Pilgrims to Bath Fair and Busy Local Week
Bath notes a busy week with Watson Frye foundry work, H A Gowell building a garage at Small Point, and tug and schooner movements including the Aries and Lizzie J Call. Postmaster Hartnett begins duties, Bath Theatre visitors praise rare vaudeville acts, and a runaway horse injures its owner near Front Street.
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Bath
Watson, Frye & Co. Foundry
H. A. Gowell
Small Point
H. M. Sewall
Seguin
Lizzie J. Call
Aries
Henrietta Simmons
South Gardiner
Bath items and events highlight week in Bath Maine
Sheriff Oliver aided by Bath vigil with local sleuthing. George Sonia won a field day raffle by guessing the dummy nurse’s money. A Bath girl and West Bath man wed out of town and honeymooned in Phippsburg. The Rockland steamer delayed by fog carried summer crowds including Boston telephone operators to Richmond. Eight decades of local celebrations marked birthdays and anniversaries as residents noted. Kenney Edgecomb’s Seattle trip raises concern after no word for months.
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Oliver
Bath
George Sonia
West Bath
Phippsburg
Rockland
Boston
Richmond
J. R. Cressey
Cressey
Corliss St
Charlotte A. Leonard
Woolwich
Newmarket
N. H
R. P. Morse
Harriet Pinkham
T. W. Hyde Camp Sons of Veterans and Ladies’ Auxiliary
Vivian Hallet
Thelma Erskine
Cedar Pond
Lake Erie
Association of Dyers and Cleaners
Mr. Walsh
Maine Association
E. L. Watkins
Portland
Leah Winslow
Keith
Brooklyn
Maine
Dion Titheradge
Miss Winslow
George MacFarlane
Prospect Theatre
B. F. Keith
Boston Post
Wadsworth
Charlestown Navy Yard
United States Navy
Navy Yard
Riddle
Navy Department
Commission
Kenney Edgecomb
Seattle
Pacific
Alaska
Edgecomb
Moonlit trip reports and Bath shipping notes
Full moon visible Sunday night through clouds. The Nurses' Home fund has reached 450 dollars. Bath saw eleven cars on one Hockomock Sunday trip and during Purser Stinson's voyage the boat carried six cars. The largest Bath excursion was the Eastern Steamship Co steamer to Boothbay and the islands. A Bath schooner, Camilla May Page, finished discharging Bonaire salt in Philadelphia and will load lumber for Las Palmas at Fernandina, earning 18 dollars per thousand feet with port charges paid. The Pori Players' Dairy Farm at Poli Theatre drew praise for Eugene Desmond's performance. The Sunday excursions by Eastern Steamship Co offer 90 cent round trips with stops at Boothbay Harbor and other resorts. July has shown an 83 degree temperature deficiency compared with earlier records. last year it was 70 degrees. The five-masted Bath schooner Helen W. Martin sailed from Archangel, Russia, with cotton after leaving Portland for New York. Two Lewiston drunks caused disturbances, one ending in arrest after a struggle. Maine roads suffer after heavy rain, but recent clear days improve travel. The Portland-Rockland highway between Freeport and Brunswick, damaged by rain, has been repaired and now is in better condition.
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Bath
Eastern Steamship Co
Boothbay
Islands
Don Wilkes
Maxwell Powers
Caribou
Camilla May Page
Philadelphia
Fernandina
Las Palmas
Hartford Courant
Poli
Dan
Boothbay Harbor
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Helen W. Martin
Portland
New York
Archangel
Russia
United States
Lewiston
Wallace
McFadden
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New England
Freeport
Brunswick
Portland-Rockland
Pickerel weed blossoms and herring run early this year
Burnside Powers of Westport reports herring catches ahead of schedule with fishermen taking 69 to 75 bushels per tide, mainly used for bait. Raspberry crop reported large. local boating activity includes the yacht scenes at Boothbay Harbor and Bath Iron Works repairs on the Needle tender.
Burdock Blood Bitters and Relied Remedies Ad
An old ad showcases Burdock Blood Bitters promising health as a kingly man and warns against impure blood and sluggish liver. It promotes Dean's Regulats and Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil with prices and store availability. Scratch relief with Dean's Ointment for eczema or itching at 50c.
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Dean
Dr. Thomas
Woman in Pain Found Relief in Pinkham’s Compound
Florence South Dakota woman recounts severe monthly pains and backache. After trying Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she improved and was able to work again. The ad urges other women with displacements, inflammation, or irregularities to seek this remedy and notes confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Florence
Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
P. W. Lanseng
Allyn
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Geese Spotted by Sunday Motor Party on Whitefield Highway
A Sunday motoring party from this city in Whitefield encountered a flock of gray geese on the highway. The birds flew home in two rows of 25 to 30 each, led by a gander. A young lady compared them to a German army goose stepping.
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Whitefield
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Fred W. Hartnett
W. F. Pond
E. W. Hyde
James A. Connellan
M. Blumenberg
New Portland Theatre
Nathan Petlock
Summer St
Elm
Fred Burgess
Fred
Petlock
Joseph Swan
Evgerett
Moore
Front Street
Lars
Front St
Officer Conley
Times Office
Times
Charles B. Harrington
Wilton
John B. Herreshoff
Bristol
R. I
Herreshoff
Harrington
Mr. Harrington
Stinson
Burnside Powers of
Westport
Conley
First Baptist Church
Birch Point
Winnegance
Sagadahoc
Wiscasset
Fred Hutchins
St. Andrews
Rufus
Yacht Club
Squanton Yacht Club
B. A. Miller
M. Richardson
J. C. Bachelder
W. I. Washburn
George Beechy
Bayville Inn
Boothbay Way
Fred C. Scribner
Fidelity
Crocker Storage Warehouse Co
Cumberland Avenue
Charles H. Crocker
George H. Allan
William H. Gulliver
Seriber
New England Telephone Co
Gardiner
Telephone and Telegraph Society of America
East Auburn
Thompson
Duntoh
Trott
George L. Bachelder
Bath Iron Works
Mr. Batchelder
Captain Foster
Christmas Cove
Foster
Aix
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
New York City
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Central
Cyrus W. Longley
AB Watson
Union Street
Chichester
Fidelity Trust Company
Portland, Maine
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