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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
5
Readers are urged to believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female ailments after extensive testaments. The ad claims lasting relief for nervous digestion and periodic pains, inviting women to write for free advice to Mrs. Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The Independent notes farm and grange news including stable prices for produce, plentiful butter, rhubarb and cabbage markets, and scarce rain affecting grass. It cites a Maine dairy bulletin criticizing unsanitary dairies and urging milk testing, better breeding, and cooperative enforcement to improve city milk supplies.
SEW MEADOWS, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Holbrook of Brunswick visit their farm here for the summer. Miss Mercy Holbrook of Portland spent the weekend at home. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Estabrook welcomed a son last week weighing nine and a half pounds. A dance by Dirigo Dramatic Club was held at the Grange Hall. Sunday School was organized at the Baptist Church and will meet weekly. Ernest D. Hamilton, missing from Southbridge, Mass., has been found. described as temporary mental aberration.
Notice reports the death of John A Winter at age 75 after a long illness on May 19 in Burt Iowa. He was son of the late Alden Winter and a former educator who traveled west about 40 years ago. He leaves two brothers Joseph Winter of West Bath and Charles Winter of Sefton and three sisters Mrs Mary True Mrs J L Fowler of Amherst H and Mrs Sarah Brown of West Bath. Memorial day and local river life are described with visits, cottages, fishing, and town happenings in West Bath and Sabino areas.
The article promotes addressing headache causes rather than masking pain with coal tar drugs. It cautions against acetanilid and similar remedies that may harm the heart and endorses eye strain checks and a liver-digestive aid from L. F. Medicine Co of Portland Maine as a safer, established remedy with sixty years of history.
Bath and vicinity readers will travel to Lewiston next Saturday to see the Ringling Brothers circus in both matinee and evening shows. The piece hails the show as highly valuable for patrons, listing dozens of acts and dozens of elephants among 1,260 other animals plus international acts and long history, noting offices worldwide and a workforce over 2,000 with 1,286 traveling.
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