Bath area film notices and star gossip roundup
The Bath Independent highlights upcoming theatre attractions at Bath Opera House and Liberty Theatre including Tilly Hall and his company with Constance Talmadge Don't Change Your Husband and Madge Kennedy in Day Dreams. It covers cast notes for Pauline Frederick, Madge Kennedy, Mabel Normand, Jackie Saunders, Viola Dana, Marguerite De la Motte and others, plus star anecdotes from the California studios and industry chatter about new projects and personal details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Opera House
Tilly Hall
Constance Talmadge
DeMille
Madge Kennedy
Mabel Normand
Alice Moore
California
Moore
Alice
Culver City
Pauline Frederick
Owen Moore
Viola Dana
Satan Junior
Hollywood
Herbert Blanche
Maxwell Karger
Mabel Normand linked to peanut roast at Goldwyn studios
Mabel Normand is blamed for the peanut roaster in her Culver City studio suite. She recently traveled to Clarksburg West Virginia to help christen Jack Marks theater, drawing thousands. Marks reportedly shares in the roast profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldwyn
West Bath Grange members urged to attend meetings this year
Elmer Rich walked five miles through deep mud to the hall Monday and back to promote Grange contest rules. Pomona Grange attendees from Bath and nearby towns included J B Lemont E S Stackpole and others. Local notes cover residents visits repairs meals and school transfers as the community gears up for the Red Cross effort and a box social.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Rich
Grange
Bath
Sabine
Warren Oliver
Raymond Williams
John Johnson
Stanley Robinson
Myra Foote
Nuurse
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Delia Fe.tailman
Linden Street
Grange Hall
Will Pierson
Campbell’s Good School
Littlefield School
Marguerite Williame
Wendall Williams
John Clough
Martha King
Kk. R. Brown
Woolwich
Fred White
South Portland
William Brown
Harry N. Wright
Sophia
North Bath
Wright
Rachel Coffin
Trufant Street
West Bath
Frank Huse
Harry Lemont
William Fields
Lewis Footer
Everett Lemoent
Campbell Pon School
Red Cross
State Ferry Funding Powers Expanded by Highway Commission
The state highway commission with governor and council approval may acquire a new ferry boat and necessary property to ensure adequate state ferry service. Expenditures to cover deficits or operations come from highway funds not otherwise restricted, or from unappropriated treasury funds. The commission will report detailed accounts to the public utilities commission and publish a summary in its annual report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
The
Highway Commission
Public Utilities Commission
Deputy Wins Long Chase Captures Smuggler with Whiskey
Deputy Aderton pursued a liquor smuggler after a Boston train arrival. The suspect fled along Granite and Robinson streets dropping a large grip containing ten quart whiskey bottles. The deputy recovered the grip, libelled its contents, and turned the property to the sheriff's wine room. Mrs Esther Mann sold the Coulthard house at North and Willow to Louis Barker for $3600.
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Chester
Aderton
Boston
York Street
School Street
Granite Street
Robinson Street
Alvord House
Oliver
Sheriff's Office
Court House
Esther Mann
Coulthard
North and
Willow Streets
Louis Barker
Remedies For Backache And Urinary Ailments Promoted
Dr Pierce methods and Anuric or Pleasant Pellets marketed for backache scalding urine and uric acid issues. Offers free mail consultation from Buffalo and urges sending water sample and symptoms for evaluation. Includes sale pitches for pills with claims of safe, gentle relief and pocket-friendly price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eberle
Braithwaite
Simon
Hepmatiem
Pierce
eSey
Bath high school pupils survey asks about life work and city needs
In Bath Morse High School pupils answer questions on staying in Bath, future careers, and chamber of commerce priorities. Students favor a business college or enhanced trade education, better sidewalks and streets, and a daily session in high school to prepare for life work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American City Bureau
Bath
Morse High School
Chamber of Commerce
Earth
Speculation Over Ferris Type Fleet Tugs Portland Harbor
Fifteen Ferris type steamers costing about $10 million are tied up in Portland harbor. The United States Shipping Board faces uncertainty over their disposition as crews live aboard and engines run. The fleet includes the Columbine and others from Maine yards, with most ships idle due to high operating costs and limited cargo space. Some ships were chartered or moved for coal loading, while a few remain under revision or investigation for sale to private buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Harbor
United States Shipping
Argus
Columbine
Kelley, Snear Co
Laurence Hodgdon
East Boothbay
Bermuda
Cuba
United States Shipping Board
Maine
Newington
N. H
Yawah
Woyea
Ammonoosue
Holyoke
Haverhill
Cumberland Shipbuilding Co
Utoka
Ligonia
Shipping Board
Governor Dingley
Naval Training Service
Neobec Clears Augusta Reach After Winter Breakup
The Kennebec reopened to navigation up to Augusta following the spring breakup. Ice cleared with fewer icebound hazards as sheds boats and smelt huts migrated away, leaving no interference with the Hockomock or Maine Central steam er Ferdinando Gorges.
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Hockomock
Maine Central
Ferdinando Gorges
Kennebec
Augusta
Stock Investment Offered to Employees by The Texas Co
Plan details repayment and forfeiture terms for employee stock purchases. Defaults trigger loss of rights with repayment of amounts plus interest. Termination before certificates voids stock rights. estates may receive payments or certificates after death. Disability mirrors estate rights. cancellation allows refund before acceptance. Three year restriction delays issuance. fractions not issued. successors may replace trustees. Company reserves right to discontinue or modify the plan.
