Safety rules to curb fires from electrical misuse
The National Board of Fire Underwriters reports 5800 dollars in property loss per hour nationwide due to electrical misuse, totaling 51 million annually and rising. Safety groups issue nine rules on circuit loading, cord placement, wet handling, and inspection labels, urging professional repairs and warning that many ignore these safeguards.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
International Association of Electrical Inspectors
Safe Electrical Cord Committee
Act Before It's Too Late on Underinsurance
The National Board of Fire Underwriters spearheads a campaign with local agents urging homeowners to review coverage and adjust policies when underinsurance is found. Inflation has doubled costs since WWII, risking large out of pocket losses as examples show gaps in home and business policies. The article urges readers to consult their local agent before it’s too late.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
Ohio
Maryland
Rhode Island
Driving Force Behind Modern Farming and Mechanization
Secret ary Benson argues today’s farming is highly capitalized with about $20 000 invested per worker on commercial family farms. Mechanization drives the agricultural revolution enabling one farmer to feed many, a feat seen in Iowa where a father and son run a 320 acre farm without hired help, contrasting with Russia.
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Scra
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Mr. Benson
Iowa
Georgetown Community Notes from First Baptist Service and Local News
Morning service at First Baptist with Rev. Warren Harris on fearing God and obedience above man. Georgetown Center and Robinhood community updates cover new artesian well, PTA square dance, travel to Lisbon Falls, reunions, visitors, weddings, and seasonal arrivals at MacMahon and Robinhood Tea Room.
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First Baptist Church
Warren Harris
Iridge
Georgetown P T.A
Central School
Mel Howe
Bath area notes loyal Maine ship built at Bath Iron Works
Bay Point items report the U. S. Escort 941 delivered to Boston Navy Yard on June 21 after building in Bath, Maine. A parade of personal visits and summer guests fill local towns including Waldoboro Bath Brunswick Georgetown Auburn and Arlington as families travelers and coast guard personnel share furloughs and leisure time by the river and cottages.
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U. S
Boston Navy Yard
Kennebec River
Bath Iron Works Corp
Maine
Gordon Merry
Waldoboro
Furbish
Dwight Furbish
Bruce Delano
Emery Rideout
Bath
Owen Richardson
Coastal Department
Alton Reed
Georgetown
Bay Point
Rideout
William Adams
Louisa Howard Wer
Brunswick
M. Conley
Somerville
Mass
Lillian White
Balanance
Carroll Miller
Skipper Burnham
USCG
Cape May
N. J
Tibbetts
Sonny Shutts
Arthur B. Andrews
Auburn
Harry Lone
Green Pastures
F. Dube
Raymond
Madison Moore
Madison Jr
Thomas Carr
Rogers
Cape Elizabeth
Moore Cottage
George White
Arlington
Maass
Swift Cottage
Norman Swift
Deborah
Alexandria
State Police Investigate Bath Bicycle Auto Collision
State Police are examining a crash on U S Route 1 in West Bath involving eight year old Daniel Plummer riding a bicycle and vehicle driven by Frank D. Smith of Somerville Massachusetts. The boy was unhurt and about twenty dollars damage was reported.
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Bath
Frank D. Smith
Somerville
Mass
West
Daniel Plummer
George W.plummer
Bowman Street
Woolwich Beboppers 4-H Club Meets With Sewing Session
Woolwich 4-H girls met at Mrs. David Hodgdon’s home last Thursday evening for a sewing instruction program. Members reviewed activities from the past week, dues were collected, and refreshments were served. Next meeting set for July 11.
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Beboppers 4-H Club
Woolwich
David Hodgdon
Five Islands Open House At Reid State Park Weekend
June open house at Reid State Park for Georgetown residents includes Five Islands and nearby districts with a rain contingency for the following Saturday. Community notes cover the Summer mail service, local gatherings at Library Hall, Island Home Club on Malden Island, and visits from residents and visitors across multiple households.
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Reid State Park
Georgetown
Islands
Library Hall
Good Neighbor Club
George Gray
Lloyd Pinkham
Victor Pinkham
Earland Moore
Warren Harris
Franz Stevens
Phillip Pinkham
Kathleen Rittall
Dennis Moore
Orville Rowe
Thomas Watson
Georgia Watson
Georgetta Pinkham
Harlan Pinkham
Island Home Club
Malden Island
Five Islande Inn
Jacob Kunz
Christine Coombs Birthday Party Celebrated at Home
Christine Coombs was honored with a birthday party Saturday by her parents Mr and Mrs Robert D Coombs at 463 High Street for her 7th birthday. The room was pink and white with refreshments dancing games and prizes won by Linda Perkins and Diana Staples. Attendees included Linda Perkins Deborah Moody Sally Cahoon Alan Sweeney Don Sweeney Woody Gray Nancy Merchant Tommy Alley Buddy Coombs Bobby Coombs and Eleanor Coombs.
