Bath Maine News Highlights June 30 1915 Broadside
Bath shipping office closes after pressure on congressman McGillicuddy. Pe ople's Ferry sees record car traffic with Hockomock ferrying 100 plus vehicles. Foresters of America elect officers in Sagadahoc County. Kennebec Yacht Club plans July 5 weekend cruise with 12 boats and 40 people. Green peas from Woolwich market. Local dances, standpipe fill, and various civic notes. Sailors load lumber. new motorboat at City Landing. Boston train blocks streets. Nurses plan lawn party for a nurses home fund. Bath customs and shipping offices shift. Emma S&S Briggs in port. Alice Wentworth loads lumber. Local views on flagpole proposal for Bath Custom House. Minstrel show at Grace Church parish house entertains Cosmopolitan Club. George Town University crew member Edward Dunton conditioning for Summer Southport steamer work. Maxwell car tied to Edward Dunton’s news. Charles V. Minott remains in New York on business.
Brick yard gains speed under Joseph King at Sewall Mill shore
Joseph King has taken charge of the Clifford Belanger brick yard on the Sewall Mill pond shore and plans to run the yard at full speed. The passage also notes a predicted surge of vacationists and excursionists traveling to Popham Bay Point and other Lower Kennebec points this weekend.
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Joseph King
Clifford Belanger
Sewall Mill Pond
New England
Virginia
Popham
Bay Point
Kennebec
Universalists begin Boston to California train for 1915 convention
July 1 1915 Rev and Mrs Sidney J Willis join about 300 Universalists departing Boston on a special train to California for the general Universalist convention and the National Women's Missionary Society meeting. Dr L T Snipe returns from Yale. Mrs Snipe to visit Rochester. Osborn of Vacuum Oil connected to Yale friend. Front St parade notes improved Clary store lighting. Oliver Moses heads to New York on business. Percy boys of Arlington take over Percy cottage at Popham Beach. Bath lacks Shipping Commissioner as the office is abolished after Morse retires from the post as longtime commissioner.
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Sidney J. Willis
Boston
California
The
Universalist Church
National Women's Missionary Society
L. T. Snipe
Yale
Pythian Opera House Summer Plans and Local Notes
John E. Whittey manages the Pythian Opera House at Boothbay Harbor for the summer with pictures and dancing. Eleanor Hooper departs on July 4 for a two month trip to the exposition and Pacific coast. Sebasco Estates predicts strong summer patronage with 20 bungalows filled, modern and costly ones in demand. Planned arrivals include the Ingrahams at the Low homestead Bath. Gorham Normal School welcomes Hope Winn and Walter White. M. H. S. class of 191? reunion at New Meadows Inn lists 17 attendees plus local notables. Curtis barber shop gets new paint and white ceiling. Lumbermen foresee boxboard shortages. Popham Dances open at Society Hall for Fourth of July with Miss Myrna Avery on piano and Mr. Stevens. high attendance expected as autos and launches head to the event.
Maine Central Reairs Washouts Delays Along Line
Heavy rains cause four washouts on the Maine Central between Blind Crossing and Harding's Station but Brunswick crews repair the tracks quickly, keeping train service from major disruption. The Bath traffic remains heavy as travel by automobile rises with better roads and lower costs.
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Number Of Movie Stars Appears To Be Dwindling
Hollywood notes a shrinking pool of bankable stars as aging icons like John Wayne and Gary Cooper remain dominant while younger names such as Marlon Brando emerge. Universal-International expands its talent program to train future stars, building a 200 seat theater under Jess Kimmel.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
John Wayne
Gary Cooper
James Stewart
Alan Ladd
Bing Crosby
Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart
Marlon Brando
Marilyn Monroe
Martin
Lewis
Universal-International
Jess Kimmel
Jose Ferrer
Kimmel
N.Y.U
U-I
Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Jeff Chandler
Homes On the Move Foley Florida
The Foley townsite is emptied as Buckeye Cellulose Corp moves most houses to Perry or other sites. By summer only a church post office schoolhouse and a few service stations may remain. Foley once had about 1,600 residents in 200 or so homes. The company built a large pulp mill and sold homes to workers who must relocate. Exact plans for the post office church and remaining structures are not disclosed.
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Fla
Buckeye Cellulose Corp
Perry
Boy Extinguishes Garage Fire With Baking Soda
In Muskegon Michigan a 12 year old boy named Bobby Achterhoff first tried baking soda on a newspaper fire in a garage after watching a TV demo. The fire flared and the soda failed he then called the fire department and returned with more baking soda which finally put the fire out.
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Muskegon
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Bobby Achterhoff
Bobby
Bath-Legion Nine Defeats Camden 12-10 Here Friday
Bath-Legion and Camden juniors clash at Kelley Field with Bath scoring nine in the first inning and three more in the third to win 12-10. Bath players Harry Wilson Roger Skillings Dave Clark Phil Dodge and Pete Crocker starred. Camden’s Jones led with three hits.
