Gardiner seeks reelection at Lincoln club banquet in Portland
Governor William Tudor Gardiner announced his candidacy for a second term at a Lincoln club banquet in Portland last week. Republicans expect his renomination in June primaries though former Mayor John Wilson eyes 1932 hopes. Wilson may contest Gardiner but faces slim odds of beating the incumbent.
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William ‘Tudor Gardiner
Lincoln Club
Portland
Gordimer
Republicans
Maine
John Wilson
Gardiner
Wilson
Concrete roads gain ground over gravel on Maine trunk lines
The Maine Highway Commission faces public opposition as residents note concrete and cement highways on trunk routes outperform gravel in longevity and economy for heavily traveled roads like Bath to Rockland and Bath to Portland. First costs are higher, but long term savings are expected.
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Bath
Rockland
Portland
Maine Highway Commission
Ford to fund youth education with millions for guided aims
Henry Ford proposes to devote millions of his fortune to education, creating schools and endowing departments to give deserving youth a solid start. He argues many college bound youths lack definite aims and asserts wealthy donors increasingly bolster research and education for the nation’s future.
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Henry Ford
Congressman White Talks Fisheries in Rockland
Congressman Wallace H. White Jr spoke in Rockland on fisheries. He has long studied the topic and was sent to Alaska by the President to investigate conditions. Now seeking the Republican nomination for U S Senator, he is praised for work benefiting shipping and fishing along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace H. White
Rockland
White
Alaska
United States
Pot growers plan tour to promote Maine seed potatoes
Aroostook county potato growers will send fifty representatives on a tour of eleven southern states. The aim is to advertise Maine seed potatoes and inform farm towns about Maine’s new developments, showcasing industrial, agricultural, and recreational offerings. The effort is expected to benefit Aroostook and Maine as a whole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aroostook
Maine
Els
Aroostook County
First Democrat chosen for Congress in Sec Mass district
William J. Granfield a Democrat who opposes prohibition has been elected to Congress from the Second Massachusetts District to succeed the late W Kirk Raynor of Springfield killed in an airplane crash. It is the district's first Democratic representation and suggests a preference for a Wet Democrat over a Dry Republican.
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William J. Granfield
Congress
Massachusetts
W. Kirk Raynor
Springfield
Conference Views on Submarines and Regional Developments
The London conference discussion weighs the value of reducing submarine operations to prevent disasters across navies including the U S Navy. Houston plans a fine new hotel opening in fall. Presque Isle in Aroostook County delays a country club campaign to 1931 and advances a new hotel project aimed to open before 1931. Five town citizens say the country club idea remains on track for after the hotel is finished.
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Houston
Presque Isle
Aroostook
Augusta Country Club to Double Golf Course Size
Augusta Country Club announces plans to extend its course from nine to eighteen holes due to rising popularity. The project will be executed during the coming summer as a committee progresses with the expansion to accommodate more players, members and visitors.
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Augusta Country Club
Freeport Rebuilds Shipbuilding Craft with Six Yachts
Freeport Maine revives its shipbuilding roots with six keel laid for large yachts in an old yard. Workers demonstrate preserved skill in hewing plank and assembling fine boats though the vessels are not as large as the village’s historic craft.
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Bath
Maine
Freeport
Large NYC Hotel Could Be Padlocked for Year
The possibility of padlocking one of New York City's largest hotels for a year due to alleged prohibitory law violations poses a warning to proprietors and managers of other hotels against liquor involvement. Such action would entail a tremendous loss to the building's owners or occupants, possibly both.
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New York City
Death of Judge Charles F Johnson Alters Maine Scene
Maine mourns the death of Judge Charles F Johnson of Waterville who died in St. Petersburg Florida early Saturday. A Bowdoin graduate he served as a United States Senator and in several high responsible roles with credit to Maine.
