Local Jottings and Community Happenings Highlight May Events
Local society notes include Phi Sigma Tau and sewing circles meeting with Misses Martin Farrell and Worrey. Fire destroys Walter H. Foster’s barn on Foreside road with loss estimated at 3000. Notables include Rev. Boynton and companions visiting Five Islands yacht Sky Pilot and nominations for Sagadahoc County offices filed in Bath.
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Phi Sigma Tau
Helen Martin
Front St
St. Mary's Sodality
Farrell
Green St
Wellman
North
New England
Texas
William B. Kendall
Frank Adams
Bowdoinham
West Bath
Walter H. Foster
Topsham
Russell Boynton
Brooklyn
H. H. French
D.D
Nashua
N. H
W. W. Patten
Leicester
Mass
Boynton
Five Islands
Boyton
Secretary of State
Arthur J. Dunton
Bath
Sagadahoc County
John E. Fitzgerald
J. Fred Tobey
George P. Larrabee
Congress
Local maritime and business notes from Bath and Boston
Italian crew arrives to work on Texas improvements while local residents sell dandelion greens door to door. Bowker yard builds a new three masted schooner for launching soon. Lease changes give William Mann control of Music Hall for two years with renewal option. The private car Winchester passes to P W Rouss after formerly belonging to C P Huntington. Charles D Loveland loading oil in Philadelphia for Liverpool to sail late week. L V Plummer departs for Waltham watch factory to join the factory band. Mary E Olys and Addie P McFadden ship lumber to New York as season’s first cargoes from Lawrence Bros. mill. F H Silphen owns a 1829 1830 Boston Courier file. paper details and layout are described.
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City of Rockland
Texas
W.W. H. Sampson
Phippsburg
Bowker’s Yard
William Mann
Moose
Music Hall
Winchester
P. W. Rouss
New York
L. V. Plummer
Waltham Watch Factory
Waltham Factory
Lawrence Bros
South Gardiner
Olys
Lewis Hatch
McFadden
Ralph Hatch
F. H. Silphen
Boston Courier
Courier
J. T. Buckingham
Congress St
Adams and Holden
Boston
Maine News Roundup Highlights Local Events And Civic Happenings
The Pejepscot arrives from St John to overhaul boilers. Maple syrup sells at 1.50 a can and butter substitutes at 45 cents per pound. Lincoln Williams and Arthur Stilphen named grand and petit jurors for Bangor June term. Knights of Columbus report 250 from breach of promise suit for a future union picnic. Maine intercollegiate track meet set in Brunswick May 13 with Bowdoin Bates Colby UMaine. No new browntail gypsy moth quarantines in Maine. NH adds towns. Lincoln Lodge and Queen Esther Rebekah observe services with Rev S A Evans. Cosmopolitan committee books Edward Avis for May 19 bird lecture in Assembly Hall. Maine Central RR adds May Sunday trains Portland to North Conway with Sebago Lake link. Glee Club grows for Little Almond Eyes May 12. many members listed. UMaine mascot bear Bananas returns to Orono after Augusta winter. used for track and fall athletics. playful yet strong with the dogs retreating.
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Pejepscot
Swett
St. John
N. B
Lincoln Williams
West Bath
Arthur B. Stilphen
U. S. District Court
Bangor
Knights of Columbus
Maine
Brunswick
Bowdoin
Bates
Colby
University of Maine
Department of Agriculture
Washington
New Hampshire
Lincoln Lodge
1.C.C.F
People’s Baptist Church
Cosmopolitan
Maine Central Railroad
Portland
Mountain Division
North Conway
Sebago Lake
C. L. Goodrich
Glee Club
Almond Eyes
Mryle Strong
Edna Pepper
Florence Stevens
Evelyn Colby
Dorothy Mason
Lucille Page
Eleanor Denham
Martha Barker
Doris Dyer
Aktos
Bath Notes Local Events Amid Busy Spring
Bath reports hundreds of May queens, Grace Church services paused, and Shaw building foundations rise on Front St. Weather pleases Bathites, coal barge Henry Clay docks at Kennebec, and Foresters of America plan a May 10 convention in Augusta. The Grand Court HQ will be at Augusta House.
