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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1914
Page
3
The article surveys a coal discovery near the Rockledge Hotel at Popham and urges public support for summer resort development in Sagadahoc County. It calls for cooperation among farmers, fishermen, and towns to supply visitors and finance local improvements, including Bay Bridge shares and hotel reopening. It notes Mouse Island rumors and warns towns to act quickly to capitalize on coastal prospects.
The University of Maine hosts Farmers Week offering one week lecture courses for farmers and wives at low time and money cost. Attendees gain practical ideas, rest from routine work, and exchange ideas with peers from across the state. The issue also notes a technical article on the Mississippi River mouth formation during the Civil War mentioning the gunboat Katahdin built in Bath and Farragut-Porter operations.
In Baltimore Maryland a woman reports dramatic relief from severe cramps and irregularities after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes six months pain free and urges others to seek the remedy. The advertisement notes the product is plant based, non narcotic, and backed by testimonials from the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
With February comes opening of Maine lakes and ponds for ice fishing and many sportsmen fished across the state this week. Maine law allows gathering land locked salmon, trout, togue, white perch and black bass with up to five set lines per family. Days are longer.
An advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case if Hall's Catarrh Cure fails. It includes testimonials from the National Bank of Commerce in Toledo praising F. J. Cheney and notes the cure is taken internally. Sell price is 76 cents per bottle with testimonials available.
Long list of free or purchasable bulletins from Uncle Sam's Agricultural Literature. Items cover crop cultivation, animal husbandry, pests, irrigation, dairy, fruit, forestry, and many farm practices with numerous numbered topics and sections across a broad range of agricultural topics.
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