Forty Years Ago in Bath: Feb 27 1889 Items
Bath Daily Times recounts Rosebud supper at Popham Lodge of Good Templars, local train passengers, coasting on town hills, church music changes, neurabia illness at Maine Central depot, new holster on the Morse barge, and robust winter business at Roller Bushine Works. Also notes sleigh rides for orphans, planned Bath passenger station, Queen Esther lodge anniversary events, and local commerce changes including Washburn leasing Center Street store.
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Bath
Bath Daily Times
Rosebud
Popham Lodge of Good Templars
Local News Briefs and Social Happenings featured in city
Representative J W Wakefield arrived this morning from Augusta on the 8 35 train. The Quinco club voted to discontinue sessions till fall. About 35 couples attended Acadian lodge K P social. Mild weather quickens street slush. George H W Barton fully recovered. High school plans entertainment for Alameda April 1. Elm and Front store vacated by Dr Rouse to be taken by Joseph Nichols. Miss Emily Weeks hosted large children's party at High and Chestnut with 60 children. Dancing and supper followed by piano by Miss Josephine Swanton. Fire alarm proved false. blaze extinguished without laddies. A local mechanic built a miniature steam engine driven by breath. A tilting water pitcher at A G Pave’s shop is a fair giveaway.
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Elm
Front Streets
James Rouse
Joseph Nichols
Emily Weeks
High and
Chestnut Street
May Eveleth Weeks
Josephine Swanton
Alameda Social Event and Civic Nominations Overview
The Alameda hosts a hackmen’s ball next Monday night. A Democratic caucus meets at City Hall this evening to nominate a mayoral candidate. Eight more names added to the retire list by the Board of Aldermen on Thursday afternoon. The Kennebec steamer’s launch is planned for the middle of next month. Police officer Morrell saw two robins near his High Street home.
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the Alameda
City Hall
Board of Aldermen
Morrell
Bath News Briefs From Bath District 1889
March 2 1889 notice coverage includes Bath Board of Trade meeting next Monday. Hooper to occupy Elm and Front corner store. Drummond seeks telephonic link for coal office. iron foundry furnace repairs by Nichols. Ward Two caucus appoints Parshley Leavitt Ham. new grocery by Bert Oliver and George Wallace at Washington and Federal. church services at Central church. Frank Brown moves to new quarters. mum sociable at Corliss Street church with silent seating. Baxter Library donation lecture planned by Sagadahoc Historical Society. two new lectures offered for public selection.
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Charles T. Hooper
Hanager
Elm and
Front Street
Frank Brown
Bath
Bert Oliver
George Wallace
Campbell
Washington and
Federal Streets
J. P. Baxter
Baxter
Portland
Sagadahoc
Local News Roundup of City Businesses and Observances
This noon a dinner was hosted by caterer George Smith of the Holly Tree. Work at the Southern Division of Bath Iron Works is accelerating with a night crew expected soon. Walter M. Potter of South End reports extensive improvements to his store. E G Parshley R C Harris and F B Tarbox joined citizens in observing today’s national events with bunting displays.
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George Smith
The
Holly Tree Ine
Bath Iron Works
Walter M. Potter
South End
E. G. Parshley
R. C. Harris
F. B. Tarbox
Bath News Board Seats Change as City Plans Eighth Ward Moves
March 5 1889 reports four members of the present aldermen joining the news board. Hyde to Europe trip from Bath Iron Works, May departure. Drum corps parade for Harrison’s anniversary. Hogan injured at New England yards, three months off work. Wakefield returns to Avonita for legislative week. Odd Fellows ride postponed to Given House. Inauguration of George Moulton Jr vs Mayor set March 18. Bath hackmen ball at Alameda features Dennis orchestra and 100 couples. Universalist ride to Cant Malliett’s West Bath postponed. Sagadahoe Bobtail Club forms with about 25 Bath shooters joining tomorrow.
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Sagadahoe
Bath
Illinois Woman First To Fight Mrs Ruth McCormick
Illinois political scene features Lottie Holman O Neill of Downers Grove challenging Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick for the Republican nomination. O Neill, veteran legislator, factions with Deneen allies while McCormick backed by Leowden and others eyes future Senate bid. McCormick’s husband Medill McCormick previously lost to Deneen for the Senate seat.
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Illinois
Ruth M’cormick
Chicago
Mark Hanna
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Lottie Holman O'Neill
Downers Grove
Frank
Leowden
Bertha Baur
Thompson Group
Emmerson
New England Hotel Plan and Political Moves This Week
New England briefs highlight Boston planners unveiling a $2,500,090 hotel linked to North Station as well as a move by the Boston State House to urge Congress to repeal the national origins clause in the immigration act. Multiple reports cover raids in the South End, local political actions, and notable sports results across cities like Springfield and Washington.
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New England
Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
New North Station
House of Representatives
Congress
Maine Weather Forecast Ends Big Winter Storm Hopes
A Saco resident predicts no more major storms this winter with light snow flurries through April and no storm larger than two inches. Prohibition era style notes report four Passamaquoddy Bay residents arrested for liquor law violations and a Camden cyclist nicknamed The Spirit of 76 continues riding after a road accident. An oil boiling experiment in Norway caused a fire and major sprinkler damage, narrowly contained by firefighters.