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Maine
Charles F. Johnson
Waterville
St. Petersburg
Florida
Judge Johnson
Bowdoin
United States
Senators Demand Hoover Blame for Unemployment Rise
Democratic and Independent Republican senators assign blame to President Hoover for unemployment, arguing the Senate's inaction on key issues hinders national progress and delays the country from getting back to business.
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Hoover
Senate
Meaning and history of political slang in campaigns
Lewiston attorney Harold Red ding compiled a work on political slang history and meanings. It explains terms like tapping the barrel for wealthy candidates, bee in his bonnet, wearing the old bandanna for Thurman, boodle for corruption, heelers and hoofers after elections, dark horse for Garfield, crowing for victory, fire eater, mending fences, peanut politics, smelling committee for investigations, and soap for campaign money.
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Lewiston
Harold Redding
Allen G. Thurman
Garfield
Coon hunters report record season near Sanford
Coon hunters in the vicinity of Sanford report a good season with one man obtaining 56 skins, a record in his experience spanning several years.
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Sanford
Men’s Club of Central Church Enjoys Rural Maine Priest Talk
Regular meeting of the Men’s Club at Central Church west of the parish hall featured supper for thirty served at 6 30. Vernon Lake ey Jackson Ned Andrews praised. Rev Timothy Maney rector of St Mary’s Church spoke on rural Maine priest life with stories of backwoods hardship. Charles Curtis introduced the speaker. Afterward members sang old songs. a high point of the season.
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Central Church
Vernon Lake
Ey Jackson
Ned Andrews
Charles Curtis
Timothy Maney
St. Mary’s Church
Maine
University of Maine Adds Botany Entomology Courses
The University of Maine College of Agriculture announces new major studies in Botany, Entomology and Agricultural Economics starting Fall 1930. Sophomores may choose one of the new courses. previously only horticulture, agronomy, animal husbandry, poultry, dairy, forestry, agricultural education and home economics were offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Agriculture
University of Maine
Leon S. Merrill
F. H. Steinmetz
C. H. Merchant
Extensive improvements to Monroe Store basement remodel
Kerr and Houston of Bath and Portland through Frank M. Churchill have completed remodeling the Monroe Stores basement. They enlarged by taking over Stinson's barber shop and the Auto and Radio store, adding about 2,000 square feet. A new wall was removed and steel columns added for upper story support, improving ventilation and lighting with a daylight basement and two entrance options.
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Kerr & Houston
Bath
Portland
Frank M. Churchill
Front Street
Monroe Stores, Inc
Thompson Bros., Inc
Stinson
Noyes duo works on Maine imprints biography project
Professor B Webb-Noyes of the University of Michigan library and Mrs Noyes compile a Maine imprints biography. The monumental bibliographic task covers printing origins in Maine before statehood and the newspaper’s emergence, with research across multiple libraries. Prof Noyes, a Bowdoin graduate, uses his father’s old press at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Webb- Noyes
Library Service
University of Michigan
New Uses for Old Fords from Auburn Man Louis Raymond
In Modern Mechanics and Inventions a photo shows a rig based on a Model T Ford created by Auburn man Louis Raymond. The sleigh features runners like skids on the front and rear and is claimed to reach 35 miles per hour on snow covered fields and 70 miles per hour on ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Louis Raymond
Bath actor Owen to take part in Columbia farce
Director Huse induced Col. Henry W. Owen Jr to play Mr Evans in The Haunted House at the Columbia this Thursday under Escort of Commandery. The Owen family long dominated Bath amateur theatre with Dunlap Commandery’s first commander David Owen and Thespian Club founders, producing many plays for local causes and entertainment.
