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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1910
Page
3
Community notes praise seasonal visitors who circulate money to merchants hotels farmers and fishermen in Bath and surrounding areas. A proposed pamphlet listing area boarders and rates could boost tourism advertising. Memorial Day observances are planned with veterans and local groups assisting, while farmers anticipate a hopeful 1940 season after past disappointments.
Fire at the icehouse spread to the Kitchen of Hotel Rockledge near Popham Beach last Sunday. The life saving crew helped extinguish the blaze before the main house burned. The hotel, owned by Shaw and Donnell of Bath, cost about 60000 with no insurance.
The article recalls the 1860s warships known as Bath built vessels, their actions from 1864 to 1868 including Fort Fisher and Roanoke River operations, and their later partial destruction. It notes bids and contracts changed by government, payments in gold versus paper, and heirs of builders Allen and Larrabee seeking due compensation from the U.S. government through congressional action.
An old advertisement promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure offering a one hundred dollar reward for cure success. It lists testimonials from druggists Walding Kinnan Marvin and others, touts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and cites price five cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall’s Family Pills and Burdock Blood Bitters as digestive aids.
In Sagadahoc Maine on the second Tuesday of May 1910 Charlies H Hunnewell administrator for James R Hunnewell deceased Woolwich requests final account allowance. The court orders three weeks of publication in the Bath Independent for interested parties to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Also trustees Moses and Ben F Harris under Oliver Moses deceased present their eighth administration account and are to publish three weeks in Bath Independent to appear in Bath Probate Court on the first Tuesday of June.
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