Bath happenings skim shows New Meadows Inn opening and city events
New Meadows Inn opens Tuesday as stores closed yesterday for Arbor day. Shad fishing improves and prices rise in Boston. Bath Merchants Association meets Monday while Bowdoin Morse and other schools play ball. William F. Lewis of Dorchester dies age 54 and Bath Iron Works gears up for naval work.
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Arbor
Bowdoin
New Hampshire State College
Brunswick
Solar Lodge of Masons
Lecture Repeats Draw Bath Audience for MacMillan
The North Street Free Baptist Church filled with Bath residents to hear Professor Donald B. MacMillan repeat a lecture, with new Arctic pictures. Bowdoin graduate MacMillan plans stops in Freeport and Portland to end this season’s tour.
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North Street Free Baptist Church
Bath
Donald B. MacMillan
MacMillan
Hibbert Lockhart
W. A. Guild
Arctic
Esquimaux
Esquitmanux
Oliver Ames Struck Off Parker's Island Ledge in Narrow Escape
The schooner Oliver Ames struck a ledge off Parker's Island while sailing from Phippsburg to Boston. Popham life saving crew aided, pumping and towing her to the New England yard for deck load removal and repair. The ship carried 160,000 feet of lumber from W. Mathes & Son's portable mill on Parker Rogers' lot.
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Phippsburg Center
Boston
Parker's Island
Popham
Ames
New England
W. Mathes & Son
Parker Rogers
Phippsburg
Death of Hon. Benj am F Hinckley former Georgetown leader
The death of Hon. Benjamin F. Hinckley of Georgetown, long a prominent Republican and Maine legislator, at his Portland home after months of illness is announced. His funeral will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. in Wilde Memorial chapel, Evergreen Cemetery, Portland. The notice also recounts Bath city hospital efforts and the expansion of care facilities in Bath, including the Winship Street residence purchase and the ongoing fundraising for a new annex costing $13,000 with fine rooms for patients.
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Amer Camden
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Ashington
Bath Reliants’ Association
Lewiston
Harod M Sewall
Benjamin F. Hinckley
Georgetown
Allen Ave
Hinckley
Maine
Evergreen Cemetery
James Jones
Winship Street
Independent
Woolwich fish trade and local society notes
A Woolwich shipper sells smoked alewives to Bath grocers at three dollars per hundred as a reporter notes markets. The Independent reports on Arthur K. Purington’s Seafarer article heading to the Pacific via Suez. Brunswick's Saturday Club elects officers led by Miss Ethel Webb and hosts a tea. Lectures announced by Clarefice Eaton, descendant of Francis Eaton, on Christian Science at Universalist Church in Tacoma-based guest count.
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Bath
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Vacat
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Suez Canal
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Gardner Cram
John Cone
Roscoe J. Ham
Alaric W. Haskell
Ira P. Booker
D. A. Booker
William A. Moody
Wilmot B. Mitchell
L.francis Jordan
Frederick T. Nelson
Anna M. Palmer
Treasury
Clarefice
Clayton Eaton
Tacoma
Wash
Universalist Church
Eaton
Francis Eaton
Academy
Watertown
Wis
Columbus
Christian Science
Minnesota
Washington
Christian Science Board of
Mrs Susan Wakefield of Phippsburg Dies at Home
Mrs Susan Wakefield of Phippsburg died yesterday at the home of William Roderick aged 72. The funeral will be Sunday at 2 PM from the Roderick residence. Mrs Wakefield long lived in the Basin house now owned by Arthur Decker who purchased it last year.
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Susan Wakefield
Phippsburg
William Roderick
Roderick
Wakefield
Basin
Arthur Decker
Westport Woman Visits Home After Winter in Farmington
Mrs. Thomas McLaughlin, who spent the winter in Farmington, returns to her Home at McCarty's Landing for a short stay. Captain Thomas McLaughlin departed this week for Norfolk to assume command of a schooner.
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Thomas McLaughlin
Farmington
McCarty's Landing
Norfolk
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