Pasadena reminiscences by E. C. Donnell from a Bath heritage
The letter from E. C. Donnell of Pasadena recounts his Connecticut and Bath, Maine roots, Civil War service, and a long move west in 1901. He praises Pasadena's climate, beauty, and prosperity, noting its blooming gardens, thriving real estate, and affluent homes, while reflecting on the city’s growth and his own health improvement.
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the Independent
E. C. Donnell
Pasadena
Calif
William T. Donnell
Bath
Beth
Vols. Co. C
South
Joanna T. McLellan
Salva McLellan
Roxbury
Mass
Somerville
Beverly
California
East
Pacific Slope
Sierra Madre Mountains
Pacific
Leeward
Merrymeeting Grange Hosts Busy Bowdoinham Week
The Merrymeeting Grange in Bowdoinham hosted a three night session with crowd turnout on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A program of plays led by directors Charles White and Walter Robinson drew praise and demonstrated local dramatic talent. Tramps were jailed days for vagrancy as the town notes political and civic items, including tax collection laws and upcoming lodge installations.
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Merry Meeting Grange
Grange
Grange Dramatic Club
Charles M. White
Grangers
Bay Road
Walter Robinson
the Pierce
Pat O'Doyle
Jack Flannagan
Chas H. Cary
Mr. Darling
E. B. Sprague
Miss Darling
Carrie F. Furbish
Cour
W. B. Kendall
Fred Leavitt
Mr. Leavitt
Kennebec Lodge
K. of P
Grange Fair
Rathbone
Main Street
W. L. Bonney
Notable Crossroads of State and Nation in Early 1900s
A compilation of brief notes covers H. E. Hammon of Paris Hill’s death in Oxford County. Italian diplomat Gustavo Tosti’s transfer to Denver. John Sharpe Williams elected U S senator from Mississippi. a Westbrook deputy rescues a skating boy on the Presumpscot. Emperor William attends a Kiel masquerade unmasked. commerce and labor efforts against white slave traffic gain traction with Attorney General Bonaparte. miners at Indianapolis present $2700 to President Mitch ell. Stedman funeral held in New York. New York bans women smoking in public places. Gov. Hughes open to Republican nomination. George Wilson sentenced to death in Newark. Yale students support Taft, Brown students back Hughes. Wetmore reelected senator from Rhode Island. Gov. Guild rebuffs Boston unemployed appeal. Fr F K Kolodzicz mobbed in Ludlow. Count Laszlo Szchenyi to marry Gladys Vanderbilt in New York. Morris K Jessup dies at 73. Boston Chamber elects Rothwell president. Agnes Manning towed for repairs. Mississippi battleship Mississippi accepted by government.
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James S. Lowell
Harry JC Webber
Register
Sagadahoc
Ath
Edward W Wheeler
Bbnon
Jane G Smith
Topsham
Grinted
Arry C. Webber
Sacadahoc
Alice P Sitchel
Lucy J Harnden
Lexington
James
Lowell
Maine
Kate M Soule
Oolwich
Elizabeth Soule
Woolwich
Archie Soule
Diana
Charles i
Soule Melrose
Kate
Soule
Loretta ( Carter
Daugher
Nannie
Loretta Soule
Damoriscotta
David F Soule
Kate M Soue
Kate Mnsouly
WM Thall
State OF Maine
Sagadahoe
Angecahee
James 8
Arry C Webber
Sarah A Keay
Said
Hiram Keay
Saich
Jopsham
State OF
Bath Independent
Peniiher
C. Webber
R. T. Felix Gouraud
Gouraud
United States
Canada
Europe
Ferd. T. Hopkins
Great Jones Street
New York
Uneeda National
Johnson
City of Roses
Bowdoinham
Merrymeeting Grange
Sagadahoc County
Pomona Orange
Etta Williams
Sunshine Club
John Stevenson
India
Robert Joy
Alias Lightheart
Co. M. White
Paul Potter
W. J. Dee Sam
Barney
E. L. White
Miss Hannie Curtis
Alice
Marie Card Mary
Flora Dunham
Charles Holbrook
East Bowdoinham
Jedediah Blood
C. S
Thomas Blood
George Hamilton
Charles Smith
Arthur Nettleton Alphonzo Markham
Wilbur Small
John
A. B. Small
Mary Mower
Pearl Cameron
Betty Blood
Jedediah
Lois Dunlap
Lucy Blood
L. Jean Foote
Martha
Robinson Molly
Dr. Darling
Hattie Henderson
Merrymeetine Grange
Knights of Pythias
McDonald Temple of Pythian Sisters
Bowdeinham
Cathance
Frost
New Jersey
William D. Hutchins
Edgecomb Farm
Electa
Mount Carmel
Richmond
Charles Newton
Waterville
J. A. Cromwell
Dealth
Emerson Keene
H. E. Hammon
Paris Hill
Enner
Oxford County Supreme Court
Baron Gustavo Tosti
Boston
Denver
Colo
Marquis di Bruno
John Sharpe Williams
National House of Representatives
Mississippi
Eugene Harmon
Westbrook
Harold Welch
Presumpscot River
Emperor William of
Germany
Kiel
Prince Adelbert
Department of Commerce and Labor
Strauss
Charles J. Bonaparte
National Convention of Mine Workers
Indianapolis
John Mitchell
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Unitarian Church of the
New York Board of Aldermen
Charles E. Hughes
Frederick R. Romer
George Wilson
Newark
Yale
William H. Taft
Brown University
Taft
Gov. Hughes
Brown
George Peabody Wetmore
Newport
Rhode Island
Samuel P. Colt
Bristol
Robert H. S. Goddard
Providence
Gov. Guild of
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
F. K. Kolodzicz
Ludlow
Laszlo Szchenyi
Hungary
Gladys Vanterbilt
Vanderbilt
Trousseau
Morris K. Jessup
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Bernard J. Rothwell
Schoner
Agnes Manning
Portsmouth
N. H
Goverment
Fremont
St. Petersburg
Paris
Biddeford
Miller
Youngstown, O
Bell
War Department
Congress
Taliesen Morgan
The
Baptist Temple
Brooklyn
George B. Mudge
Lynn
Mme Willian Nordica
Chicago
San Carlos Opera Company
George Layton
Harry T. Fowler
Portland
Harvard
Supreme Court of Ohio
Toledo
RP. C. Beard
J. A. Miller
Vera Roberts
Salem
E. Lawrence Hurd
Milton
Eugene Libby
E.B. Dunbard
H. E. Thayer
Foxcroft
Maine Central Railroad
Augusta
Frank Belanger
Benton Station
Fred Hamlin
Catherine Devine
Little Egypt
Hamlin
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