous prostration after other medicines failed.
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Sikeston
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dema Bethune
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by Bath Testimony
Bath resident John E. Beane, a carpenter, reports four years of use with Doan's Kidney Pills easing kidney pain and back soreness. He notes disordered kidneys and painful passages but says short courses improved his condition. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Bath
John E. Beane
Carpenter
Academy St
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Sunday School Growth and Town Leaders Decision Highlight Local News
Sunday school attendance rises as the town prepares for a March town meeting. Hon. Lewis M. Fulton will run again for the Board of Selectmen to mark the town 150th anniversary, after considering retirement. Harold French recovers from a sledding accident, and Bowdoinham mourns the death of Isaac W. Eaton at 72, a noted draftsman poet and inventor who contributed to magazines and designed the first New York elevated railway model. Eaton served in the Civil War and spent years in Soldiers’ Homes before his death in Chelsea, Massachusetts. February, one-third gone.
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Browne
Lewis M. Fulton
Hume & Newhall Company
Fairfield
Sunshine Society
Daisy Measley
X. B. B. Club
Merrymeeting Grange
Independent
Grange
Daniel S. Jaques
Kate Mulligan
Bowdoin
Sagadahoc Grange
John Temple
George Hackett
The
Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Church
L. D. Small
Methodist
Board of Selectmen
Fulton
Harold French
Bowdeinham
Isaac W. Eaton
Chelsea
Mass
Mr. Eaton
New York
Puck
Judge
Texas Siftings
Europe
Massachusetts Battery
Pension Examining Board
Soldiers’ Home
Dayton
Ohio
Charles
Annie Fisher
Boston
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Front St
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Harry C. Webber
Duce
Sagadahoc County
Ents
Bath, Maine
Hon
William T. Cobb
Fred A
Powers of
Houston
Mr. Burleigh
James W. Wake
Thomas A. Edison
Dunton
West Bowdoin
Up County
Ruth Leighton
George Chadwick
Harley Leighton
F. K. Jack
Jack
Litchfield
C. O. Purington
M. W. Adams
W. D. Hutchins
Charles Blair
Viola Coombs
Main Street
Miss Hall
Sullivan
Bowdoin Center
Electa Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Kennebec Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Lucinda Siegars
Augusta Siegars
Post Road
Brunswick
America Purington
W. L. Bonney
Portland
Mrs. Bonney
Eliphalet Robbins
Jennie Reed
Waterville
Colby
Kilby
Freeport
Brighton
I. C. Irish
Misa Bertha
Jefferson Theatre
Louise Hall
Charles Perry
Robert H. Ferguson
Charles B. Randall
Sons of Veterans Camp
F. J. Nichols
H. E. Raymond
E. B. Duran
Benjamin Blanchard
Wiscasset
Clarence P. Bates
Morse Brothers of
Paul Hatch
Irving M. Fowle
Portland Wednes
Charles Estes
Hannie Denham
E. E. Gifford
Robert Ferguson
James H. Ames
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Frank Shea
Stamford
Augusta Robinson
Princeton
Charles Cary
Augusta Istat
Miles M. Reed
Canada
Fred Cornish
Doan’s
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