67 Days Around Cape Horn On Edward Sewall Log
The Bath ship Edward Sewall, owned by the Alaska Packers association, took 67 days to sail from 50 south to 50 west around Cape Horn in 1913 14. Capt. Richard Quick shares the day by day log, noting repeated gales, bowsprit losses, and repairs at Bahia Blanco before completing the passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Sewall
Texas Steamship Co
Alaska Packers’ Association
The
Horn
Cape Horn
Cape
Times
Richard Quick
Texaco Star
Quick
Philadelphia
Knight Head
Bahia Blanco
Argentina
Atlantic
N.W
S.W
Cape San Diego
le Muire
N.E
S. W
Diego Ramirez Island
W.S.W
W.N.W
N.N.E
N. I
Mate
Citizens' Ticket Report in Bath City Elections
The joint Republican and Democratic committees in Bath present a non partisan Citizens ticket. A sub committee interviewed candidates and compiled a slate aimed at economy and efficiency, endorsed unanimously by both parties. The ticket lists ward and city positions with named candidates for alderman and councilman across seven wards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
J. Edward Drake
Wilbur C. Oliver
Ernest F. Kelley
James C. Mulligan
Var
Joseph Torrey
Harry W. Crosman
Frank (. Warington
Edwin
Building Sold for Creamery Move in Bath
J Fred Tobey sold 134 Water Street, last home of his meat market, to Wiseman of Wiseman Farm Creamery Lewiston. A Bath branch of the creamery is planned, Tobey shifting stock to the adjacent remodeled Bath Tron cafe. Wiseman Farmas Creamery ranks as a major milk butter egg distributor in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Fred Tobey
Water Street
Director May Moving Office to Auburn
The Federal Prohibition office in Bath is being relocated to Auburn. Director May said the new Auburn office would be ready by Monday and noted he enjoyed his Bath tenure and meeting many fine people. Clerks Miss Katherine Torrey will not move. Miss Elizabeth Milton and Miss Sarah Flaherty remain in Auburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Prohibition
Auburn
May
Bath
Katherine Torrey
Elizabeth Milton
Sarah Flaherty
Bath Loss of Frank M. Deering Shocks Shipbuilders
Sympathy runs through local shipping circles for Bath as they mourn Frank M. Deering, famed master builder who constructed many vessels for G. G. Deering Co. His work helped Bath earn renown as a shipbuilding center. Roy Lord travels to Portland to spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Parris in Washburn Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Frank M. Deering
G. G. Deering Co
Rockland Courier
Roy Lord
Upper Washington Street
Portland
A. K. Parris
Washburn Avenue
Democrats Call Convention for Augusta April 7
The Democratic state convention is set for Augusta City Hall on Friday April 7 at 10 a.m. It will seat 1205 delegates with James B. Perkins of Boothbay Harbor named temporary chairman. Delegates are allotted by city town and plantation based on votes for the 1920 Maine governor race, with Sagadahoc county listed apportionments for Bath and nearby towns. Women may serve as delegates and on party committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
James B. Perkins
Boothbay Harbor
Maine
Plantation
Houdlette pleads guilty to stealing from Morse Farm
Allison B. Houdlette of Phippsburg confessed in municipal court to breaking and entering and larceny at the Summer farm home of the late John A. Morse in Bath. He is bound over for May term of Supreme Court in $800 bail, with part of the stolen goods recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison B. Houdlette
Phippsburg
Summer Farm
John A. Morse
Bath
Supreme Court
Houdlette
Norris
Horace C. Morse
Morse
Horace Morse
Lee Farm
Walker Head
No More Army Enlistments For One Year
War Department announces no enlistments in the Army for a one year period and limits future recruiting to three year terms for the Coast Defenses of Portland. Infantry vacancies in the First Corps Area are filled and Portland ranks third in monthly area recruiting. Coast artillery vacancies persist with several local sub stations listed for recruitment in Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island and New York.
