Bath Market Feels Seasonal Slowdown in Supplies
Seasonal calm grips Bath as farmers offer limited produce due to light crops and late harvest. Apples around 3.50 a barrel, 1 to 1.25 a bushel for good fruit. potatoes steady with southern crops helping. butter 30 to 32 cents. eggs scarce but steady then to fall. onions scarce. cabbage prices likely to rise. hay up to 18 dollars a ton. chickens limited with buyers paying 20 to 22 cents a pound.
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Bath
Maine
Market Reporter
Australia
South America
Bermudas
Portland
Boston
Five Islanders raise funds for new church bell
The Bell Fund passes ninety dollars with recent gifts from Alfred Douglass of the Boston Yacht Club, Uncle Bennie Rowe and his son Edgar, and Rev. M Russell Boynton of Brooklyn. The community notes ice cutting, Go-To-Church services, resident moves, and local social happenings as winter drags on.
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Bell
Alfred Douglass
Boston Yacht Club
Sedgemere
Douglass
Bennie” Rowe
Waltham
Mass
Edgar
M. Russell Boynton
Brooklyn
Nehemiah Boyton
D. D
Munroe
Small Point
F. B
Almon Marrs
Deering
W. L. Berry
Fremont Rowe
Ledzemere
Elbridge Mains
Malden
Bowdoin
New Meadows Social Roundups Highlight Local Gatherings
A busy weekend scene includes a whist party with four tables won by Miss Florence Jordan and Forest Jackson, and a Merry Club tea at Mrs. Sidney Holbrook's with eight attendees. An upcoming church fund drive plans a sociable at Ada Holbrook's on Feb 17 featuring music and supper.
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Alma Holbrook
Canton
George Savage
Sidney Holbrook
Marjorie
Silas Holbrook
East Harpswell
Alfred Clifford
Orono
Robert Jordan
Harvey
Woodworking and travel notes from Bowdoin area
Wallace Small of North Bowdoin is down sawing wood for Mrs. Frank Small while Mr Smarl has a new gasoline engine. Mr and Mrs Elbridge Mains, visiting Mrs Mains's parents, continue their trip from Malden Mass to the rest of Mr Mains's vacation. Eugene Small works cutting wood for Norman Curtis.
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Wallace Small
North Bowdoin
Frank SmallMr
Elbridge Mains
Mrs. Main
Malden Mass
Mr. Mains
Eugene Small
Norman Curtis
Old-Time Remedy Promises Pure Blood Hood's Sarsaparilla
An advertisement urges readers to take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify and enrich the blood. It touts the medicine as safe, reliable, and effective against scrofula catarrh rheumatism dyspepsia loss of appetite fatigue and debility, and promotes obtaining it from any drug store.
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Scott
Scott’s
Bloomfield
West Bath Grange Meets Amid Cold Sledding
West Bath members braved subzero weather for a large Grange meeting with about 85 in attendance. Town officials closed books for the year, ice hauls and wood cutting continued, and local schools planned spring vacation despite harsh conditions.
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Brown Tail
New Meadows
West Bath
Herr Jose
Foster’s Point
Rose
Grant Gifford
Henry Galt Place
Foster's Point Road
Larrabee
Galt
Fred Bubier
Sabine
Bowdoin Free Baptist Conference Mourns Death of Morse
Resolutions from Bodwell Grange extend sympathy to the Morse family after a brother's death. The charter will be draped in mourning for 30 days and a copy of the resolutions filed. Bowdoin Conference of Free Baptist Churches met in Brunswick with Rev Bowley Green of Portland as the principal speaker and other clergy assisting.
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Bro Morse
Bodwell Grange
Bowdoin Conference of Free Baptist Churches
Brunswick
Free Baptist Church
Bowley Green
Portland
S. A. Evans
Dr. Salley
The
College Church
Republicans Target Second District Race With Aggressive Plan
Want Shepard of Rockport is seen by Republican leaders as the strongest candidate to defeat the Progressive faction and unseat Democratic Rep. McGillicuddy in the coming campaign. They expect to bury Progressives and rally behind Shepard if he runs.
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Rockland
McGillicuddy
H. J. Shepherd
Rockport
New Broadway Night Show Ends With Warm Newark Premiere
Irene Fenwick stars as Ruth in the New York premiere of Along Came Ruth directed by Col. Savate. Cast members Kilgour McCarthy and Bradbury Jr. deliver notable performances. The play, adapted from La Damselle de Magasin, centers on New England life and premieres in Newark on Monday February 2.
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Wartertins
Bel
Henrys
Tafford
Collese
Irene Fenwick
Ruth
Joseph Kilgour
F. J McCarthy
James Bradbury, Jr
Mr. Day Nas
New England
Newark
Bath Business Association Eyes Photo Book for Vacant Homes
An idea proposed by Hon HW Sewall to Bath Business Men's Association aims to photograph vacant or soon to be sold historic homes of former wealthy residents. The plan envisions embedding cuts into a booklet with descriptions to mail to wealthy buyers in Chicago and New York to entice purchase or rental as summer homes in Bath.
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HW. M. Sewall
Bath Business Men's Association
Uch
Chicago
New York
Bath
Quadruplets Born Near Pittsfield Maine
Mrs Bert Cooper of a Pittsfield Maine village gave birth Sunday to four babies two girls and two boys. The infants survived only briefly and Mrs Cooper's condition on Tuesday was listed as very critical. Her father Shirley Renolds of Unity was summoned for. A Bowdoin Yale fencing match boxing exhibition and dance are planned at the College Gym Saturday night.
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Bert Cooper
Pittsfield
Cooper
Shirley Renolds
Unity
Bowdoin
Yale
Petition for probate of will in Sagadahoc County
George F. Hughes of Bath petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court to prove and allow the will of Susan M. Hughes, who died January 30, 1914, and to issue letters testamentary to George I. Hughes. Notice is ordered to be published in the Bath Independent for three weeks, with appearance set for March 3, 1914.
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Maine
Sagadahoc
George EB. Hughes
Bath
Susan M. Hughes
George S. Hughes
Henrietta P. Gregson
Wim. P. Neatley
Bangor
Henry A. Neatley
Newton
Mass
George Lk. Hughes
John J. Keegan
State OF Maine
James S. Lowell
W. Longley
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