Forty Years Ago in Bath July 19 1809 Trials of Dahlgren Torpedo Boat
A Bath waterfront crowd witnessed the Dahlgren torpedo boat run the mile offshore at 26 knots, with Capt. Charles Blair at the wheel and Samuel Hinckley in charge of the engineer corps. The trial shipboard crew praised the performance as satisfactory as the Bath band held a concert nearby.
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Dahlgren
Maine
Woolwich
Charles A. Blair
Samuel Hinckley
Engineer ‘Corps
John 8. Hyde
Engineer’s Department
The
New Water Main Half Completed Across Kennebec
Bath’s submarine water main over the Kennebec river is about 50 percent done, engineer W. E. Flynn says. About 1,350 feet of 16 inch pipe is laid, with excavation at Broad street underway to transfer to the old main via a gate valve and T connection, a task expected to take about two weeks. Howard Leavitt of Brunswick visited Bath Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Kennebec River
W. E. Flynn
Boston
Fay, Spofferd & Thorndike
Merritt, Chapman, Scott Conp
New London
Broad Street
Ham driver traits described by safety consultant
Traffic expert J. Stannard Baker defines a ham driver as indecisive and scattered, drifting across lanes, zoning out in traffic, lacking proper signaling, and driving with poor posture. He notes many drivers drift or react belatedly, talk in the car, and hold only one hand on the wheel, reducing emergency control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Stannard Baker
National Councl
West Bath Farm Bureau Guests of Mrs Owen
The West Bath Farm Bureau enjoyed a successful outing at the Sabino summer home of Mrs. Humphrey A. Owen. Members and invited guests joined in socializing, with crocheting, rowing, and bathing followed by dinner at two tables. Plans include a boat trip to Boothbay Harbor on August 3 after a well received previous outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Thackie
Bureau Group
Arthur W. Brown
John H. Bryant
William Davis
Earl C. Donnell
Edwin W. Haggett
Herbert Hodgkins
Water G. Marco
Charles E. Ripley
Harris T. Rodick
Charles T. Small
Loring D. Small
Edward K. Thompson
Annie H. Trufant
Ellery E. Whittemore
Charles H. Bates
Samuel F. Bates
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Charles Kruegar
John H. McNary
Humphrey A. Owen
D. O. Blaisdell
Perry
Edward Thompson
Frank Donnell
Billy Haggett
Jackie McNary
Wilbert
Dana Small
Boothbay Harbor
Wallace and Bailey Wedding Ties in Bath Area 1931
The notice recounts the Wallace and Bailey wedding connected to a business college in Boston in 1931. It details Wallace’s career from the State Police Training School to Travelers Insurance Hartford and partnership before taking over the business after Reed’s death. It lists memberships and notes Mrs Wallace education and teaching posts among out of town guests visiting New Portland and Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Travelers’ Insurance Co
Hartford
Bath Aerie F. O. E
Wallace
Woolwich
Bishop Honors Island Sunday at St Cuthbert’s chapel
Frederic Taft notes 27 baptisms and four confirmations at St Cuthbert's chapel on MacMahan with six marriages. The chapel is central to local life, described as a beloved community hub. Dr Willard A Rowe and Miss Aline Rowe of Waltham, Mass., were Friday guests of Mrs Nellie D Thompson at her East Brunswick summer home, then with her sister Mrs Albert Towne at Popham Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic Taft
St. Cuthbert’s Chapel
MacMahan
Willard A. Rowe
Aline Rowe
Waltham
Mass
Nellie D. Thompson
East Brunswick
Albert Towne
Popham Beach
Sunday Dinner Menu and Recipes from Carefree Kitchen
A scanned page outlines a multi day meal plan with detailed prep steps for minute steak, fried onions, salads, dressing, baked beans, banana desserts, omelets and lunches. It notes biscuits, puddings, and a note about large pine trees at Martin's Point Park Sabattus being repurposed into public picnic tables after a hurricane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin's Point Park
Sabattus
Field Museum Adds Rare Fossil Finds
Field Museum of Natural History reports paleontological digs in South Dakota near Big Spring Canyon yielded skins and skeletons of rhinoceroses camels three toed horses antelopes dogs peccary horned rodent beaver saber tooth cat and other prehistoric creatures dating back as far as forty million years. Excavations near Pine Ridge Indian reservation faced snow and heavy rains before planned moves to a site near Agate Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
South Dakota
Clifford C. Gregg
Paul O. McGrew
Big Spring Canyon
American West
Pine Ridge Indian
Agate
Neb
McGrew
Orville Gilpin
John Schmidt
Homewood, Illy
Sheriff's Sale Notice in Sagadahoc County 1939
An execution issued July 7 1939 on a Sagadahoc Superior Court judgment awards J Bradford Sprague of Phippsburg $207.09 debt plus $17.11 costs against Nathaniel M Morse of Whippsburg. The real estate will be sold at public auction August 16 1939 at 3 PM, describing a Phippsburg parcel with buildings along New Meadows river, bounded by rocks and the Wallace heirs line, in the presence of Deputy Sheriff Loring D Small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Phippsburg
New Meadows
Wallace
Loring D. Small
Smuggled Workmen On Board In Cases
In 1834 a Torrington brass rolling mill faced skilled worker shortages. Israel Holmes of Waterbury smuggled a group of about 30 English craftsmen and families to the United States, allegedly via cask transport, then disembarked at night for Waterbury. The tale is depicted in a diorama at the Copper and Brass Industry Exhibit in the Metals Building at the New York World’s Fair.
