Savings Banks Face Prosperity Amid Trade Debates
Representatives of mutual savings banks met in Washington with assets totaling 10.5 billion dollars and 12 million depositors. President Thomas F. Wallace urged allowing business operations to continue unhampered, warning against subsidies for labor or capital and favoring cautious investment in railroad and utility bonds while noting no rapid deposit growth in sixteen months. Congressmen Beedy’s Samoa talk drew Bath Rotary praise for promoting simple, clean island living and prudence in modernization.
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Mutual Savings Banks
Washington
Thomas F. Wallace
Association
Call to ban posters on trees and poles in Bath
Brunswick officials protested poster placements in trees and on utility poles. The writer urges Bath to enforce or enact an ordinance preventing posters on trees and poles, advocating proper painting of poles and careful tree care while allowing reasonable poster placements elsewhere.
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Brunswick
Bath
Land gift eyed for Sagadahoc game preserve
A Sagadahoc county man offers six hundred acres for a state game preserve. The Department of Fisheries and Game withholds names and exact location but hints a preserve may be created under a recent act. Interest rises in game propagation as landowners declare preserves and ban hunting, with Birch Point Village Corporation among early adopters.
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Sagadahoc
Department of Fisheries and Game
Birch Point
Maine fire aid plan urged by Bath residents
Bath residents push a cost guaranteed mutual aid plan to dispatch fire apparatus without waiting for selectmen approval. The measure aims to speed responses to danger and reduce delays while Bath assists neighboring towns when fires occur.
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Bath
West Bath
State Aid road funds cut by twenty three percent
The State Highway Commission announces a 23 percent reduction in State Aid funds for highway work in towns and cities due to insufficient funds. Municipalities have been notified and must adjust their planned State Aid road projects accordingly.
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State Highway Commission
Fined $100 and costs for drunken driving arrest
Frederick L. King, 21, of 822 Middle Street, was fined $100 and costs of $10.07 or 60 days in Androscoggin County Jail after pleading guilty to drunken driving. Officers Farber Davis and George McElman chased the car to Pine Street before overhauling it on High Street, with Davis reporting speeds up to 55 mph. A young lady in the car was not detained.
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Frederick L. King
Middle Street
Androscoggin County
Auburn
King
South End
Farber Davis
George McElman
Pine Street
High Street
Davis
Reports See Body Floating in River
Woman on Cummings Street reported a body seen floating in the river Wednesday night last week. Police checked wharves and bridge draw operators but found nothing resembling a body, concluding the object was likely a log drifting.
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Cummings Street
Governor Gardiner Misses Woolwich Memorial Service
Governor William Tudor Gardiner will be absent from Woolwich Memorial services on the 29th due to a clash with his travel for the annual Governors conference at French Lick Springs Indiana. He will depart Maine on the 27th.
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William Tudor Gardiner
Woolwich
Maine
French Lick Springs
Ind
Maine essay contest winners named by Christian Civic League
The Christian Civic League of Maine announced high school winners of a 2000 word essay contest on Why I Favor President Hoover's Stand on Prohibition. Nellie Littlefield of North Berwick High School won first prize $15 in gold, Lora E Clark of Frankfort High School second prize $10, Evelyn Whitley of Woodland third prize $5, with honorable mentions to Lloyd Ingraham Winthrop Arthur Smith and Catherine Marston Waterville.
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Christian Civic League of Maine
Maine
Hoover
Nellie Littlefield
North Berwick High School
Lora E. Clark
Frankfort High School
Evelyn Whitley
Woodland
Lloyd Ingraham
Winthrop
Arthur Smith
Catherine Marston
Waterville
Rambling Tales Of Bath Circus Echoes From The Past
Recalling Bath circuses from the 19th and 20th centuries. Harry B. Sawyer escorted Congressman Carroll L. Beedy to his first show. The John Murray and Walter L. Main troupes performed on North Lincoln streets and Ballou field. P T Barnum appeared in Bath, Great London acts, and milk white oxen as features. Children watched elephants bath at Mill pond and wagon shows preceded rail shows. Memorial Day licenses sparked protests, and Bath shifted from horse drawn to motorized circus travel, with Ringling Brothers touring Portland now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry B. Sawyer
Carroll L. Beedy
Bath
John Murray
Ballou Field
Kennebec Greenhouses
Prescott
P. T. Barnum
Bailey & Hutchinson
Great London Circus
Walter L. Main
North
Lincoln Streets
Great
London Circus
North Street
Mill Pond
Circus
Sewall Field
High Street Bridge
Cemetery Bridge
High Street
Shawfield
Winship Street
City Hospital
Rideout
Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey
Maine
Portland
Rockland antique buyer Kennison convicted in Lincoln court
Harold L. Kennison of Rockland, an antique buyer, was convicted in Lincoln county superior court on breaking and entering. He spent Thursday night in Bath municipal jail before sentencing, and Friday morning learned he was sentenced to two to four years in the State prison at Thomaston.