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Saco
Linwood Jordan
Portland
Camden
Norway
March 4 1889 local items and civic notes
On March 4 1889 Thomas Neavle cuts ice at Horse Island as ale Piggy Wheels replace runners causing sleighing issues citywide. A new vas lent installed at the depot. Post Master Nichols shows improved condition per attending physician. Twenty two names added to the voting list and ten changed by the Board of Aldermen last week. Carpenters began timber work for a keel at Deering yard. Y's plan a Temperance House social Friday at 7 30 with musical and literary program. Calvin Cromwell, wintering with Walter Dock Endorf, arrives from Portland. Humphrey Owen off duty, Charles Magoun pro tempore mail collector. One North End resident uses garden hose amid mild weather. Ward Four officers on duty.
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Board of Aldermen
Wakita Land Leases Boost Oil Firms as Rates Rise
In Wakita Oklahoma oil leasemen faced higher rents after a real estate dealer charged ten cents per front foot. Other lot owners followed, pushing payments to about five times the usual rate. Previously land leased by the acre. Almost all private Wakita lots leased on a front foot basis.
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Wakita
Okla
Maine publishers seek to exempt ads from campaign limits
Augusta based legislative judiciary committee reviews a proposal to exempt newspaper advertising expenses from primary campaign expenditure limits. The move aims to protect freedom of press funding for political ads and reduce publication cost barriers.
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Augusta. Me
Maine
Legislative Judiciary Committee
Washington James W Good Chosen Secretary of War
Iowa public figure Washington James W Good is named secretary of war amid national cabinet changes. Chicago mob enforcement figure Jack McGurn is identified as reputed ca, with implications for postwar security and organized crime reports.
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Washington
James W. Good
Iowa
Chicago
Jack McGurn
Family of Athletes from Vance Shulers Reach, South Carolina
Nine members of the Shuler family from a small Vance town form a hard to beat basketball unit for Providence High School this season. The Springs field a school baseball nine, and Rockland recently paid dearly to avert winter storm damage. England’s pensioners numbered about a million at $2.50 weekly.
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Vance
S.C
Shulers
Providence High School
Texam
Sehoor
Milikan says new suns may power humanity billions of years ahead
Nobel laureate Robert A Milikan of Caltech forecasts that new suns could be formed from electron processes in interstellar space and that humanity may harvest energy from cosmic rays. he predicts Earth may rely on sunlight for warmth, light and power for billions of years while the universe rebuilds itself.
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Robert A. Millikan
California Institute of Technology
Millikan
World of Science
America
Earth
Frank Parker Stockbridge
Popular Science Monthly
Chisiterratine
Historic Vincennes to Honor Explorer Clark
Vincennes Indiana plans a February 25 pageant to mark Clark’s 1779 capture of Fort Sackville. The event includes Clark sesquicentennial stamps on sale and regional representation from Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Ohio. A shrine and Wabash bridge funded by a $150000 federal request are planned.
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Vincennes
Ind
George Rogers Clark
Indiana
Fort Sackville
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Northwest Territory
Clark
Coolidge
Wabash River
New Christmas Cards Embrace Modern Designs
New York shows a shift in holiday greetings with modern discs angles and curves dominating cards and wrapping papers. Traditional scenes and motifs persist in some cases but are enlarged and styled with bold color and geometric lines including silver on red wraps.
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New York
Students to Hobo Way Through Europe
A group of states and university professors from the University of Southern California plan a hitch-hiking study trip through Europe this summer to sketch ancient, renaissance, and modern architecture. Led by Dean Weatherhead and Prof. Bald win, they will cross the Atlantic third class and travel through England France and Switzerland. The class offers six upper division units and costs 525 dollars for three months.
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Los Angele
Stats
Iunv0
Uniwethern
California
Furoye
Forve
A. C. Weatherhead
C. M. Baldwin
Architsecture Department
England
Branavuti
Switzerland
Dian Weatherhead
Sky Writing Trials and Fatality in Brooklyn Display
A sky writing stunt over Brooklyn ended disastrously when a plane halted mid-letter and crashed, killing Capt. C. B. D. Coliver during a cross country race tied to a promotional campaign. Observers described the moment as the smoke halting mid word.
Chicago gang wars of the eighties remembered by Irish immigrant
Patrick J. Conley recalls Chicago gang clashes in the 1880s. He notes that early rivalries featured brutal fistfights and grudge bouts, with no killings or guns, contrasting past and 1920s sensational crime. He mentions Mortell and McGraw factions near Fourteenth street.
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Chicago
Patrick J. Conley
Ireland
Coniley
Big Jim” Colisimo
Conley
Kilkenny
Mortell and McGraw
Fourteenth Street
Using Damaged Eggs at Home to Preserve Goods
The notice advises using small and dirty eggs at home since handling and shipping poor eggs costs as much as good eggs. Including bad eggs with good eggs lowers demand and reduces the price received for quality eggs.
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Dr. Leonard
Machado
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Jane Fauntz
Ray Barbui
Essex County
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Frank G. Allen
George T. Perry
Somerville
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Samuel Gaile
Cambridge
Bettina Massarelli
Georer A. Anderson
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Hartford National Park and Trust Co
National Associated Investers Inc
Delimet Corporation
Nurmi
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Humphrey Owen
Charles Magoun
Ward Four
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SKY
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Brooklyn
Collyer
Long Island
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Scliunece Monthly
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Fred S. ‘Curtis
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Philadelphia
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Seid
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