City Finance Committee reports debt reduction amid hard times
The Bath Maine Joint Standing Committee on Finance presents its annual financial report for the year ending January. It notes tax receipts fell about four thousand dollars due to lower valuation and business depression. Overdrafts hit departments including Poor State Road and School, but improvements such as road work, a new steam heating system at the South Street Primary School, revised fire alarm systems, and cost savings in the Police Department helped reduce city debt by six thousand dollars despite adverse conditions. The report commends Tax Collector Charles S. Brown and thanks City Clerk Grassy and others for support.
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Bath
Maine
City of
Standing Committee On Finance
South Street
Sewall Farm
Lieve
Sheriff's Department
Charles 8. Brown
Grassy
Edmund P. Briggs
SPC Toe Ite
Washington
Bureau of Education
Pinklets Laxatives Promoted Amid School Standardization Debate
An advertisement for Pinklets laxative claims quick relief from gas on the stomach and chronic constipation without poisons. The piece shifts to a broader critique, arguing for a national university to standardize and audit state school systems, with annual exams and certificates to prove efficiency and economy.
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Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Taft Urges Strong Public Education Support
Yale professor and former President William H. Taft spoke at the National Education Association convention in Cincinnati urging that free public education is sacred and vital. He warned that communities struggle to learn how thoroughly schools teach and how funds are spent, noting parents lack the means to judge school results.
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William H. Taft
Yale University
United States
Department of
National Education Association
Cincinnati
Teachers meetings announced across the state schedule
Dates for teachers meetings across Maine are listed including York County Biddeford March 5 Mt Desert Island West Eden April 12 Knox County Rockland April 16 Penobscot Bangor April 9 Sagadahoe Bath April 26 Franklin Farmington April 29 80 Androscoggin Oxford joint session Auburn April 30 Kennebec Somerset joint Waterville May 7 Lincoln Damariscotta May 14 Piscataquis Milo May 21 Waldo Belfast Sept 8 10 plus social notes and local ads follow
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York County
Biddeford
Mt. Desert Island
West Eden
Knox County
Rockland
Penobscot County
Bangor
Sagadahoe County
Bath
Franklin County
Farmington
Androscoggin
Oxford
Auburn
Kennebec
Somerset Counties
Waterville
Lincoln County
Damariscotta
Piscataquis County
Milo
Waldo County Institute
Belfast
Poultry Housing Talk At Morris Maine University Lecture
W C Monohan of the University of Maine spoke on Poultry Housing at the Bailey School of Industries last Friday. He urged good stock housing feeding and management and discussed bird characteristics and housing types. The school plans more free lectures next week including torts and education talks.
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Bailey School of Industries
W. C. Monohan
University of Maine
Monahan
Robert J. Aley
Bailey School
Esther White
Miss White
Morse High School
President Wilson Ends Extra Panama Canal Lumber Tolls
President Wilson ruled no tolls beyond 1.25 dollars per ton on deckless lumber ships through the Panama Canal. Lumber carriers will be measured like other vessels and pay tolls on overall tonnage, easing Pacific Northwest exports to the Atlantic coast and Europe. Portland Chamber of Commerce hailed the decision as vital to the local lumber trade.
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Wilson
Panama Canal
Portland
Oregon
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Atlantic Seaboard
Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for 35 years
An old advertisement promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a health tonic. It claims the product suits healthy men who rule themselves and converts unhealthy lives to happiness, pricing at $1.00 per bottle and noting a market presence of 35 years.
Free Advice to Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham Co
Women with female illnesses are invited to write to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co private correspondence department in Lynn Massachusetts. A woman will read and answer letters in confidence. The firm promises confidentiality and offers a free 80 page Text Book by mail.
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Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Bee Jorner
Alderman
James F. Rand
Common Council
Herbert E. Worrey
Fred B. Reed
George E. Barker
Taft
Charles H. McLellan
Emilio de Gogorza
Montreal
Kineo
Norfolk
Port Arthur
Nassau
Dr. Thomas
Doan
Bailey Evening School
Western Lumber
Castor
Bears
New York
Castoria
the Ocentaur Company
New York City
Ella Central Railroad
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Central
Cyrus W. Longley
F. S. Curtis
Centre Street
Bath, Maine
G. C. Fuller
U.S
G. E. Legard
Vine St
Bath, Me
Sagadahoc
Harvey Oil Co
Cleveland
SAILE
R. I
Hannah Howard
Winthrop
Tel
Fidelifu Trust Co
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