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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1887
Page
2
A clipped note from The Independent's Sheare discusses a breezy New York correspondent’s take on a pictured feature titled Poor Charlie We Fenr Ile's Got It Bad. The item hints at a light, gossip style update about entertainment pages and local columns.
A reminiscence from a young collector of theater photos recalls Mara’s image of a girl named Maud. The narrator traces a long flirtation from twelve years earlier to a present, revealing an obsessed, comic self-awareness about chasing a photograph that sparked lifelong reverie.
Brief note from the Bayh Independent correspondence discusses Bath ships, outlining local maritime activity and potential plans or concerns affecting the river trade. It highlights stakeholders and logistical factors shaping the port’s operations.
A Bath letter highlights how city money derived from ships funded regional growth from railroads to Broadway buildings. It credits Bath shipowners like Pattens, Sewalls, and Oliver Moves with financing the Kennebec and Portland Railroad and Bath to Farmington line, aiding state and county development and rail expansion nationwide. The call remains to keep supporting Bath Iron Works as naval and commercial shipping undergoes change.
City hall gathering reviews financials for liquor agency and year end stock, with totals and comparisons to prior year. Reports from City Marshal Crocker recount 344 commitments, including 159 tramps and 102 drunkards, plus varied offenses. Fire, school, and treasury reports noted minor fires and partial state funding, while time and funding moves accompany streets and building projects and a council deadline for a Wednesday meeting.
A Bath Independent letter praises the paper for honesty and effort delivering news to Bath readers. The writer thanks editors, calls Bath the liveliest place, and praises community spirit, noting exiles abroad still love Bath. Mentions Capt. John Patten’s departure and fond family ties.
The city honored Capt John Patten with funeral services at his home, attended by hundreds, with city officials and ministers delivering tributes. Bells tolled, businesses closed, and a large cortege accompanied the pallbearers as Patten was laid to rest in Maple Grove cemetery amid official resolutions praising his life and service.
Sagadahoc Assembly No 727 endorses member independence in voting. It denounces attempts to link the assembly with political endorsements and states each member may vote for any candidate they choose. The resolution affirms the order’s neutrality and individual choice.
The Bath Light Infantry met in their armory Tuesday evening and elected Captain George H. Clarke First Lieutenant I Augustus Harris Second Lieutenant John T. Parris. Clarke is a veteran drill master who will advance the company, with Harris and Parris as capable lieutenants. The unit aims to become the state’s track company.
A Toledo paper reports Mr. Cushing in Bath, performing at First Congregational Church last Friday. The organ recital of Merry Wives of Windsor impressed a packed audience, with several encores highlighting Cushing's skill and reputation as a grand organist.
Mr J O Patten writes to the Independent denying any run for Bath councilman in Ward 7. He urges consis tency and says he will not seek office while party labels lack local significance, whether Republican or Democrat or Wakefield aligned.
A thin woman testifies she feels the Spirit and seeks church membership but balks at renouncing the world and flesh. The elder insists the renunciation be complete, prompting her to decline citing her frail condition and comparing herself to a living skeleton at a side show.
A sleeping car conductor recalls a St. Louis woman about forty five who found a horseshoe and kept it for luck. She later packed false teeth in her valise and placed the horseshoe in her mouth, corking her jaw at breakfast while attempting to eat beefsteak, never realizing the error.
In a court, a lawyer questions a witness about a mare's disposition. He asks if the driver was a lady and if the horse was gentle. The witness misinterprets, thinking the questions refer to a woman. The lawyer clarifies, and the case proceeds.
A speaker compares a man to a locomotive with ambition as the engineer and hope as the fireman, noting homes and institutions as stations and that there are no brakes. He ponders how to use two months available, mentions a gentleman who acts as the devil, whom he meets daily as a notably cheerful figure.
A novel English railway seat spring is praised as a remedy for troublesome passengers who reverse seats and clutter cars with packages. The device would flip a seat abruptly when the minute bell sounds, hurling a misbehaving couple toward the rear but not harming the water cooler.
A newlywed couple quarrels over behavior after their wedding. The bride asks to be treated like an old married woman while the groom vows to show his affection. He stays out late at a poker game, returns to find his wife weeping, and quips about acting like a daisy in old marriage. The tension ends with the couple’s obvious new status.
A Baltimore drummer who once won three or four customers away from a New York house returned to his rounds and was coldly received. He asked for an explanation, and was told that another drummer was engaged to the host's daughter, prompting support for him. The Baltimore man, married, abandoned the field after repeated refusals.
A Belfast husband, married five months, applies for divorce on the ground that his wife will not cut her toe nails. He claims long nails cause him injury from back to heel and urges moral lessons for young women. He cites snoring and quarrels, and recalls a party incident with a rolling pin and harsh language.
A schoolmistress begins the term by noting pupils and parents. She asks a boy his father’s name. The boy replies you needn’t write it. his father “can’t come to school” because “Ma says he never had any brains anyhow.”
A landlord with a hotel runs it well and must advertise to attract guests. The argument states advert is essential and that a hotel that advertises is a good house. While the reverse of a proposition may fail, travelers will infer the benefit for advertisers.
A man nicknamed Buck from New Hampshire has wed a woman named Wheat. The humorous note suggests there will be Buck Wheats in the near future.
D. J. Chase long associated with New York Central and Michigan Central, after twenty one years, is named general superintendent of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railway.
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about barbers, professors, railways, love, and social faux pas. Jests range from a dwarf on display and a codfish ball gag to a tinny chorus of sharp lines about trains, tombs, and conversations on pulled trains and curious neighbors.
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