Port Orford notes of a Mason Seeking Home and Work
A 1915 Port Orford dispatch describes a mason’s letters from Oregon detailing winter climate as mild and wet, current work in masonry and agate selling, and plans to homestead. He praises the area so far, notes cheap land and water power, a potential railroad, local industries, and his intent to file on 160 acres while lodging hopeful forecasts for future growth. He recounts fixing a smoky fireplace and helping a neighbor, then outlines outlooks for jobs and prosperity amid hard times.
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Port Orford Ore
Cline
New England
Central States
Florida
Georgetown
Origi Borhee
Rai
Portland
San Francisco
Port Orford
East
Rogue
Coos Bay
Enoreha
San Franisco
Anyorne
Eastern Steamship earnings show deficits and reorganizations
The receiver filed figures on the Eastern Steamship Corporation two year earnings, noting deficits for Eastern Lines and changes in Metropolitan and Maine lines. A history of erratic fortunes follows the Morse phase and Consolidated lines, with past dividends but recent restructurings leading toward scale down of charges. An adjourned Probate Court session is noted for Tuesday.
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Eastern Steamship Corporation
Eastern Lines
Sin Uen
Maine Steamship Line
Ross
New England Steamship Lines
Morse
Consolidated Steamship Lines
Dances and events enliven Bath winter social scene
Bath social page notes Bath Lodge of Elks, Morse High senior dance, and town gatherings at Foresters Hall and Minsie Hall. The Colonial Second team travels to Richmond to face the Richmond team while local politicians announce a mayoral election and ward caucuses. A schooner fleet freighted for Brazil and Portland cargoes reflect port activity as the community follows class dances and charity banquets.
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Percy
Bath Lodge of Elks
Bath Opera House
Richmond
Minsie Hall
Republican City Committee
May Davenport
Wiley
Newhart News
Para
Brazil
Davenport
Portland
Morse High
Music Hall
Charles Benedict Attaya
M.H.S
Paul D. Simpson
Bangor
Bath
Rockefeller
Northeast Harbor
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Mount Desert Island
Johnson Bros. Co
Howard B
Ernest F
Edward A
Clarence E. Johnson
John R. Norton
M. Durgin
Ralph A. Rand
A. W. H .Rand
A. P. Denham
H. F. Rand
H. B. Johnson
Willis T. Emmons
E. T. Chamberlain
Washington
Copenhagen
Addison FE. Bullard
United States
South America
Cora F. Cressey
Almia Bo Crosby
Redbecca Palmer
Thelmia
Swift Co
C. W. Rogers
Elmer Rovers
Maine Town News Roundup With Local Events And Notices
Ward voting lists have been posted as Maine town life continues with church events, ice haul prospects, and local repairs. Nutritious lectures on milk and cream, banked by Morse High, mix with repairs on the schooner Alice May Douglas and a Holy Name Society minstrel show near Bath. Funeral for Mrs. Mary Call, other obits, and a debate on naval spending frame a busy period.
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Stevens
North Street
Knights of Columns
Holy Name
Front St
Morse High
G. A. Jamison
A. J. Deering
Alice May Douglas
Drake
South Portland
Holy Name Society
Bath Opera House
Mary Call
Bowdoin
Miles N. Reed
William Soule
South Freeport
Norman Smith
Bath
Harry Call
Augusta
Fred Call
Auburn
Harrison Adams
Bowdoinham
Joseph Adams
William Adams
Topsham
Wallace
Joe
Boston & Maine
Portsmouth
N. H
Gilker
Naval
Laurence S. Adams
Bath Iron Works
Mahlon Bickford
Underwood
Treasury
Gerry
Firsh
J. Edward Hewey
U. S. District Court
Portland
Hewey
Weather and local notes from a Maine town
Zero temperature and improving conditions forecast for Kennebec ice fields. Hockomock begins route Thursday while M C R R rehires workers. several local people noted for farming, industry, and ship work. Community events include church social planning, a tugboat model destined for Charleston, and a bowling league night with a track record set by W H Miller.
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Kennebec
Hockomock
Mercury
M.C.R.R
E. Randall Leonard
Orpington
Edgecomb Brothers
Boston
Express
Washington St
Tron
Montreal
Samuel Hathorne
Woolwich
Coast Artillery
Portland
Bert Kingsbury
Bath
Virginia
George E. Murray
J. R. Berry
Charleston
Elbridge Atkins
Colonial Club
Brunswick Club
Billiards
W. A. Murtaugh
Howard W. Hawleypool
O. P. Coffin
W. P. Marks
Cribbage
R. C. Whitehouse
R. B. Hatch
Harold Thompson
Charles R. Farnham
Howard B
F. Johnson
F. H. Turner
F. Ramsay
A. S. Merrill
Kk. M. Fuller
F. B. Nichols
Oliver Moses
Brunswick
Colonials
W. H. Miller
H. Moulton
McFadden
Miller
The
Beacons
Eurekas
Percy
Hyde Windlass
Portland area residents on trips and hospital visits
A long list shows Joseph F. McCole and many others in Portland on business trips or visits. Several leave for Hebron Sanitarium and Maine General Hospital for treatment.
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Joseph F. McCole
Portland
Charles H. Oliver
John L. Wilson, Jr
L. L. Lowell
E. C. Knights
Judge Keegan
John C. Humphreys
P. J. Conley
Hebron Sanitarium
Florence Buxton
Pittsfield
Roy J. Buxton
Mildred Daley
Maine General Hospital
E. J. Gaudreau
Strand Theatre Orchestra
L. B. Clark
J. S. Winslow Co
E. S. Crosby
Charles J. Sargent
Boston
Westport
John Houghton
Taft School
Ann E. Merrill
Farmington
Bath
Edward Lunt
Popham
Fred Sparks
E. H. Sampson
J. Fred Tobey, Jr
Riggsville
Herman Spinney
Spinney Bros
Bay Point
Spinney
J. Edward Drake
Fred W. Humphreys
J. C. Phillips
Galveston
Drake Cottage
Birch Point
Grace Percy
Parker Head
Cambridge
Mass
Edna Oliver
A. H. Blackington
Rockland
William Staples
Waterville
Edward H. Sampson
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Georgetown Traveller
Port Oxford
Storm
Solovich
High St
Farrar
Melcher
India
Maine
C. E. Nolan
Hite River
Universalist Church
Harry E. Stetson
Middle St
Isaiah King
F. G. Proctor
New Bedford
Proctor
F. L. Brackley
S. M. Parillo
M. Parillo
Kennebunk
Sidney St. Clair Jones
Weymouth
N. S
Arline Gay
J. A. Stevens
Popham Beach
J. H. Steevv
Harry Loring
Colon
Panama
War Department
C. M. Richards
Lynn
Littlefield & Moulton
F. S. Oliver
Margaret Fallon
Waltham
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