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Harold L. Kennison
Rockland
Lincoln County
Bath
Kennison
Thomaston
New Musical Society Finely Entertained in Maine
Les Camarades Musicaux entertained Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ry at 24 Milan Street and invited to join the Maine Federation of Music Clubs. The gathering featured member reflections on favorite musical events, a Cavalleria Rusticana scene discussion, light refreshments, and performances including Verdi and Mascagni arias, a piano solo, and operatic duets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Camarades Musicaux
Maine Federation of Music Clubs
Frederick Ry
Milan Street
Edney
Carters
Barnby
Hatton
Holman
Rice
McDonald
Solosa
Auf
South End P T A Card Party Proves Successful
Ten tables filled the South End P T A card party held Wednesday. Mrs H Dorman Perkins won the first prize for ladies and Clifford B Wilband won the first prize for men. second prizes went to Mrs Wilband and Lawrence Small. Refreshments were by the ways and means committee led by Mrs Carroll A Deering. At the afternoon meeting the association voted to inscribe Leland R Mitchell’s picture at Mitchell School and amended Article 4 to extend officer terms to four years. Members sewed patchwork and tacked one puff.
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South End P. T. A
H. Dorman Perkins
Clifford B. Wilband
Wilband
Lawrence Small
Ways and Means
Carroll A. Deering
William H. Small
J. Albert Redlon
Association
Leland R. Mitchell
Board of Education
Mitchell School
Mitchell
Bath Alumni Kitchen Equipment Fund Grows
Contributions to the Bath High School Alumni Kitchen Equipment fund continue with 120 individual gifts. Recent donors include Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Sawyer, Mrs. Jennie Brennan, H. Emma Magoun, Mrs. Gardiner Deering, Miss Jennie Melcher, Mrs. John Shaw, Mrs. F. R. E. Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dana, Charlotte Minott, Sarah Given, Mrs. Frances Weeks, and Mrs. Robert Haskell. Further gifts may be made to Allan Spear at Bath Savings Institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath High School
Association
Harry B. Sawyer
Jennie Brennan
Chester Dana
Charlotte Minott
Sarah Given
Frances Weeks
Robert Haskell
Allan Spear
Bath Savings Institution
State Aid Road Fund Reduced by Twenty Three Percent
The State Highway Department notified municipalities that funds for state aid road projects will be cut by 23 percent due to insufficient funds. Highway Commission members and chief engineer were unavailable for comment. Legislators had warned that an increased gasoline tax could require a 20 to 30 percent reduction.
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State Highway Department
Highway Commission
Senate
Narrowest Portland land parcel sold to Casco Trust
A two inch by ninety foot tract believed to be the city’s narrowest real estate transfer was sold Monday to Casco Mercantile Trust Co. It lies on the edge of 620 Congress Street and will be added to the bank’s land for construction of a business block.
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Portland
Casco Mercantile Trust Co
Congress Street
Notice of Upholsterer Change of Employment
Mr Sain H Morsely, who has worked as an upholsterer for 20 years with Jordan Marsh Co Boston, has entered the employ of F H Whalen Fine Upholstering and Repairing at 58 Pearl Street Bath Maine Tel 547. The move shifts his professional affiliation to the Bath business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Sain H. Morsely
Jordan Marsh Co
Boston
F. H. Whalen Fine Uphold
Pearl Street
Bath
Maine
St Marys Triumphs Over Lisbon Falls In Thursday Game
St Marys church team of the Twilight League won its second start of the season at Kelley Field 7-1 over Lisbon Falls. Mark Hayes starred on the mound allowing only three hits in seven innings while Oliver sparked the offense with a double and teammates added six hits and five walks. Lisbon Falls' only run came in the sixth as Yesko pitched scoreless sixth before a late double play ended the game.
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St. Mary's Church
Kelley Field
Lisbon Falls
Mark Hayes
Visiaan
Ray
St. Mary's
Callan
Meister
Stover
Cannonball Oliver
Yesko
St. Mary’s
Mike Yesko
American Legion
Washington, D C
Oliver
Davalas
Galgovitch
Hayes
Red Cross Appeals for Contributions to Supply Closet
The Red Cross asks the city for usable night dresses night shirts and linen pieces for its supply closet. Donors may leave partly worn but clean items at the Red Cross office Sagadahoc block under Mrs Ruth Henry Public Health nurse. Great need and hopeful response urged.
