Forty Years Ago in Bath Reminiscences and Notices
Readable items from the Bath Daily Times 1889 February column recount local happenings. Relief Corps fair tickets near a thousand sold. Bath Iron Works foreman Percy Douglass. Herbert Shea traveling to Boston to set up a holster on a barge. invitations issued for Acadia lodge entertainment at Alameda. trains late due to a derailed freight near Portland. Morse boree frame timber arriving. various local residents and businesses described, including Bath Water Supply Co pumping station upgrades, relief corps events, and community lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Shea
Moulton Iron Works
Boston
Tougley
Public schools close at noon for two weeks
The article notes schools will close at noon tomorrow for a two week period. It mentions entertainment at Universalist chapel and upcoming meetings and preparations for a steam boat project. It also reports on the arrival of William A. Melcher to oversee upper works for a Portland and New York line steamer and notes Walker Gatch’s many friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecitt
William al. Melcher
Encfanel
Portland
New York
Camden
N. J
Ward Seven club files campaign copy. child injured by sled
Wednesday afternoon Mr Higgins seized a Ward Seven juvenile campaign club phonograph. Gen Harrison may receive a copy. Friday noon Daisy Gilbert ten, of 711 Middle street, was knocked down by a sled on South street. she was hurled and fell head first onto frozen snow. She was carried to James McPherson’s house. no bones broken but injuries feared. A Bath party at Adams flow Briomewick featured Conants Supper and a dance with local guests. The Brunswick Fur club helped entertain investors with a minstrel ep.
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Higgins
Ward Seven
Gen. Harrison
Daisy Gilbert
Dempnter
William Gilbert
Middle Street
South Street
James McPherson
Adams Fiow
Briomewick
Conant
F. H. Twitchell
A. Hf. Shaw
W. G. Webber
E. M. Fuller
Oth
Brunswick Fur Club
Corelliamnent
Improvement in a Gentleman's Health Condition Report
A gentleman previously very ill with stomach trouble has improved and recovered enough to sit up. The report notes a marked improvement in his condition and urges continued care.
Feb 19 1889 Local Briefs From Augusta City News
Caterer Smith to furnish a turkey supper for Dunlap Commandery banquet. Water pipe leak under the New Meadows river noted. Warrants for municipal election to be posted at polling places by City Constable Longley. Mrs. Corey recovering from broken wrist on Oak Street. Odd Fellows to sleigh ride to Lewistown Irvin House for supper next week. Twenty seven business men attended a State capitol hearing in Augusta. A special train was sent from Brunswick to Clinton Sedgwick for a Commandery event. Co H Wakefield invites to a camp fire in Bennington Vermont next Saturday. River ferries report nearly clear water. Knights of Pythias near 100 year milestone with Acadia Lodge staging entertainment in Alameda. Address with music to start the evening social dance. Universalist parish meeting notes on church subscriptions and expenses. Ladies Social Circle to sleigh ride to North Bath next Friday. Mr and Mrs Francis E Webster leaving for Cambridge Massachusetts. Mrs Webster employed by Jervis Furniture Company of Boston.
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State
Augusta
Ray
Brunswick
Paris Plans Subways and Pedestrian Tunnels to Ease Traffic
Paris considers a comprehensive plan to bury traffic with three miles of tunnels and arcade sidewalks under the city. The proposal, led by Mmile Massard, envisions north south subways connecting three points to relieve a congested central district at an estimated cost of thirty to forty million dollars over seven to eight years.
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Paris
Maus
Cauneil
Mmile Massard
Special Commission
Mussard
Birthday for 92 year old Minott celebrated at home
Taha GCG Minott marked his 92nd birthday Wednesday at 17 Beacon Street with family guests arriving from Melrose Nor way and Auburn. Daughters Mrs Edwin Given and Mrs Eliot Fuller joined, while Miss Flora Randall and her daughter stayed as visitors. The elder Minott appeared in good health and welcomed relatives during the day.
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Minelt
Beacon Street
Wis Danole
Edwin WW
Melrose
Mass
Eliot A. Fuller
Nor- Way
T. Minett
Auburn
Wes
Minett
Flora Randall
Mr. Minott
Berch
Fred
Medias
Canton Promotes Exploration for Mineral Deposits in Kwantung
The provincial government of South China promotes exploration of coal peat gold limestone bismuth and granite in Kwantung with shown deposits of molybdenum manganese and rare metals. Heavy taxation by military leaders hampered mining profitability. Professor Bridgman of Harvard notes artificial pressure of six hundred thousand pounds per square inch on steel markets and rubber hardening.
