Grain aid plan for Russia and winter sports push
Senator France proposes milling and packaging U S grain before shipments to Russia to create jobs and boost demand for corn products while labeling for uses. Dartmouth highlights Winter sports growth with a $5,000 ski jump and calls for broader open air activity. The note urges adults to enjoy coasting skating and sleigh rides for health and longevity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
Joseph I. France
Maryland
France
Prussia
Dartmouth
Maine camp tourism push could boost state attractions
Maine plans widespread advertising of its tourist draw while highlighting its suitability for youth camps. The piece argues Maine already hosts many summer camps and more are forming, urging the state to promote itself to avoid losing hundreds of thousands annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Inventor Demonstrates Breath Vaporizing Device
An inventor showed the House Merchant Marine committee a device that vaporizes a man’s breath, allowing long periods without water or thirst. The idea raises questions about applying it to intoxicated men and recapturing vapor back into alcohol, suggesting potential demand in certain regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Merchant Marine Committee
Fisheries Bureau Could Become Self Supporting
Commissioner Willis E Parsons of the State Inland Fisheries and Game department says the bureau can be made self supporting if the legislature allows it. The proposal would shift duties from George to Willis in this plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis E. Parsons
State Inland Fisheries and Game Department
Willis
George
Public utilities and early mills shaping colonial America
The piece traces the first public grist mill at Dedham Massachusetts built in 1640 and notes how utilities like mills, stage coaches, railroads, telephones and telegraph systems spurred national unification. It cites John Elderkin and Motherbrook waterway and cites Monroe and Madison era contexts. It ends by highlighting vast reach of gas and electric services today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Dedham
Mass
Charles River
Neponset
Motherbrook
Hirst
United States
John Elderkin
Ham
Lynn
Saugus
Madison
Kentucky
Monroe
Congress
Atlantic
Middle West
George Stephenson
Mass transit tax idea urged on motorists
The statement argues Massachusetts should assess motorists a two cent per gallon gas tax and dedicate the proceeds to highway funding. It asserts motorists are accustomed to taxes and supports taxing drivers to pay for roads.
Van Buren Twins Born as Beaulieu Estate Becomes Gift
Jan 7 birth of a boy named Albert and a girl named Aurore to Mr and Mrs Sylvian Beaulieu. Maine notes report the Rich estate residue of 4708.05 to the U S government and a Maine elder celebrates her 101st birthday with recall of Revolutionary ancestors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van “Buren
Sylvian Beaulieu
Albert
Aurore
United States
Calvin W. Brown
George R. Rich
Foxcroft
Federal Treasury
Piscataquis
Rich
Eunice Caldwell
Oxford
Caldwell
Otisfield
Joseph
Clarissa Morse Scribner
Payson Smith
Masachusetts
Maine
New England Home Economics Association
Theodore J. Eastman
South Berwick
Maine Historical Society
Washington
Ellsworth
Benjamin F. Butler
Missing South Bristol mariner Howard B. Kaler
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Howard B Kaler of South Bristol a Waldoboro native and noted mariner who for months has sailed as cook of the tug Nottingham. He was last seen in Bayonne New Jersey December 21 sending Christmas gifts to his daughter Dorothy a Lincoln Academy student. Kaler wearing a plush coat and silk stockings and tattooed H B E on his left arm with a gold watch gifted for bravery remains missing. Dorothy reports she fears foul play and police in Bayonne are in contact with Lincoln Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard B Kaler
Bristol
Waldoboro
Mariner
Nottingham
Aler
Cornelius O'Neil
Bayonne
Lincoln Academy
Kaler
Thrumb Cap Island
Arthur
New York City
Howard
Newport
R. I
Primary papers circulate for June Maine primaries
Nomination papers are circulating for all offices in the June primaries. Sagadahoc County gains one legislative seat with Bath gaining a third representative, Bowdoin and nearby towns placed in one class and Tops ham group in another. Dr Langdon T Snipe of Bath files papers, George L Tarr of Arrowsic is favored by supporters for the Topsham group. Filing deadline with the secretary of state is April 17 for the June 19 primary.
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United States
Down
Sagadahoc County
Bath
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Arrowsic
West Bath
Phippsburg
Tarr
Arrowsie
Secretary of State
Bath Boy Writes Of A Fine Voyage
Steamship Thomas I Beal left Bath November 22 and has arrived in Seattle. Arthur Colby in the engineering crew reports wonderful weather despite rough seas. He downplays the shipboard fire lasting only a few hours. He mails a log from San Francisco and plans more notes for Bath friends. Arthur saw his brother George aboard the Nevada in San Pedro and they toured Long Beach. The Beal will stop in San Francisco and Philadelphia en route to New York.
