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Moving Pictures Sweep Bowdoinham Amusement Scene
A Bowdoinham town page notes a flood of moving pictures replacing vaudeville and nickelodeons as the main amusements. Two big New York houses switch to film, while local theaters and store fronts convert to projections, with nickelodeon jobs and a piano in some towns. The shift reshapes entertainment and costs. Also reported are local farming news, a new potato house plan by Richmond firm, and ongoing town events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy McCardell
New York World
Tetrazzini
Horatio
Keith & Proctor’s
West Twenty-third Street
Bijou Dream
Moving Pictures
New York
Manhattan
Vadueville
Fourteenth Street
Moving Picture
Nickelodeon
Shaw
James Dunlap
Seldon Williams
Boston
Johnson Seed Potato Company of
Richmond
Bowdoinham
Richmond Company
Maine Central
Frank H. Purinton
Harpswell
Elécta
Order of the Eastern Star
T. W. Fogg
Charles B. Randall
W. ‘Arr
Portland
George C. Andrews
Augusta
Baptists
E. W. Warren
C. F. Staples
Camden
Lucille
Edward P. Kendall
Charles F. Staples
John F. Gray
Massachusetts
A. H. Lancaster
Maine Methodist Conference
Andrews
Mabel Wright
Misa Mildred Pratt
Margaret Chapman
Saunders
Charles A. Jordan
Maine
Salisbury
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoin Center
Sagadahoe County
Pomona Grange
Sesson
Sagadahoe Grange
Alonzo Cutler
Alice Fulton
Kendalls
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Works
Carrie Frost
Old Fort Popham
William T. Lalie
William Salie
Richard Frye
Methodist Church
Maria Gray
Edward Cornish
Cyrus Trufant
Main Street
Lewis M. Fulton Baw
South Bowdoin
Gowell Farm
Kennebec
Parker Spear
Baltimore
Cordelia Spear
John Rumrill
Hallowell