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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
2
A woman reader urged officers to curb crowds around moving picture shows to keep sidewalks clear and safe for pedestrians, noting rough language and crowding by youths. The piece also mentions local politics, portland enforcement trends, and Bath shipbuilding efforts amid broader regional civic news.
The Independent endorses a Bath public play ground and athletic field. A Maine Federation of Women's Clubs circular argues Maine should set aside ground for children's recreation to aid health and ethics, calling playgrounds a summer world for the world and urging statewide effort.
A state convention of merchants is to be formed with county organizations. Sagadahoc County is expected to be among the first to organize and participate in the new structure.
Life on torpedo boats is harsh and cramped with sixty to seventy crew in tiny spaces. Engines run at full speed while hulls are built, and sailors endure heat, humidity, and perilous movement as they work, sleep, and eat below deck in rough seas and calm alike.
The Maine state assessors report 1758 oxen remaining in 1907, about half of the 15473 counted a decade earlier. Once common in Bath shipyards and hay hauling, oxen now rare to see in daily market and farm life.
Mrs A Gregory of Denver writes Lydia E Pinkham to share that after six years of female trouble and an unsuccessful operation she found relief with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the product as a standard female health remedy used for displacements, inflammation, irregularities, backache, and nervous prostration and invites others to write for advice.
Miss Florence Merrill spent Sunday with friends in Augusta. Schools in town closed Friday. Miss Minnie Peacock took her Lowell school pupils to Gardiner to see the moving pictures Friday afternoon. Walter Curtis has returned from Boston and is housebound with grip. Jay Baker remains ill with bronchial pneumonia. Mahlon Florence and Eugene Curtis are ill with measles. Rev. C E Bousfield preached in Freeport Sunday.
South Dresden reports J. St. Jones visiting Pittston friends. Stella Hateh stays with Mrs. Lewis Lowell in Wiscasset for a few weeks. Fred Buazzell and William Dunn of Portland returned home Monday after rock blasting for the Johnson's lodges breakwater. Myra Siegars visiting Mrs. Annie Groves for several days.
Mr and Mrs Robert Jordan with Miasce Mabel and Florence Jordan attend the funeral of Alps Donovan Lewiston Tuesday. A J Linscott and Binscott travel to Boston and Bath on business trips. Peter L Cushing and Alwan Snow also visit Bath while John O Randall shoots a fox. Robert reports five foxes shot this winter.
The annual meeting in Washington D C discussed key topics including the American merchant marine ship subsidy interstate commerce commission duties railroad agreements and related issues.
A New York Press dialogue features a professor and an inventor debating how facial muscles reveal emotion. The professor argues lip movements betray truth more than eyes, noting the lower lip is especially telling.
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Comtesse de Beine recounts Louis XIV's private coucher. The king discs his coat waistcoat shirt in view of court and guests as nobles aid dressing, with playful theatrics and strict etiquette surrounding the ritual.
A groom caught stealing his master’s oats pleads with the curate who urges leniency quoting scripture. The vicar refuses mercy, noting the thief has taken his oats, and decides to dismiss him.
The piece quotes Sandy Mc Tavish and Andrew Bruce discussing a new cemetery’s continental style with comic turns about burial preferences. It includes a light exchange from Glasgow Times and a riddle from London Answers, ending with a quip about Congratefulness and manhood from Sidney.
Timothy Burgess, 93, of Phippsburg, dies after brief illness. He leaves three daughters Abbie Burgess, T. C. Oliver, and Mrs Charles H. Stinson. His son Zina E. Burgess, 56, a carpenter, died last Monday. A double funeral was held at the Burgess homestead in Phippsburg yesterday at 2 p.m.
News arrives of Edith Litchfield Bache wife of Chas Frederic Bache death in Tucson Arizona She was daughter of Charles M and Julia W Litchfield born in this city Her girlhood home was on Washington Street near the Phoenix Hotel Burial in Dorchester Mass funeral held Friday with sister Mrs Alvord mentioned.
The funeral for Mrs J A Donovan was attended by Rev R W Phelan of St Marys Lewiston Bishop Walsh and other Catholic dignitaries from Maine and New Hampshire The high requiem mass was celebrated by Rev Father McDonough with assistance from Fathers Gorham and Linnehan Music by the church choir The service was concluded with Bishop Walsh pronouncing the eulogy and performing the last office.
The advert highlights Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a long trusted, openly labeled medicine praised for liver and stomach issues. It contrasts with alcohol free tonics and mentions other Pierce products like Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as non cures but reinforcing the brand’s enduring reputation.
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