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Army
War Department
Coast Defenses
Porthind
Portland
Long Island Sound
First Corps
Boston
Coast Artillery Arm
Morts Williams and Wreble
Maine
Werren and Strong
Mass. Adams
Rhode Island
H. G. Wright
New York
Diddeford
Lewiston
Bangor
Portsmouth
N. H
Willing Workers Elect Officers at Corliss Street Class
The Willing Workers class of Corliss Street Sunday school held a business meeting at Trott Marshall avenue and elected Dorothy Donnell as president Katherine Trott as vice president Shirley Mank as secretary and Rosana Bates as treasurer. Refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street
Abbie McCabe
Trott, Marshall Avenue
Dorothy Donnell
Katherine Trott
Shirley Mank
Rosana Bates
Delegates Attend Ball of Nations at Morse High Assembly
A junior class armament conference wrap party filled Morse High School’s assembly hall with flags and dignitaries. Ex Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding led a reception line while delegates from the United States Italy England France Belgium China and Japan danced and heard music from the orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High Assembly Hall
Charles Lester Smith
Raymond Y. Hayward
Hayward
Woodrow Wilson
Clinton D. Wilson
Harding
Charles—L. Smith
Marshal
Madame Foeh
David Alkazin
Katherine Mayers
Genevieve Duprey
Annie Quinn
Florence Longley
Elizabeth Gray
Beatrice Harrington
Katherine Harrington
Helen Powers
Theodore Burns
Vearl Spragg
Loretta Curran
Clifford Madden
William Perry
Ethel Blake
Italy
Marchese Della Torreta
Fred Irish
England
Lloyd George
Dorothy Sheldon
France
Aristide Briand
Thelma Rich
Belgium
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
Dorothy Brown
China
W. W. Yen
Warren Oliver
Japan
Baron Kato
Douglas Armes
Holland
Jonkheer H. A. van Kamerbeek
Elizabeth Lowell
Evelyn Hussey
Christina Curtis
Dorothy Stilkey
Harriet Dunton
Mildred Howe
Almena Jacques
Earl Bryant
James Callan
Trish
Katherine Vlimmer
Katherine Herrington
Warren TD. Oliver
United States
Old Days on the Bath Branch Remembered by Brunswick Railroad Veterans
The article recalls Thomas Nagle of Brunswick and decades of service on the Portland and Kennebec and Maine Central lines. It traces early switchmen, engineers, conductors, and incidents on the Androscoggin railroad from Brunswick to Crowleys, including the Leopard and Aetna engines, broken rails, fires, and storms. It lists key figures, runs, and hazards, ending with notes on Harding Dunlap and continued history toward Page Seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nagle
Brunswick
Androscoggin
Tom
Brunswick Yard
Portland & Kennebec
Maine Central
Fred Blondell
Fred
Bath
Eagle Hotel
Park
Trunswick
Merrills Crossing
Haleys Ledges
Topsham
Crowleys Hill
Bill Wammond
Crowleys
Bill
Aetna
Leeds
John Coffer
Farmington End
Arthur Brown
Abbott Kelcher
Farmington
Dana Goff
Alonzo Tubbs
George Knapp
Edward Newell
John Keals
Crowleys Junction
Till Hammond
al Fuller
Charles Parker
Jim Farnham
Gen’l Huff
David Nutting
Everett Foster
Simon Smith
Henry Autkins
Bates
Brunswick Roundhouse
Levi Garcelon
Tubbs
Everett Dinsmore
Maine Central Railroad
Portland
Cooks Corner
Thompsons Ledges
Wortland
Augusta
Reuel Williams
Frank Small
Williams
Bath Woods
Bob Griffin
St Litterfield
R. D. Rice
Brand New
John Doherty
Charles French
Lower Road
Oscar Williams
John Jewett
John Ross
Willis Watts
Watts
John Sinclair
John Stuart
Tom Nagle
Joe Durgin
Watt
Ted Dolan
Tuffy Norman
Billy Merrick
Corneling Donovan
Ross
Henry Turner
A. Ror
Irving Turner
Harding Dunlap
Bath and Lewiston
Portland and Bath
Brunswick and
Lewiston
Skowhegah
Charlie Evans
John Causland
John Dolan
Blaze Gamache
Brunswick Boys
Dunlap
Jim Merrill
Lisbon
Wood Haskell
John Haskett
Robert Stourgeon
Percy Bradsford
John Merrill
Joseph Lowell
Oliver Moses
Lyman Nichols
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