Forty Years Ago in Bath Sees Local Advancements and News
Fortunate notes from Bath dated February 8 1910 include updates on local crews and ships with Captain Winslow recovering from a head injury. Walter Sprague joins the Popham Beach life saving crew as No 7. Marble work now underway for Bath Savings Institution and Bath National Bank. A circular saw accident injures Warren Dyer but leaves fingers intact. The Kaiulani is renamed Star of Finland and prepares to join the Alaska Packers fleet. Special orders announce election of a second lieutenant of the Fourth Company Coast Artillery N G S M Bath for February 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Sprague
Bucks Harbor
Popham Beach
A. Sewall & Co
Pacific Coast
Star of Finland
San Francisco
Alaska Packers’ Association
Adjutant General
Coast Artillery
Bath
George A. Baker
Richard W Clark crew and Bath events highlight town notes
Reports deny anxiety over the schooner Richard W Clark now at New Bedford discharging lumber after being listed overdue in Pawtucket. Other items note a trolley blaze, a bank building move, a local fire at Shannon Hotel ruins, and various social and sporting events around Bath on Feb 9 and 11, 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Rogers & Webb
Boston
Richard W. Clark
New Bedford
Philadelphia
Pawtucket
Clark
F.S. Bowker
Phippsburg
A. A. Corey
Knowlton Named Medical Referee for Rockingham County
Dr J G W Knowlton of Exeter N H, son of John R Knowlton of this city, is to accept for Exeter as medical referee and surroundings. The decision follows Dr Walker of Portsmouth NH, recently appointed medical referee for Rockingham county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. W. Knowlton
Exeter
N. H
John R. Knowlton
City
W. Dalker
Portsmouth
Rockingham County
Fire ruins at Hooker block and burned corn pile
Fire smoldered in the Hooker block with water pouring from a Commercial street hydrant to douse the timbers. A carload of corn nearby was partly burned and scorched and deemed worthless. one man warned it could harm livestock if fed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooker Block
Commercial Street
Local scenes show painters at Hatch shoe store
Fred Aderton and Harry E. Austin, painters, are decorating the Hatch shoe store. The old electric car near Vine street was moved today to the rope walk pond after being sited west of the Alameda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Aderton
Harry E. Austin
Hatch
Alameda
Vine Street
Tuberculosis Tests on Local Cattle and City Politics Rumors
Dr. Butler inspected six cattle herds last night with results: A Sanford seven eight cows healthy. Crossman seven cows three infected. Standish nine healthy. Baker five one infected. Morrill five healthy. Hagan thirteen healthy. Also, Bath Iron Works to launch torpedo boat destroyer Paulding next month. Mayor Hyde contemplates reelection with no opposition. Alderman Purington will not seek another term. Kimball buys Greene farm in Lewiston. Lodgers and three prisoners found at police station, breakfasts ordered for all. Colonial club members named to represent in Brunswick tournament. details of players across several games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Butler
A. Sanford
Mr. Sanford
John Crossman
David Standish
Thomas Baker
C. S. Morrill
Frank Hagan
Johns. Hyde
Hyde
Board of Aldermen and Common Council
A.K. Purington
Gilmore
Americans in Brazil Surveyor Returns Home From Amazon
Stephen S. Bunker arrives in New York after a year mapping along the Amazon for a Brazilian government railroad. He will remain six weeks at his Lincoln Street home before resuming work. He rode in on the Cearense, which brought 1400 tons of rubber valued over 5 million dollars at current prices. Dunning enjoyed holidays in Scotland and Berlin diplomacy. Tug Seguin towed vessels for ice bound for Alexandria, Virginia. Plate glass front underway at Joseph Solovich store front on Front Street. Charles T. Jackson announces retirement from clothing business with stock sale starting Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Southard
