Forty Years Ago in Bath Coasting Vessels Prospects Bright
Items from The Bath Daily Times dated March 1 1899 report a strong outlook for Bath vicinity coasting vessels with numerous schooners likely to find steady business. Also noted are civic meetings naval appointments weather river navigation and local social events across Bath and West Bath.
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New Books Added to the Shelves at the Library
Patten Free Library lists February acquisitions across Autobiography and Biography Fiction and General, featuring Dunant the story of the Red Cross and Samuel Pepys, the Saviour of the Navy, Young Longfellow, and J. S. Martin's General Manpower, plus multiple novels by Sassoon, Bottome, Douglas, Ayres, Towne, and Stefansson among others.
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Austria
Phyllis Bottome
Lloyd C. Douglas
Dr. Norton
Mildred Walker
Zane Gray
Harald Tandrup
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Towa
Anita Boutell
Elizabeth Bowen
Paris
Ruby M. Ayres
Charles Hanson Towne
New York
Rosabelle Shaw
D. E. Stevenson
Scotland
Rafael Sabatini
Sabatini
Captain Gregory Doughnut Hole Invention Honored
The National Doughnut committee nominated late Capt. Hanson Gregory of Camden for the hall of fame. The citation credits him with discovering and perfecting the hole in the doughnut while a sea cook, detailing his rise from cabin boy to master mariner and his ring-shaped doughnuts that replaced square pieces. The piece also recounts the Weeks house demolition on Highland street, Rockland, tied to Ebeneezer Otis and later Leander Weeks amid historic land and insurance losses.
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Camden
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Weeks
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Iman
Burt
Leander Weeks
Oil treatment curbs coal dust nuisance at Bath plant
City hearings into coal dust complaints highlighted oil and water spraying plans at Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co. officials said January cargo was treated with oil, with additional water spray during loading to reduce nuisance. The council left the issue in abeyance pending trial of the treatment while approving other budget and infrastructure measures.
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Mitchell
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Drake
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Robbins
Committee On Conference
Poor Department
Central Maine Power Co
Gardiner R. Deering
Frances A. Boucher
Water Street
Earle P. Morse
Men
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Bragg
City Council
C. Leroy Hutchins
Ellery E. Whittemore
Washington Street
Blair, Hart
Elmer W. Rogers
Waldoboro ice cream shop charts flavor fame and tastes
Clint Stahl of Stahl's Tavern in Waldoboro makes ice cream by the cart load and tracks public preference. Vanilla leads in summer, but a recent party of 32 showed 23 chocolate, five vanilla, four strawberry. The piece notes local appetite for chocolate as endorsed by a Rockland attorney. Ash Cove near South Harpswell hosts novelist Percy Noel, a globe traveler who has lived in Paris, London, Geneva, Tokyo, Peking, St. Louis, Chicago and New York.
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Insurance Ledger Shows Liabilities And Surplus Totals
Admitted assets reflect total liabilities and surplus of 22 755 338.36 with net unpaid losses 5 654 981.00 and unearned premiums 6 640 153.38. All other liabilities stand at 1 310 774.04 while cash capital equals 2 000 000.00 and surplus over all liabilities 7 147 428.95. Agent Stanley E. Wallace lists address 23-2 993 Front Street Bath.
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