28 Feb 1915
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1915
Page
1
Municipal election Monday ushers in a calm campaign focused on business issues and growth. Citizens favor nonpartisan reforms like open primaries or a shift to a city manager plan to improve efficiency while keeping elected oversight. Town meetings Monday expect voter turnout for local offices and road policy decisions.
The Bath Independent expands its reach with extra pages and praise from Bath exiles in New York. Officials pursue Bath Industrial Corporation plans with steady funding and expect tangible progress soon, while Walter Glidden declines a city post, cited as a trusted official.
A tonic claim explains that undigested food causes gas and stomach pain. Dr Williams Pink Pills are said to build blood and nerves, restore nerve force, and improve appetite and digestion. Cold baths and friction aid circulation, and a free diet book is offered.
The ad asserts pure blood strengthens bones muscles and organs and claims Hood's Sarsaparilla uniquely treats scrofula humors catarrh rheumatism dyspepsia loss of appetite fatigue and debility. It emphasizes safety effectiveness and urges readers to get Hood's today.
Citizens in Bath rally on New Year’s Day to fund industrial growth. A subscription drive yields about 6000 dollars, with a plan to raise 14000 or more for establishing an industrial building, acquiring stock in a new venture, and expanding local business. Subscriptions are actively increasing as the project moves into formal organization.
A Maine resolve to fund a state exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco next year is expected. Five commissioners named Edward P. Ricker Harold M. Sewall Horatio G. Foss Gordon Dobson and Major Edward E. Philbrook will meet with exposition officials to arrange plans once Ricker recovers his health.
Real estate transfers recorded by the Registry of Deeds include multiple parcels in Bath Bowdoinham and Topsham among others with names such as Purinton Mulligan Aten Stone Temple Hildreth Moore Niles and Skelton. The report also notes church speakers visiting Waterville and a funeral at Oak Grove Cemetery for Mrs Charles T Hooper plus a plan to rebuild Southport Bridge and smelt fishing tides last week.
George M. McManus 42 of Brunswick died at City Hospital at 12:50 a m Saturday after severe burns from starting a hotel fire February 2. He ran the Rossmore summer hotel for thirteen years and wintered as a teaming contractor. Survived by wife two brothers Henry P. of Malden and Charles E. of Lynn and three sisters. Services at St Marys Church with high mass by Rev J P OBrien. Burial planned in Brunswick. Hundreds attended including out of town relatives. Henry P. McManus of Malden was summoned home by his wife’s sudden death.
Thomas Shaw Jr. of Auburn died at midnight February 19 after a period of illness from a cold followed by a fall that caused a head injury and pneumonia. He was born November 3, 1802 in Richmond, son of Thomas and Isabel Shaw, survived by wife Jerusha Remick and six children, plus one sister and numerous grandchildren.
Mrs. Clara B. Frye wife of Joseph F. Frye died at her home 149 Hotland Street Lewiston in her 54th year. A longtime soloist in Lewiston and Auburn she was born North Vassalboro daughter of Bradford and Eliza Burgess Withee. She married Bath native Joseph F. Frye thirty years ago and they lived in Lewiston for 25 years. She attended the First Universalist Church and is survived by her husband and daughter Gertrude M. Frye.
News comes of the death of Mrs. Jennie Williams Norris in a Lynn Massachusetts hospital Saturday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by her family.
Night. She was operated on at the hospital Feb. 123 and never rallied. She is survived by her husband, Charles F. Norris, and son, Oscar Norris, of Lynn, and one brother, Eben Williams of Portland.
A roundup notes Henry D Bacon and others resuming routines after business trips to Boston, visits in New York Eastport and Bath. several return from Boston for holidays. family guests include Miss Dean Miss Marks and Miss Nason. Loughlins return after four years on the Pacific coast and plan summer nearby.
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