High Street
Stephen S. Bunker
Brazil
South America
Amazon
Lincoln Street
New York
Cearense
States
Joseph Solovich
Front Street
Charles T. Jackson
Congress
Roosevelt
Saar
Germany
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
Alaska
U. S
Huey Long
Louisiana
Bruno Hauptmann
New Jersey
Manuel Quezon
Philippines
Detroit Tigers
Chicago Cubs
Store to Close After Twenty Years on Street
Mr Jackson a seasoned retailer in the same store for twenty years plans to close his business with a sale today and Tuesday as clerks mark down stock. Fire crews still dampen embers at Hooker mill ruins after a minor blaze. Republican caucuses set for Friday February 25 at Alameda with Harry E Stetson presiding. ward meetings Wednesday the 23rd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Alameda
Harry E. Stetson
Recent Real Estate Transfers Recorded in Sagadahoc County
Transfers include Arrowsie Maybelle Cotton to Chester McCrater and others of land and buildings in Bath Ruth Cushman to Sarah Savage on High Street Donald Specht to Benjamin Haggett et al land and buildings Front Street Eugene Dutton to Merrill Dickenson land and buildings Beacon Street Annie Cobb to Cleveland Curtis land in Bowdoinham Thomas McCann to Gustave Lamore land and buildings Georgetown Raymond Reid to Don Leavitt Inc land and buildings Phippsburg William Morse et al to Sumner Sewall land and buildings plus multiple other transfers of land and buildings across Sagadahoc County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc County
Bowdoinham
Annie P. Cobb
Cleveland P. Curtis
Thomas H. McCann
Gustave J. Lamore
Georgetown
Raymond Reid
Don Leavitt
Sibyl W. Coates
Marie W. Hoffman
Richmond
Ruth I. Laney
Wilbur T. Emerson
Bertha I. Raymond
Evelyn B. Hinckley
Fannie Sverdlik
Ferrars L. Stuber
Harry E. Mitchell, Jr
Alberta M. Loewe
William E. Whitney
Edward F. Guptil
George B. Furlong
George I. Finlay
Carlton H. Curtis
Pauline C. Cronk
Sadie Hanson
Lawrence R. Coughlin
Topsham
Robert H. Brann
Stafford Russell
West Bath
Archibald A. MacCoy
Herbert Wood
Eleanor H. Phillips
John H. Morse
Woolwich
Ladie C. Fifield Oliver
Arthur C. Charrier
Lillian Walker Freeman
Melvin H. Savage
Eben Dana
Charles W. Quimby
Ballot inspection requested in Ward Two wardens race
Mrs. Ella M. Dingley filed for an inspection of Ward Two ballots after a three way write in contest for warden. William Adams had six votes, Dingley four, Chaney three. clerk Ring to schedule inspection likely early next week. Ward Three tied between Edgar Leavitt and Eugene Burgess with five votes each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella M. Dingley
Harry E. Ring
William Adams
Dingley
Goldie Chaney
Ring
Edgar D. Leavitt
Eugene Burgess
Red Cross Bath Chapter Holds Monday Meeting
Bath chapter of the American Red Cross met in the Trustees room of Bath Trust Co for a business session presided by Mrs Seth S Mullin in Frederick E Drake Jr’s absence Reports from officers and committees were read The hospital entertainment and instruction service received birthday cakes from West Bath for veterans at Togus Veterans hospital Earl Farnham chairs the drive planningcommittee for this year’s campaign
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
American Red Cross
The
Bath Trust Co
Frederick E. Drake, Jr
Seth S. Mullin
West Bath
Veterans
Togus Veterans’ Hospital
Earl Farnham
Jump-off-Joe Creek Pioneer Jump Described in 1839 Tale
A southern Oregon stream named Jump-off-Joe Creek is linked to pioneer Joe McLoughlin who supposedly jumped into the water in 1839 for the sheer joy of it. The legend ties the stream to McLoughlin, a notable figure in early Oregon history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Joe McLoughlin
