Interesting Talk on Suffrage by Mrs Livingstone
Mrs Deborah Knox Livingstone spoke to a large audience at Universalist Church on suffrage. She emphasized education religion and economic opportunity for women and argued for equal political rights supported by biblical references and real-world data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universalist Church
Deborah Knox Livingstone
Livingstone
W.C.T.U
Bath
C. Raymond Chappell
Brown University
Europe
United States
Womn
State Penitentiary of
Nebraska
Maine
Mrs. Livingstone
Cosmopolitan Club
Miriam Kimball
Clarice IkKnsman
Katherine Torrey
Itch Scratch Ointment Ad Prompting Relief
An old advertisement promotes Dean's Ointment for eczema and skin itching with the claim that scratching worsens itching. Noted price is 50 cents per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
The Wonderful Fruit Medicine Fruit A Tives Trade Card
The Fruit a tives remedy claims to relieve stomach liver bowel kidney and skin troubles. It lists relief for rheumatism sciatica lumbago back pain impure blood neuralgia headaches constipation and indigestion. Priced 50c per box six for 2.50 trial size 25 with Ogdensburg New York manufacturer details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fruitatives Limited
Ogdensburg
N.Y
State Boys' Day Delegates Hear Y M C A Conference
State Boys' Day activities at the Lewiston Y M C A drew about 75 attendees, with Fred Dwyer and others leading songs and a ten-piece orchestra providing music. Speakers included L L Hooker and Rev S A Evans, stressing manliness and community action, and the gathering closed with America and a benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
Fred W. Armes
Francis McPherson
Herbert Douglas
Arthur Thistle
William Foley
Fred Dwyer
Lloyd Smith
Arthur Colby
M. MacDonald
Mandela
Anton Bowie
L. Lee Hooker
L. Lee Hooker, Cornet
W. J. Cartmill
Y.M.C.A
S.A. Evans
People’s Baptist Church
Charles Cooke
Charles Holbrook
Robert Linekin
Howard Call
Percy Miller
Marshall MacDonald
Parker Worrey
Percy Ayers
James Dunton
Robert Wishart
Archie Miller
Parker Reed
L. L. Hooker
N. B. Corthell
Lewiston
S. A. Evans
W. A. MacCormick
Central Congregational Church
Old Folks Home Corporation Forms New Board
The first meeting of the Old Folks Home Corporation directors was held at W. S. Glidden’s office. Officers elected include President Dr. J. O. Lincoln and vice presidents W. B. Glidden and F. B. Nichols, with J. E. Drake as treasurer and F. H. Percy as secretary. Building work to begin next month with completion by July 1. full occupancy later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Folks’ Home Corporation
W. S. Glidden
J. O. Lincoln
W. 3. Glidden
F. B. Nichols
J. E. Drake
F. H. Percy
Miami
St. Augustine
Bath
Hearing Delay in Eastern Steamship Receivership Case
A party in the Eastern Steamship Co receivership missed a Boston train, delaying a Portland hearing before Judge Hale to next Monday. The court addressed about 1,000 claims against the old company and its successor, and the receiver’s motion was granted. A Gardiner observer notes a river freshet and unusually thick ice this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Steamship Co
Boston
Hale
United States District Court
Portland
Kennebec
Gardiner
Sled coaster near horse and sleigh spares collision
A 16 year old girl on Middle and Winter Streets Friday evening witnessed a near miss as a boy on a sled sped past a horse and sleigh. She warned the upcoming coaster by calling at the crossing, preventing a potential crash.
Percy & Small Friday Buy Notable Black Horse
Percy and Small Friday bought a black horse weighing 1890 pounds for yard work. Horsemen praise the animal’s beauty. Last week in Virginia, 1500 feet of hard pine were moved for a platform at the Georgetown Feldspar quarries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy & Small Friday
Virginia
Georgetown
Texas Improvements At Steamship Yard Under Way
The Texas Improvements project at the Fexas Steamship Co. yard advances with nine posts and steel floor girders in place for a 60 by 273 foot plate shop and a 40 by 273 foot wing. The mould loft will cover the main building’s second floor. Orders for two 60 foot high electrically operated steel tower derricks to replace wooden ones at berths Nos. 1 and 2 have been placed, with a 5 ton at extreme radius and 12.15 tons at 50 feet, plus a McMyler travelling crane for berths 3 and 4. Delivery aims for late July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fexas Steamship Co
McMyler
Unity Guild and Brotherhood Plans Highlight Local Notices
The Unity Guild met with Miss Nathalie Brown at 103 South St while the Ladies Sewing Circle gathered with Wright and Mrs. Ernest Eaton as hosts. Plans for Brotherhood Ladies Night on March 6 progress, chaired by A. J. Dunton. Sunday school contest "Crossing the Continent" gains interest. Miss Alice Varney’s class leads with 225 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity Guild
Nathalie Brown
South St
Ladies’ Sewing Circle
Wright
Ernest Eaton
Brotherhood
A. J. Dunton
Alice Varney
Cast Anounced For Church Farce And Community Obituary
Cast announced for the First Baptist Church Ladies Aid play No Cure No Pay with rehearsals underway and music readings planned. A large crowd attended Grace Church service for Grant Gifford of West Bath killed in a Texas yard accident. Delegations from Texas Steamship Co. and local groups attended the service with numerous floral tributes. Bangor News notes Peter McDonald of Whitneyville in poor health and local shipyard workers’ histories. A bird capture story and local society items follow, including Dr E J Marston’s Sister Club banquet attendance and osteopathy student Miss Grace Eggleston’s visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
