Mellen Testimony Before I C C On Railroad Assets
Charles S. Mellen former president of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad testifies to the Interstate Commerce Commission about missing assets of the line. He gives a frank account of the company’s finances during his tenure and casts doubt on the actions of J Pierpont Morgan who he says represented the interests involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Interstate
J. Pierpont Morgan
Forest Fires Alert Prods Public to Protect Woods
The article warns that forest fires across the state, including Sagadahoc County, rise this month due to trespassers careless with campfires and smoking materials. It stresses forests' value to labor, recreation, and regional prosperity and urges personal responsibility to prevent fires.
Free Seeds Peril and House Debates Over Distribution
The Senate debates an appropriation of 257.00 for free seed distribution amid past failures. House efforts to run the program through the Agriculture Department face testing and selection concerns. Domestic troubles in Chicago New York and Brooklyn are linked to drink, and a Portland art museum bequest honors Franklin Simmons. Old soldiers perform annual rites to memory of the dead.
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Osee
Iit
Franklin Simmons
Rome
Lawyer's Clerk Testimony Spurs Metropolis Receiver Suit
George D. McIntosh admitted acting as a dummy and signing two checks totaling $1000 for the New England Securities Co. to buy ships Yale and Harvard as part of a Metropolitan Steamship Co. deal. The hearing also notes plans for line extensions and regulatory actions on dealer registrations in the auto trade.
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George D. McIntosh
Jennie R. Morse
Charles W. Morse
Metropolitan Steamship Co
Morse
New Haven Railroad
Metropolitan
Yale
Harvard
Pacific Coast
McIntosh
New England Securities Co
Annie Mann
Davis
Warren D. Chase
Hartford
New England
Charles S. Mellen
The
New Haven
Bath items mix town news with road rules and a model launch
Local notes list residents traveling to Boston Portland and Albany along with visitors and events in Bath. Public notices discuss automobile registration rules for dealers owners and rural deliveries while a detailed model launch by Charles Robinson attracts attention. A summer visitor praises Bath water comparing it favorably to Nequaset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Robinson
A. W. Flint
Arrowsie
Nat Howe
Ida Rowe
Berwick
Joseph E. Evrard
Lang
Albany
N.Y
W. T. Richardson
Rockland
M. A. MekKusic
Everett Neal
Rangeley
Marsh Haraden
Kennebec
Eastern Steamboat Corporation
J. Augustus Leonard
Portland
Jeanette
Maine
Temple of Childhood
San Francisco
Massachusett
Bath
Special Primary Planned in Sagadahoc County
Augusta Me May 27 A proclamation will likely call a special primary election in Sagadahoc County as Morrell McKenney Richmond resigns as county commissioner to become postmaster in Richmond McKenney elected in 1910 for a six year term ending Jan 1 1917 Governor to appoint interim commissioner until Jan 1917 this illustrating afeature of the primary law not before faced by the Secretary of State's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Haines
Sagadahov
Morrell McKenney
Richmond
Sagadahoc
Secretary of States Office
Bath Notes and Local Happenings Through Summer
Popham rises in popularity and Hollyhocks brighten gardens as Bath anticipates summer trade revival. The High Street Botany Club studies wildflowers, Charles W. Morse may testify at a railroad hearing, and bath civic issues discuss street lighting. A Bath fisherman reports trout in Woolwich and two brooks yielded good catches.
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Bath
High Street Botany Club
Charles W. Morse
Wesley
C. E. Ripley
Washington Street
Phippsburg Center
Maine
Winter Street
Woolwich
Brooks
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward and Testimonials
An advertisement proclaims one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy. It includes endorsements from F J Cheney & Co and the National Bank of Commerce Toledo, urges buying at 76 cents per bottle, and mentions accompanying Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney, & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Ational Bank OF Commerce
O. Hall
All Orange
Yake Hall
L. F.”’ Atwood
L. F.” Atwood
J. L. Morton
TL. Fef.’ Medicine CO
Portland
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Times Company
Fesat
MR. Mellen
Commerce Commission
Bureau of Supervisors of the National Forests
Ford
Timony
Mr. Morse
the Sound Steamship Lines
Mellen
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
United States
Boston Transcript
Weesar
Tron Witer
Mr Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Financial Friends
United States Senate
House
Oldree
Bers of
Congress
Bureaus of Domestic Relations
Chicago
New
York
Brooklyn
Eaus
John R. Graham
Lewiston
Bangor
L. A. & W. Street Railway
Mgr. Bowie
Graham
Norway
Joseph FE Alexander
Attorney Generals Office
Alexandr
A.M. Day
West Dresden
City
Frank W. Perkins
Boston
Frank G. Osgood
Mayor Dunton
Bowdeinham
George H. Conant
Erma Farrar
Farrar’s
Chaser
Rades
Ing
Niagara
Phas Dt Ds
Defiance
Department of Veriiltare
High Street
Charles FE. Tallman
Hockomock
Shoe Factory
Popham
Mr. Morton
Newport, Me
T. Felix Gouraud
L A. Sayre
Druggiata
Ford T. Hopkins & Son
Great Jones St
N.Y.C
NEW England Telephone
Farm and
National Farm Paper
Springfield
Ohio
J. M. Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Stith
Smith
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