Forty years ago in Bath items from the Bath Daily Times 1888
The Bath Daily Times items recount railroad, coastal, and civic notes from July 11 to 16 1888. The Star of the East carried passengers from Boston. Bath ball club records nine losses in twelve games. repairs and construction loom for the Woodbury and new flag activism loom as Republicans push a 30 by 20 foot banner.
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Bath
Bath Daily Times
Star of the East
Boston
Bath Ball Club
Bath Items From July 17 1888 News Briefs
A clipped Bath journal notes a near accident on Broad Street as a wagon collided with a horse, two cases spilled, and the team veered toward Commercial Street. It lists train conductors Rufus Rideout Warren Glidden and Albert Hodgkins, plus local civic events, hydrant leak, new Sagadahock House doors, a Wesley M E Society excursion, and the Bath Savings Institution meeting. Also reported is the sinking of Hyde's steam launch Trifle at its mooring and quick recovery by workers.
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Henry M. Hartleb
Bath
Broad Street
Commercial Street
Ess
Rufus Rideout
Rockland
Warren Glidden
Hooper
Albert Hodgkins
Hyde
Marine Works
Feldspar Strike Near Keene Opens Major New Supply
A new feldspar deposit estimated at 100000 square feet on an Alstead farm near Keene New Hampshire could supply the country’s ceramic industry for a generation. Professor Charles E Locke of MIT says the find is potentially equal to the existing Keene mines run by Golding Keene Co, which has shipped 100000 tons in seven years. The discovery boosts Keene as a key feldspar shipping point and may spur pottery tile and porcelain manufacturing nearby in New England.
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Woodbury
Fengar
Bath
New England Iron Works
Baltimore
New England Co
Keene
N. H
Alstead
Charles E. Locke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Locke
Golding-Keene Co
Keene, N. H
America
New England
Real estate transfers recorded in Saga registry
Over two weeks the Saga registry of deeds shows transfers including Bath Harriet A. Johnson to Charles F. Johnson and Frank P. Peaslee to Jacob W. Haley. Other conveyances involve Anna H. McCabe Nettie L. Teeling Susan V. Plant and City of Bath Addison Jones. Additional entries cover Bowdoin James H. Denham to Horace C. Marshall Bowdoinham Lewis A. Moore to George H. Thomas and more across Georgetown Phipnsburr Tr Richmond West Bath and related names. Mrs. Robert B. Hatch and son Daniel visit nearby Island with Mrs. E. H. Bonel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Registry of
Bath
Harriet A. Johnson
Charles F. Johnson
Frank P. Peaslee
Jacob W. Haley
Anna H. McCabe
Annie M. Teeling
Nettie L. Teeling
Mary E. Campbell
Susan V. Plant
City of
Bowdoinham
Lewis A. Moore
George H. Thomas
Robert Temple
W. B. Kendall
Elmer Allen
Valeria G. Sedgley
Georgetown
Adile Pierce
Lucile Pierce Rohde
Annie Oliver Stacey
J. F. Ticknor
Marthe J. Jones
Arthur N. Taft
Phipnsburr
J. Bradford Sprague
Sullivan A
Flier Heroics Highlight Parachute Club Debates
A history of daring emergency landings showcases pilots like Chief Aviation Pilot Peter Anschutz and Vance Breese who saved passengers during in-flight crises. Lieut. C. C. Champion battled fuel, fire, and altitude to reach a world record, landing safely amid cheering observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aviation
Nell Ray Clarke
Popular Science Monthly
Navy
Parachute Club
Peter N. Anschutz
Battlefleet
San Diego
Calif
Anschutz
Borts
Vance Breese
San Francisco
Breese
Lieut. C. C. Champion
Navy Air Field
Anacostia
D. C
Champion
Lindbergh
Chamberlin
Floyd Bennett
Byrd
Glass houses may be the new style in homes
The U S Public Health Service builds a full glass house near Washington to study daylight use. A Case photo electric cell measures interior light while an on roof recorder tracks sunlight. Dr Z R Thompson leads tests to determine window size, layout, ceiling height, and wall colors for best lighting and eye comfort.
