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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1924
Page
2
Bath Maine newspaper listing shows subscription rates and contact details for The Times Company, with prices for one year and shorter terms. The fragment references a subscription offer and addresses in Bath, Maine, including a trunk line for orders and payments.
A garbled article fragment discusses regional economic shifts from New England to the South and West, noting textile mills, agriculture, and trade concerns. It references Barstow, New Pagchond, and national commerce themes, urging local readers to awaken to industrial losses and seek regional development.
President Coolidge stresses physical vigor and national vitality through open land and waterways. He creates a National Recreation Committee including Weeks Wallace and other cabinet members to coordinate parks forests and waterways and propose a unified policy guiding states and private groups. Public interest in military training parks and tourism grows as federal agencies promote recreation.
Governor Baxter designates Monday May 19 as Good Will Day urging daily good will to improve relations at home and abroad. The proclamation frames enduring peace as achievable through cooperation and the Golden Rule, not military victory, and calls for universal effort toward a better world.
A travel column describes Gibraltar with open shops and Maylike weather, then sails to Algiers. It notes Gibraltar’s coastal defense work and the African coast’s villages, Algiers as a modern Paris on the waterfront, the 1018 mosque, and the harsh living conditions in the old city with crowded streets, water scarcity, and busy bazaars.
The narrative describes squalid living conditions and open sewers observed in overcrowded dungeons, a modern rug factory with healthy concerns for the children at work, an evening ashore in Boulevard cafes, hostile boatmen after dark, and a Mediterranean crossing toward Palermo for a northern Italy pilgrimage with stops in Naples and onward through Switzerland France and England. The letter closes with Le Nichols signing off.
City Marshal Hall urges residents and business districts to keep office windows shut after a string of near break ins. A patrolman found a window ajar at a waterfront office and entered, but found no intruders. The police report emphasizes securing doors to deter thieves.
Maine women rally behind President Coolidge and form clubs across the state. Miss Jane S Murphy leads Sagadahoc county organization while Mrs Harold M Sewall of Bath chairs Maine Coolidge clubs. local women expect a club in every Sagadahoc town.
Nearly 50 delegates from Knox Lincoln Sagadahoc Franklin and Oxford counties attended the first regional conference of the second State Parent-Teacher Association district at Gracechurch Parish House. Mrs Paul Dresser opened the meeting and introduced Supt Clinton J D Wilson who gave the welcome. Mrs Frederick I Abbott of Saco spoke and answered questions about associations. Luncheon followed and the afternoon featured Morse orchestra and glee club and a talk by Bowdoin College professor Austin T MacCormick.
Pioneering dance pupils under Mrs Fannie Heth will perform a recital at the Columbia Theatre Friday night starting at eight. Rehearsals show strong progress and six star pupils from Lewiston will join, with tickets exchangeable for reserved seating.
Fred W. Barron of 9 Marshall avenue again leads in pea growing his vines over an inch high. Barron has long prided himself on planting the first peas of the season and this year he again expects an early crop ahead of the Fourth of July as nature assists the plants.
Protection of our home market means maintaining standards of life and ensuring normal laws of trade operate, increasing the command we now hold.
Dr Elmer W Campbell of Maine Health argues chlorination of Bath water is safe and tasteless, citing World War II chlorine use and lack of typhoid or dysentery cases among users. He cites widespread adoption and cost, notes taste complaints Abbot and Allan Spear commend the system, and outlines state health rules for water quality and disinfection procedures.
Austin TL MacCormick alumnus secretary of Bowdoin College told a regional INTLA conference at Grace Church Parish House that youth training in home and organizations like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts is key to preventing delinquency. He cited tests showing many youths cheat under temptation and praised Scouts for high moral standards. The program featured Morse High orchestra and glee club performances and noted the work of Judge Ben Lindsey and juvenile reform efforts.
The Roland H. Smith American Legion post plans a free public rest room in its Washington and Oak streets clubhouse with a large sign, free parking on nearby Oak street, and a gasoline tank to generate revenue. Maurice Brown and assistants will staff the facility offering candy and souvenirs, while an honor roll of county ex servicemen is being compiled. A baked bean supper to fund Legion baseball uniforms is also planned.
Patrons sending mayflowers to areas under brown tail and gypsy moth quarantine should know packages cannot be forwarded until inspected by a Department of Agriculture official, causing delays in some cases. Packages to quarantined points need not be held. The quarantine belt lies along the Atlantic coast.
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