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The
Texas Co
Board of Directors
Col Parkhurst Nominated Again For Public Safety Role
Penobscot county branch of the Maine Public Safety committee records Col Parkhurst’s continued wartime service and leadership. He chaired Penobscot food production and led recruiting tours in Eastern Maine in 1917, plus county chair for the 1918 Liberty loan drive and potential chair for the Fifth Liberty loan. He also heads Penobscot relief and employment for returned soldiers and sailors.
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Penobscot County
State of Maine Committee On Public Safety
Penobscot
Col. Hume
Ashworth
Capt
McNally
Kitties
Parkhurst
Maine
Bangor
Liberty Loan Committee
Isaiah K. Stetson
South
Bureau For
Washington
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
Oregon Illinois farm wife Mrs Alters reports severe organic trouble left her unable to work. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained health and can run her six hundred chickens yearly, prompting referrals to friends. She cites forty years of company medical experience and invites others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham's Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dalters
R. R
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Fruit-a-tives: Medicine From Fruit Juices Promises Relief
Extraordinary success story for Fruit-a-tives claims to relieve constipation liver indigestion headaches neuralgia kidney and skin troubles. The tablets derive from apple orange fig and prune extracts with nerve tonics and antiseptics. 50e for 2 boxes 6 for 2.50 trial size 25c. Sold by dealers or Fruit-a-tives Limited Oudensburg NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Oudensburg
N, Y
Identify Body Found in River
The body found near Dix Island is Wilfred Thibodeau a 10 year old of Augusta who with another boy named Jaques went over the Augusta dam on November 24 while in a boat. Police later confirmed the identification in Bath and family members arrived to recognize the body.
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Dix Island
Wilfred Thibodeau
Agusta
Augusta
Jaques
Bath
Paul Tizotte
Vianna Thibodeau
Wilfred Thibodean
Curtis
Thomas Thibodeau
Wilfred
Texas Company Extends Temporary Illness Insurance Plan
The Texas company offers a temporary illness plan not tied to residence under other rules. No obligation or charge arises except one year of continuous employment. If an employee leaves voluntarily, no charge applies. if they return later, they are treated as a new employee.
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Bath Independent
Liberty Theatre
Vivian Martin
Miranda Miles
Bryant Washburn
Mary McLaren
Bert Lytell
Mae Marsh
Montagu Love
Mr. Love
Rockies
Tierder Legion
Zane Grey
Blanche Bates
Hobart Bosworth
Alaska
Rex Beach
Robert H. McLaughlin
Orient
Tsen Mei
Geraldine Farrar
Wyoming
Miss Kennedy
Miss Farrar
Tom Moore
Kay Laurell
Follies
Golden State
Broadway
Carlyle Blackwell
Evelyn Greeley
Los Angeles
Wyndham Standing
Willard Mack
Cosmo Hamilton
Tully Marshall
Marshall
Papa Mendelsohn
Tom
New York
Miss Frederick
Elsie
Jackie Saunders
Mutual
Australia
Sydney
Miss Saunders
Sunny Jane
Checkmate
Betty
Bob
Nazimova
Hale Hamilton
Johnny
Mr. Hamilton
Fire Department
Miss Dana
Rector
Fish
Aquarium
May Allison
Anna Q. Nilsson
Metro
Marguerite de la Motte
Jack Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Arizona
Bessie Barriscale
Josselyn
Miss de la Motte
Matildaa
Pavlova
Marvel
America
Miss Barinscale
Edwin Stephens
Mephistophelian
Devil
Molnar
Tivoli Opera Company
San Francisco
Jillian Russell
Rosie Mendelsohn
Pomona Grange
Topsham
J. B. T Lemont
E. S. Stackpole
Joseph White
J. B. Lemont
FE. W. Haggett
F. W. Larrabee
Lincoln Williams
William Dean
I. B. Nojley
A. P B. Higgins
Alma Palmer
W. H. Larrabee
Fritz
Mes
Larrabee
Noyes
Everett Lemont
Owen Harthorne
Brunswick
Isaac Varney
Samuel Bates
Eleanor
Julia Coombs
Myra
Gertrude Coombs
Alfred Coombs
Helen Shaw
Campbell Pond School
Miss Shaw
Greene
Littlefield
Pond School
Charles Bates
Charles
Beachmont
Mass
George Rogers
FE. J. Allen
Virginia Royal
Allen
J. C. Larrabee
Josie Winter
Concord
Raymond Wheeler
Merton Wright
W. H
Col. Parkhurst
Prises
Texas Company
Akle
Montreal
D. Watson & CO
Sagadihoe
Ethel. F. Leonard
George F. Reed
Asa
Ethel F. Leonard
Graanddaughter
Loren M. Davis
Paul Davis
Keat Gramison
William F. Dunham
State OF
Sagadahoc
Netic
Syed
James
Lowell
William
Dunham
Rewister
Adahoc
Hubert H. McCarty
Mary A. McCarty
Pernans
Independent
Sakis
William F. Hs PO
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