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U. S. Public Health Service
Washington
Popular Science Monthly
Glass House
Eynerts
Division of
Industrial Hygiene and Sanitation
New Hampshire Golf Issued For Tourists
The 1928 New Hampshire Golf edition issued by New Concord provides a 60 page booklet with two photos per page. It aims to welcome visiting players and help them enjoy the state’s golf courses with details on fees visitors privileges and other information.
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New Hampshire
New Concord
N. H
Women outclassed by men in genius in past studies
The text cites brain weight comparisons and a critique of busting claims of female superiority. It notes Dr. James W. Paper found Mrs. Gardener’s brain weighed 1150 grams, matching another male brain yet lighter than the average man. It argues intellectual achievement, not brain size, measures ability, citing J McKeen Cattell’s study of 1000 notable figures. It concludes women have lagged behind men across fields.
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Helen H. Gardener
Washington, D. C
United States
Cornell University
James W. Paper
Prescott Lecky
Department of Psycology
Columbia University
Popular Science Monthly
J. McKeen Cattell
Sappho
Joan of Arc
France
Split Nova Pictoris May Show Binary Nature
Astronomers report Nova Pictoris, long seen as a single star, now appears as a very close double star. Debates persist whether the twin formed in the 1925 explosion or existed already, with Shapley proposing a past stellar encounter or collision as the trigger for the outburst.
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Pictoris
Harlow Shapley
Harvard Observatory
Cambridge
Mass
Popular Science Monthly
Bath Daily Times and Independent Praise Carlton Bridge Edition
The Courier-Gazette congratulates Frank Nichols paper Bath Daily Times and Independent for its dedication edition issued June 30 celebrating the Carlton bridge acceptance. The Maine journalistic effort kept readers informed during construction and the special edition is praised as a standout achievement.
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Courier-Gazette
Frank B. Nichols
Bath Daily Times
Independent
Carlton
Maine
Safety First Campaign Boosts Plant Record at Thomaston
A June safety drive by the Portland Cement Association led to a flawless hospital record at the Lawrence Portland Cement Co. Thomaston mill, with the Dragon plant flag still flying atop the office. Nationally, the campaign spans the United States, Canada, and Cuba, and has prompted expansions including a 30 by 100 foot brick lining storage building and new dynamite storage, plus remodeling of commissary buildings for 50 employee cars.
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Lawrence Portland Cement Co
Thomaston
Portland Cement Association
United States
Canada
Cuba
Thomaston Mill
E. J. Davis
Flying Yankee among crack trains on Boston to Portland run
Railway Age lists the Boston & Maine Flying Yankee as a top routine speed non stop service with 46.1 mph average over 111 miles between Boston and Portland, following Century 48 mph and a 60 mph for Pennsylvania and Reading trains. Also notes a blood poisoning injury to Elizabeth Brackley in Bath, and a Sagadahoc probate notice appointing Arthur E F Hodgkins administrator of Jane Thomas Hodgkins estate with probate details.
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Boston & Maine
Boston
Portland
Railway Age
Terminal
New York Central
Butler
Ind
Holland, Ohio
Pennsylvania
Hammerton
N. J
Egg Harbor
Reading Railroad
Atlantic City
Camden
Reading
Arthur EF. Hodgkins
Maine
Sayadahacec
Jane Thomas Hodgkins
Bath
Sagadahoc
Rail worker turned artist despite six year hospital stay
Angelo Martino left a railroad foreman job to pursue art after an illness kept him hospitalized six years. An inmate at the Naval hospital, he will study at the Corcoran Art gallery with funding from director John P. Waring. Martino came to America in 1908, enlisted in 1910, served in France with the Second Division, then turned to drawing to pass indoors days. His first painting is on display at Allied Artists' association.
