World’s Greatest Shoe Manufacturer born in Bath
A UK based youth named Tom Plant rose from a beach worker to head the Thomas G. Plant Company, the world’s largest shoe maker founded in 1891 and incorporated in 1893. The Bath factory spans multiple buildings on Center and Bickford streets with advanced lighting, ventilation, safety, and employee welfare systems.
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Bath
Tom” Plant
Tom Plant
Tom
Thomas G. Plant Company
Thomas G. Plant
Boston
Center
Bickford Streets
Heath Street
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Park Street
State Street
Bickford
Ball
Sinking of the Pejepscot and Two Barges off Cape Spencer
The tug Pejepscot, 102 feet long, with two barges, wrecked in fog near Cape Spencer in the Bay of Fundy. Captain C. B. Swett guided the craft from Bath. the vessels served from Kennebec River to Great Salmon River for pulpwood. One barge possibly saved. recovery expected for the Pejepscot.
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C. B. Swett
Sone
Cape Spencer
Bay of Fundy
South Portland
Kelley, Speare Company
Greast Salmon River
Pejepscot
Sagadahoe Towing Company
Bath
Nova Scotian
Kennebec
Great Salmon River
Bo Swett
Price
Mary E. Palmer
Phippsburg Families Noted For Size Of Lineages
Longstanding Phippsburg residents and local tax rolls reveal large extended families. The Olivers Wallices Perrys Spinneys Morses and others are listed among the town’s principal contributors to assessments. In Horege Island era Carmelias Pond payrolls included many Walaces. The June session at Palate court is set for next Tuesday.
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Phippsburg
Olivers
Wallaces
Perrys
Spinneys
Morses
Harringtons
Carmelias Pond Tee Company
Horege Island
Wallace
Moree
Oliver
Rogers
Hames
Perryss
Smalls
Keileys
Phi Fethar
Palate Court
Charles Henry Treat Dies in New York at 68
Charles Henry Treat former treasurer of the United States died of apoplexy in his Victoria apartment in New York at midnight Monday. Born in Frankfort Maine he was 68. Treat led Treat Lang and once ran a steam mill that burned. He lived in Hath and influenced Maine politics with James G Blaine era Republicans.
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Charles Henry Treat
United States
Welch
Roosevelt
Victoria
New York
Frankfort
Maine
Mr. Treat
Hath
Willian Rogers
High Street
Treat & Lang
James G. Hiaine
Memorial Day Flag Rules Question Faces Bathites
On Memorial day a dispute arises in Bath over flag placement with opinions split. The official rule states the flag should hang at half mast from sunrise until noon and then rise to the top of the pole for the remainder of the day.
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Webber
Wes Little
Nemo
John M. Clark Undertaking
Conducted BY
Wm. C
Chadbourne
Front St
D. M. Humphreys
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Maine
Cumberland
Broadway
Sith ST
50Th Street
Ford Street
Grand Central Depot
Central Park
Harrey P Stimson
M.H. Loach
E. S. Crosby Company
Center St
Ss. Curtis
Cyrus W Longley
Frost Sr
Eral
Tsu
Western Union Telegraph and Cable
Nova Scotia
Ig Pamilies
Sherwin-Williams
Johhnson Bros
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