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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
4
An editorial calls tramps a millions costing menace and urges sweeping policy changes. It condemns current practice of shunting vagrants from town to town and proposes cumulative sentences, hard labor camps, and state labor colonies to end the tramp evil. It warns complacent towns risk endless travel and rising danger to women and property.
The first blind woman stenographer in New York state works at the New York Association for the Blind, using an English Braille shorthand machine with six keys. She can take rapid dictation and then type on a standard typewriter, learning the system in six months, while many also learn from phonographic record dictation.
Mrs Chester McKay has been ill with a cold. Dr Williams of Phippsburg treated her. Mrs A R Gove spent weeks with relatives in Haverhill Mass, daughter Nel lie accompanying. Mrs Ellen Lawrence and Florence visited son Fred Lawrence in Lewiston over Christmas. Martha Spinng entertained Christmas day with niece Mattie Stinson, Ralph Stinson, and Captain F W Stinson. Herbert Chester Savage of Bath visited friends over Christmas at the Foreside. Frances Savage is keeping house for A R Gove during his wife’s absence. Alfred Perry and wife moved to Auburn until April. Earle Whitten stayed with E B Snipe the past week.
Bath Marine Construction Company unveils a 21 by 6 foot 2 inch cabin cruiser and a 26 by 5 foot 6 inch auto runabout at Mechanics Building Boston January 25 to February 1. The display includes the Nicholson Speed Indicator and detailed hull and steering innovations for easy access and control.
The Maine Agricultural Experiment Station issues Insect Notes for 1907 detailing insects seen in the past season, orchard issues, caterpillar damage in forests, grasshopper attacks, potato pests, and brief notes on notable insects. Bulletin 148 will be mailed to Maine residents who apply to the station.
G. S. Perkins and daughter Elsie are staying with Mrs. M. H. Carlton in West Somerville. Miss E. White returns from Dresden Mills visit. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Lilly and daughter Evelyn were guests at the ee Mr.
The London Chronicle notes the discussion on the world’s finest fruit by the Royal Horticultural Society. It cites a yellow nectarine bred from a peach by the late Francis Rivers as a top choice, followed by the well regarded greengage plum. The greengage traces to Italy and France, later entering England as Verdoch and then Gage.
A Strand Magazine anecdote recounts a man who tried to kill himself with a pistol to his heart but missed when the bullet shattered a mirror instead. He explains the shooter’s blunt reception by bystanders and the bizarre cause of his failure.
Dr William Hanna Thomson explains tetanus as a blood poison produced by a soil bacillus found in puncture wounds from garden soil and manure. He urges prompt cauterization of earth contaminated wounds to prevent infection. The excerpt also mentions a phonograph owning family and a remark by the poet Martial.
Herbert A. Richardson of Brunswick and Eva C. Snowman of Hallowell were married at the Congregational parsonage in Hallowell on Christmas morning by Rev. C. A. Wight. The service followed an Episcopal ring ceremony. The groom owns the Five Islands hotel. they will live in Brunswick now and later at Five Islands.
The article notes Mrs. Henry Gray visiting her parents and Mr Wade of Perkins calling on friends. It reports rivers open with little ice and poor market conditions for farmers, but a week of good sleighing and lingering hope for more winter weather.
A New York Tribune piece reports on Wellesley College expenditures, noting tuition, board, clothes, and other costs. It argues family standards influence college spending as much as the college itself and concludes the investment benefits society and future generations more than similar outlays at home.
Roscoe P Todd arrives from Boston to spend the holiday season at his Georgetown home.
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