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Huse
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Mr. Evans
Owen Davis
the Columbia
Thespian Club
Bath
Israel Putnam
David
Frank A. Owen
Henry W. Owen
Henry
George H. Owen
Frederick E. Owen
Boston
Jessie Owen
George D. Berry
David Owen
Squirrel Island
Jack Benedict
Saratoga
Warden Loveau
Mexico
Jos Stover
Jed Prouty
Ebenezer Goodly
Jones
Sultan of Sulu
Major Swan
Maine potato growers plan extensive southern tour
Fifty Aroostook potato growers will tour 19 potato buying cities in 11 southern states to promote Maine seed stock. The trip, likely with Commissioner Frank P. Washburn, would run March 28 to April 11. Newdick of the Department of Agriculture announced the plan and said meetings will organize a delegation in Houston Mary Hill Presque Isle Fort Fairfield and Caribou. A baggage car with samples and publicity materials is expected, funded by subscriptions or contributors. The itinerary covers New Jersey Washington DC Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Texas.
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Aroostook
Maine
Frank P. Washburn
Presque Isle
Erlon L. Newdick
Department of Agriculture
Newdick
Houston
Mary Hill
Fort Fairfield
Caribou
New Jersey
Washington, D. C
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
McCabe elected chairman of City Republican committee
Chester H. McCabe was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican city committee at Friday night organization. He succeeds Roscoe G. Bailey. Arletta Yates named vice chairman, Lizzie B. C. Chaney re elected secretary, and Fred W. Quimby re elected treasurer. All wards represented. next meeting scheduled for Friday. A Biddeford man predicted heavy snow in February through April, recalling 1920 drifts reaching poles.
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Chester H. McCabe
Republican City Committee
McCabe
Roscoe G. Bailey
Arletta Yates
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Fred W. Quimby
Biddeford
Competition in Grange contests livens rural life
Rural life benefits from Grange competitions that showcase talent across degree teams debates and singing contests. Maine Cumberland county runs an essay contest with cash prizes, and a National Grange youth essay competition on highway safety rewards a Maryland student with a trip to Seattle. The programs foster healthy rivalry, fund treasuries, and unite members nationwide.
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Pomona
Michigan
Delaware
Dover
Grange
Grange Treasuries
Maine
Cumberland County
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
National Grange
United States
Seattle
Washington
Wideawake Maryland
Skillings Qualifies for Club Membership in Auto Line
Roger D Skillings of Travelers Insurance Hartford has qualified for membership in the Automobile Producers Club of the company by meeting the required business production. He is among thousands in the United States and Canada earning club status through the prior year.
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Roger D. Skillings
Travelers Insurance Co
Hartford
Skillings
McClure Seeks Republican Sagadahoc County Commissioner Nomination
J Horace McClure of Bath announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Sagadahoc county commissioner on Friday. Charles J Cain, also of Bath, seeks renomination. Elmer J Rich of Bath is in the field. John L Jack of Topsham, twice a candidate, is considering again. a northern county candidate is rumored.
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J. Horace McClure
Bath
Sagadahoc
Charles J. Cain
Elmer J. Rich
John L. Jack
Topsham
Calais Selectmen Aid Man With Groceries Dispatch
A man appealed to Calais select men for help. They sent him to a store with a note to the grocer to supply what he needed. He ordered 15 pounds of tea a barrel of flour a tub of lard a bag of sugar and similar items by quantity. The public sympathized with his plight.
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Calais
Former Maine Governor welcomed to Scranton for visit
Scranton welcomes Governor Carl E. Milliken of Maine, born 1877 in Pittsfield, a former legislator, two term governor 1917 to 1921, and later executive secretary of the Motion Picture Producers. He will address Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, and Baptist leaders, promoting industry and education with the Credit Guarantee Financing Committee.
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Bath
Honan Cragen
The
Motion Picture Producers, of America
Scranton
Milliken
Pittsfield
Maine
Northern Baptist Association
Baptist Foreign Missionary
Chamber of Commerce
Credit Guarantee Financing Committee
Will H H. Hays
Carl E. Milliken
M. E. Comerford
Past Exalted Rulers Night At Bath Elks Lodge
Bath lodge of Elks held Past Exalted Rulers night with a 6:30 spaghetti supper prepared by George C of the Corsair. Officers and honored guests included Herbert Harris as exalted ruler and L Eugene Thebeau as leading knight, Archie Miller loyal knight, Stanley Brown lecturing knight, Lucius Lemont chaplain, with one new member welcomed. Entertainment featured Miss Gordon of Boston and local singers Sam Povich Eddie Kelley Harold Fielding and Brad Belanger.