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Canton
South China
Kwanthane
Bridgman
Harvard University
Bath Horses Contest At Damariscotta Races
Representatives from Bath Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta Driving clubs attended the Damariscotta Mills event. Copper Baron from Bath won a Class C heat and placed second in another, while Kentucky Princess battled Great Silver in Class B with a sharp cut on the quarter in the third. Pomner Wood of Boothbay Harbor, driven by Dodee, defeated Peter Brooks in a special match race, and many locals observed a stronger showing from Pomner Wood than a week earlier.
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Bath
Beathhay Harbor
Damariscotta
Damariscotta Mills
George Jewett
Kentucky Princess
Copper Baron
Kentucky Prine
Great Silver
Pojney Wood
Boothbay Harbor
Dodee
Peter Brooks
Pomner Wood
Barney Deheht
Boothbay
Kentucky
Joe Hal
Ance
Marvel Todd
Don Q
Central League Hosts Busy Church Meeting and Auction
Central church bagie members met at the Patisa house on Monday night hosted by Mrs. William Dennison, Mrs. Allan Spear, and Mrs. Olive Sprave. Miss Margaret Foote announced a parish house auction on Wednesday February 27 at 2 20 p. m. chaired by Charles T. Jackson. Tea was served as members worked on patchwork and celebrated Mrs. Harriet Small's 25th wedding anniversary with gifts from the League.
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William Dennison
Allan Spear
Olive Sprave
Patisa House
Margaret Foote
League
Charles T. Jackson
Harriet Small
Austrian Jews sue the Imperial Widow over land promise
Budapest reports that Promontor Jews sue Zita of Austria before the civil court in December. They seek fulfillment of a pledge by Emperor Francis Joseph for land to build a synagogue. Repeated promises failed as plots were allocated to others or leased to industrials before World War I.
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Budapest
Fmpress
Zita
Austria
Promontor
Francis Joseph
Chaimberlain
Austria-Hungary
Hungary
Probate notices and property sales in Sagadahoc County Maine
Court notices in Bath Sagadahoc detail probate actions for multiple estates filed February 1929. Included are bids for private sale of realty in Bath to satisfy debts. appointments of executors administrators guardians and administratrices. and notices to interested parties with dates for hearings in March 1929. Names include Isabel Hyde Edwin P Hyde Amy E Perry Walter S Glidden Fred H Thompson and others.
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State OF Maine
Saeadance
Isabel Hyde
Bath
Edwin P. Hyde
Sarah A. Hyde
A. D
Sagadhoc
Fred H. Thompson
Tate
Maine
Sagadahoc
Sud
Sagadahor
Sapartahoe
Walter H. Bowker
Frank S. Bowker
Phippsburg
M. Boweker
Sarah HW. Percy
ALLAN
Notancy
Wath Independent
Protete
Sata
Walter
Gliddin
Amy E. Perry
Saradanhoee
A. RP Tae
State OF
A. Parsons
Oswald G. Wood
Madison
Somerset
Thomas H. Wood
Dswald G. Wood
Oswald G. Wood Minor
Forth County
Walter 5
Glidden
Della T Adems
Henry TI. Adams
Sepgadahoc
Della T. Adams
Mara C. Geary
Sagadahoer
Guiv
Michael J. Geary
Beth
Macvy CC Gomy
Frederic H. Low
Arthur F. Larrabee
Sagadahogc
Charles S. Lemont
Margeret G. Lemont
West Bath
Bald County
Walter S. Gliddieen
William F. Duniliam
Charles R. Farnham
Helen A Potter
Wis
Sugadahoe
Henrietta T. Eaton
Helen M. Potter
Legislative action on petitions for publication in state papers
In the Senate Peds 17 199 order concurrence for House actions on petitions. resolves to facilitate legislative business. Clerk to publish acts in all state newspapers with February 28 1929 date. Senate February 12 1929 read and passed. Clyde R Chapman, Clerk. A true copy.
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Maine
Senate
House
Duthy
J. Senate
Royden V. Brown
House of Representatives
Clyde R Chapman
Clyde R. Chapman
Right to Buy Airports Sought by Kansas Cities
Wichita led effort by Kansas cities to urge the legislature to grant municipalities the right to buy or lease land outside city limits for airports. A broad revision of aeronautics law is proposed, including revise limits on low flights to allow commercial photography and agricultural spraying. The 1921 law, unused due to funding, would be updated to empower a three member board to test planes and issue pilots licenses.
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Wichita
Kansas Cities
Adjutant General of the Test
Market Victims and the Market Observers
New York reports a turbulent stock market with many observers among its casualties. Analysts note predictions failed to align with actual movements and that certain writers have not been pressed to justify opinions as market trends diverge from traditional expectations.
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New York
Hull
Havana Girls Launch Their First Society
Havana girls aged 12 to 14 form a Girl Reserve movement led with the YWCA in New York due to no local branch. The group meets Fridays to study literature art and domestic science marking a historic self education effort for Cuban women.