First Baptist Church
Languish
Fred Irish
Midget
A. Eees
Bridget
Fred Coombs
Susan Dean
Alice BE. Varney
Alice
Annie Lowell
Lucy Aiken
Ernest Eaton
Jennie Carter
Frank Wright
Grace Church
Grant Gifford
West Bath
Texas Yard
Culbert McGay
Texas’ Company
West Bath Grange
Lincoln Castle
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Everett
James Lemont
Lester Pratt
Joseph W. Larrabee
Fred Buhier
Herbert Brown
Texas_ Steamship Co
Bangor News
Machias
Peter McDonald
Whitneyville
New York
Bath
Sawyer Brothers
Milbridge
KE. I. White
McDonald
Washington St
Harry Andrews
Electric Road
Water St
Andrews
Marcia M. Stinson
Woolden
Prince
Out of the South Grammar School
E. J. Marston
Portland
Congress Square Hotel
Stanley P. Warren
Grace Eggleston
Lege
Kirksville
Ohio
Eleanor Thurston
Waltham
Mass
D. T. Percy Isteer
Convincing Proof of This Fact From Pinkham's Compound
Mrs. O. M. Raines of Ridgway Penn claims relief from seven months of backache and side pain after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. W. E. Linpsey of Tennille Ga says eight years of weakness and ulceration were cured enabling her to manage seven in the family and garden. Both letters praise the medicine and urge others to seek guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co at Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennille
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. E. Linpsey
R. R
Lydia
Community Notes Spotlight Local Travels and Visits
Our Own People lists residents visiting relatives, attending funerals, or returning home from trips. Names include Mrs George Ingalls of Phippsburg, Leslie Mello from Waltham and Portland, and Howard Parks from Portland Oregon, with multiple social visits across Bath Winnegance and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ingalls
Phippsburg
Bath
Leslie Mello
Waltham
Portland
Howard Parks
Oregon
Harlow Gregg
A. R. Campbell
High St
Winnegance
Thomas McNeil
Daniel Deans
Dummer St
William M. Adams
Lewiston
Lula Hopkins
Pauline Hatch
Sewing Club
Green St
Careless use of electric devices sparks thousands of fires
A statement from the National Board of Fire Underwriters warns that careless use of irons toasters plate warmers and similar appliances causes 30000 or more fires annually. Most are small but total losses are high. The warning stresses not leaving devices with current on when idle. Edward Perry visited friends in Freeport Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Old Sarge of Sheepscot Bay Honored for Forty Years of Service
A tribute poem dedicated to M. Sargent by Alvin T. Hodgdon marks forty years since his sea service from New York to Sheepscot Bay. The piece lauds the ship joiner turned foreman, calling him honest, steadfast, and a last emblem of Maine’s old guard, now at peace with friends and world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Sargent
Alvin T. Hodgdon
Old Sarge
New York
Sheepscot Bay
Sarge
Local notes from Portland and surrounding towns
George H. W. Barton died Monday in Portland on business. Lafayette Greenleaf of Wiscasset enters Bath City Hospital for treatment. W. M. Rogers and Clarence A. Reed attend an automobile show in Portland. Thomas Brennan and John Tosh of the Texas Co. take a brief vacation to Boston. Clarence W. Morse visits Westport to inspect lumber and timber lots. Minnie Barnes resumes duties Monday at the seventh grade South Grammar School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard B. Hawley
Augusta
Gannett Publishing Co
Franklin Shaw
Troy
N. Y
James Jones
High St
J. H. Walsh
Walsh
New York
Washington
Paul E. Campman
Bath Iron Works
Baltimore
Frank Jones
Portsmouth
Pullman
Florence Houdlette
West Bath
Wiscasset
Palmer Leavitt
Walter Shaughnessy
Frances
Auburn
Norman Litchfield
C. W. Rogers
South Quincy
Mass
G. C. Maguire
Washington St
Winifred Quinn
B.I.W
Portland
George H. W. Barton
Lafayette Greenleaf
Bath City Hospital
W. M. Rogers
Clarence A. Reed
Thomas Brennan
John Tosh
The
Texas Co
Boston
Clarence W. Morse
Westport
Minnie Barnes
South Grammar School
Deafness cure urged by constitutional remedies
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can only be cured by constitutional treatment. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure offering one hundred dollars for a cure not achieved, and mentions related products Dean's Regulats and Hall's Family Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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D. K. Livingstone
Fort Baldwin
Pop
Buttercup
George F. Reed
Farrin St
Mr. Reed
Squirels
Fields Pendleton
New York City
Donnell Yard
William Donnell
Harry H
William R. Donnell
Clara A. Palmer
Jewell Yard
Mercury
OLD Folks Home Corporation
A. L. Corliss
Bath St
Cupid
Mrs. Corliss
Ellen Corligg
Ellen Corliss
Wood Merrill
Miss Corliss
Walter Rogers
Della Merrill
Gladys Clifford
Mollie Berry
Bernice Hosmer
Arline McNeil
Frances Parks
Neil McQuarrie
N. H
Aderton
Reynolds
Cahill
Joseph Footer
Franklin St
McQuarrie
Texas
Uomoth
First Baptist
Joe Bick
Fred T. Mayers
Boothbay Harbor
Richard Hallett
Robert Cochran
Scotland
Edward Perry
Freeport
Shreepscot Bay
Dean’s
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