Dandelions and developments in Bath 1916
Bath Daily Times items from 1916 report dandelion greens digging, a Bodwell grange May event, antiques shop expansion, Hotel Columbia occupancy plans, interior finish work, a seal spot at Minott's pond, scarce maple sap, Front Street buildings set for removal, Desmond Clothing windows, Weeks Street Grammar School playground dedication, fundraising from Assembly Hall entertainment, local travel and hearings, Republican delegates to Chicago, Bath Iron Works and Electric Boat moves, social events, and Bath Bachelors club activity with a Silk gown盛 display at Music Hall.
Masonic Quarters Committee Formed and Old North Church Move
A four-body Masonic committee is formed on April 26 1916 to plan larger quarters in this city. The Old North church on the move from Sen 1 yard to New gland Yard will be used as a storehouse. Gov Williams helped build the church site on the southwest corner of the current Hon Albert H Shaw grounds. The Paul Revere bell in the 1803 steeple was funded by subscription. Miss Toodles Stillcross arrives from Swan Island and sues O Cheatum for 125000 per promise. trial to be heard in Music Hall Friday with four top lawyers. Audreau’s dance follows the mock trial.
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Maine
Albert H. Haw
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Gov. Kinging
Toodles Stillcross
Swan Island
Iss Stillcross
Obatah Cheatum
Music Hall
Audreau
Bath Y M C A origins traced to 1857 in Bath
A Bath letter traces the Bath YMCA origin to 1857 with references to John Wanamaker and early members. The informant, Mr. Gove, notes he is the sole surviving member, and Alonzo B. Parke returns from St John N B after a 40 year reunion.
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Bath
Bath Y. M. C. A
John Wanamaker
Portland
Gove
Bath Association
Alonzo B. Parke
St. John
N. B
Stone
Dance segments dazzle crowd with youth talent and pairs
The program featured young dancers including Isae O'Brien and Oliver Moses performing the espe tango dan, Miss Dorothy Jewett and Mr. Tibbetts in the new one-step, and Andrew Cahill with Miss Mann in the tango waltz, drawing praise for their polish and vigor.
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Isae O’brien
Oliver Moses
Dorothy Jewett
Mr. Tibbetts
Andrew Cahill
Miss Mann
Bath Notes April 30 1916 Local Happenings
Tug Ariel towed the Ad die P. McFadden to seal today and Seguin brought up the small coaster with Nova Scotia spruce for the Kelley Spear Co. L. V. Plummer, expert snare drummer now in Bath, will join the Waltham watch factory band. Plummer leaves Bath, glee club enlarges for Little Almond Eyes May 12, with Myrle Strong and others listed among the chorus. Big herring catch at Damartscove and No Name motor cruiser with 700 pounds of fish. Mayflowering crowds expected in the woods tomorrow.
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Addie P. McFadden
Seal
Seguin
Nova Scotia
Kelley, Spear Co
L. V. Plummer
Waltham Watch Factory
Waltham Factory
Bend
Mr. Plummer
Bath
Damartscove
Boothbay
Glee Club
Myrle Strong
Edna
Florence Stevens
Evelyn Colby
Dorothy Monson
Lucille Page
Eleanor Denham
Martha Baker
Doris Dyeraktos
Margaret Hangon
Helen Child
Elizabeth Hayes
Ruth Goodwin
Emily Cook
Louise Baker
Margaret Whalen
Doris Shepherd
Madelyn Brackley
John Miller
Leonard Mason
Ned Andrews
Harold Brooks
Marshall
Hyde property sale on Washington Street completes deal
The Charles E Hyde property on lower Washington Street sold Saturday through E S Crosby Co to Herbert McCabe who will occupy the homestead. The riverfront lot fronts 300 feet and covers about three acres. Nearby, Alonzo B Parks George Patterson and Samuel Barnes left for Aberdeen to take jobs with the Aberdeen Shipbuilding Co.
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Charles E. Hyde
Lower
Washington Street
E. S. Crosby & Co
Erbert McCabe
Alonzo B. Parks
George Patterson
Samuel Barnes
Aberdeen
Wash
Aberdeen Shipbuilding Co
Bath Easter Attire Marks Weekend Visits and Club Banquet
June term of U S District Court in Bangor notes notables. Mr and Mrs Edward Stewart and their daughter from Boston were weekend guests at their summer home at Kennebec Point, returning this morning. Bath youths showed new Easter outfits and looked smart. The Bath Driving Club plans its annual banquet at King Tavern with speeches music readings and ribbon awards.
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Trouble Piles Up for Otis Murphy in North Carolina
Pulpwood worker Otis Murphy had a rough day starting with a flat tire then running out of gas. Slippery ground forced him to reload three times, his truck overturned spilling logs, and a broken hose dumped gasoline before he finally delivered the load at seven last evening.
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Union
S. C
Otis Murphy
Oklahoma City Drive-in Owner Receives Mysterious Silverware Package
Hubert D. Marsh, operator of a city drive-in sandwich stand, found in the mail a package containing five forks, two cups and a knife all stamped with his name. He believes the items resemble silverware and china he used about 20 years ago, with no sender identified.
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Hubert D. Marsh
Mexico studies Spanish program for 3 million Indians
The government plans to teach Spanish to about 3 million Indians who still speak 55 native dialects and know no Spanish. Most reside in southern jungle regions, where Spain once moved into Mexico centuries ago, according to officials.