Monthly Session Probate Court Delivers Wills and Administrations
The Monthly Session of the Probate Court lists numerous wills filed and estates administered. Executors named include Stuart Chapin Elizabeth A Oliver Janet S Chapman and Edward W Bridgham with several appointments without bond and with bond as required. Administrations granted for multiple estates including Bath Richmond Phippsburg and St.Michael Md among others. Inventories and accounts filed and approved cover a wide range of Bath Topsham Woolwich and neighboring towns with petitions for licenses to sell real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Munroe Chapin
Woolwich
Stuart Chapin
Leonard W. Oliver
Bath
Elizabeth A. Oliver
Helen Sloane Hemke
Topsham
Janet S. Chapman
Hannah A. Thomas
Edward W. Bridgham
Alice M. Gannon
William H. Smith
Richmond
Iaa C. Smith
Turner E. McCarty
Phippsburg
Walter P. McCarty
Chicago
Illinois
Asa C. Wyman
Wilbur H. Wyman
Robert W. Stinson
Richard A. Stinson
Herbert P. Brown
St. Michael
John P. Carey
Henry R. Trial
Robert Trial
Cambridge
Asa C. Hathorne
Maurice T. Hathorne
Charles Condos
Gardiner R. Deering
Samuel Hathorn
Gilbert P. Hathorn
Katherine S. Haggett
Donald H. Specht
Lawrence W. Specht
H. Mary Wilson
Bowdeinham
William H. Farrar
Alice M. Favor
Helen K. Emerson
George L. Burnham
Blanche L. Huff
Ralph E. Nowell
West Bath
Alice M. Nowell
Wallace S. Reed
Bleike S. Reed
Edward Wren
Georgetown
Myrtle T. Wren
Emma A. Perry
Annabell R. Parker
Anne Kauilani Williams
Harold S. Williams
Arthur F. Williams
Arthur W. Decker
Charles N. Nanfel
Mary E. Willis
Harold W. Willis
Mary A. Sawyer
Amy F. Doyle
Katherine E. Shaughnessy
Charles W. Shaughnessy
William R. Kimball
Ruby A. Preble
Hazel W. Lowell
John Hall
Ernest L. Goodspeed
Donna Lorraine Knight
Lester Knight
Guardian
Sarah E. Whitten
Charles A. Knight
Alfred E. Trott
Milton C. Trott
Freeman A. Trott
Alexander MacDougal
Marcella MacDougall
Novella J. Trott
Luella M. Ward
Frank E. Ward
Monroe E. Wilbur
Sarah E. Wilbur
Samuel R. Percy
Eleanor P. Irish
Daniel Williams
Sagadahoc
Toy Aioe
Charles 2 Shaughnessy
Arthur J. Dunton
Probete
John L. Jack
Liquid nitrogen chills metal to minus 320 degrees
A description notes liquid nitrogen rapidly cools a metal sample to minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit, illustrating extreme low-temperature effects on materials.
Fateful Fifty Years 1900 1949 Inventions and Upheaval
A compact chronicle of 1931 events: cyclotron invention, global gold standard collapse, Latin American revolutions, Spain’s monarchist shift and proclamation of a republic, and major New York milestones. It notes Rockne’s death, the 1931 World Series outcome, and rising unemployment amid bank crises and New Deal reforms.
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Great Britain
Peru
Cuba
Chile
Salvador
Paraguay
Alfonso XIII
Madrid
Spain
Alcalo Zamora
Empire State Building
New York City
Knute Rockne
University of Notre Dame
Bazaar
Kas
St. Louise Cardinals
Gas House Gang
Philadelphia Athletics
Cambridge Muskrat Skinner Won National Contest
Curtis Insley, 53, world champion muskrat skinner from Cambridge Maryland, won the National Muskrat Skinning contest at the Cambridge outdoor show finishing five muskrats in 1 minute 54.4 seconds to take the $250 prize. He notes he may retire from the marshes but says he could skin 25 or 1,000 in a day with practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Skinner
Curtis Insley
Insley
Joe DiMaggio
Maryland
Maine
Louisiana
George North
North
Pardon Petition Pending for Otis L Pushard
The Maine Secretary of State announces a pardon petition for Otis L Pushard of Bath, imprisoned for Carnal Knowledge. A hearing before the Governor and Council is set for March 1, 1950, at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chamber at Augusta.