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Washington
Angelo de Martino
Martino
Naval Hospital
Corcoran Art Gallery
America
Yars
France
Allied Artists’ Association
John P. Waring
Labor unrest climbs in Germany with rising strike days
Wage disputes in textiles, mining and tobacco, plus working time conflicts in machinery and ceramics, drove a surge in German labor troubles last year. Days lost to strikes reached 2,442,695 versus 891,606 in 1926, with almost as many days lost to lockouts.
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Berlin
Germany
Probate petition for Susan Jane Perkins estate in Bath
Lawrence T Greenwood of Boston petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court to prove and allow the will of Susan Jane Perkins who died May 15 1928 in Bath. He seeks Letters Testamentary and cites heirs James Perkins Bath husband, Aleck McVadden Bath brother, Carlton Somerville Mass sister. Notice ordered to be published in Bath Independent for three weeks before Aug 7 1928.
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Bath
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Lawrence G. Greenwood
Boston
Massachusetts
Susan Jane Perkins
James J. Perkins
Fallowe
James
Verkins
Aleck McVadden
Bhief
Carlton
Somerville
Mass
Lawrence B. Greenwood
Susan Jane Verkines
Nerewith
Lawrence T. Greenwood
Lawrence Tt
Greenwood
A. D
Flora Savage
Saxadabnes
Sagadahioc
Sawadshoe
Harry E
Litchfield
Clara A. Verey
Sagadahoc. Ss
Saas
Dahoe
Coraline A. Evans
Samuel A. Evans
Rathinsans
Sagadahare
Amd
Walter S. Glidden
William F. Dunham
Nettie
L. Teeling
Fred B. Teeling
Savadahoe
Allowancce
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Kelley& Spears
New Bedford
Caswell
Virginia
Samuel Gibbs
Augusta
Bangor
Maine Central Yards
Gibbs
Center Street
Elm Street Baptists
Christmas Cove
Gen. Sherman
Adams House
Gray
C. R. Donnell
Charles Coombs
New York & Northern Railroad
New York City
J. T. Donnell & Co
George Leavitt
Grand Canton Lucerne
P. of M. of
Lynn
Canton
King
D. T. Percy & Sons
M. G. Shaw & Sons
Washington Street
Foote Brothers
Sapphire
Strout & Co
Front Street
Warren Adams
Colcord
Marine Railway
Maine Central
William Ledyard
Frank Percy
Sewall & Co
A. E. Hamilton
Nantasket
James McPherson
Captain Low
Wiwurna
Sheepscott Bay
FP. P. Sprague, Esq
U. S
George E. Bird
District of Maine
Martha Tucker
George W., Jr
Lottie
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mayor Wakefield
Brunswick
John Stetson
Annie and
Julia Bates
Herbert Swett
Frank P. Guthrie
Waltham
Whitlock
George Beals
Pine Islands
Lincoln Street
North Street
McDonald
Black
T. W. Hyde
Charles Turner
Arthur Sewall
Conant
Jordan
Water Street
Pdgrg
P. Wildes
Ferry Club
Jerry Island
Cave Newageen
Popham
Sheenscott River
Leonard’s Cove
Mac Island
Maine Central Railroad
George Woodbury
Brunswick Depot
New
Union Deport
Etta
Moulton's
Joseph Kenniston
Wilson
William Kenniston
Frederick Cobb
Fred H. Low
Cobb
Yonne
Temple Town
Watson & Co.'s
Ee Toe
Wesley M. E. Society
York and
Middle Streets
Sagadahock House
Fort Popham
Bath Savings Institution
Charles Davenport
Henry W. Swanton
John H Kimball
Levi W. Houghton
Michael F. Gannett
Ezekiel B. Drummond
Milton
Robert B. Hatch
Daniel
Ne Island
E. H. Bonel
Brain Power
Rocklamn Newspaper
L. F.” Atwood
L. F. Medicine Co
Elizabeth Brackley
Huse Street
City Hospital
Register
Liam F. Dunstam
Wild Tam
William F. Dunstam
Adelaide Coombs
William F. Dunnam
William F., Dunnam
Morgan
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