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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1899
Page
7
The Independent’s Brunswick office lists its location at 123 Maine Street with management and contact names depicted as souicirep in the fragment. The notice signals an internal listing or address update for the Brunswick branch.
Brunswick notes report sales of horses and coal contracts, street work and sprinkling, park improvements, weather quirks, sermons and memorial addresses, Bowdoin and local church events, new uniforms, sales and hires, a proposed baseball association, and a major May sale at the Portland store with bargains for Brunswick residents.
A damaged fragment claims Kemp's Blue Medicine is a cure all for various pains with immediate relief after the first dose. The ad notes a trial at druggists and a price of 26 cents.
At a special Monday meeting in the Courtroom the town voted to discontinue the 1853 laid out highway into Merry Meeting Park. Only I H Tibbetts voted against, urging a committee be formed to decide such matters. The majority criticized constant opposition to improvements and warned against persistent kickers hindering progress in Brunswick.
A tramp dropped a book from his clothing on Tuesday which was picked up and shown to the Independent. The pamphlet described Maine city streets and listed houses offering meals marked 8S. M with other lodgings noted as Hm. O and D. The writing mixed sketches and notes about lodgings and meals. It is described as a tramp’s guide explaining why some residences attract many tramp callers while others do not. The ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets at 26¢ with a money back guarantee.
Brunswick Manufacturing Co wins a large order for 730000 ferrules at 6000 weekly, 250000 yearly, with 140000 ferrule machines backlogged three years. A buried box in woods yields a dog skeleton instead of captain Kidd treasure. Deputy Morrell and Robertson confiscate liquor at Blue Cafe. Ball and wife jailed 60 days. New Meadows Inn Co forms with Solon Cahill as president and Cahill as GM, Hyde and Whitmore backing finances.
Mrs Lucy Rogers had a slight mishap last week when she walked into an open register at her residence and was shaken by the fall. In other news Alvah Young Assembly celebrated its sixth anniversary with a Tuesday evening social and refreshments before a brief thunder shower cut the festivities short. A fountain pen went missing between the Portland Store and Church block and a reward is offered for its return to Miss Kittih Worthley at the Portland Store.
Special inducements are offered in exceptionally low rates for freights. For further particulars inquire of F. A Crawford, Brunswick Village, or at waiting room, Domhegan House, near Chamberlain's Wharf, Portland, Freeport and Brunswick Steam boat Company, F. A. BAKER, Manager.
A town debate over the two cent drop letter rate is joined by criticism of anonymous letters. Readers are urged to sign letters to newspapers, with the editor defending anonymous writers as cowards and sneaks in contrast to signed, manly criticism.
Mrs Frances E Skolfield died at her home after a illness. She had lived with her husband Captain George L Skolfield and leaves daughter Lydia Turner of New York and son Captain George L Skolfield of the town. Two sisters reside in Brunswick. Funeral services were held at Maine Street with Rev E B Mason D D officiating and interment at Pine Grove cemetery.
The social note reports a burglary at Captain A. B. Dunning's North Harpswell residence with minor losses and stolen drinkables. It highlights a new direct Brunswick Portland steamboat line, the Madeleine, set to start around the 20th, offering two to three daily trips, with schedules from Chamberlain's wharf and Portland docks, promising scenic Casco Bay travel and easy access to Portland.
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