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Christine Coombs
Robert D. Coombs
High Street
Linda Perkins
Diana Staples
Miss Coombs
Deborah Moody
Sally Cahoon
Alan Sweeney
Don Sweeney
Woody Gray
Nancy Merchant
Tommy Alley
Buddy Coombs
Bobby Coombs
Eleanor Coombs
Baptist Leader Dr Browne to Preach in Bath
Dr Benjamin F Browne former Bath pastor will preach at Corliss Street Baptist church next Sunday at 1030 am per Rev Harold L Allen announcement Browne now directs American Baptist Publication Society edits The Baptist Leader and guides Christian writers He is on vacation in Maine visiting relatives and remains a leading figure in the American Baptist Convention
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Corliss Street Baptist Church
Ats
Harold L Allen
Benjamin F. Browne
Philadelphia
Browne
American Baptist Publication Society
Bath Area United Fund names King publicity chair
Marc King will be the publicity chairman for the 1957 Bath Area United Fund drive. Campaign chairman E. O. Barsness announced the plan including advance gifts in September and payroll deduction during early October. House to house and merchant canvassing follow in late October as budgets for 1958 are discussed with agencies such as United Servicemen's Organization Bath Memorial Hospital Salvation Army Boy Scouts Girl Scouts YMCA Public Health Nursing Association and American Red Cross.
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Marc King
Bath Area
United Fund
E. O. Barsness
Newberry’s
United Servicemen’s Organization
Bath Memorial Hospital
Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
YMCA
Public Health Nursing Association
American Red Cross
Firedept Responds to Still Alarm at Washington Street Home
Firemen answer a still alarm at 6.46 am for a flooded oil burner at Robert Rice's home, 1202 Washington Street. No damage reported.
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Robert Rice
Washington Street
Notable Families Visit As Summer Guests Stream In
Personal notices list Mrs Henry L Cheetham Jr hospitalized at Memorial hospital and multiple arrivals visiting Berlin homes including Arlington Rayner and his wife Helen, Kenneth Whitman and daughter Lynn, Clarence Minott attending a funeral in Portland, and J Harry Arnold returning from Bar Harbor with grandson Linwood. Also Rita Gediman and Harold Nevins to be wed at Temple Kehillath Israel Borckline Mass with Rabbi Nadick officiating. Mrs Carl D Cornish and grandmother Mrs Edward Hennessey hosted a birthday gathering at Topsham home.
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Marianne Moore
South Gardiner
Island Home Club
Malden Island
Kenneth Smith
Yarmouth
Victor Pinkham
Lulu Hanna
Reginald Spinney
Boothbay Harbor
William Marr
Georgetown Central School
Bath
Raphael Higgins
Sugedanhoe Bay
Orville Rowe
Phillip O’brien
Washington, D. C
Madge O'Brien
O'Brein
Iraq
Obrein
U.S
Richard Carey
Richard
Silver Springs
Harold Rowe
Izetta Pinkham
Fred Carr
Southport
Leon Kelley Jr
Lloyd Pinkham
Bath Memorial Hospital
Wiliam Marr
Beaulah Miller
George Gray
Livermore Falls
Westbrook
E. E. Pinkham
Felix Salomons
Rowe
Arthur Walker
Walker
Walter Thomas
M. R. Boynton
Henry L. Cheetham, Jr
Denny Road
Memorial Hospital
David MacDonald
Philadelphia
MacDonald
Bernice Burns
Washington Street
Arlington
Wilsons
Kenneth Whitman
Lynn
Cranston
R. I
James W. Beck
Middle Street
Whitman
Beck
Lasell Junior College
Auburndale
Mass
Clarence Minott
Portland
Beacon Street
Arnolds
Bar Harbor
Linwood
Sterling
Rita Gertrude Gediman
Arthur Gediman
Andrews Road
Harold Nevins
Maurice Nevins
Bridgeport
Conn
Temple Kehillath Israel
Borckline
Nadick
Carl D. Cornish
Edward V. Hennessey
Brunswick
Topsham
Real Estate Transfers Recorded by Sagada County Register
The Sagada County Register of Deeds lists recent transfers including Bath Carrie A Delaney to Ruth S Doyle and others for land and buildings, William Grimard to Frenk Arsenault for land, and multiple transfers across West Bath Woolwich Phippsburg Topsham Bowdoinham Richmond Bowdoinham and others. Notable totals include land and buildings and several parcels at Parker Head and King\u2019s Point with various buyer pairs named.
