Maine Historical Pageant Opens With Carlton Bridge Dedication
The Maine Historical Pageant opened Monday on the City field by the old Mill pond to celebrate Maine history and the $3,000,000 Carlton bridge linking Bath and Woolwich. The event features Gov. Ralph O. Brewster as William King with many dignitaries attending, and includes a prologue and multiple episodes recounting early Maine from exploration to statehood in 1820.
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Maine
Mill Pond
Virginia Tanner
Massachusetts
Carlton
Kennebec
Bath
Woolwich
Ralph O. Brewster
William King
Arthur J. Dunton
Hinckley Lauds Carltons Labor For The Bridge
Hon. Frederick W. Hinckley of South Portland praised Carlton’s labor on the Carlton bridge dedication. The ceremony featured Gov. John H. Trumbull, a 103rd Infantry band, and remarks on Washington Lincoln Dow and other memorials, with a formal act presentation by Sen. Carlton and a crowd along Front and Vine streets.
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Frederick W. Hinckley
South Portland
Ghizeh
Cairo
America
Washatton
Mt. Vernon
Grant
New York
Longfellow
Reed
Portland
Hamlin
Bangor
General Knox
Thomaston
Washington Monument
Washington
George Washington
Lincoln
Neal Dow
Pericles
Greece
Rome
Shakespeare
Bacon
Milton
Ben Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
Washington Irving
Emerson
Hawthorne
Lowell
Whittier
Holmes
Carlton Bridge
Hotel Eagle Lot
Front
Vine Streets
Bath Approach
103Rd Infantry Band
Howard D. Spoerl
Universalist Church
John H. Trumbull
Connecticut
Maine
Lake Moosehead
Senator Carlton’s Address on Maine Bridge Completion
Senator Carlton praises the completed Maine bridge built within a three million dollar bond issue. He cites bonds paid from toll income, governor support, and state cooperation, noting the project’s transfer to Governor Brewster and the Highway Commission.
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New England
State of Maine
State House
Eighty-Second
Highway Commission
Maine
Ralph O. Brewster
State of
Clyde H. Smith
Skowhegan
Maine Highway Commission
Brewster
Bath Iron Works builds new twin screw yacht Vanda
Rapid progress on the ocean going yacht Vanda, 240 ft long with 1590 hp Diesels, being built for Ernest B. Dane at Bath Iron Works. The project adds to six contracts valued over 1 million dollars, including three steel trawlers for Georgetown Holy Cross and Boston College, a Venezuelan towboat, and a 138 ft pleasure craft.
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Vanda
Bath Iron Works Corp
Ernest B. Dane
Brookline
Mass
Fastern Yacht Club
Massachusetts
Atlantic Seaboard
Ava
Great Duck Island
Bessemer
Fairbanks-Morse
Georgetown
Holy Cross
Boston College
Venezuelan Gulf Oil Co
Curtis Yacht Lyndonia Visits Bath and Brunswick
Curtis and his guest Miss Cutter tour Bath visiting Palmer relatives and bowdoin officials. The Lyndonia built in 1920 on the Harlem river is 230 feet with two 1060 hp diesels. Curtis plays an organ selection at Bowdoin and attends the college’s pool dedication.
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Kennebec
Bath
Lyndonia
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Philadelphia
Curtis
Portland
Augustus Palmer
Allen Street
Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp
Harlem River
New York
Cutter
Pasadena
California
F. B. Nichols
The
Times
Hattie
Alma Palmer
Frank A. Palmer
Hich Street
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Sills
Eine Pool
Tonen
Bowdoin Chapel
Maine History Pageant Debuts Before Notable Maine Crowd
The pageant depicting early Maine history premiered Monday before a large audience. Attendees included Curtis D. Wilbur the secretary of the navy, Senator Frederick Hale, Governor Ralph O. Brewster and their spouses, congressmen and officers, with many prominent Maine and New England figures present.