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Parrish Sentenced Over Tax Obsession In Topeka HoldUp
In Topeka Kansas 27 year old dishwasher Roy Parrish was jailed for a year for wounding a hotel clerk with a butcher knife during a holdup Parrish claimed the money was needed to pay his federal income tax. He says tax obligations drove his crime.
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Parrish
Weekend replaces Sabbath in sermon gloss
Dr. Vernon Richardson at St. Pauls Methodist Church in Hagerstown Maryland contrasted historic weekly observances. He cited generations calling it the Holy Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath before noting the modern term Weekend is used today.
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Hagerstown, Md
Vernon Richardson
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Electric legs enable polio victim Paul Davidoff to move
In Kalamazoo Michigan Paul Davidoff a 10 year old polio victim has found new legs in a battery driven electric cart He drives the three wheeled cart around with his brother Bobbie 4 who is also crippled by polio The cart is patterned after factory parts carriers
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First Irish Immigrants Arrive in 1621
National Geographic Society states the earliest Irish arrivals reached what is now the United States in 1621.
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National Geographic Society
Notes on TV channels and local social updates
A column reviews television fare from Hitchcock to Omnibus and Spin and Marty, noting shifts in stars and programs. It highlights ABC’s Omnibus Sunday schedule, aging hosts like Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey, and viewer weariness with certain hour dramas and car-bargain ads between films. The piece also lists local social notices from Kennebec Point and Lewiston, with hospital mentions and visits, plus neighbors attending a church slide show featuring German and European scenes.
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Jackie Gleason
Reggie van Gleason
Art Carney
Ed Norton
ABC
Mickey Mouse Club
Milton Berle
Arthur Godfrey
Berle
Godfrey
George Gobel
TV Playhouse
Tom, Dick
Harry
Maine General Hospital
Harold Brown Jr
Joseph Higgins
James Oliver
Brown
Kennebec Point
Lewis White
John Drayton
Miles Hagan
Belle Heald
Higgins
Roland E. Peterson
William Bisseth
Sigfrid Carlstrom
Donna Lee
Robert
Edith
Faith Powers
Germany
Emil Shott
Grace Lutheran Church of
Lewiston
Shott
East Berlin
Austria
Switzerland
France
Alvah Reynolds
Memorial Hospital
J. W. McArthur
Augusta
Canada
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Mr. McArthur
Dorothy Stuart
Roland Peterson
Gerald M. York
Mrs
David Y. Alkazin
Bath
Probate Notices and Insurance Company Financials
Probate notices list executors guardians and appointment dates for estates in Sagadahoc County. The Maine license digest then records Home and Marine Insurance Company of California assets liabilities and surplus as of December 31 1955 including bonds real estate cash and reserves.
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Co Agital
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Ellsworth Coach Joins Morse High Faculty
Robert N. LePage a 29 year old Ellsworth High football coach will join Morse High School faculty in September to teach general science and European history and assist in football and basketball programs. He is a 1952 University of Maine graduate with prior teaching at Deerfield Academy and Ellsworth High. He is married with two children.
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Ellsworth
Morse High School
Loring R. Addison
Addison
Marian Murphy
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LePage
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Deerfield, Mass
Ellsworth High
Lions and Morse Juniors Sell 700 Bags of Bulbs
The Lions club and Morse High Juniors mobilized 35 Lions and 60 juniors, selling 700 bags of light bulbs in Bath areas including Woolwich and West Bath. Deliveries and special orders will be fulfilled by week’s end through club headquarters at Small's Garage.
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Bath
Small's Garage
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Cheese Sprinkled Biscuits Shaped Jelly Roll Style
Dough is sprinkled with cheese then rolled jelly roll fashion and sliced to bake in a hot oven. Pairs well with creamed fish and offers a savory biscuit option.
Foreclosure Notice in Woolwich Township
The inhabitants of Woolwich Town claim foreclosure on the mortgage held by G Cohen of Bath against property along Route 127 and Parsonage Road, formerly Trott and now Woolwich, due to breach of condition. Robert W Stinson died April 1946 and Richard A Stinson was appointed administrator March 1950. probate docket 114.
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G. Cohen
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Als
Woolwich
Seradohee
Annacone
Proberty
Ba Tal ‘Louis Annacone
K River
Spri
Nanihbeshees Boun
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Ragadahoe
Soren
WooLwic
Probate Court Notice in Bath Sagadahoc County
Court of Probate in Bath announces hearings on the estates of Ingraham and Neal with May 9 1956 hearing date to consider probate and appointment of Harold R Swanson as executor and Alfred W Neal as administrator without bond. Public notice to be printed weekly in Bath Independent.
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Warneree Ingraham
Harold R Swanson
Edna A Neal
Alfred Neal
Alfred W. Neal
Appointment of Executors and Administrators in Sagadahoc Probate
Register of Probate certifies four estates appoint executors administrators or guardians for Horace Mitchell of Bath and Lizzie A Haggett of West Bath. Robert F E Mitchell named administrator January 10 1956 and bonded April 10 1956. Arthur J Benton Judge Probate 19-26-3.
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Georgetown
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Bath
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Lee
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Edward W Bridgham
Lillian A. Heal
Horace Mitchell
Robert FE. Mitchell
Lizzie A Haggett
West Bath
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