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Bath
Grace Church
Shaw
Front St
Music Hall
John Fitzgerald
Danny Mack
Fitzgerald
B.I.W
Oliver
Daley
Grand Court Convention
Grand Court Convention of the Foresters of America
Augusta
Court Pine Tree
Golden Cross Hall
Grand Court
Augusta House
Damariscotta Herald
Augustus Day
Poll Parrot
Polly
Poll
People’s Baptist Church
L. L. Hooker
Alvah Chadwick
Port Clyde
U. S. Fish Commission
Gannett
Boothbay
Clarence A. Packard
H. E. Foss
Southern Pines
N. C
National
South Casco
Frank Keizer
Portland and
Rockland
Leon Beverase
Portland
Howard Winslow
W. H. Spear
Charles l. Goodhuze
Paradise Point
South
Casco
Maine
Capitol
Postmasters and Regular Habits Endorsed by L. F. Medicine
A periodical praises the postmaster as a model of regularity and urges timely use of L. F. Medicine for digestion and bowel issues. It claims postmasters in New England endorse the product, offers a 35c bottle, and invites free samples through the L. F. Medicine Co. of Portland, Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
L. F.” Atwood
L. F.” Medicine Co
Portland
Household remedy advertisement for Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil
A short colonial advertisement lists Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil as a household cure for various ailments including baby croup cuts bruises sore throat and lameness with pricing at 25c and 50c. This item presents a general commercial notice rather than medical endorsement.
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Willie
Bath city events include church meetings and a riverfront sale
The Nahanada was inspected Saturday. The Sorority of Wesley Church will meet Monday with Mrs. Mc Rae. Jolly Thimble Sewing Circle meets Monday evening with Mrs. Lewis King. Police report little crime. Bath celebration noted as possibly busy in a year or two. Knights of Dunlap parade to church and back. Tax Assessors posted 1916 polls totaling 2672, up 81 from last year. Queen Esther Rebekah Sewing Circle met with supper at six and a regular evening session. Revival services at Music Hall drew large crowds with sermons by John T. Hatfield of Indiana. Charles E. Hyde property on lower Washington Street sold Saturday through E. S. Crosby & Co. to Herbert McCabe for occupancy of the riverfront homestead, a three acre site with 309 feet of frontage.
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Nahanada
Wesley Church
McRae
Court St
Jolly Thimble
Lewis King
Middle St
Bath
Knights of Dunlap
Charles E. Hyde
Lower
Washington St
E. S. Crosby & Co
Herbert McCabe
Kids Health Boost With Orange Juice and Pink Pills
Child with poor appetite pale skin and weight loss due to confinement or illness improves after a simple home regimen. Give half an orange juice before breakfast and Dr Williams Pink Pills after lunch and dinner for two weeks, monitor weight gain, request a free diet book and pamphlet from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Williame
Rockland City Makes Belated Boston Trip Getaway
Weekend update notes Rockland's belated departure for a Boston trip and Bath youths debut in new uniforms. Mrs. John Hodgkins returns to Nobleboro after visiting friends in the city. Weeks Street Grammar School secures five of twelve Ninth Grade graduation parts: Clifford Neal, Mabel Redlon, Thelma Brown, Cynthia Crossman, Marjorie Mitchell.
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Rockland
Boston
Bath
John Hodgkins
Nobleboro
Weeks Street Grammar School
Clifford Neal
Mabel Redlon
Thelma Brown
Cynthia Crossman
Marjorie Mitchell
Anuric Tablets Praised by Elderly Reader
A 76 year old woman writes to praise Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets for backache rheumatism and kidney control problems. She notes the medicine has given real relief and urges readers to try it as it becomes available widely in drug stores.
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Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Doctor Pierce
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Everjet
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Llastigu
Philadgpids
Boston St.Louis
Cleveland
Cincinnati Pit
Detroit
Kansas City
Minneapolis
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Peoria Paterson Manufacturing Company, Limited
Montreal
Toromo Jmnipeg
Vancouver St. John,n.b
Halifax
N.S
Sydney
N. 8
Orono
George P. Gannett
Bananas
Goo Drors
Castor
the Centaur Company
Castoria
Fidelity Trust Company
Monument Square
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