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Maine
Pres. Coolidge
Frederick Hale
Ralph O. Brewster
Congress
Army
Navy
New England
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David Alkazin
Singer
Chester Plant
Ella Congdon
Henry Sarkis
Dean Bonney
Ralph Crocker
Donald H. Crosby
Thomas H. Deejay
Fred Gaudet
Mark Hanna
Arthur M. Holmes
Robert Jewell
Worrell Lemont
Cyrus W. Longley
Robert Maass
Paul McCole
Merritt Mitchell
Wilbur C. Oliver
Kenneth Orr
Clayton Palmer
Cleveland Rowe
Linwood Russell
Ernest Sarkis
Seth N. Snipe
Alfred Springer
Merritt Trott
Roland Trott
John H. Westmore
John Burgon
Lloyd Daley
Albert Henderson
Lee L. Hooker
Vernon B. Lake
Leonard Metcalf
T. D. Steen
A. I. Stuart
Herbert E. Worrey
Oliver Brown
James Knight
Albert Lozier
Chester Rines
Ella Comeau
Louise Gaudet
Sophie Greenblatt
Katherine Hooper
Mary Kenney
Marion O'Hara
Pearl Oliver
Edna Potter
Evelyn Trott
Pierre du Guast
Sieur de Monts
Andrew C. Flaherty
Samuel de Champlain
Andrew Lemoine
Captain George Waymouth
St. George's Island
Tin
A. A. Stott
Thomas Cam
John Shaw Owen Griffin
Joseph Doyle Thomas King
Boatswain
Enntace Airtseeicraie
Lloyd Rogers Carpenter
Stewart Day
England
Warren E. Kershner
Skittarroes
George Popham
William A. Furber
Tahanedo Cyrus W. Longley
Meg
Popham Colony
Howard Spoers
James ‘Davis Chester Clement Digby
London
H. Augustus Huse
Patteson
Ralph E. Blakeney
Harold L. Adams Ellis Best
Marshall
Melvin Comeau
George Waymouth
James Rosier
John J. Keegan
Ferdinando Gorges
N. Gratz Jackson
John Popham
Arthur J. Dunton Raleigh Gilbert
Howard Spoers Oliver
Cecil Rowland
Robert Hatch
Clarence Ayer
Ann Bell
Lillian E. Lewin
Margearite Munsey
Richard Davies
Edward Harlow
Ordnance
Cece
Harold E. Cutting
Master Leaman
Willard McLean
J. C. Burgess
Earl Cahoon
Bernard Comeau
William Dow
Harry Giles
Charles H. Kidder
Lester Larrabee
Earle B. Lermond
Rupert V. Lewis
Lester McNeil
Clarence Merrill
Louis Pooler
Walter M. Rogan
Albert Richard
Russell Sturmer
F. J. Thurston
William Waters
Newell Wilson
Paul Wilson
Albert Morse
Lloyd Rogers
Fort George
Pierre Biard
Arthur T
Stray Jean de Biencourt
Saint Saveur
Father Pierre Biard Eee
Arthur T. Stray Asticou
Sagamore
Chester Kingsley
de la Saussaye
John Earthy
Stanley Peterson
Leigh W. Reed Sagamore
Thomas Gardiner
Milton Morse
Jer Hodson
Carl Pinkham
Chester Colby
Wm. Phillips
Earle C. Bryant
Thos. Harwood
Ernest Kelly
Walter Phillips
Frank A. Norton
Sagamores
John Conner
Jamestown
Watt
John P. Carey
Bradford C. Redon- Swain
Ennemond Masse Brea
N. A. Lemoine
Quentin
Andrew C. Flaherty Lemoine
Dieppe
Nevsu
Beauvais
Asthou
Stella Duprey
George Sarkis
Pemaquid
Abraham Short
Edwin W. Haggett
Leland S. Plummer
Thomas Elbridge
Harry L. Horne
Jeannette Shackford
Genevieve Smith
Barbara Southard
Ethelyn Spinney
Leora Stinson
Doris Stover
Dorothy Thompson
Carolyn Turner
Eleanor Voorhees
Maxine A. Walker
Berniece Webber
Marion Whittier
Samuel Argall
Treasurett
A. W. Wilband
George W. Gilbert du Thet
Laybrother
Arthur Sarkis
Hope L. Ward
Arletta M. Yates
Flora Reed
Emma
Evelyn Hathorne
Thornton
Sree Gasca Dockawanda
Genevieve Dupreyton
Margaret Allen
Burnette Bailey
Ma Clark
Diana Cloutier
Ella Com
Ruth Dale
Helen Davis
Miriam Harriet Moody
Emily J. Morgan
Alberta Potter
Ruth Erwin
Roberta Erwin
Fort Charles
Weems
J. Haviland
Torrey Sagamore
Chester H. Kingsley Samuel Gyles
Billy Adams
Hinckley
Arthur Allen
Senator Carlton
Bath Irons Works Corp
William S. Newell
Archibald M. Main
Henry O Trowbridge
Roland F. Hill
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Mrs. Curtis
Cherieston
S. C
Savannah
Jacksonville
Key West
Miami
Tampa
St. Petersburg
Havana
City Field
Sewall Pond
U. S
Johnson Bros. Co
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