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Sagadahoe County Register of Deeds
Bath
Carrie A. Delaney
Ruth S. Doyle
Clara E. Howe
Charlotte L. Haynes
William F. Grimard
Frenk J. Arsenault
Gladys S. Donnell
George E. Sidelinger
Anthony J. Manguilli
John J. Hinds
West Bath
Fletcher A. Waterman
Robert H. Cressey
King's Point
Joseph W. Larrabee
George A. Morgan
Millicent Hamilton
Harold E. Boutin
James E. Philbin
John L. Turnbull 3d
Marguerite McLellan Lemont
James E. Farnham
Woolwich
Mahlon E. Stone
Clyde Pinkham
Harry H. Greenlaw
Fred T. Beaney
Ralph C. Wright, Jr
David C. Wright
Philip A. Moore
Ralph E. Brown
Georgetown
Grace M. Campbell
Myrna G. Pierce
Charles E. Mains
William E. Raynes
Phippsburg
Bert R. Nisb
Ralph Mairs
Als
Herve J. Pelletier
David L. Lavasseuer
Anna Pierobello
Mildred ‘Pierobello
Bowdoin
Edward D. Melver
Leon C. Melver
Bowdoinham
Mary Rose Army
Napoleon C. Rey
Waldamir S. Pinararow
Vincent C. Jones
Ernest L. Cunningham
Linus M. Mulhern
Alfred €. Brown
Combination Puncher Signatures By Railroad Conductors
The article notes that US railroad conductors daily sign for fare with iron punches leaving unique marks. It cites Pappy Ayers of the Erie Railroad as introducing punch signatures over a century ago and claims the system saved thousands of dollars. It ends with a statistic on US educational capacity in 1900 versus today.
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New York
Steelways
American Iron and Steel Institute
Pappy Ayers
Erie Railroad
Obituary: Rev Culbert McGay Dies at 82
The Rev Culbert McGay 82 longtime Episcopal minister and Grace church rector 1907 to 1921 died Thursday in a Stamford Connecticut hospital He retired in 1946 and lived in Drum Muir Philadelphia He was born January 29 1875 in New York City He served at Rumford Falls Grace church New Milford and St Andrews Markle Dale He is survived by his widow a son Culbert Jr and several grandchildren His other son John died last winter
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Channing Penley
Harold J. Brown Jr
Lisbon Falls
Pentley
James Adriance and
New Haven
Alex Cunningham
Cleon
Bucksport
Kenneth Cromwell
Elbridge Cunningham
Walter Cunningham Jr
Bay Point Road
Gaston LaChaise
Lexington
Mass
Georgetown Center
McCleary
Augusta
Oak Cemetery
Erwin Parlin
Alvah Reynolds
Sabbattus
Annie Clifford
Lynn
Delbert Parlin
General Hospital
William Browns
Andover
MacMahon
Percy Pratt
Bath
First Baptist Church
Richard Dyer- Bennett
Boston
William A. Todd
Roy Newman
Edith Berntein
New York
Todd
Five Islands
Alfred A. Rowe
Austin Hall
Standish
Brenda
Chester Blackstone
Timothy
Dale
Penley
Raymond Reid
New York City
Gregory Barrett
Norfolk
Barrett
West Georgetown
Alfred Butler
Chatham
Lyman Owen
Germany
Kennebec Point
Bascom
Stuart Carlisle
Roland E. Peterson
George Schmidt
Lewiston
Grace Lutheran Church
Helen Berry
Yngard Fehlau
Edgar Fhlau
Culbert McGay
Grace Church
Stamford
Northeast Harbor
Mr. McGay
St. John’s Church
New Milford
Conn
St. Andrews Church
Markle Dale
Culbert McGay, Jr
New Jersey
John
Old Greenwich, Conn
Funeral for Mrs. Susie A Tarr Held June 19
Funeral service for Mrs. Susie A. Tarr was held June 19 at 11 a.m. from A. F. Mayo & Son Funeral Home. Rev. Dr. Oliver W. Bell officiated. Bearers were Lemuel C. Preble Otty Steen Forrest Baker Ibra K. Lawrence Charles Crosby Maurice Shea. Burial in Oak Grove family lot.
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Susie A. Tarr
A. F. Mayo & Son
Oliver W. Bell
Wesley Methodist Church
Lemuel C. Preble
Otty Steen
Forrest Baker
Ibra K. Lawrence
Charles Crosby
Maurice Shea
Oak Grove
Postmaster Dowdall Brings Carleton Place Trip In New Car
In Appleton Ontario the Ottawa Valley endures a record 40 below zero. James Dowdall the 71 year old postmaster chooses his son's car over his 21 year horse to reach Carleton Place. He quips too cold for old Daisy and himself. An aside lists a winter meal featuring lamb and canned fruit dishes.
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Dobbin
Appleton
Ont
Ottawa Valley
Newery
James Dowdall
Carleton Place
Daisy
Braising Beef Choice: Logttom or Top Round
When planning to braise beef, choose logttom for richer texture or top round for leaner meat. Both cuts benefit from slow cooking to become tender and flavorful.
Cryptogram puzzle and crossword clues from a newspaper page
A cryptogram quotation, a themed crossword with across and down clues, and a sample decoding note. The puzzle references phrases like The purification of politics and a King Features syndicated teaser with the author Longfellow as a hint.
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King Features
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