Soil Fertility and Farmers Call for Cheaper Fertilizers
The article discusses soil fertility as essential to farming life and urges cheaper commercial fertilizers. It notes potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus as key elements, references a federal parcel post debate affecting farmers, and highlights efforts by Bath merchants and local leaders to boost business and civic progress. It mentions Postmaster General New and political moves around tax and infrastructure funding affecting rural communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postoffice Department
Parcel Post
Benig
New
Paige Dill
Congress
Melon
Sone
Political posits and shipping board hints in a state race
The speaker cites nine years on the Avesta Board of Education and defends public schooling while denying direct blame on Senator Brewster for circulating stories. He highlights Commissioner Phomimer’s shipping board tenure and Coolidge’s renewal, plus Russia bound railroad material and a national recreation conference with Maine’s Governor Milliken listed as a speaker.
Plummer Reappointed to United States Shipping Board
Col Edward Phimmer of Path Maine was reappointed by President Coolidge to the United States Shipping Board, succeeding Acting Chairman Edward Farley. The Maine official has a long record in shipping administration and was supported by Maine senators. The nomination was sent to the Senate, with confirmation following after hearings and prior backing from Bath Metal Trades and Maine delegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Co Phimmer
Path
Chaitin
United States Shipping Board
Coolidge
de Serle
Maine
Chiirman
Edward Farley
Lenate
TV. O'Conner
New York
Col Shimney
Parley
Senate Committee On Commerce
Bert BE. Pernald
Col Plummer
Mar. Farley
Tharding
Congress
Bathan
Senate
Col Phummer
Warren G. Harding
Dancing Class Plans Recital for Party at Columbia Theater
Entertainment features by Mrs Jennie Tharveys Percival and Miss Dorothy Mason include solo dances by Dorothy Mason and Elizabeth Coombs with a garden fete theme. The Emerson Mason School of PortHind presents ballet groups by older girls with costumes noted as artistic. Tickets exchangeable Friday afternoon at two at the box office followed by general dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Tharveys Percival
Dorothy Mason
Columbia Theater
Totis
Miss Mason
Emerson-Mason
Porthind
Dorothy Ifain
Elizabeth Coombs
Ellen Stevens
Cisses
Boy and Girl Scouts Hold Busy Meeting
Twenty Girl Scouts met in the old Masonic hall on Center Street to discuss renting the Center Street School House as a meeting place. Mrs. T. MacDonald was left to handle the matter. After adjournment the Boy Scouts met to discuss hiking problems and planned a camping trip for next Thursday.
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Old Masonic Hall
Center Street
T. MacDonald
Closing chapter of early local history and family lineages
The article continues a genealogical narrative from Topsham and Bath areas, detailing families such as Tranter, Hunter, Reed, Purinton, and Douglass. It covers captives in the Revolutionary era, skirmishes with Indians, escapes, and later town offices, marriages, births, and notable roles in local governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Deoneas Patten
John Patten
Clinton
William
Martha
Dau
William Reed
Mary
Mowry
Jane
Margaret
Ehen'r Coombs
Thomas
Kennebec Co
John
Susan
William Malcom, Jr
Abigail
Adam Tlunter
James Thinter
Quany
Cropt
Pobm Reed
Sullivan
Sind
Drreliman
Tranter
Thoenter
Tlarpersfield
Trunter
Plunter
Adam Tinter
Adam Winter
Bath
Salem
Boston
Pialifax
James
Portland
Robert
Talifax Tooobri
Adam
Cornwallis
Chalifax
Pie
Powell
Hind
Kennebec River
Janes Hunter
Adam Hunter
Sawimill
Jimes
Father Adin
Millestresam
Robert Hunter
Susannah Thompson
Toston
Ord
Ty Margaret
Mary Randall
Dads Adam
Susannuah
Willisia Reamelalh Seniamiin
Mareried Jeemont
Joseph
Committee of Correspondence
John Thinter
Margaret Wilson
Thomas Wilson
Alex Rogers
Capt
Ann
Patten
John Thunter
David Reed
Willis Sprague
Court of Sessions
Corre
Wtsi
Actor Patten
Dbagaduce
George Thomas
Bowdeinham
Penobscot
Stillwater
Delna
Anna
David
John Reed
Wesley Choral Society Supper and Social at Church
The Wesley Choral Society held a supper at the church last Wednesday night, prepared by the sorority girls. Cold ham scalloped potatoes rolls fruit salad coffee cake frozen pudding mints and nuts were served. Speeches followed by John Stewart Reve Charley S Brooks Fred W Armes Esther Brown and Robert S Gordon. Gordon presented Miss Madelyn Davis a silver fruit dish on behalf of the society. A rehearsal then took place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Choral Society
John Stewart
Charleys. Brooks
Fred W. Armes
Esther Brown
Robert S. Gordon
Left on Time Ted-Yes in the Country
Ted recalls the inconvenience of living in the country and misses the last train at night as Ned asks what he misses most in iStray Stories.