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Cain
Saeleeree
Leonard
el Ez Jones
Carr
Thomas
Bol Winstow
Davis
Owe Kaler
Ee Starr
Dan
Robinson
Wilson
Skillings
Suet
Lark
Dodge
Pierce
Aloe
Crooker
Mitchell
Clark
Jones
Pound
Starr
E. Jones
Clark Jones
SB Leonard
SH Skillings
Kaler
Carter
SO Mitchell
HO Carr
Loser Jones
Bolduc
Kingsbury
Horse Finds Uranium Near Badito Cone Colorado
O L Briscoe and Henry Walton trek to the Badito Cone area near Walsenburg to locate a uranium vein after a fall by a palomino stallion. An abc ion reader shows ore samples ranging from .28 to .59 uranium, above the .20 commercial threshold. The story ends with a quirky note about two players named Connie Mack Gravitte and Connie Mack Butler.
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Colo
O. L. Briscoe
Tucumcari
N. M
Henry Walton
Clovis
Adito Cone
Here
Badito Cone
Riscoe
Walton
ABC
Claudette Colbert Stars in Sage Brush Western Texas Lady
Claudette Colbert returns to Hollywood in Texas Lady a Western drama with horses and gunplay. The French born star plays a bystander who inherits a hamlet newspaper while Sullivan battles a bad guy in a tense town showdown. Colbert recalls riding in a corset and adjusting to on screen horseback work.
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Hollywood
Claudette Colbert
Barry Sullivan
Sullivan
Colbert
New Orleans
Jimmy Stewart
Gary Cooper
Spence Tracy
Claudette
CBS
Colonial Club Clinches First Half Title In Bath Little League
Colonial Club defeats K of C 4 3 at Kimball Field to win the first half championship. Danny Corliss drives in the decisive run in the sixth as Colonials overcome an early 3 0 lead by the Knights. Corliss had two hits. Irish and Mason led KC with two hits each. Umpires were Grimard, Haskell and Stuart. game time 1 30.
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Mason
Grimard
Stuart
Youth Assault Case in Dubious Battle Cases
Eddie Smith 19 admitted assault after a night encounter in Zanesville Ohio when a passerby asked him to fight. He injured Herb Worthington with a cut lip needing five stitches and a damaged dental plate. Smith fined 25 dollars plus costs and given suspended 10 day jail term. he must cover Worthington's medical and dental bills. It later emerged Worthington was not the person who asked for a fight.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Eddie Smith
Smith
Herb Worthington
Worthington
Matrilineal Descent in Human Societies
The passage notes that while patri lineal systems trace kinship through the male line, many cultures practice matrilineal descent via the female line, reflecting varied social organization across societies.
Reading Help Offer From Rev Ruth Mathias
A church advisor in Everett Massachusetts invites readers to send five questions with a dollar and stamped envelope for a full page reading. The notice provides mailing address 827 Broadway and mentions advisory services.
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Ruth Mathias
Broadway
Everett
Mass
New Books Added to Patten Library Catalog
Mrs. Herbert Calderwood announces new acquisitions at Patten Free Library across fiction general and teen sections. Notable titles include Accidents and Dutch, Bride of Innes fallen, Wall Street, and a three volume New Encyclopedia of Names. Juvenile and teen picks feature Atoms Today and Tomorrow and Rookie Fights Back.
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Patten Library
Herbert Calderwood
Patten Free Library
Dexter Masters
Pamela Johnson
Helen Topping Miller
Bride of Innesfallen
Eudora Welty
Gretchen Finletter
Theodore Bennett
Edward Grierson
Eliot Asinos
Oakley Hall
Robert J. Donovan
Ann Morrow Lindberg
G. Blond
Quentin Reynolds
Louise Dickson Rich
Ethel Barrymore
C. L. Barnhart
Norman Garbo
Mary Pickford
Wall Street
Martin Meyer
Loring MacKaye
Burgess Leonard
Margaret G. Hyde
Carolina House
Elizabeth Kyle
Raymond Holden
Virginia Kahl
Anne H. White
Little Dog Sniff
Geraldine Smith
Mitten Lewis
Helen Kay
Santiago
Ann N. Clark
Zhenya Gay
Esphyr Slobodkins
Divorce Libel for Irene Barclay in Sagadahoc County
Libellant Irene Barclay of Bath Maine seeks a divorce from Clyde E Barclay of Dorchester Massachusetts. She alleges seven day remarriage in 1945 and desertion in 1947 with three years of continual abandonment, cruelty, and unknown residence of the Libellee. Notice is ordered by the Superior Court at Bath with publication in Bath Daily Times.
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Sagadahoc
Bath
T. Irene Barclay
Clyde E Barclay
Dorchester
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bath Maine
Irene Barclay
Clyde FE Barclay
Saeadehoc
Iuperior
Detroit Man 92 Cleared After Green Light Excuse
Ralph Bennallack told a Traffic Court judge the officer was right to ticket him for walking against a red light. The charge was dismissed after he explained he started on a green signal but is slower now. Bennallack is 92.
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Ralph Bennallack
Bennallack
Bannallack
United States Amateur Baseball Team Heads to South Africa Tour
The United States Amateur Baseball Federation will play 31 games in South Africa against local teams, with the tour running from February 17 to February 7.
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United States Amateur Baseball Federation
South Africa
Navy
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