Maine marks automobile routes with color bands in statewide plan
The Maine Automobile Association will color band ten principal travel routes this spring to map Maine highway travel like New Hampshire and Massachusetts. New markers honor Maine names such as Atlantic Highway and Longfellow Trail while routes link Portland to Fryeburg and others. plan includes Rand McNally involvement and a June completion.
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Maine Automobile Association
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maine
Kittery
Calais
Chicago
D. W. Hoegg, Jr
Maine Highway Commission
A. A. Moody
Oakland
State Highway Department
The
Automobile Association
Rand, McNally & Co
Health Protection Plan Aimed By Maine Legislature
House document No 192 proposes stronger health protection for Maine residents by requiring at least one trained Health Officer in every county. The text outlines funding per person and seeks public input on preferred measures the Health Officer should support for statewide protection.
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House
Maine
Lincoln Easil y County of Bridges Historic Sheepscot Crossings
A historical note on Lincoln County Maine known as the land of bridges. It details two river crossings over the Sheepscot connecting Wiscasset with Edgecomb and Newcastle with Alna. The older toll bridge below Alna village marked early traffic, while the 1847 Wiscasset Edgecomb span replaced ferry routes after floods in 1904.
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Bridges
Lincoln County
New England
Wiscasset
Edgecomb
Augusta
General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sheepscot River
Newcastle
Alna
Sheepscot
Alna Village
Fireman Banquet Highlights Motorization of Department
Fifty eight firemen enjoyed a supper at the fire house of Combination and J. Edward Drake. City official Andrew Merrill Alderman Arthur Price ex Alderman Ralph Covel and fire department board members attended. Covel toastmaster reviewed city council improvements and supported continued program under Mayor Drake and motorization of the department.
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Agor
J. Edward Drake
Iee Andrews
Merrill
Arthur H. Price
Ralph C. Covel
Board of Fire Engineers
Covel
Fire Department
Water Street House
Drake
Mrs Sarah Abbie Doyle Dies After Illness in Bath
Mrs. Sarah Abbie Doyle aged 67 and wife of Martin B. Doyle died Wednesday at noon after a brief illness. Born in Kennebunk she lived 39 years in Bath and attended Winter Street Congregational Church. Survived by husband Archie E Doyle son one sister Margaret English. Funeral Saturday at two at 141 North Street with burial at Oak Grove.
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Sarah Abbie Doyle
Martin B. Doyle
Archie E. Doyle
Margaret English
Kennebunk Beach
North Street
Oak Grove
Isabella Q Foye dies after long illness in Maine
Isabella Quinnan Foye, born June 9, 1846, died February 20 after a long illness. She was the daughter of Sutton and Jane Foye, youngest of seven, and lived in Dresden before moving to Wiscasset village. Funeral by Rev. C A Baker, body interred at Greenlawn cemetery. She was loved for her gentle disposition and Christian character.
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Isabella Q. Foye
Isabella Quinnan Foye
Sutton and
Jane
Grant) Foye
Miss Foye
Margaret Damon
Foye
Dresden
Wiscasset Village
C. A. Baker
Greenlawn Cemetery
Faye
Phippsburg selects unanimous board and town officers
At the annual town meeting in Phippsburg the voters elected a new unanimous board of selectmen as sessors and overseers of the poor Herbert W. Cutting Harry C. Web ber and Elisha L. Totman. Other officers chosen were Walter J. McCourt treasurer and clerk George D. Weston auditor William R. Bowker on the school committee with no tax collector appointed. Appropriations were made for highways and bridges five hundred plus, state road, schools, repairs, text books, debt, Meadowbrook and Basin roads, snow clearing, interest, and town salaries.
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Phippsburg
Herbert W. Cutting
Harry C. Web
Ber
Elisha L. Totman
Walter J. McCourt
George D. Weston
William R. Bowker
Popham
Meadowbrook Road
Basin Road
William A. Miles
New York
Freeman H. Merritt
Sebasco Estates Co
Merritt
Florida
Port Chester
N. Y
Miles
Frank S. Bowker
Belfast
George S. Davis
Brunswick
George Wilson
Bath
Elm Street
William V. Percy
Bath Owas
Walter Bowker
Charles Washburn
Auburn
James Stacey
Parker Head
Hattie Rowe
Georgetown
H. W. Cutting
Dromore
Louis H. Veileux
Lillian Roderick
William Roderick
Elbridge B. Wallace
Sebasco
Nellie Card
Red Cross
F. W. Ridley
Irving Wright
Standard Oil Team
Rockland
Dromore Grange Event and Local Obituaries
Dromore Grange Phippsburg holds an afternoon meeting on Tuesday March 11. Funeral services for Carl M. Sward follow an accidental shooting in the undertaking rooms of F 8 Curtis. Burial at Bowdoinham. Arthur E. Bishop of New England Tel and Tel attended Archie T. Stewart funeral in Portland.