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Thomas I’. Beal
Bath
Seattle
Wash
Arthur Colby
Beal
San Francisco
Arthur
The
Times
San Pedro
Cal
George
Nevada
Long Beach
Philadelphia
New York
Four Doors and a Mistimed Joke
A Briton and an American argue over doors in a room. The American bets five dollars there are five doors. They count one to four, then a fifth door is humorously revealed as a misstep. The Englishman repeats the gag back home, ending with a pun about a split foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Glencliff
N. H
Laboratory for Tribal Study at Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia remains a remote field for human geographers to study how plateau regions affect tribes little touched by outsiders. About a million natives live in a vast area larger than Texas where under 3,000 Europeans reside, per National Geographic Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodesia
Texas
Naronal Geographic Magazine
Nerve Wins Sweepstakes Bowing Match At Bishop Square
Morris Reynolds dominates a Monday night sweepstakes at Bishop Square alleys Portland outrolling 15 Maine contenders to a 1099 total. Reynolds takes $80 with Doler $40 and Ivers $30 as top finishers, while several notables like Preston Farrar and Martin falter in the later strings. Reynolds also defeats Pearson, a recent rival, adding to his satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Reynolds
Bishop Square
Portland
Maine
Joel Doler
Bowlodrome
Harry ‘Ters
Waterville
Reynolds
Doler
Ivers
Joe Doler
Veter Pride
Preston Farrar
Bath
Martin
Clinto
Red
Pete
Pride
Good
Hooper
Googins
Russell
Donnell
Pearson
Lopez
McConville
Woodcock season change debated by sportsmen letter
A representative sportsman urges the Department of Inland Fisheries and Game to keep the existing woodcock law, arguing against opening the season on Sept. 15. He shares 125 years of hunting experience in Somerset, Waldo, and Knox counties, noting native birds move late and flights appear from coast counties in late October. He urges officials to resist expansion and preserve current rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Inland Fisheries and Game
Somerset County
Coast
Waldo
Knox
Year Without a Summer Year 1816 Struck US Frosts
The year 1816 saw sun spots at maximum and unusual cold across the northern United States. January and February were mild, March turned cold, and April frost and snow damaged crops. May ice formed an inch thick, plantings failed, and seedings succumbed repeatedly. June brought continued ice on water and snow on fields, nearly all fruit destroyed.
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United States
Vermont
Maine
New York
Massachusetts
Phosphorus Found on Japanese Island Chain
Reports in Popular Mechanics Magazine reveal large phosphorus deposits discovered on an uninhabited island in the Lootoochoo archipelago extending southward from Japan. The finding highlights potential mineral wealth and future exploitation prospects for the region.
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Japan
Loochoo Archipelago
Mechanic¢s
Plan A Revision of Banking Laws in Maine Legislature
The 80th Legislature appointed a joint committee to study revising and consolidating Maine banking laws. Bank Commissioner Fred F. Lawrence aids the effort, seeking suggestions from investment houses and the public on amendments to the Savings Bank Investment laws, plus how far to expand allowed investments and oversight. The memo lists topics including municipal securities, telephone and railroad equipment, industrial bonds, public utilities, earning tests, prior legalization, periodic investigations, and a proposed legislative commission to issue ongoing rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.H. Baxter
Bath
Baton
Rumford
Senate
H. H. Murchie
Calais
J. T. Fagan
Portland
Rex W. Dodge
House
Fred F. Lawrence
Lawrence
Savings Bank
Maine
Banking Department
The Egg in Her Hand Folklore Across New York
An old New Hampshire woman keeps a daily egg delivery contract to a New York family. When one egg breaks she uses a hen to fill the quota, adding the warm egg to the batch and telling how the hen literally laid an egg in her hand. The tale spread to the New York Herald.
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New Hampshire
New York
Burnit
New York Herald
Wind and Current Charts Helped Sailors Worldwide
The Wind and Current Charts by Lieut Maury of the U S Navy guided mariners in the mid 19th century. British shipping alone is said to have benefited by about ten million dollars annually from these charts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut. Maury
United States Navy
But One Way. There is but one way to heaven for the learned and the unlearned
Jeremiah Taylor notes a singular path to salvation, addressing both educated and uneducated seekers. The statement frames a moral stance on spiritual access and religious truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremy Taylor
All Maine Movie Delights Guests at Private Show
A private Portland Strand Theatre showing of The Girl from Porcupine drew a crowd led by Mr and Mrs Frank B Nichols and other Maine dignitaries. The Maine produced feature by Pine Tree Pictures Inc filmed entirely in Maine with scenic work around Sebago and Moosehead regions. Governors Hinckley and Milliken plus Maine judges and lawmakers attended, praising the film as engaging and well made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank B. Nichols
Roscoe T.'Ham
Strand Theater
Portland
James. Oliver Curwood
Pine Tree Pictures, Inc
Frederick W. Hinckley
South Portland
Bath
Carl EK. Milliken
Maine
Dorothy ‘Mason
Harry S’. Mason
Yukon Valey
Curwood
Maine Corporation
Vost
Milliken
Hinckley
Porcupine
Northland
S. D. Warren Paper’ Co
Forks
Moosehead Lake
Sebago Lake
Henry W. Oakes
Androscoggin
Death Valley as Ancient Lake Bed Evidence Found
Exploration reveals a 600 foot high ancient water line along enclosing ranges while Death Valley rests 200 feet below sea level. Winds pass four mountain ranges before the arid, waterless basin, where a vanished river once fed a lake. Borax deposits exist but water scarcity makes labor deadly in summer.
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Death Valley
California
Bad golfer ruins green in strip of turf humor
A careless golfer damages a square foot of turf during a round. The caddie suggests taking the turf home to make a small course for versel. The exchange underlines the lighthearted spirit of the scene.
Leaders debate end to party politics in city election
A city paper notes calls to unite Democrats and Republicans on a mayoralty candidate to end campaign strife. Mayor Cahill plans not to seek renomination, opening party contests. Riders on city expenditure cuts, a $125000 federal housing project obligation, and a possible 1922 tax revaluation loom as major issues for the incoming administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ly Keven
Cahill
Emergency Fleet Corporation
North End
Dummer Street
Columbarium and its Roman origins described
The term columbarium comes from a dove cote resembling niche walls in Roman sepulchral chambers. Poorer families and funeral associations erected these tombs for slaves and dependents, with Vigna Codini among notable examples near Rome. Cremation rooms, or ustrina, were attached, and modern use names the hall with urn niches.
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Rome
Vigna Codini
Licinian Gardens
Naples
Italy
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