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Torrington
Conn
England
Israel Holmes
Waterbury
United States
Holmes
New England
Sagadahock Firemen Enter Musters and Fundraiser Plan
Sagadahock Veteran Firemen's Association votes to enter all musters in Maine for the season and to sponsor a dance within two weeks to raise funds for uniforms. A public Bath subscription drive funds moving their handtub to Boothbay Harbor Windsor and Topsham fairs. Mrs Mira McKnight of West Medford MA vacationed at Onset and spent the weekend with her mother at 1220 High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahock
Mira McKnight
West Medford, Mass
Eunice Pert
High Street
Probate notices from Bath court of Sagadahoc 1939
Court of Probate at Bath Sagadahoc issues notices for multiple estates including Jack, Bridgham, Totman, Low, Stewart, Scott, Youland, Head, Snowman, Warren. Appointments of executors and trustees named. appearances required August 1939. various accounts and name changes sought. judge Harold E. Cook signs.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Edrere W. Bridgham
Frank F. Jack
Flora B. Totman
Benjamin L. Donnell
Portland
Charles C. Low
Annie R. Low
Ida May Stewart
Woolwich
Thomas Long
Bertha K. Scott
Augusta E. Rowe
Dorothy May Youland
Dorothy May Reed
Frank S. Head
Allan Spear
Maine
Clara E. Head
Vionettie Snowman
Georgetown
Mary E. Moore
Ellen R. Warren
Irving L. Jameson
Boston
Mass
Bertha March
Ralph E. Carlisle
John L. Jack
Hamed
Ernest M. Evrard
West Bridgewater
Massachusetts
Hattie R. Evrard
Mary D. Yule
William A. Jack
Edward W. Bridgham
Charles E. Gahan
Mary G. Gahan
William Whosmer
Lillian G. Hosmer
Elizabeth M. Ryan
Lawrence S. Ryan
Said Woolwich
Marietta Trufant
Mary
Curtis
Edward E
John P. Carey
Mary E. Briry
William S. Brrry
Malrose
Joshua N. Tibbetts
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Bath Daily Times
M. D. Cressey
Lon Wildes
Bay Point
Oliver's Market
Oliver
Lucile
Staples
Bowdoinham
Bar Harbor
W. Fegg
H. D. Cornish
R. D. Purington
R. W. Carr
A. Purington
Greenleaf
Bath Band
F. W. O'Brien
J. N. Maloney
D. Moulton
Skip
Scott Golder
Charlie Lawrence
Gardiner
Marr
Popham
Bath Iron Works
George Deehan
Aphrodite
London
Bessie Beach
Sewall's
Fred Potter
Solon S. Andrews
Old Orchard
Times
Naval Cadet Band
Walter Reid
Waterville
John R. Houghton
Monhegan
Ag Ia
Isaac Stern
New York
J. Frederick Ham
New York City
Hotel Phoenix
Winnie Durgin
Cox's Head
Supt. Brown
Sadie MacDonald
Berry House
John MacDonald
W. C. Oliver
Vine Street
Isaac Rich
Winneganee
Cyrus. W. Pond Esq
Barry
Samuel Anderson
Fred E. Oliver
Middle Street
Damariscotta Mills
Winslow's Mills
Blanche Metcalf
Margaret Metcalf
Bethel
New England Marine Railway
C. A. White
Josie R. Bent
Olivers. Barrett
Gould
Deering’s
Washington
Augustus Hunt
William T. Donnell
Maine Central
C. W. Morse
Knickerbocker Wharf
James H. Scott
Quincy
Thomas Black
Charlie Brown
Camp Growl
Harry C. Webber
Fort Popham
Tipton
Kelley, Sper Co
Yard
James Thomas
Westport
James Tarbox
M. W. Chase
Eastman
New England Co
William
Levi Wade
James Dunning
Bangor
James Knox
North End
Robert Fulton
James P. Greenlow
Parker Head
Dr. Williams
William Rogers
Thomas Conley
Sewall's Yard
Maynard Wiley
Swanton, Jameson & Co.’s
Wiley
Wakefield
North Street
John McDonald
Officer Reynolds
Charles D. Gassett
North Carolina
Tibbetts
Benjamin T. Briggs
Augusta
Iron Works
George Troop
Win Hagan
Bald Head
Naval Cadet
Charles E. Hyde
MacMahan Island
Arthur Stilphen
Chase
Goose Rock
J. Manchester Haynes
Sewall
Boston Land
Adam Graff
Rockland
Merry Meeting
Palm Garden
Germany
R. D. Bibber
Portsmouth
Jennie “Merrill
D. T. Percy & Sons
Robert Hate
Leonard & Mitchell
Crug
Front Street
B. Torrey, Jr
Louis
Toirey Holer
James L. McQuarrie
Western Electric Co
Center Street
William H. Winslow
Stetson
Damariscotta
Morse & Co
Water Street
Richard Gackenbach
Lee
Grace Church Choir
Howard Leavitt
Brunswick
West Bath Farm Bureau
Mrs. Owen
Sabino Cottage
Virginia
Wallace and Bailey
Island
Fica
Maitre d'Hotel
Cole Slaw
North Dakota
Fritz Haas
Leon L. Walters
Florida
Gregg
W.S. Carter
Friendship
Allen M. Tinker
South Boston
Tinker
Ellsworth
State OF
James A. Coombs
Robert D. Metcalf
Guardian
Jeremiah Foote
Richmond
Samuel H. Slosberg
John W. Brackett
Register
Topsham
William H. Haskell
Harold E. Cook
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