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MV State
Augusta
Otis L. Pushard
Bath
Maine
Riausteins
Probate notices list executors and administrators in Sagadahoc estates
John L. Jack Register of Probate records various appointments on February 7, 1950. Estates include Herbert P Brown Turner E. McCarty Alice M. Gannon Hannah A. Thomas and others with appointments to administrators and executors in Bath Phippsburg Woolwich and Cambridge Massachusetts. Arthur J. Dunton presides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Jack
Sagadahoc
Herbert P Brown
St Michaels
Maryland
John P Carey
Bath
Turner E. McCarty
Phippsburg
Walter P. McCarty
Chicago
Illinois
Alice M. Gannon
Edward W. Bridgham
Hannah A. Thomas
Asa C. Wyman
Wilbur H. Wyman
Charles Condos
Gardiner R. Deering
Henry Ronaldo Trial
Robert L. Trial
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Asa C. Hathorne
Woolwich
Maurice T. Hathorne
Arthur J. Dunton
West Pointers rightly proud of school community
Readers note a Mothers' club role in school activities and praise for well socialized children. A bulletin board displays greetings to last year’s grammar teacher Nellie Davis and flowers from the Sweeney family after a death. The piece closes with a remark on ancient clay maps dating to about 2500 B.C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mothers’ Club
Nellie Davis
Jennie Sweeney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
Seree McFadden
William Koughan
Maxwell-Dempsey Co
Bath Savings Institution
New Bath National Bank
Capt. Smith
Portland
Town
J. S. Winslow
Percy & Small
Capt. Winslow
Warren Dyer
Morse
Dr. Wyman
Archie R. Linekin
Hoggson Bros
Bath National Bank
Mr. Linekin
Maine Central Railroad
Rockland
Bar Harbor
Main Line
George Lawley & Son Corporation
South Boston
Neponset
George Roderick
Mr. Hooker
Shannon Hotel
McFadden
Kittredge
Jolmes
Gaudreau
Roscoe Leighton
E. M. Fuller, Jr
Clare Coombs
William W. Robinson
J. D. Robinson
Hooker Mill
Robinson
Levi T. Thompson
W. A. Barker
Dresden
Wiscasset
Cote
Lewiston
Russell Street
A. A. Percy
Harry C. Webber
Bath Merchants’ Association
Maine Central
City Hall
F. B. Torrey
Kennebec River
Pacific Slope
Tion
Paulding
Bath Iron Works
E. H. Kimball
Charles S. Greene
William D. Sewall
York Hall
Jack Knight
New Haven
Mabel Bacon
Knight
Colonial Club
Brunswick Club
Brunswick
Pool
O. P. Coffin
Joseph McCole
Billliards
Clarence W. Moftse
Fred W. Humphreys
Cribbage
Turner
C. C. Troop
W. F. Pond
Duplicate Bridge Whist
F. F. Blaisdell
R. H. Donnell
E. H. Bohlken
Arthur E. Dunning
Weimar
Scotland
Keer
Dunning
Berlin
Uncle Sam
Seguin
Percy & Small Yard
North Boothbay
Alexandria
Boothbay Harbor
Grace Davis
Belfast
RED Cross
William Ritt
Central Press
Washington
East
Middle West
Shanghai
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Hopewell, N. J
James J. Walker
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New York Yankees
United States
National Industrial Recovery Act
NRA
Adolf Hitler
Sally Rand
Miami
Fla
Anton Cermak
Russia
U. S. Navy
Akron
Utah
New York Giants
Washington Senators
Albert
Belgium
Leopold III
Hitler
Kremlin
John Dillinger
FBI
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austria
Alexander I
Yugoslavia
Jean Louis Barthou
Marseilles
Morro Castle
Italy
Ethiopia
St. Louis Cardinals
Pres
Roosevelt Lindbergh Baby
Harold Goss
West Pointers
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