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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Mar 10, 1927

Page

9

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.

Universalist Church Jennie Morse Bath Reinecke Dorth Jessie Couthous Geigh Mr. Stockbridge Messrs Sturtevant Corliss Talloy Hunt George Brown 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.

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.

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.

London Duchess of Bedford 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.

Associated Anderson Galleries New York Eugene Higgens Sargent Whistler Albert I. Ryders 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.

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.

Madward 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.

Fritz Reiner 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.

Prince Eugene Sweden Inis Gothenburg Rome Stockholm New City Miners Kiruna 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.

Princes Risborough 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tonden Phan Theater London

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