Phippsburg News Roundup From Bath to Lee's Island
William Rollins joins yacht Shur crew at Gloucester for summer coastal cruising. Evelyn Alden begins clerk duties at D. T. Percy’s Bath store. Sunday services disrupted by rain. West Poland preaching and substitute absence noted. Meals with Bowker and Haskell highlighted a first birthday for Alice Weever Haskell. Various local health, housing, and travel updates among Bath, Small Point, and Sebasco Estates residents.
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William Rollins
Shur
New England
Gloucester
Evelyn Alden
D. T. Percy
Bath
Slade
West Poland
Walter H. Bowker
Jack Haskell
Alice Weever Haskell
Melvin Savage
Thomas Oliver
Bertha Roderick
Bath City
Henry York
Portland
Walter Small
Lee’s Island
Sanford Doughty
Cranberry Point
Doughty
Ernest Eaton
Albert Carr
Jennie Luce
WY. W. Eaton
Edith Eaton
Walter Keys
New York
Westport Flag Raising Brings Town Together in Rain
About forty residents gathered at the town hall for a long awaited flag-raising event despite bad weather. Cereas Knight and Mrs Albertine Knight prepared a generous supper while Brother James Knight erected the pole. The Grange funded the flag and its pole, with donations and attendance noted. The afternoon honored children with performances, and a later meeting featured State Lecturer Purrington on flowers. Mrs Kate Foster and Dr Benjamin Foster arrived to prepare their summer home, while William Scott updated his house.
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Cereas
Albertine Knight
James Knight
Grange
The
Purrington
Kate Foster
Benjamin Foster
Portland
William Scott
Circus Day Looms Over Portland With Barnum & Bailey Show
Local youngsters count hours until the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth comes to Portland on Thursday June 29. The event promises more novelty with 100 new acts from Europe and the Oriental pageant Persia or the Pageants of the Thousand and One Nights staged by 1 350 people with hundreds of animals.
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Barnum & Bailey
Portland
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Europe
Persia
New York City
Political Advertisement Praises Spring Pageant and Circus Act Lineup
An advertisement touts a spring primaries pageant and a major circus show featuring four troupes of Chinese performers from Pekin, the Hanneford riders, Signor Bargonghi, James Teddy, Pallenberg bears, and more. Barnum Bailey travels on five trains with 89 cars and 1,400 staff, a 108-cage menagerie and 41 elephants. A three mile street parade precedes the opening performance.
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America
Pekin
Hanneford
Signor Bargonghi
Italy
James Teddy
Pallenberg
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Park Alleys Match Sees Martin Toothaker Triumph
Martin and Toothaker defeated Farrar and Frates in a ten string bowling match 1809 to 1780. Martin was high man with a 113 single and 917 total.
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Martin
Toothaker
Farrar and Frates
Bath fisherman reels big bass and local news update
A Bath fisherman returned Tuesday from Nequasset with an eight pound black bass caught on a common angle worm. Alonzo B. Parks of Bath has moved to Portland Oregon and joined with other Bath men to work for Peninsula Shipbuilding Co which has a contract to build five fire masted schooners. The Cosmopolitan Club continued sales of birdhouses with proceeds benefiting young architects and the club notes joy in passing envelopes of money to the architects. Rev Julian S Cutler of Pawtucket Rhode Island was elected president of the Rhode Island Universalist State Convention at its 79th annual session at Pawtucket last Wednesday. He is a Bath visitor, his wife daughter of Charles T Rich of Lemont and High Streets. Mr Cutler is a Bristol native, Tufts graduate and a well known New England preacher.
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Mabel Pye
Mary
Boston
Alvin Pye
Allequippa House
Ruth Sylvester
Portland
Abbie Kelley
Woolwich
Carlton
Clara Farrar
James Thompson
Maurice Pye
Alvin Wallace
Nathaniel Percy
Cox’s Head
J. Bradford Sprague
F. C. Bowker
William Butler
Arnold Cottage
Herbert Cutting
Sherman Morse
Winnegance
Frank Thompson
Russell
Albert
John Holland
Victoria Butler
H. W. Cutting
Jack Haskell
Henry Weath
Henry York
Hardy Keller
John Williams
Thomas Moore
Bath
Freeman H. Merritt
Jennie W. Fred Curtis
Allen Cottage
A. A. Lowell
Beulah Pye
Dr. Stott
Munier
Robert
Sehbaseco Estates
Burnt Coat Island
Howard Gilman
Andrew Corey
Richard W. Clark
Massachusetts
Mr. Clark
Camden
F. S
W. H. Bowker
Capt. Haskell
New Meadows Inn
J. Arthur Stevens
Beebe Cottage
Popham Beach
Walter Sprague
Almon
H.W. Oliver
Chester
J. Torrey
Popham
George Popham
Bath-Popham
Roscoe Stacey
Nequasset
Alonzo B. Parks
Oregon
Peninsula Shipbuilding Co
Cosmopolitan Club
Julian S. Cutler
Pawtucket
R. I
Rhode Island Universalist State Convention
Cutler
Charles T. Rich
Coflier
Lemont and
High Sts
Mr. Cutler
Bristol
Tufts College
New England
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Ae Pott
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Phippsburg
Camp Norway Pines
Chicago
St. Louis
Hughes
N. W. Eaton
Alice Sewall
Small Point Beach
Rodney Wyman
James Oliver
Charles Morton
Frank Sweeney
John Clark
Gilbert
Sebasco Estates
San Antonio
Tex
William Chidgey
Foster Bowker
J. Murray _Eaton
Eaton
U.S.M. Co
Beverly
Mass
Benjamin F. Jewett
Echo
Alfred F.jewett
George Wilson
Maude
Charles Littlefield
Town
W. S. Outhuse
R. L. Fowle
W. P. Stevens
C. F. Whitten
Upper Landing
M. Ordway Lewis
Lisbon High School
Percy Hodgdon
Westport
Samuel Welch Ot Bath
Brunswick
Maine
James F. Will Co
Edward W. Wheeler
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