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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1899
Page
2
The Bath Independent lists subscription terms with annual rate of 1.50 in advance or 1.75 otherwise. Six months cost 0.80 in advance or 0.90 in arrears. Single copies priced at five cents. Delivery by mail and carriers.
The Kennebec Journal reports Bath intends to build a $160 fence around the Park Annex as a new municipal expenditure. Critics say the project wastes taxpayer money and questions the city's rights to fund private nuisances, urging owners to pay for abatements instead. The move sparks local ridicule as a precedent for elsewhere.
In a Bath area vignette a crusty narrator recalls fifty years of marriage with Peggoty Witherell and laments modern wedding costs. The longer piece features a cranky Proprietor railing at pole plants on South Street, city budget woes, and a mock political platform demanding pole taxes and sewers reform. The tone mixes local humor with civic satire and a mock convention scene in a Bath street setting.
A school graduation at Inter Street Church features 28 graduates with 22 diplomas amid dainty decorations and a large audience. Addresses, essays, and orations cover the Red Cross, Tennyson, Rome, growth, and self mastery. Notable students include Isabel Low Turner, Julia Mabel Duncan, Lydia Ramsay Folsom, and Albert Lansing Lombard. Columbia orchestra provides music for the Alameda reception.
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