Scott G Bailey A Maine Swift & Co Leader In Bath Boyhood
Scott G Bailey of Moatsweag on the Woolwich Wiscasset border rose from Bath driver to Swift & Co manager in New England. He earned a Chicago trip by selling Pride Washing Powder, led a Maine beef and trade expansion, and chaired Chamber committees and a major Portland parade. He lives by the Golden Rule and became a Rotary leader.
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Portland
Maine
Kenebec
Bath
Sagadahoc
Independent
Scott G. Bailey
Moatsweag
Woolwich
Wiscasset
George
Sarah J. (Reed) Bailey
Bath Business College
Swift & Co
Scott Bailey
Bailey
Swift
New England
Chicago
Bangor
Penobscot
Swift& Co
Forest Ci
Swift & Cos
H. B. Peters
East
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Rotary Club
Forest City
Gasolene Engine of the Wotton Exploded
Moses Wallace of Sebasco recounts the sinking of the fishing sloop Nellie F. Wotton after a gasolene engine exploded four and a half miles off Cape Elizabeth lightship last Thursday afternoon. Capt. Wallace and crew survived survival by dory to lightship rescue, with brother Loat presumed dead.
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Moses Wallace
Sebasco
Nelie F. Wotton
Cape Elizabeth
Wotton
Portland
Wallace
Loat
Almon
Harris
Almon Wallace
Bernie
Bessie
Humphrey Sennett
Capt
Edith Dodge
Everett Wallace
Carl Wallace
Merton Q. Wallace
Victor Wallace
Lafayette Wallace
Capt. Wallace
Daisy Ditton
Minnie Wallace
George Wallace
Melvin Wallace
Levi Wallace
Mose Wallace
Tramp Scare Shocks Phippsburg Residents
A suspicious man walked through Phippsburg making rounds for food and warmth before breaking into a cottage and later wearing different clothing. He sparked a tramp scare as residents alerted Sheriff Oliver. James Percy, chief engineer of a Savannah line boat, visited Cox's Head while a substitute chief began his duties.
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Popham
Charles Hyde
Dr. Percy
Small Point
Chester Wallace
Harrison McIntyre
Small Point Road
Dromore
William Oliver
Winneganee
George Oliver
Hyde Cottage
Sheriff Oliver
Bath
Phippsburg
Atkin’s Bay
Dromore Bay
James E. Percy
Mark L. Percy
Cox
Mr. Percy
Savannah Line
Savannah
Arthur
Skiff Adrift in Ice Floe Towed to Bath
A man named Mullen from Lines's Island was found ice bound in a large floe during the 10 o'clock Hockomock trip from Bath to Seguin. He had spent the night adrift on the river and was rescued, then thawed by boiler-room fires aboard the ferry before being taken to Woolwich and Bath.
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Boston Herald
Whittier
James Cutting
Bath
Cass
Woolwich
Mullen
Lines’s Island
Seguin
New Meadows
Lines's Island
Bath Water District sells 500000 dollar bonds at premium
A. B. Leach & Co. of Boston won the 500000 dollar 4 percent 30 year water bonds with a bid of 100.77 and a total premium of 3850 dollars. Bidder list included Fidelity Trust Co. and Gilman Adams & Co. The sale, attended by Bath district trustees, follows Maine corporate details with district valuation about 6.5 million and population about 9400.
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A. B. Leach & Co
Boston
Fidelity Trust Co
Portland
Charles H. Gilman & Co
Adams & Co
Bath Water District
W. S. Newell
R. H. Baxter
E. S. Crosby
Henry Lewis
Charles S. Biswell
Maine
Bath
Bath War Relief Exhibit Attracts Attention In Village Window
In the Independ ent office display by Mme Emma Eames, Bath War Relief Committee shows shirts for French wounded, slings, binders, and dressings, made weekly in New York. Soldiers receive red trimmed shirts and pockets hold handkerchiefs. WCTU adds chocolate. Hon Harold Sewall visited and the relief fund gained $75.
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Bath War Relief Committee
Mme
Emma Eames
Bath
New York City
W.C.T.U
Harold M. Sewall
Navy reports completion percentages for two destroyers
The Navy Department announces Feb 1 completion figures for Bath Iron Works ships. Davis shows hull 69.2 percent and machinery 77.37 percent, while Allen has hull 67.7 percent and machinery 76.90 percent.
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Bath Iron Works
Navy Department
Davis
Allen
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Swift & Company
Washington
Lincoln
John M. Clark Undertaking
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Skipper
Portlaand
Kellogg St
Long Wharf
Nellie
Gentleman of
Hyde
Hockomock
Kennebec Yacht Club
Commodore Ledyard
Albert L. Strout
Seth S. Mullin
Edward W. Bridgham
J. M. Tarbox
Bernard McCausland
Robert Heggie
Oakwood Farm
Hyde Windlass
Thomipson
Frates
Times
Neverslip Shoes
Johnson Bros. Co
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