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Bath Lodge of Elks
George C
The
Morgan Yacht Corsair
Regear
Herbert Harris
L. Eugene Thebeau
Archibald Miller
Stanley Brown
Lucius Lemont
Miss,.Gordon
White Entertainment Bureau of
Boston
Sam Povich
Eddie Kelley
Harold Fielding
Brad
Belanger
City Hospital Trustees Approve Maintenance Membership Drive
At the monthly meeting of the City Hospital trustees it was unanimously voted to establish a maintenance membership. Members will pay 25 dollars yearly toward hospital support and maintenance, to be listed in the annual Bath City Hospital report. Fifteen subscriptions have been received, with more expected. checks may be mailed to treasurer Frederic H. Low. In President Wright’s absence, Vice President L Eugene Thebeau presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
City Hospital
Bath City Hospital
Frederic H. Low
Henry C. Wright
L. Eugene Thebeau
Mihalos Eseley announce secret marriage in Bath area
Nicholas S Mihalos proprietor of United Shoe Repairing Shop 134 Front Street and Josephine C Eseley daughter of Louis P Eseley 1168 High Street wed October 8 1929 in Portsmouth New Hampshire They opened a Sunset Park home at 1185 High Street and will be at home after next Monday Mihalos a Bath newcomer ten years ago runs a boxing promoter role at Arcade Arena Also mentions William Powell returning to Portland after a visit at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas S. Mihalos
United Shoe Repairing Shop
Front Street
Josephine C. Eseley
Louis P. Eseley
High Street
Portsmouth
N. H
Sunset Park
Mihalos
Bath
United Shoe Repairing
Arcade Arena
Cross Word Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical List
A compact crossword puzzle listing numerous clues across horizontal and vertical sections. Includes entries such as 1 rack 5 serpent plural 9 burdened 11 necessitate 13 a comrade 14 made to correspond 16 lick up 19 viscous substance 20 at a distance 22 rodent plural 23 plunge 24 Fathers French 26 put on 27 restore 28 prepare afresh 30 ballads 31 eventy 32 tions 34 assumed name 37 fruits of the pine 38 nothing 40 small pieces 43 a pair of clappers 45 increase 46 prefix back 47 old time warship 49 Latin for thus 60 feasts 62 number 54 decline 55 force in operation 56 printers mark let it stand 57 mineral products 1 measure one thing by another 2 knock 3 fifteenth of March Roman calendar 4 tree 6 8 American mountains 6 be preeminent 7 pulp of fruit 8 session 9 idler 10 apprehensive terror 12 flint parts of plants 13 applaud 16 attracted 18 exasperating 21 disproves 23 refusing 25 perpendicular fine from end of circle plural 27 enwraps 29 poetic form for it is 30 scotch for little 32 one who utters low sounds from pain 33 encounters in battle 35 exercise in the open air plural 36 covered with blots 37 burn 38 clamor 29 set by written contract 41 dominion 43 French seaport 44 combining form meaning narrow 7 passage tor conveying smoke 48 always 51 towards the stern 53 before
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Dominion
French Seaport
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Bath Independent
the Times Company
Bath, Maine
B. Nichols
Treas
Barry C. Webber
T Bath
London
United States Navy
Father Maney
Jersey
Emma May
Isabelle
H. W. Hall
Hall
Pegis
Monroe
Emporium
Thompson’s Corner
Owen
Dunlap Commandery
Wcabe
Buxton
Annie Buckley
Amesbury
Mass
James T. Gallagher
Rexall
McClure
Carl E.milliken
Eieninea Pia
America
ELKS
Eseley
William Powell
Dine International Syndicate
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