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Ted
Ned
iStray
Bath business men to form Board of Trade type group
Bath business men and interested residents plan a city wide organization to foster industrial, commercial and social welfare. The meeting tonight will discuss a constitution and by laws with camping sites and docking facilities committees to report next week. Members urged to join and participate actively aiming for one hundred twenty to two hundred members.
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Board of Trade
Bath
Deast
YOC
Mumny
Aaron Slick at a Rural Oklahoma Oil Farm Comedy
The Philo thea class staged a rural comedy titled Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick on Corliss Street. The scene on widow Verry's Oklahoma farm features oil schemes, a ten year courtship, and a comic chase across town with Rose Berry. The cast included Lucy Coombs, Mrs. John Hunt, Mrs. Charles Merry, Miss Dorothy Coombs, Miss ula Fielding, Mrs. Harold Walker, and Miss Clara Coombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aron Slick
Punkin Crick
South Lend Puta
Phikethea
Corliss Street Churen
Lucy Coombs
John Hunt
Charles Merry
Dorothy Coombs
Ula Fielding
Harold Walker
Clara Coombs
Changes in Eastern Maine Tel and Tel circles prompt promotions
A broad shake up in the Eastern Maine division of the New England Tel and Tel Co includes S J Herbert moving from Bangor to Portland as division commercial assistant. John C Whittemore becomes district manager of Bangor, Irving Fisher joins the Boston commercial engineering staff, Thomas C Stone moves to Augusta, Arthur B Wheeler shifts from Biddeford to Bar Harbor, all effective Monday May 1.
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Maine
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
S. J. Herbert
Bangor
Porthamd
State of Maine
John CC. Whittemore
Augusta
Irving Fisher
Boston
Thomas C. Stone
Tar Harbor
Arthur EF
Bishop
Bath
Arthur TB. Wheeler
Biddeford
Bar Harbor
Tire-Holder-Up Scheme Suspected After Near Miss
John Hart and Bruce Lemoine reported a possible hold-up attempt near the Chapel of Our Savior in East Brunswick. A man emerged from bushes, grabbed a brand new tire left on the road, then disappeared. The incident occurred about 9 30 last Wednesday night as the pair were returning from Brunswick.
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John Hart
Bruce Lemoine
Brunswick
Chapel of Our Savior
East Brunswick
Bruce
Why can we not see the other side of the moon
Tommie pesters his father with questions about the moon and an elephant in a playful exchange. The father, amused by his son's curiosity, ponders how many questions he as a boy would have asked and how many he could have answered.
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Papa
Tommie
Philadelphia Inquirer
Religion of Drivers Urges Safe Travel and Vigilance
A discussion urges drivers to bind travel safety to religion by practicing careful driving. It stresses brakes and judgment, treating pedestrians as potentially blind and deaf, and advocates three ASA guidelines: imagine crossing in front, pause when risk exists, and slow for children. It warns that reckless driving risks life and license.
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ALAA
Engine derails on Pullman in Bath city streets
An engine on the Pullman bound for Bath derailed Saturday night between Water and Washington streets. A wrecking train from Brunswick moved to the scene to straighten the track. The incident left driving wheels on one side off the rails.
