Worumbo Mills Lands Major Navy Cloth Contract
Oliver Moses Jr announces Worumbo Manufacturing Co won a U S government contract for 175000 yards of 14 ounce indigo Navy cloth, boosting Lisbon Falls employment for about 20 weeks. Previous bid in April yielded 25000 yards. the new order uses 600000 to 700000 pounds of wool, signaling strong mill activity and worker stability.
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Lisbon Falls
Maine
Oliver Moses
Worumbo Manufacturing Co
United States
Wortumbo
Worumbo
Maxsex
Lieutenant Lord Honored by Fellow Officers
Lieut John A Lord U S N recently assigned to rebuild the Constitution at Charlestown yard reports July 6. Portsmouth yard officers hosted a farewell supper at Green Moors Inn with about 50 attendees and speeches commending his knowledge and cheerful disposition as he departs for a new station.
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John A. Lord
U.S.N
Navy Department
Constitution
Charlestown
Massx
Navy Yard
Vearl Street
Portsmouth Yard
Lord
Green Moors Inn
Kittery
Peter Treutlein
Comdr
W. Bb. Fogarty
John Watts
Herman Chandler
Reginald Goldsmith
Watts
Jeter
W. M. Hunt
Vportsmouth Navy Yard
Boston
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Herald
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston Boat Returns With An Officer Ill
Harrys Lewis of Boston fell ill on the steamship City of Danger returning to Boston from Bath. He was believed to have acute appendicitis and the captain ordered the vessel to turn back to hospitalize him. Dr. Fuller reported the captain comfortable the next morning. Captain Ross Dickson was assigned to replace him for the Boston leg. Mr and Mrs E K Parker and son traveled from Woodstock Vermont to fetch Mrs Mary Parker proprietor of Barnholm.
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Harrys Lewis
Boston
City of Danger
Bath
N. W. Brewer
Wond Island
Lewis
E. M. Fuller
Ross Dickson
Wiwarna
Eangor
Reverend Tubbs Laid Low by Scarlet Fever at Home
Rev. Charles Myron Tubbs of Grace Episcopal church is confined to his home with scarlet fever. His sudden illness altered the family plans as he was to begin a scheduled vacation.
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Charles Myron Tubbs
Grace Episcopal Church
Twilight League First Round Stats Highlight Local Play
Bath twilight league completes first nine week round with over 1500 spectators for six games. Y team leads with seven of nine regulars hitting over 300 and minimal stolen bases against them. Times and Legion follow while St Marys feared despite losses with strong late innings.
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Y.mlu.a
Speedy Y Nine
American Legion
St. Mary's
Y Crew
Mainy
Times
Legion
Cae Co
P.O. A. EL Ave. Cutting
Bonney
Erry
Mlaughlin
S.M
Dauphin
Stover
Flaherty
Russell
ALL
ESA
M. Oliver
W. Oliver
Uo Boutin
Dooler
Trueworthy
Spinney
MacDonalde AL
Slyi Miller
RR Crocker
Ib All
Lothrop
Ie lSeee
Ani McMann
Aes Morse
Sly
Met “Abe
Abe Coe Eiciviere
Asie
McManon
Fein
Strasits
Siotley Gaal
McLeap
ILA
Souney Nour
Yas
Geese
Jonson
Daley
Oliver Ars
ES Sas
Morse
Lewin BA
Hayes
A Ferris
Devaney
McLean
Doyle
Endowment drive to fund Legion child welfare and veteran care
The American Legion launches a $5,000,000 Endowment Fund to support orphaned children of veterans and relief for wounded and disabled soldiers. The fund backs cottage billets, not large homes, with income about $225,000 yearly to sustain disabled veterans' rehabilitation and child welfare programs nationwide. The Legion stresses private funding as government aid falls short for full justice.