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The
Red Cross
Nursing Service Activities Committee
Ruth Henry
Sagadahoc Block
Dike School Boy Struck by Auto on Way Home
Seven year old Edward Babine of Dummer street was hit by a car on Dummer street opposite the old Dummer Street School house. He was rushed to City hospital with head cuts and bruises but believed not seriously injured. Driver Frank W. Kenyon, night watchman, reported the incident to police. A Gipson weir catch on the Penobscot river near Gipson Weir weighed about 30½ pounds and measured 45 inches, claimed by Warden Thomas Sullivan as the river’s largest salmon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Babine
Dike School
City Hospital
Frank W. Kenyon
York Street
Dummer Street
Eleazer J. Babine
Mr. Kenyon
Kennebec
Penobscot
Gipson
Its
Thomas Sullivan
The
Sea and Shore Fisheries
Morse Edges in Four-Way Maine Track Meet at Brunswick
In a four cornered meet at Brunswick Morse high produced Captain Freddie Rowland who scored eight points and won the broad jump with 19 feet 9% inches while Edward Little dominated Rumford Brunswick and Morse. Wilkins led Edward Little in sprints and Rowland also placed in the 100 yards as Morse and Brunswick scored a handful of points.
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Brunswick
Edward Little
Rumford
Morse
Bath
Auburn
Freddie Rowland
Wilkins
Johnny Levyn
Steen
Douglas
Edward Litle
Charlie Wilkins
Maine
Williams
Rowland
Abison
Graffman
Fortin
Sinclair
Meader
Foss
Hall
Powers
Nichols
Drake
Sprague
Windle
Douglass
Muskie
Goodwin
Bulger
Amero
Scribner
Prawlock
Goodfellow
Giroux
Shulman
Levyn
Piawlock
Morse Girls Edge Cony in Dual Track Meet
Morse high girls overwhelmed Cony High 65 2-3 to 16 1-3 in Augusta. Mary Larrabee led with 10 points and wins in discus and shot put. Carter of Cony and Nelson, Small, and others scored for Cony. Morse teammates Spinney, Moses, Webster, and Bailey added most points. final events produced multiple podiums across sprints, jumps, and throws.
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Morse High
Cong High
Augusta
Mary Larrabie
Morse High Femmes
Shipping City
Miss Carter
Cony Nigh
Morse
Miss Spinney
Miss Moses
Miss Webster
Miss Bailey
Miss Larrabee
Mos
Bailey
Sseseees
Spinney
Carter
Cony
Nelson
Small
Tribou
Slosberg
Murphy
Larrabee
Radsky
Moses
E. Spinney
List
Webster
Oldest Fireman Native of Bath Retiring With Pension
Eddie Mason, veteran Bath fireman commended by Chief Kimball for meritorious service, often worked off days, earned leave rewards, and with civil service success in 1922 may retire with a 19 25 weekly pension to live with daughter Mrs. J Wilfred Carrier at 50 Sohier Road Beverly.
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Kimball
Department
Ladder Co
Eddie Mason
J. Wilfred Carrier
Sohier Road
Beverly
Across Clues Mixed With Word Fragments and Numbers
A fragmentary OCR puzzle list blends Across and Down clues with odd spellings and stray numbers. The page shows numerous incomplete entries like Tibetan priest, Vinegar battle, Boundaries of measures, and various misread words, indicating a damaged crossword or word game source.
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Nieury
Basten
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Times Company
Front Street
Bath, Maine
B. Nichols
Pres
Treas
Barry C. Webber
American Samoa
Morse High School
Harold M. Sewall
United States
Samoa
Beedy
Uncle Sam
Congressman Beedy
Frederick W. Smith
Cumberland County United Baptists Association
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Mr. Smith
Charles O. Beals
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
William B. Palmer
NEW Musical Society
Mr. Norton
P Solenne
Quest Ora
Verdi
Ramsay
Fourdan
Ronald Ics
Duo ‘Parigi
Cara
la Traviata
Mrs. Hatch
Polichinelle
Rachmaninoff
McPherson
Lahore
Massenet
Esate Mendelssohn
Connais
Mrs. Cary
Dre Santuzza
Alfio
Cavalleria Rusticana
Seee Mascagni
Hatch
Mr. Ramsay
South End P.T.A
Lisbon
Arsenault
Flaherty
Vertila
E Callan
Sees
Dike
College Town
LeMarr
Racine
Chipitis
William
le Marr
Mains
Henderson
Legard
Decoster
Cony Morse
Vroe
Svea Parishen
Piayer
Stiriy
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