New York and Boston Markets Report Grain and Produce Prices
New York and Boston markets show mixed prices for flour and wheat with steady pork and lard. Potatoes and sugar hold firm with regional notes from Chicago and Caribou markets indicating weather and storm impacts on supply and pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Duluth
Manitoba
Middle West
Hennery
Bermuda
Southern
Boston
Western
New York Twins
Chicago
Riggsville Community Plans Pie Social Initiatives
Severe weather kept many from a church supper. an extra March pie social is planned. Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. George West to tack a quilt. next at Mrs. Wm. C. Noble's. Thimble Club forms with young local women. first meeting at Mrs. Robert C. West's home. Ice harvest by Williams and Brilmayer yields about eighty tons of ten inch ice. Mrs. Charles Mains has fourteen chickens from fifteen eggs. There is talk of renaming Riggsville post office to North Georgetown. Henry Reynolds ships eggs to Boston at high prices.
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George West
Wm. C. Noble
Riggsville
Georgetown
Henry Reynolds
Boston
Thimble Club
Robert C. West
Messrs
Williams and
Brilmayer
Charles Mains
J. L. Pinkerton
W. H. Gould
Mary Small Cemetery
F. S. Adams
S. W. Nelson
Robert Carr
Pleasant St
Kate
Helen Gould
Brunswick
Pauline Gould
Charles Berry
Richmond Corner
Willard Blake
Wellesley
Viola, Coombs
Willard
Bowdeinham
Massachusetts
A. C. Staples
Bath
C. F. Staples
Methodist Aid
Hattie O. Perry
Skelton
Alfred McKeiver
Jerry Grover
Ridge
John Mealley
Gray
Sawyer
C.M.G
Lewiston
Parent-Teacher Association
Electa Chapter
Masonic Hall
C. P. Bates
McKinley
Washington
Lincoln
Ava Cornish
Jessie Ames
Eliza Lancaster
Hazel Tibbetts
Blanche Rounds
Elsie Dickinson
W. W. Brown
Dr. Irish
Jack Brown
Staples
Topsham
E. J. Millay
Edgecomb Mill
Sarah C. Yung
Carrie Adams
Jennie C. Langdon
William McKeiver
Anson P. M. Given
Ralph Cutler
Frances
E. W. Wilson
Kenneth Wilson
H. E. Cornish
C. E. Townsend
Helen Leavitt
Robert Patten
I. M. Fowle
H. H. Club
Mrs. Fowle
Vivian Starbird
Georgie Denham
Alice Hurley
Jessie Blackman
Lavinia Silver
Katherine Williams
George Denham
Bert Pierce
Milton Given
Myra Fowle
Waterville Exchange
Bangor
R. H. Jack
Ellis Sedgley
F. K. Jack
C. H. McEwen
Nathaniel Willliams
Bride
Superior
Wisconsin
Everett Willliams
Sagadahoc Medical Association
Colonial Cafe
Lysle Temple
Portland
Electricity to Figure in Bowdoinham Town Meeting
The Bowdoinham village seeks electric lights and cheap power to spur growth and attract industries. Citizens weigh tax costs against gains from better lighting, while plants like Edgecomb mill eye power savings. Local notes cover Lambs at Long Branch Farm, social visits, meetings, injuries, and community chatter.
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Long Branch Farm
Rebecca Sewall
Topsham
Kendall
Pleasant St
Effie Small
Thureday
Waterville
Harold Chauwrey
Bath
Pearl Sedgley
Brunswick
Eugene Edgecomb
Edgecomb
C. B. Randall
Portland
E. W. Warren
Alice Fulton
Rock Hill Inn caretaker visits. local notes from Westport
Westport notes list caretakers and visitors including C. A. Welch at Rock Hill Inn while R. T. Beaton vacationing in Boston, plus visits among Hodgdon Cromwell Judkins Higgins and Colbys. Rev. MacAuliffe recovers and returns to Maine pastorate. a February look at planetary sightings Venus and Jupiter and Mercury’s brilliance.
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C. A. Welch
Rock Hill Inn
R. T. Beaton
Boston
Lester Hodgdon
I. M. Fowle
Bowdoinham
Cc. L. Cromwell
R. P. Colby
John Robinson
Wiscasset
Stephen
Guy Judkins
Solomon Higgins
Steve
George Nelson
Manford Knight
Stephen Judkins
Trevett
C. P. Parsons
Chester
Henry Colby
Bath
Jacob Colby
Eaton Farm
Eva Cromwell
Walter Leavitt
Charles L. Cromwell
John MacAuliffe
Stockton Springs
Maine
Bangor
MacAuliffe
Westport
Phelan
How to Collect Slow Accounts Essay Tells Harsh Tactics
A satirical essay advises harsh debt collection methods using persistent letters, public reminders, and threats of credit denial. It names strategies like weekly bills, large flaming envelopes, and listing debtors in a "Dead Beats" book, urging readers to push slow payers to settle. It contrasts alleged class sympathy with hardnosed pressure tactics.
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Slow
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Times Change To the Editor of the Independent
A reader recalls a fifty year old storefront scene showing poverty and a shopkeeper denying pepper as a luxury while noting city support for a poor girl and her grandmother. The note ends with a weekend visit from Mr and Mrs E J Starrett of Thomaston to Mr and Mrs A H Durgin.
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the Independent
Front St
Grammie
E. J. Starrett
Thomaston
A. H. Durgin
Also Mentioned on This Page
von Berns
Storff
Wethers Soc
Aroostook
Houston
Houlton
Mercury
Fort Kent
Ae Neess
Hieebie & Bidlsle
Long Branch
Anson Given
F.K. Jack
E. S. Blodgett
Dr. Grant
Charles F. Whitten
Mr. Whitten
Venus
Jupiter
S. P. E. Hathorne of
Woolwich
Bath Grain Co
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