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American Legion
United States
Roland H. Smith
Legion
Veterans’ Bureau
Justice
Bureau
Veteran's Bureau
America
Otter Lake
Michigan
Independence
Kansas
New Jersey
Tennessee
American Legion For the Disabled
Bath letter carriers assigned vacations
Local letter carriers have had their vacation periods set by assistant postmaster William J. Perry. Vacations begin July 1 with Elmer D. Hodgkins and run through mid August for others including Edward J. Perry, Harry C. Sullivan, James E. McLaughlin, Oscar J. Tanguay, Ray D. Cummings, Frank Wakefield, and Edward McMaun. Substitutes named Carvill Glax Edward N. Hartnett Gillespie Randall Coombs. Mr and Mrs Joseph Noyes and son Cobham passed Thursday at Small Point.
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Loecal
William J. Perry
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Edward J. Perry
Harry C. Sullivan
James E. McLaughlin
Oscar J. Tanguay
Ray DD. Cummings
Frank
Wakefield
Edward
McMaun
Carvill Glax
Edward N. Hartnett
Gillespie
Randall Coombs
Naturalist Norman Lermond's lifelong pursuit of nature
biographical sketch of Norman W. Lermond of Warren Maine, born 1861, who pursued science across coasts and continents. once a railroad worker and socialist leader, he created Maine's only arboretum and led Knox Academy of Arts and Sciences. the piece details his diverse travels, colonization efforts, and lifelong devotion to natural history.
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Norman W. Lermond
Warren
Frank A. Winslow
Rockland
Boston Sunday Globe
Mr. Winslow
Boston
Washington
Maine
People’s Party
Pacific Coast
Arkansas
Tennessee
Florida
Knox Academy of Arts and Sciences
Maine Naturalist
New England
Norman Wallace Lermond
Knox County
Lermond
Scotland
Ireland
Milton Jj
Derry
Deston
Bartlett
Cornhill
Gen
Sburnside
Julius Ward
Pacific
New York & New England
Edward Sellamy
the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth
Puget Sound
West
United States
Alldrick Googeres
Tacoma
Edison
Equality
Utopia Park
Itic
Globe
Knox Arbitratum
Morse High List Of Honor Pupils Published
Morse High Principal Arthur B. Scott releases six week and semester tallies of Highest Honors and Honors recipients. The lists name numerous freshmen sophomores juniors and post graduates across multiple categories with extensive rolls of students and households.
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Morse High
Arthur B. Scott
Tablet dedication marks first Episcopal church site in Maine
On Sunday July 19 public exercises will commemorate a boulder and tablet marking St. John's church site at W Pownalborough. Bishop Brewster will attend with an historical address by B. J. Packard. prior service history ties to the 1760 Pownalborough court house and Maine history.
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Will
First Episcopal Church
Maine
Dresden Mills
Richmond Ferry
St. John's Church
Pownalborough
Episcopal Church
Brewster
B. J. Packard
Augusta
Thon
Willait Pudor Gardiner
Silvester Gardiner
Gardiner
Kennebec River
Richmond
Wiscasset
Pownalborough Court House
Court House
St. John’s Church
Crude Oil Fire Sparks Seguin Island Alarm
On Seguin Island last Saturday a blaze destroyed 40 barrels of crude oil, endangering a housing colony. Coast guard crews from Popham Beach and the Portland Hibiscus rushed to the scene, salvaging 23 of 63 barrels as firefighters battled the intense heat and protected nearby homes. The fire, likely sparked, was brought under control about an hour after starting.
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Seguin Island
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Hibiscus
Portland
H. W. Sprague
BE. W. Taft
N. L. Fickett
Mr. Taft
Fickett
Vortland
Shenandoah Dirigible Expected Over Bath Area Friday
Representative J Edward Drake notified Governor Brewster’s office on Wednesday about the Shenandoah airship’s Friday flight from Lakehurst New Jersey to Bel Harbor. The craft is expected to pass over Bath between 450 and 600 pm, informing residents in lower Sagadahoe county of the probable arrival. Joseph Arthur Green wed Madeline Louise Morton in an outdoor Pond Island ceremony. Green, formerly of this city, is Fort Kent High School principal and Bates College graduate. Morton is Gorham Normal School alumna. The couple plans a honey moon at Sebasco House Orrs Island.
