Local Socials and Travels Highlight 1908 Reports
Evening events at Miss Florence Slocum s home featured petite refreshments and a reception with friends including Louise Mason Helen Crosby and Dr Robert H Donnell. Attendees planned travel to Portland and a Polar Star lodge gathering while other notes mention trips to Wayne and Lewiston and upcoming vaudeville performances.
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Vening
Gani
Florence Slocum
Newburg
Biccom
Beau Pengnat
Louise Mason
Helen
Helen Crosby
Sas Robert H. Donnell
Davis Hatch, Jr
Wayne
Mr. Crosby
Local residents join Maine field day with yacht Topaz adventure
Dr E J Moreton travels from this city with De 3 Wiennane Pond to Port in Jr s yacht Topaz. The Ken nebec and Boston division of the Eastern Cancre carries daily service William ageoke and Walter live at home. Bangor hosts annual Field Day with features that attract many visitors and admirable members participate.
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E. J. Moreton
Wiennane Pond
Topaz
Kennebec
Boston
Cancre
William
Ageoke
Walter
Lon Bangor
Militant of
Maine
Bangor
Annual Meeting Briefs and Local Moves in Gardiner
The report notes leadership changes at the House of the Good Shepherd with J. Rockford moving from Providence and a new manager under Rigger Goodman. Happenings include Mrs. Thomas B. Gibbons serving on the oma board, Féger H. Chandler taking a chef post in Pittsfield, and a Flower Mission visit by the W. C. T. U. to the city Farm alongside various travels and business trips.
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Corporation of the House of the Good Shepherd
Gardiner Y
Thomas
Gibbons
Oma
Flower Mission
Milton
Mrs Pepper Leaves For Mr and Mrs W Residence Visit
Mrs Arthur J Pepper departed this afternoon to visit Mr and Mrs John C Ware. The trip follows prior family engagements and constitutes a routine social visit to the Ware household.
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Arthur J. Pepper
Mrs. John C. Ware
Local notes and events from June 14 1908
A Walker Street mill worker Charles L Powers escapes serious harm after a close call at Percy and Small yard. Carrie F Luce pupils give a piano recital at Music Hall with names listed. Mrs F W O Brien returns from Hartford and Boston with news of a Massachusetts ocean trip. Judge Staples sees a stranger with a flag. Martha Marr and William Fletcher marriage news clarified as private and intended. Lt Comdr S E Moses receives Hawaii station order and commands Iroquois in the 12th Lighthouse District. The Legend of the Ghost screens tonight with 1000 feet of hand colored film.
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Charles L. Powers
Walker Street
Percy & Small Yard
Bath
8. E. Moses
Georgia
Hawaii
San Francisco
Destructive Sas at Kids Bath Iron Works Sparks Investigation
June 15 1908 a fire originated near the boiler shop on the south side of the plant. The blaze was seen by workers in the machine shop as the Phi Rho society at Morse High held initiation rahs and stunts before a late return from Round Pond.
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Kids Bath Iron Works
Myste Pee Erie Angele
Stariad
Phi Rho Society
Morse High School
Lester Reed
Raymore Trott
Robert Ham
Ok Goodwin
John Fitzgera
Howard couple to leave Bath after month with Raymond
Mr and Mrs D L Howard plan to depart Bath by the seventeenth of next month after a month long stay with J H Raymond in Rockland. The timing suggests a return around mid month with Hyde stating no earlier return.
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Rockland
J. H. Raymond
T Hyde
Bath
Parker Head Visitors Highlight Regional Outing
Mr and Mrs Maurice Blaisdell and daughter Estelle Ruth were at Parker Head recently. Mr and Mrs Charles Blaisdell visited in Boothbay to attend grade reduction at Philrig Center. Participants included Harrington Dorothy Cushing Francis Gray Joyce Gray Mrs Albert Gray George Woodward.
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Maurice Blaisdell
Estelle Ruth
Parker Head
Charles Blaisdell
Boothbay
Parkear Head
Arai
Philrg Center
Y Harrington
Dorothy Cushing
Francis Gray
Joyce Gray
Albert Gray
George Woodward
Letters Testamentary Granted In West Bath
A court order directs letters testamentary to be issued to John P. Carey and to others named, for the late John Marsh of Bath, with bonds and proceedings handled by Warren D. Oliver as presented in the West Bath probate matter.
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Nellie G. Hunt
Bath
John P. Carey
John John Marsh
Oliver
Warren D. Oliver
West Bath
SGU
Alumni Banquet Features Large Cake Cutting
The annual alumni banquet included a large cake cut by Mrs. Edith Courier Manchester, drawing warm applause from attendees as the event proceeded with tradition and ceremony.
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Edith Courier
Manchester
Lakewood Theater Presents A Farce Accidentally Yours
Melville Burke's augmented cast of 15 stage Accidentally Yours at Lakewood Theater this week. Pauline Williams wrote the lively farce with plans for Broadway this fall. A Santa Kennedy trial run drew an audience favorite, with the lamp midriff gag and low prices noted alongside kitchen features and other attractions.
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Melville Burke
Pauline Williams
Broadway
Santa Nedy
Midriff
Graduation Dean Morse School at Meadowbrook
Readable fragments report Morse School graduates at Meadowbrook last week with Mrs Blaisdell attending the exercises and a dance weekend noted. Some names and places are garbled but indicate a local graduation event and related gathering.
Probate Court Inventories Filed in Weetetss Case
Probate court records list inventories filed for the estate of Spear and Frances E. as executors. The fragment mentions an instruction about adding grated cheese to a salad dressing served over lettuce, indicating unrelated kitchen notes mixed into the text.
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Spear
Frances E
France Adopts Metric System Beginning 1799
The French state originated and implemented the metric system starting in 1799 outlining a standardized measurement framework across commerce science and daily life. The move aimed to unify diverse regional units and improve precision in trade and governance.
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France
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