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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
4
A Bath note recalls Fourth of July calm with Knights in town and berry harvests soon. Mentions Mawaga conditions, Col Boothby retirement, Maine Central shifts, graduation of Bath students, Woolwich town events, school closings, and early signs of summer tourism and crops.
The Morse High School graduation exercises in Bath honored the class of 1911 with diplomas for 48 graduates across four years in standard and commercial courses. Notable attendees included Theda Parker and Marius Page. speakers praised teacher Miss Emma Shorey and singing teacher Miss Margaret Bakeman. The alumni banquet at Wesley Church followed, with a sun dial unveiling and a 25th anniversary celebration for earlier graduates. Several students will pursue higher education at Mt Holyoke, Smith, Colby, Bowdoin, and the University of Maine.
The two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles H Allen nearly died after drinking tincture of iodine kept within her reach at Bowdoin. Emetics were given and the child survived with no serious aftereffects expected.
Mrs. Drummond Kelley and Mrs. Guy Crocker of the Center traveled to Bath in an automobile on Thursday and returned on the boat, reporting a short excursion for the group.
A Maine fisherman Herbert Wallace of Phippsburg pulled a giant lobster from a trap off Small Point weighing just over 15 pounds. Wallace also hauled about 4600 pounds of mackerel in a single seine sweep sold in Portland as fishermen report a promising season ahead. Sea shad prices ranged from two to five cents per piece amid active fishing off the Maine coast.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages a constitutional disease. It is taken internally and claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease foundation and build up strength. Proponents offer $100 for any case not cured. Also advertised Wake Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
An advertisement promotes a free township map of Ontario mining camps and a Porcupine claim map. It riffs on luck and prices, noting a Mohawk mine at Goldfield once valued at ten cents and later twenty dollars a share, urging readers to write for the maps.
Henry C Coolidge petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court in Lisbon Maine for approval to execute deeds to fulfill a contract made by James W Bailey before his death in Bowdoin Chelsea land described. court orders notice by Bath Independent for interested parties to appear July 1911 and show cause why petition should not be granted.
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