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J. Edward Drake
Lakehurst
N. J
Bel Harbor
Bath
Drake
Governors Office
Lower Sagadahoe County
Col
Dustin
Brewster
Blaine
Augusta
Bangor
Joseph Arthur Green
Charles H. Green
Madeline Louise Morton
Buxton
Pond Islan
Green
Fort Kent High School
Bates College
Morton
Gorham Normal School
Sebasco House
Orr's Island
Maine's Largest Cable Across Kennebec Reopens Service
The Kennebec river fixed telephone service between Bath and Woolwich after laying a new 3600 foot 19 quads 13 gauge and 101 pair cable. A temporary Woolwich office operated while manufacture neared completion, and the Sophia laid the line in June with tests confirming the cable was in perfect condition.
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Kennebec
Bath
Woolwich
Harry A. Starbird
Bath and
Brunswick
Hawthorne
Jil
Sophia
Sbuth
F. A. Scribner
E. B. Hodgkins
George W. Dall
Road Street
Commercial Street
Pege Savant
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Small Point
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Delia Cloutie
Anna Chandler
Hazel Hatch
James Jackson
Francis Jenkins
Lena Oliver
Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Thompson
Lena Phornton
Marjorie Troop
Virginia Winkhatm
Caroline Turner
Dorothy Arsenault
Albert Austin
Marie Ayer
Elinor Brown
Adele Burton
James Carey
Florence Chellis
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Helen Conley
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Dwinal Cornish
Elia Cressey
Arthur Cullen
Eleanor
Elizabeth Rolfe
Lawrence Specht
Hazel Wakefield
Mildred Webber
Lillian Acherson
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Roy Arsenault
Francis Bruce
Edna Burns
Madeline Coombs
Helen Curtis
Thelma Dearing
Earl Decker
Philip Evans
Alonzo Freeman
Edwin Fuller
Bessie Greenblatt
Arthur Hall
Josephine Hamblen
James Hart
Vesta Hinckley
Winifred Kennerson
Isabelle Lewis
Evelyn Lord
Harry MacDonald
Donald McRae
Gustave Meister
Dorothy Mercer
Carl Oliver
William Oliver
Isabelle Warsley
Alfred Randall
John Roberts
Archie Seekins
John Sheldon
Katherine Thompson
Millard Trott
Elsie Wakefield
Edna Wright
Ruth Bryant
Evelyn Burgess
Adelaide Campbell
Helen Furber
Beatrice Goddard
Helen Rogers
Louise Stewart
Elsie Trott
Alice Whalen
Helen Hayes
Alice Arsetault
Davis Black
Eleanor Blake
Virginia Clark
Gladys Comeau
Beatrice Duprey
Scott Feere
Mildred Footer
Marion Fuller
Katherine Galvin
Alfred Gannon
Lena Gaudet
Doris Genthner
Riscilla Hodge
Alice Hogue
Mildred Hope
Fernando Hutchins
Lucy Jewett
Earl Kennerson
Agatha Lennox
Shirley Mank
Maary MacDonald
Charles Mitchell
Madeline Moore
David Mullin
Mary O'Donnell
Carlton Burgess
Lera Burns
Joseph Butler
Forest Carlton
Bernadette Collins
Charles Cummings
Aleander Donaldson
Tareld Donnell
William Donnell
George Dow
Sadie Dowling
Durnham Dunton
Hudson Fowles
Ruth Fowles
Ruth Green
Fletcher Harford
Gertrude Harrington
Forest Higgins
Velma Hisler
Louise Holbrook
Lloyd Hooker
John Larrabee
Dudley Leavitt
Althea Levyn
Mary Lord
Mary Conley
Elizabeth Coombs
Mary Curran
Evelyn Davis
Dorothy Donnell
Christine Lockery
Wilfred Rice
Grace Ailen
Ruth Anderson
Mary Appleton
Mary Dadalec
Lucile Beals
Eona Blair
Dorothy Breton
Harold Brown
Helen Brown
Elsie Carter
Alexander Donaldson
Burahim Dunton
Helen Hall
Dorothy Hugger
Johnson
Johnson Bros Co
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