Parcels Post Debate Highlights Uniform Rate Principle
The discussion centers on a parcels post amendment advancing a nationwide system with uniform rates across distances and island possessions. It argues against the zone distinctions between third and fourth class matter and cites Rowland Hill’s reforms as a model for a general parcels post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Stu
Mitne
Tse
Congress
Bourne
Postal Service
Rowland Hill
England
Parcel post politics taints campaign gains in Congress
A speeches critique parcel post as a political tool shaping rural and city trade, arguing merchants fear metropolitan stores and express couriers. It notes congressional voices pressing for rural or limited post zones, while lawyers and officials debate government rights to carry parcels in competition with private carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maite Ariety
Olind
van Mae
Congress
Bourne
Martin
Colorado
William S. Kenyon
Iowa
United States
Memorial Day Plans Include Scout Beacon Patrol
Memorial Day observances are being organized by the G A R and other groups for one week from Thursday. Major George A Baker is marshal with aids to be named. The parade will follow the usual order with St Johns Band Brunswick providing music and veterans riding due to age. A beacon patrol of 30 Boy Scouts is added this year. Col Edward C Plummer will deliver the evening oration at Winter Street Church. The post and others will attend Wesley Church one week from tomorrow for a sermon by Rev C W Bradlee.
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Sedewidth Post
George A. Baker
St. John's Band
Brunswick
Beacon Patrol
Boy Scouts
Winter Street Church
Col
Edward C. Plummer
Wesley Church
C. W. Bradlee
Railroads Will Connect For Local Box Factory Traffic
Rail service will ship three to five cars daily from the box factory, using trolley lines to avoid delaying local traffic. Citizens and business leaders praise Bath residents for pushing the new industry and anticipate continued effort. The Jenkins completes an official trial on the Rockland course Tuesday with good luck anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page Orne
Bath
the Jenkins
Rockland
Sheep Industry Education and Organization in Maine
Discussion on organizing Maine’s sheep industry centers on education and dissemination. It cites classification of breeds, production, marketing, and training methods including demonstrations, instructors, bulletins, and timely newspaper articles to spread practical knowledge. It ends by asking if Maine’s sheep industry is worth organizing and whether to begin now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marne
Maine
Osha Avis TreShieanites
Georgetown School Case Continues Over Wet Foot Law
The court debates school district boundaries and pupil assignments amid crowded Five Islands, with Judge Dunton ruling the defendant guilty and imposing $15.52 costs and $50 bonds. The case centers on a family's insistence that children avoid the Riversville school by rule.
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Five Islands
Dunton
Warning to Farmers on Foreign Potatoes Seed Use
J P Buckley and Secretary Healey caution Maine farmers against using foreign grown potatoes as seed. Tests show foreign stock do not match home grown seed and may introduce new diseases such as Wart Disease, Spongospora Scab, Black Leg and Leaf Curl, with soils remaining infected for years. Do not use foreign potatoes for seed.
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J. P. Buckley
Maine
Healey
Connecticut
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Promoted for Teething Pain
A historic advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a safe remedy used by millions for teething children. It claims to soothe the child soften gums relieve pain cure wind colic and diarrhea and advises asking for the product by name at twenty five cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Winslow
Mrs.Winslow
Westport Notes and Local Shipments Mentioned
Westport brief items report Capt Thomas McLaughlin at McCarty's landing after a winter in Farmington. Woodbury Hodgdon bought a hen milch cow from McMahan's Island party. Lester Hodgdon, a trunk line construction worker near Portland, is home for summer. Joseph Hodgdon married Beatrice Foster in Bath May 4 and now stops there. Kelvin Jewett and wife from Franklin Mass visited James H Knight. Town Treasurer T F Knight served Bath on Tuesday. M C Brooks spent days upriver on business. Capt George D Tarbox of Echo Homes is at Dr Gregory's Hospital in Boothbay Harbor.
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Thomas McLaughlin
McCarty
Farmington
Woodbury Hodgdon
McMahan’s Island
Lester Hodgdon
Portland
Joseph Hodgdon
Beatrice Foster
Bath
Kelvin Jewett
Franklin
Mass
James H. Knight
Jewett
Franklin and Vicinity
T. F. Knight
M. C. Brooks
George D. Tarbox
Echo Homes
Dr. Gregory's Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
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New Top
Seattle
London
Bucland
Ohio
R. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Gouranud
Georgetown School Case
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Lydia RE. Pinkham
Lydia EK. Pinkham
Paw Paw
Mich
Ann Arbor
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Orvitage Rock
Ht. A. No. 6
Rockport
Ind
Tean
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Mannamnar Merspith
RF. D. No
Fadt
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Ydea E.pinkham
Pinknat
Parsons
Johnsor
I. S. Johnson & CO
Fidelity
California
Portland, Maine
Westport
Fletcher
Johnson
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