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Havana
Cuba
Young Women's Christian Association
New York
Long Drive Elects Royal St Andrews Golf Captain
Angus Hambro becomes captain of the Royal and Ancient Club of St Andrews in a traditional ceremony at the famed links. The captain drives from the first tee and a caddie who retrieves the ball wins a golden sovereign. Hambro’s long drive helped secure him the honor as the Terrace gun fired.
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Angus Hambro
Royal and Ancient Club
St. Andrews
Scotland
Hambro
James McCarthy
Valentine events join Loyal Temperance group across town
W C T U notes a Thursday party at George Patterson's Andrews road for 40 Loyal Temperance members with choruses and an object talk. The Willard meeting at the Y M C A features devotion by Mrs Ada Priest and a Boston missionary report by George Patterson. Other groups held gatherings at Corliss street and Oak street with games, valentines exchanges, and prizes for donkey and bean contests.
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George Patterson
Andrews Road
Loyal Temperance Legion
Ruth Emerson
Willard
W.C. T.U
Y.M.C.A
Ada A. Priest
Yarmouth
Maes
Boston
William Fletcher
Temperance Legion of
Oak Street
Bernice MacDonald
Everett Sullivan
Richard Cimissines
Crystal Sherey
Alma Allen
Ralph Willett
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Acadia Lodge
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FE. M. Fuller
Jason Collins
Robert Crise
Albert Pattee
Back River
Edward Fuller
John Fisher
Moulton Tron Works
Bath Water Supply Co
Uniform Bank
No. 5. E. of P
William WH. Crockett
Charles, H. Mason
George W. Luce
William J. A. Shaw
Charles WT. Jackson
Joseph Nichols
Fran Brown
Moniswear
Savage's Market
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Breweries Co
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Sedenwick
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Arrowsic
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Lake City
Minnesota
D. C. Shaw
Fort Popham
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Champien
Relief Corps
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Lucy Griffin
Miss Griffin
Corps
Bath Electric Light and Power Co
Andrews Hallet
Merrymnectin Bay
Silas G Wrevant
P. Woodward
Woodward
President Fuller
Bath Board of Trade
Dave App
Benton Harbor
Mich
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Dunlap Commandery
Frank Hayden
Jane
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Samuel Dilleway
Mechanic Street
Herbert Maxwell
Frederick Southworth
Massachusetts
Charles Bachelder
High Street
J. H. Kimball
Joseph Avery
Mr. Kimball
A. N. Williams
J. F. Hayden
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Brience
North Street Chapel
Joh O. Patten
Cnvred
Pephem
Arthur Major
Percy & Sons
Thorounghiv
Flora Wibbotts
Montswear
Sunries
Wethrook
Vercolist Ohteek
Adamys
Taryineton
John
T Horace Morse
Maine Central
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Ibs
I. C. Wilson
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Bee
Walker Gatch
Smith
New Meadows River
Longley
Irvin
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Commandery Clinton
Sedgwick West
Nas
Co. H. Wakefield
G. A. Custer Pest
Bennington
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Alnoest
Perleethy
Aneher
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Order of the Knights of Pythias
Acadia Lodee
Universalist Church
G. C. Greemeat
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North Bath
Francis IE. Webster
Cambridge
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Chenese
Damariscotta Mills Pond
Graatay
Rowe
Jewett
Wallaces
Baron Wewalt
Tomlinson
Fay Dan Qi
Jone
Leon
Ciurpe Jewety
Charles Jordan
Jaward Drake
Roland Beal
Seth Stewart
Leon Belanger
Marty Thompson
Rupert Wing
Roy Tuttle
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Fred Cullen
Irving Barter
Fred Mart
Albert Ane
Clarence Peeci
John Osborne
Central League
Poiling the
Coir
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Supreme Judicial Court
Sagadahoe
F. Morin
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Anniveos
Aenist
George Pratt
George Pratthaus
Sagadahoe County
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Lincol Street
W.O. van Whener
E. A. Farrar
S. S. Mitchell
Mitchell
Swift
Edes
Lincoln Street
Ivy
Nenderson
Sherif
Isa
Sik Transportation Cenweny
Theo
Harriconbure
Daniel Boone
Akter Reiton
William FP
Diinham
Walter UW Vowner
William F. Dunham
Nancy E. Hunt
Bagndalene
Wilton Bates
Scott Re Frye
Cole
Alfred S. Oliver
Charles A. Hunt
Annie
Reuben Purington
Kennebec River
Walter S. Glidden
William I. Dunham
William F Dunham
W.C.T.U
H. P. Jett
Nazarene Church
Loyal
Temperance Lemon
Youngrer
Corliss Street
Astate of
Fred S. Curtis
Thomas R. Huston
Mer
Funeral Home
Center Street