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Bath
Water
Washington Streets
Brunswick
Special Invitations For Old Time Tubs Muster July Fourth
Editor notes the Firemen's Muster planned for July 4 to mark the 75th anniversary of the first general Hand Fire Engine Muster on July 4, 1840. The piece lists engines from Bath and other towns, their positions, and where they now reside, urging special stations to send engines to participate.
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the Independent
Fasterbrook
New England
Iere
Bath
Kennebec
Jeremiah Ellsworth
City Hall
Railrowl
Sagadahoeck Elance
Bari
Kennebeck
Bath Fire Dept
Tron
Alte Shaw
Spooner’s Mills
Dexter
Hopkinton
Randolph
Men
Hallowell
Fire Wing
Heels TV
Memorial Day Meeting of Local Letter Carriers
Carville Douglas and Raymond TD. Cummings are chosen as delegates to the State meeting in Rocklind on Memorial Day with Frank S. Wakefield and Edward J. Mc Mann as alternates. The program includes a shore dinner at Wessaweskeag Inn at noon and a business session in the afternoon at the K of C hall with James N. Little as speaker. An evening banquet at the Odd Fellows hall features music and speeches.
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Carville Douglas
Raymond TD. Cummings
Dbranen
Cas
Rocklind
Frank S. Wakefield
Edward J. McMann
Wessaweskeag Inn
South Thomaster
K. of Chall
James N. Little
Brooklyn
N.Y
National Executive Board
Odd Fellows Hall
Banc
Congress
Edger
Senate
Belfast Seeks State Road Link to Lewiston and Augusta
Residents of Belfast and Waldo County back a proposed State road connecting Belfast to Augusta and Lewiston. A Winter Tel fast Augusta State Road club forms amid widespread petitions urging better cross country travel and river crossings avoided by routing via Bath. The current Belfast to Augusta roads are poor outside a brief summer window.
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Belfast
Waldo County
Augusta
Telfast-Augusta State Road Club
Lewiston
Portland
Bangor
War T Harbor
Porthind
Bath
State Highway Commission
Eastport Prepares July Fest Asks Warship Support
Preparations for a large Fourth of July celebration in Eastport are underway with hopes a warship will be detailed to assist. Local officials seek a naval vessel to add grandeur to the event and boost ceremonial impact.
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Eastport
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Dieleed
Tienes
Frank G. Farrington
Maine Senate
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Senator Brewster
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Bee
Tn Fieet
Mir
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Varnear
Russia
Conny
Washington
Inew Covernor Carli E. Milliken
Plummer
Ireland
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William Thorne
Hannah
David Tatten
Levi Peterson
Lucy
Edward Kelleran
David Stinson
Rachel
Nehemiah Parding
Eben'r
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Hammond
Ensign Reed
John. Davigk
Tleg
Topsham
Joseph Porter
Col
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Joseph Randall
Ezra Randall
Robert Potter
Tev
James Potter
Charity
Tony
Randall
Maria Randall
Sean Day Oor
A Prescott
John Elern
Trelind
Whitefield
Susan Reed
James Purinton
Truro
Cape Cod
Priscill Harding
Francis
Trelit Nathaniel
Peek of Tours
Ezekiel
Messabella Wilson
Priscilla
Sam‘ Wilson
Josiah Smith
Noah Melcher
Rebecca
Nathaniel Melcher
Fanny
Janes W. Purinton
Hezekiah
New Meadows
Capt Cod
Nathaniel
Juanes Purinton
Silence Winchell
Ile
le Cnime
Georgetown
Phippsburg
Robert Gower
Edward
Margaret Alexander
Samuel
Waterville
George
New Sharon
Laughters
Goyves
James Henry
Cooper
Annn
James Wilson
Farmington
Ife
Mzekiel Purinton
Seider Randall
Robert Alexander
Kent
England
Robert Douglass
Barbara
Dee
William Douglass
Munice Stuart
Steward
Andrew Douglass
Sarah
Navy
James Douglass
Robert Clarkson
Samuel Clark
Martha Clark
Litehfield
Robert Clark
Elinor Ingraham
Brunswick Church
Joseph Ingraham
Elinor
Disdemaier
Philathea
Atwood
Oy Ar Medicine CO
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