Bath News Roundup: Toll Abolished at Baybridge and Local Honors
Forty years ago in Bath, March 2 1887 reports tolls ending at Baybridge after counts show annual receipts around two hundred dollars. The city notes a series of society meetings, elections of officers in local groups, and a major benefit at the Universalist Literary Society with performances by Miss Jessie Couthoui and Mr Stockbridge.
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Universalist Church
Jennie Morse
Bath
Reinecke
Dorth
Jessie Couthous
Geigh
Mr. Stockbridge
Messrs
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Corliss
Talloy
Hunt
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Fred Hooper
Howard Johnson
F. L. Hogan
Herbert Maxwell
Edward Johnson
Universist Literary Society
Social notes and arrivals from March 1887
March 3 1887 reports Tichard T Rice returning from Boston visits Watsons and Coltons leaving for Boston friends Kimball to move to St Joseph. Miss Holmes visits Miss Hyde and Arthur Bosworth attends Phoenix social. Carrie Moses returns from Boston and a telegram cites Mrs McLellan ill near Jacksonville Florida. Five of 55 passed state exam and will graduate in spring. Oratorio at North Street church draws crowd. Board of Trade names Hughes not Greenleaf. Canton King Patriarchs Militant banquet at Odd Fellows Hall with about 100 attendees. Donnell builds framed 2100 ton schooner hull in northern state. March 4 1887 notes Ethel Hyde Shelly Thimes go to Boston. Nellie Richardson visits Detroit. May Field at Augusta reception. Captain Sawyer returns from Portland. Sewalls visiting Boston. Etta Palmer leaves tomorrow to visit Minnie Young. Matson and Ellis head to Wyandotte Michigan. Mrs Edgecomb to open dressmaking Monday.
Social and Market Notes From Natick and Bath Areas
March 7 1887 report from Natick Mass includes Mrs S T Woodward visiting her former home while city plows clear sidewalks under Commissioner Mitchell Thomas T Rideout. Local lodges plan events and a market price list shows little change except pork up. prices for beef pork mutton and other items given with notes on election day.
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S. T. Woodward
Natick, Mass
Local Produce Prices at The Market
Readable list shows cooking apples at 25 cents a peck and eating apples at 35 cents a peck. Potatoes cost 20 cents a peck, cabbage 8 cents a pound, onions 4 cents a pound, turnips 2 cents a pound, carrots 3 cents a pound, and beets 2 cents a pound.
Two Colorado Women Alternate in Office
Miss Katherine I. Craig, Republican, has assumed the office of state superintendent of public instruction for the fourth time, succeeding Mary Bradford. The two women have alternated in the post since 1904 and Craig is noted as an educator, writer, and annotator of Colorado school laws.
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Katherine I. Craig
United States
Mary (. (. Bradford
Miss Craig
Colorado
Duchess of Bedford Takes Up Aviation
The Duchess of Bedford, famed as a pioneer in aviation, has given up shooting and fishing to devote more time to flying. She is noted as the first English woman to use an airplane to commute between country place and London, though she has never flown her own plane and does not intend to pilot one.
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Lady Maud Moore
India
Ama Art Dealers Select 75 Best Sellers for February Exhibit
A list of 75 best sellers in American art for the past 0 years was compiled by Associated Dealers in American Painters. The February exhibit at Anderson Galleries in New York features immortal works judged on sales, with living and deceased artists represented including Eugene Higgens Sargent and Whistler.
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Paul Bartlett
Lafayette
Paris
Arthur Davies
Berlin pianist turns to cembalo in modern piano study
Fran Alice Ehlers in Berlin abandons conventional piano for the cembalo, arguing the modern piano suits the musical painter by using keys like a painter uses colors, while the musical architect seeks unity of design and line over coloring.
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Fran Alice Ehlers
Berlin
English man seeks model for Pickwick character Samivel
Madward JT Weller of Bath England, claiming to be grandson of the original Sam Weller, responds to an appeal for a model. English artist George Belcher has been commissioned to paint Samivel for an American audience.
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JT. Weller
Bath
England
Sam Weller
Pickwick Dpapers
Dickens
George Belcher
Oun
Reiner Leads Three Orchestras in One Month
Fritz Reiner conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in eight performances. He also leads the Philadelphia Orchestra for four shows during Leopoldo Stockowski’s absence and the New York Philharmonic for four performances during Arturo Toscanini’s illness. Reiner then returns to his own ensemble for six appearances.
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Cincinhati Symphony Orchestra
Tie
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopard Stokowski
New York Philharmonic
Arturo Toscanini
Prince Eugene Gives Seven Paintings to Gothenburg Museum
Sweden's royal artist Prince Eugene, famed for never selling a picture, donates seven works to the Gothenburg Museum. The lot includes a Swedish landscape and Rome studies from his Stockholm area studio. He often paints Swedish twilight light and contributed art to Stockholm buildings and Kiruna church.
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Sweden
Inis
Gothenburg
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New
City
Miners
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Lapland
Prime Minister Loses Veteran Housekeeper
Mrs. Graham, long serving head of the prime minister's household at Chequers, retires after years in government service. She tended the duties through Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, and Stanley Baldwin administrations, earning the nickname minister of the interior for her role in serving the premier. She will not write reminiscences of the leaders she has aided.
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Eng
Graham
Aacerenee
Ghana
Lloyd George
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
First Woman to Hold French Chair of Letters
Leonie Villard of the University of Lyon becomes the first woman with a chair of letters in a French university. Though never in the United States, she is an American literature authority and has published widely in French magazines. She assumed her post in 1942 and may wear the orange and black gown of professors of letters.
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Mile
Leonie Villard
University of Lyon
United States
France
Street Scenes and City Life in New York
A window into New York life with cattle pens above Times Square and snow trenches blocking sidewalks. A Bronx superintendent cleans the front like a deck, while starving art students persist in garrets and many seek funds through commercial work as they strive.
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Times Square
New York
Garrets
FL Newlin Price
Art Dealers’ Association
New York Art and Theatre Life From Sidewalk to Stage
A snapshot of New York culture shows artists earning substantial incomes while pursuing art for its own sake. The piece notes gallery earnings, street life, theater employes, sidewalk vendors, and the bustle around Broadway stage offices and roadshow agents. It mentions a sculptor earning about 50 000 dollars and an etcher selling 100 000 dollars worth of work, plus the busy theater and window commerce scenes on 47th Street and nearby areas.
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New York
Subways and hotels feature in bustling New York life
The article notes subway etiquette and crowding adjustments during peak hours with a tip about elbows to deter pushy riders. It recalls a rider forced to ride past his stop before switching trains. It mentions hotel signage causing mixups and wallpaper reviving fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also observes taxi demand at hotels with drivers clinging to shifting lines.
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Tonden
Phan Theater
London
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