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Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Carl M. Sward
Curtis
Bowdoinham
Arthur E. Bishop
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Portland
Archie T. Stewart
Boy Kills Self Explaining Novel Hero Act in Bath
In Bath, Carl M Sward and Jesse Hanson, both about 15, discussed tales of the wild West. Sward picked up a revolver, aimed at himself to illustrate what the villain should have done, and discharged a cartridge into his chest. Hanson, terrified, ran to his parents and then to a physician, but Sward died at the scene. The incident occurred on a houseboat docked near Bruce hill. Authorities ruled no criminal responsibility.
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Jesse James
Carl M. Sward
James Hanson
Bruce’s Hill
Washington Street
North End
Sward
Nianson
Hanson
Sword
Lenry
W. Hanson
Piuce’s Hill
Robert(. Hannigen
Langdon T. Snipe
Peterson
Carl
George
Robert
Harry
Arthur
Mary
Violet Sword
Morse High
Bath Savings Institution
Veterans form Bath Firemen society with 34 members
The Bath Veteran Fireman's association held its second meeting at Hook and Ladder Hall on Water Street and adopted by laws. The group now lists 34 members and plans to acquire a sporting hand tag to compete with other hand tubs in New England. Officers named include Ralph C. Covel as president and Harry M. Huse as vice president, with a second Wednesday monthly meeting schedule and an April oyster supper planned.
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Bath Veteran Fireman’s Association
Hook and
Association
Ralph C. Covel
Harry M. Huse
Bonus to Fighting Men under 1919 Revenue Act
The 1919 Revenue Act section 1406 authorizes a $60 bonus to Army officers soldiers field clerks and nurses upon honorable discharge or retirement, as approved February 24, 1919.
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Revenue Act
Bonus for World War I veterans discharge payments guidance
The notice explains eligibility for a $60 war bonus for separations from active service by discharge resignation or otherwise not payable to heirs. Discharged veterans will receive their bonus on the same roll as their final pay. Those who already received final pay without the bonus should write to the Zone Finance Officer in Lemoy Building Washington DC with service since April 6 1917 their current address and discharge documents. Checks will be drawn and mailed to claimants in order of receipt. The discharge certificate will be returned with the check. An estimated 1.25 million discharged veterans may claim the benefit and payments will be made as expeditiously as practicable.
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Zone Finance
Lemoy Building
Washington, D. C
Death at North Street crossing claims railroad watchman
William J. Jacobs, a night watchman at the North Street crossing, was found dead in the gatehouse by day watchman Mark Gannon. Police and undertaker Fred Curtis attended. medical examiner Dr. Langdon T. Snipe examined the body. Jacobs, a 39-year Maine Central employee, left behind Emma Frances Perkins Jacobs and two relatives as survivors.
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William J. Jacobs
North Street
Mark. Gannon
Fred
Curtis
Langdon T. Snipe
Jacob
Mr. Jacobs
Maine Central Railroad Company
Bath
Portland
William V. Jacobs
Barstown& Jacobs
Jacobs
Emma Frances Perkins
Brunswick
Children Honored in Jacobs and Pinkham Family Event
George HH and Mrs. Annette Pinkham are listed among the children involved in a local family event highlighting Jacobs and Pinkham connections.
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George Hh, Jacobs
Annette Pinkham
After 45 Years Shop Is To Go From Commercial Street
The marble and granite shops of Chauncey F P Curtis on Commercial Street face removal after 45 years. The new Watson Frye Co foundry and machine shops rise nearby, with land owned by Henry M Sanford shifting Curtis sheds. Sanford plans to relocate Curtis, location undecided, as street contours changed from docks to develop. Curtis recalls two masted schooners, Hogan family ties to the eagle carving on the soldiers monument, and uncertainty over future marble and granite locations before April.
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Chauncey FP. Curtis
Watson, Frye Co
Curtis
Henry M. Sanford
Watson, Frye
Mr. Sanford
Commercial Street
Nichols Co
Mr. Curtis
Times
William B. Hogan
Storpcourt
Funeral of Miss Thurlow Held at Thurlow Home
Funeral of Miss Helen D. Thurlow was held Friday afternoon at the home of her mother Mrs. John N. Thurlow. The service reflected family memories and personal ties in a quiet local observance.
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Miss Thurlow
Helen D. Thurlow
John N. Thurlow
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Danville Junction
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Gardiner
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Madison
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Solon
International Boundary Line
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Paris
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Bethel
Gilead
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Bridgton
Fryeburg
Umbagog Trail
Newry
Grafton Notch
Upton
Dixville Notch
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Mount Desert
Elgar
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Harbo
Pittsfield
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Orono
Oldtown
Aroostook County
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Dover
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Monson
Greenville
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John J. Desmond
Rappewoe
New
England
Conley’s Specialty Store
Highland Street
Clarence M. Fogg
Bertram Willis
Herbert Worrey
George Worrey
Joseph B. Thurlow
Charles ‘'R. Brown
Leora Thurlow
Wollaston
Mass
Lorence Willis
Boston
Samuel A. Evans
George F. Reed
Farrin Street
George Wallace
Everett Leonard
William Sprague
Frank Wakefield
William Davis
South Portland
L. F
Atwood
L. F. Medicine Co
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